Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-12-17
New York Every Day.

Construction work on the Rockefeller
institute for the investigation Of the
causes of disease at Sixty-ffth street and
Avenue A. New York city, has begun.
The buildings, with their equipment viii
cost 81, 100000. The corner stone of the
central building has been laid and the
structure, which is to cost $4,000, viii
! be reared at once When completed. the
building will be publicly dedicated TO the
discovery and study Of the bacteria of
disease. Three blocks of property sur
| rounding have been purchased so that
the character of the neighborhood may
be controlled.
At meeting Of the Central Federated
| Union delegates, representing more than
lJO,0Oo workers in the miscellaneous
trades, have appointed a committee of
| ten to hight employers who insist ON the
! open shop" IN compliance with the sen
tlments expressed at the recent Citizens
Industrial alliance convention.
What is believed to be a genuine Rom
ney, done in that artists best period, has
| just been sold ut auction for $34, 900,
! says London dispatch TO the Times
Inc painting was part of the estate of
man who lived in a miners cottage at
! w hite Haven, Cumberland, aid who had
| a hobby for buying and cleaning pic
lures. Every picture he cleaned he
| spoiled. For some reason he did not
clean the Romney, and after his death it
| was found tied up with two other pic
lures which, with the Romney, he had
! bought for less than So. One of the
/ three is believed also to be a Gains
! borough, though it brought only 5000 at
( the sale. The Romney canvas meas
ures 6Ox37 inches. 1t is a portrait of
two children walking in a landscape, ac-
companied by little terrier.
With a living rabbit bound tightly TO
! him. while a piece Of the animals skin
6 inches long and inches wide is grated
securely to his leg, the life Of Cornelius
| Post, Is years old, of Passaic, n j., is
| depending upon that of the rabbit, Ii
the animal lives until the grated skin
takes hold the operation, it is declared,
| will be the most remarkable one in med
| zeal annals besides saving the boys life
It is two years since the boy was burned.
He picked up a wet piece of phosphorus
and put it in his pocket. The phosphorus
! ignited and the burns resulted. Various
attempts at human skin grating failed.
and the rabbit operation was decided
| upon. The boy refused to take an anes-
thetic, but the rabbit was chloroformed
An injunction was granted against
Mayor Mcclellan, City Controller Circuit
ana City Chamberlain Keenan, to prevent
| them from paying city gas bills, alleged
to be excessive. During 1903 and a part
Of 1904 various gas companies furnished
New York with light without Il contract.
Their bills aggregate $5,000,000 for that
time 1t is maintained this is 81 100000
more than should have been charged.
Theodore Il. Kohlass, a native of KEN
| lucky, who was business representative
in New York of two Louisville newspa-
| pers. is dead at his home in BROOKLYN
Acute appendicitis aggravated by the
shock of seeing man killed by a falling
| glrder in Nassau street caused his Death
lie was an eye witness of the accident,
and after reaching his Office in Park row
collapsed. Physicians discovered lie was
suffering from appendicitis but it was
! too far advanced TO permit an operation
For the encouragement OF those who
/ dread to go down to the sea in ships, the
! current number of the Medical Record
contains a paragraph credited to the
| British Medical journal upon ''the
/ treatment of sea sickness" 1t says:
Charles w. 7. Woods has had much
success i'll relieving this complaint. AT
| the first onset OF uncomforta BILE sensa-
| tons n broad, tight flannel belt should
be worn and the patient should stay on
deck if possible, usually lying on the
back, preferably to the side. As low
a pillow as possible should be used Food
most readily retained is deviled biscuit
dry biscuit buttered lightly, sprinkled
with cayenne pepper and then roasted
or egg flip, The latter must be given
the patient with his eyes closed, for the
color is repuisive."
The Duke Of Kiilcrankie," in which
John Drew has met with great success,
has passed its Tooth performance ut the
Empire theater. By the time he finishes
his New York engagement this viii be
one Of the longest runs Mr. Drew has
ever played in New York
James X. Hackctt spoke 10 large
body Of students at Georgetown college.
IN Washington, where he is PLAYING nj
the National theater Mr.. Hackett's sub.
Jcct was Life and the Stage" and he
ZaId IN part: The So-calcd realistic
drama is based on the fallacy that Ia get
at the bottom of human existence one
must get. at its rottenness. The dram.
Artists who write these hideous plays
might rs well plant rose bushes bottom
no. in order that the flowers might he
buried and the ugly roots left in view. |
They ignore the beautiful and fragrant
TO emphasize the meritriciOus and degrad- /
ing. The planter in search of sahiects |
does not 20 to the morgue and the brothel; |
why should the dramatist?"
Counsel for Hannah Elias, who. IL Il |
alleged, obtained $6S0,000 fran, John
Piatt by eXtortion. asked Justice Trn9y !
Of the supreme court for trial by Jury. !
Margaret Erwin. through her counsel
Howe X Hummell, has begun suit In tho !
supreme conrt To recover $Sl.30n from
Henrietta Maudelbaum. as adminisfra. |
triN of Samuel Bernhard. In her com |
plant she stated that about 1880 the de- |
cedent requested her to render services |
70 him as honSekeener and nurse nna i, |