Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-10-01
New York Every Day.

Reporters for an evening paper made
q tour of the city TO see how many po-
licemen were Sinking, and found only
forty-two doing patrol duty when lOll
should have been on their beats.
The suspension of George w Harris &
Co, members of the Consolidated Stock
exchange. has been announced. The firm
has 4 number of branch offices in the city.
but the liabilities are said to be small.
Mai. Ronald Ross, the well known au-
thority on the mosquito theory of ma
laria, arrived here on the steamer l.uca-
mia from. Liverpool. Maj. Ross will visit
st. Louis and lecture before the scientific
congress, going later to Panama and ia
maica.
Ms. Ada J.. Connors, widow of Capt.
William NJ. Conn0rS, many years ago
well known as a theatrical manager and
later proprietor of the Hotel st. Pames.
is dead from heart disease in brooklyn.
Mrs. Conner was one of the Webb sis
tiers, Ada and Emma, famous OH the
stage three decades ago.
One of the highest-priced juvenile ont
fitting stores in this city catering to retail
customers is conducted by former en-
listed man i'll Uncle Sans navy. lie
makes speciality of sailors toys for
children and does principally custom
work, receiving many orders from the
families of naval officials and officers
throughout the United States.
Workmcn digging an excavation for tfat
part of the tunnel which will describe
loop at the Battery unearthed plank
road which used to lead to the old Van
derbit ferry to Staten island, when the
founder of the Vanderbilt millions used
to be Il ferryman. Oak planks, still as
hard and firm as they were almost 100
years ago, were chopped away.
Booth Harrington, the Indiana author,
who returned recently from Rome, has
lost his dog Gamin, and announces: Il
would rather lose a gold watch than my
French poodle. His wool is cut lion fash
ion, and, coming from Indiana, is n
Iloosier and likely to pick up with any
body. He was born i'll Paris. but raised
in indianapolis. His disposition, there
fore, is rather mixed"
Louis Sherry. the famous caterer. has
come back to the United States after
ten months Sojourn abroad 1t is said
that the 81. Regis is making sad inroads
on his exclusive business in upper Fifth
avenue and that he returned to re-eStab-
liSh active competition. Delmonico's is
also feeling the effect of the St Regis
competition. The Waldorf is not so
much affected. This place represents
'eXclusiyeness for the multitude" and is,
therefore. not directly touched by the
S0O-a-day Judgement and the $40 table.
When Charles Dickens in "Bleak
House" Satirized the English court of
chancery with his fictitious case of Jarn-
dyce vs.. Jarndyce, hich had been TWEEN
ty years in court he thought he had
gone close to the limit. The new calendar
which has been prepared for the ensuing
court year of the supreme court i'll this
city has several cases that have appeared
on it for more than twenty years, and
one case that first appeared on the caien-
dar thirty-SiX years ago. 1t bears the
title. New York Guarantee Indemnity
company against William IL. Wickhanl, :
once mayor of New York.
Edward G. Ellis, last of the family of
that name which established the Ellis
locomotive works at Schenectady, n. ".
many years ago, IS dead, after an Illness
of only two days from pneumonia. He
was only % years old. Mr.. Ellis leaves
an estate estimated at $25.000.000 He
leaves Il young widow, who will receive
as her share one-third of the estate the
remainder going to his mother and sister.
1t was in 1896. while student at Yale.
that young Mr.. Ellis met Miss Lillian T..
Earl. She was the daughter of poor par
cnts, but her beauty gained for her Il
place i'll 4 rather exclusive circle of so
Ciety of New Haven. Later he was
stricken with typhoid fever. and She
they were married. Mr. Ellis was promi-
nent in athletic and yachting circles.
Oscar Somnig. "hane' sleepy. or so he
said. lie disturbed the peace of mind of
less imprrtubahe New Workers. by GO
iug To sleep on window ledge on the
nuctcrnJh story of the American Trace
society building. \ man who saw him
from the street went to look for him.
lie was or the nineteenth floor, 25GS
feet Up. The door was locked. The Elk
plOrer Went into the next office. and.
climbing out on the ledge. succeeded in
reaching the sleeper one OF whose arms
was dangling in space.
After crawling inside the empty of
hce the explorer grabbed his legs to wake
him.
What do You mean by loafiny that
way" he demanded, seeing the man was
window cleaner.
Il hane sleepy" said Oscar. apologet-
ica!ly. Il hane 10y picnic yesterday"
1t was on March T.. 1901. that An
drew Carnegie offered To build sixty-iivc
branch circulating libraries in Greater
New Work 3t an average cost OF $50, 1000
or - total of 5000 zoo. In to the pres
emit time the city has acquired abort half
thc required sites. and nearly thirty of
the buildings have been started Three
Of them are finished and in operations.
The system of planning ana building
these branch libraries has now bccn 50
far perfected that practically as fast as
the city furnishes the sites the structures