Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-09-24
HERMIT WILSON AND HIS ISLAND HOME.

with the carly history Of the Panama
canal has been presented To the Ameri-
can Geographical society by Capt Ma
than Appleton of this City. The collae-
ton includes a portrait of De Lesseps,
many maps. photographs, letters news
paper articles. caricatures, and official
announcements, besides books and PAM
pblets relating both to Suez and Panama.
San Bias, and Nicaragua. There are
also papers dealing with Darien as a
canal route
The will OF Harry &. Cox. glove
manufacturer agent, who died on the
steamer Kaiser Wilhelm ii. when return
ing from Europe on July 81, has been
MED. The most interesting provision of
the will is one which bequeaths $4,000
to my dear friend, Stella +. HiIbron. of
. West Ninety-second street, in apprecia
ton of years of devotion and service rem
dered to me By her. Attorney Hitchings.
who presented the viii for probate, said
Mrs. I1ilbron is a pretty French widow
to whom Mr.. Cox was engaged to be
married, probably"
Forty years in Wall street and rated
twenty-five years ago as worth 81 600
600, Theodore Kent died of a fractured
skull in the Hudson Street hospital. Kent
who was well known curb broker. lived
IN q Park Row hotel and was IA charac-
ter III Broad street. After the close of
the curb market recently Kent and two
OF three other brokers went to Il saloon
and had several drinks. On leaving
Kent stumbled over a low step and fell
heavily. He was unconscious and as he
did not regain consciousness an ambu-
lance from the hospital was summoned
Liners which arrived recently found
the first half of their voyage ferment
of laShing and heavy westerly gales
Even the towering steamship Cedric.
could not Seornfuliy toss off the comhers.
On the first day of the storm il covered
only $50 miles. and the second and
worst It staggered through lambast-
ing seas, averaging only trife
more than eleven knots an hour for The
nautical day, and sometimes going at
quarter speed The Cedric landed az
Ellis island 1852 Steerage passengers.
the largest number ever brought over in
one ship from British port.
Nothing better illustrates the summer
flight of the smart New Workers than
the palm garden d the Waldorf astoria
OH Sunday evening In the winter
season the garden is gay with handsome
~ dressed women. men in evening dress.
the babble of voices. the crashing and
hlarlng of the band and the frequent bur
decolous popping of champagne corks.
The Sunday night crowd of the winter
months is never the same as on other
nights, for society deserts the palm gar
den Sunday and leaves il free to men
about town, actresses and those who
make up the night life of the city of
pleasure.
In quarrel provoked by jealousy on
ms part, Warren j. Ferguson. Is wears
old. theatrical advance agent, was shot
ana perhaps fatally wounded hy a woIn-
an known as Mrs. Gertrude Roberts. in
hcr room at the METROPOLITAN hotel
wenty-Seventh street and broadway.
MRS Roberts, who is ~ years old, made
no attempt 10 escape and was locked m
ferguson is well known in theatrical cir
feS' lie was at one time business man
ager Of The Fortune Teller company.
press agent for Paris by Night" and for
Ihe last few weeks has been advance
agent for Nellie McIicnry. Ferguson met
the woman at the Buffalo exposition. and
she SAID she had been separated from
her husband in Detroit.
The governors of the stock exchange
are determined TO break M the Little
stock exchange, rs the cafe OF the Wal
'iNil-NNtpll3 - now known. They think
ne members ought to be able 10 do all
I hctr trading un the floor of the exchanges
h',Nteit 10 o clock a. m. and 3 o'clock
T.. h In late wears. and especially since
ihr western crowd has become pruuliuenf
U Wall street. She So-caIled Waldorf
crowd is in the habit of meeting in the
cafe ot the hotel and buying and selling
stocks til late nj night, Some Of them
even wait up till he London stock Ak
'hailge opens Ia place their orders there.
So strongly does the passion for gambling
possess thvHt. Notice has been sent oar
Ha' the practice is detrimental TO the cx-
change
The fashionable stationcrS have again
made u necessary for an who want 10 be
~ the last mode 10 change their card
plates The old English type has neen
superseded ny new design in lettering.
known as French script" 1t is not 50
distinguished us either the old English
nr b" plain script that preceded il. but
the new style has been used several
lu'GS az Newport. and plates have been
made Tor several hoSteSsGS there In
contrast 20 this eagernCSS to adopt new
fashions is the invitation that has been
used for Years by the hostess whose an /
ulai ban is the most exclusive i'm New /
! orh. That plate has already begun 10
Snow @-nS ot wear and no change In the /
fashions hats ever dissatisfied lis owner +
W'ia its simple design,
i''Ehwaymen, burglars and toughS arc {
,e ohSlhie for reign OF terror in New
h0rk that rivals the criminal record of
mlnng camp. There have been twentv- /
lMo murders since August |. with fewer /
AnAA hAI u dozen arrests There have