Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-10-08

nue. pollce staten, III the absence of
Capt. Miles OReilly. and carried away
the former tenderioin commanders tyne
writing machine. There was ii sergeant
on duty and men on reserve Were in the
station hous., but the lightfooted bur
glars did not disturb the sOmnoient no.
lleemen, They took a brand-new type
writer, ritied the desk on which it stood.
ana get away with their plumber without
disturbing the calm OF the place.
Hardy =. Durham. a well known horse
owner and trainer. dropped dead nj
Shsepshead Bay race track. He had Just
stabbed his fa"orite horse, Dekaber. after
watching the animal at work on the.
track. A STANCE coincidence was con-
Inected with the horseman's sudden end
ing, A few days ago at Brighton track
Dekaber won IL race, beating Ostrich in
a close finish. When the Inter animal
was led back TO his stable at Sheepshead
the foreman, Gus Hanan, asked the
stable boy If he had won. Learning that
the horse, upon which he had wagered
large sum, mad been beaten BY De
kaber, Hanan threw up his arms aud fell
dead
Probably the most expensive and most
ninety equipped suite of rooms of its size
In the world has been taken By e. 4.
Thomas, the prominent surfman, who has
rented the royal! suite at the Hotel
Regis. At the regular daily rate of 1928
the annual rental on this suite would be
more than $4,000. The suite, which will
be occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas,
conlstS of salon, a library, a dining
room and two bathrooms. II is provided
with every luxury and convenience that
ingenuity. could devise. 1t will cost Mr..
Thomas $500 an hour. or about 81 cents
n Fsalr NNVef - 4
expense OF nights sleep of eight hours
will be S41.GQ.
Ex-Gov. Hogg of Texas, once famous
as Il trust buster, but millionaire since
he struck oil in Texas has come to town
ION fun trip and to get something good
20 eat as he says. AS he referred to
the sastronomic purpose OF his 2000-mie
trip he patted his 0-foot girth and added:
IOu think we are all broncho busters
and bad men in Texas, don't you. Umph!
IL we killed one-half as many men in
Texas as you do here i'll New York you
would be getting out 4 red-hcaded extra
every minute.
That isn't overstating the case a bit.
You thrash out papers by the carload
every minute now BY the eternal, don't
know what you do it for. Nobody could
read 'em all. | don't do anything but sit
over to the Waldorf and eat and try TO
read them, and it is all / can do to get
through the headlines"
On the question of whether young
woman may smoke Il cigarette while rid
ing in an automobile without committing
a breach of the law the statutes remain
unsettled. Bicycle Policeman Rensselaer,
thought he was in fair way to get ii
solved the other night when he arrested
Frederick Norton, young Englishman.
on the technical charge of diS0rderly con-
duct.
But he wasn't. Next day at the Ief-
ferson Market court Norton was fined
So and the cigarette end of the transac-
ton was not developed ut all
Rensselaer, saw big automobile going
up Fifth avenue. Two young women
were in a rear seat, and one of them
calmly pulled Il cigarette. Riding along
side he remarked that to see a woman
smoking in public was decidedly unseem-
ly. When the people i'll the machine told
him to mind his own business he arrested
them.
A sandwich man wearing a dress suit.
patent leather shoes, silk hat clean
shave and other evidences of respectable
ty not usually associated with human
advertising peregrinators made his APP
pearance along Broadway the other
afternoon The saddle signs dangling
from his person were newly painted and
done in most artistic style. Following
closely behind him was small colored
boy i'll uniform who acted as his valet
The boy occasionally supplied the sand !
witch master with light and both mas
ter and man conducted themselves with |
the greatest decOrum and gravity The |
sandwich man with the valet was adver-
Using 4 new brand of cigar, and he gave
a most polished performance. Broadway
attention can only be arrested by the alb |
solutely original thing. and an undertake
ing of this fact probably moved the cigar |
advertiser to try the gentleman sandwich |
man.
Household servants are very scarce in |
New York just now, despite the constant |
through the gates of Ellis |
Island. Although modern invention has |
lessened the demand for those who do the !
heavy work of a domestic establishment |
there are still endless complaints. The /
mistress wants her to wear a cap and to /
answer the door bell, no matter what the |
time of day, i'll an immaculate white |
apron and her sleeves to her wrist She |
is expected to cook dinner which is hot |
work always, and to serve it wearing a |
thick white collar and cuffS-serve il in |
the regalia of IA waitress, in fact. 1t is a /
lot of petty things like that which have /
helped to sour girls on the general house /
work question, as well as the fact that I
their work seems never to be done. Wem-
en- have themselves to blame for sending I
manv good house worker ont of the /
ranks simply because they expect too
much style of them.
One Of the most remarkable pastorates
in this city closed when Rev. DR.. j. Bal /
come Shaw preached his last sermon in
the West End Presbyterian church. The !
church was packed. At least 5000 per-
sons attended. il is less than seventeen
years since Rev. DIR. Shaw, then recent
graduate of the Union Theological semi
nary. took charge of a little neighborhood
Sunday school on the upper west side.
The church was organized in real estate
office and met in the large front hall os
IN old fashioned country house.
Since then the church has added to its
rolls more than 5000 persons. and many
more to Sunday school membership. and
now, after losses by death and removal.
It's membership is 1864 1t is the largest