Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-06-04
Mc A planned the social campaign,

McAilister planned the social camn,;o.,
of Newport.
The aldermen adopted an or1ina.,.
which. if signed by the mayor. viii i
believed, tend to restrict the huil,lira
new theaters aud thereby Increase ~,
value of existing theaterS The ord
nance provides thar new tbeo+or.
shall be surrounded by an on
court from seven to fourteen f.a-
wide. Ii case a theater is built in H.,
middle of a block the court wonI ,,,,.
around three sides of the building ana g.:
on a corner around two sides The .-id-L
OF tho court is to be determined by H..
seating capacity of the house. Whore th-
seating capacity is 5000 or more the ma.
imum width IS demanded. 1t also is I,a.
vided that the width of the stairway.
corridors and aisles shall be deterD,jr.i
by the seating capacity. The nrdipan.1
went through with practically nv
comment. It was introduced soon
after the Chicago theater fire TI,o,i
was a meeting of theatrical managers l,'i -
oppose it.: At that meeting it was sa,J
George kraus, who is in DartDcFSIi,,
with the Sullivans, told the MANAGE.
that no matter how hard they might kjcl
the ordinance would be passed. III
Sullivans now own four or FIVE theater.
in this city.
An elderly woman. who said sba w,.
Mrs. Anna ID. Smith and that her rl.
Their was postmaster general in Pres
dent LlncolnS cabinet. was arrested re-
Gently, charged with violating the hot,J
law Later her son, 30 years of are
who gave his name rs Domison Smith
was also arrested on a similar charge
Mrs. Smith sent note To William H.
Piss, nephew of Cornelius n Bliss. who
she said, was her lawyer Mr. Bliss de.
MED that she was his client and sppt
word to her that he was power,eSs 10
help her Later he said that although ia.
had not seen the woman under ares,
he had every reason to believe that sbn
was Anna Dennison Smith daughter of
Gov. William Dennison of Ohio. who
was postmaster general under Prcsidpnr
Lincoln and was continued in Office bv
President Johnson.
Miss Bertha Alexander an indepcr1-
ent young woman whose latest Occupa-
ton was that of a cloak model in Nov
York city, sailed recently aboard the
liner Majestic for Liverpool where She
will take ship for South Africa. She has
been betrOthed for several years to Lieut..
Richard Roland Thompson, who won his
title by galantry in the Boer war OH the
British side. Thompson enlisted us a pri-
soon as he was able to marry that She
would go to him. He became interested
In diamond mining after the war and got
along so well that recently he sent for her
to come to Kimberley.
Lewis G. Tewksbery, whose meteoric
career and failure for large amount in
Wall street Il few years ago attracted
much attention, is reported to have been
married in London to Miss V. A. Butler
OF New York. Tewksbery fled to Mexico
III 1900 with only a few Thousand dollars
OF his once large fortune. Mrs Tewls-
berry recently secured divorce.
With n provisional contract in his
pocket with Nine. Sarah Bernhardt for
an American tour next season, Frank
Mckee arrived on the Majestic very wei!
pleased. My contract with Nine. Bern
hardt is for twenty weeks, beginning
next January he said. Then there is
also the privilege of an extension of four
or five weeks. if the conditions warrant.
She will appear principally in The
SOrcereSS, but she also will be seen in
other plays of her repertoire, including
'Sapho.
Ricardo Arias and DR.. ]. T. Morles.
special commissioners appointed by Pa
mama to receive the S9.OOOOO0 on ac-
=
New York city. The money will be in
vested in this country.
David Rothschild who was convicted
of grand larceny in connection with the
Federal bank failure and sentenced TO
serve nine years in state prison, instruct
ed his attorneys to withdraw their mo-
ton for a certificate of reasonable doubt.
lie will begin serving his sentence mt
once.
Rather than be sensational preacher.
Rev. Edward Everett Knapp has re-
signed his pastOrate of the Central Bap-
fist church of Brooklyn Empty benches
Sunday after Sunday convinced Mr..
Knapp that he was not preaching the
sort of sermons that could draw the
people. He told his friends that he
would leave the church before he would
resort TO sensational methods to attract
an audience. His friends urged him to
keep on just as he had been going. hut
1t was said that he became dis
heartened at the growing listlesSness in
the church and determined to resign.
The Island of Nordstrand. the only
portion of once fertile North I'r;aS,louI