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

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York by Christmas. 1t will be 1900
miles in length.
Ex-Health Commissioner Lederle OF
New York is IN Berlin, Germany, max
ing study Of German methods OF street
cleaning. the disposal OF sewage and
other municipal works and also of the
pure food regulations and methods.
Collector Strauahan has announced the
formal seizure OF four cases of dutiable
merchandise found among the baggage on
a French steamer recently. The articles
mostly belonged to dressmakers returning
from Paris and aggregate in value about
$4,000.
In q raid on M alleged poolroem ana
bucket shop in Forty second street near
Sixth avenue. one man in seeking TO
evade arrest was seriously injured by
falling IL fees TO the sidewalk from Il
window Of the r0oms and eleven others
were arrested
A rumor that Bishop Potter had been
made member of the Bartenders' union
caused considerable discussion Investi-
CATION, however, showed that the subway
tavern is now unionized. and that here
after bartenders employed in the tavern
must be union men.
Frances Hope Sankey, favorite grand
daughter of Ira ID. Sankey, the well
known evangelist who not long ago be-
came blind, is dead at her home in
was only 4 years old, had been I'm almost
constant companion of the evangelist
since he lost his sight.
David Bennett Hill will be married to
May Irwin, the actress, in January, if an
interview with her at Waterbury, Conn,
means anything. A rumor of such an
engagement has been published, and when
the clippings were submitted TO her she
said: Il cannot discuss the report. We
have known each other for years, but you
must see him about this. / am sorry it
should be published"
The story that May Irwin is to marry
David b. Hill in January is taken at
Mr.. Hills Office as the work Of Jealous
press agent. Mr.. Hill believes that a
man isn't good for much year after or
year before he is married, and, as the
ex-senator up to this time has had all
his mental faculties with him, there can
be no truth, he claims, in the story that
he is to be married in January.
The formula used recently by justice
of the peace to mary John Bener A.
years old, and Mathilda Orlof did not
contain the words love and obey This
was ut the request of the principals
They explained that to them the marriage
was Il strictly business proposition. The
bride said she had $500 and the groom
had Il corresponding sum. They have de-
cided to combine their forces and go into
the restaurant business in New York.
When the great hotel building boom
started a few years ago the vast proper
tons of the new hosteiries surprised even
the New Workers. They said that il all
the hotels were fully occupied the rest of
the island would be depopulated They
did not count on the steadily increasing
number of visitors from other cities.
Now the hotels are opening one by one
and they all seem to fill up without per-
ceptibly diminishing the patronage OF
other places.
A desire expressed by DR.. George
Conant, that his brain be delivered to the
department of physiology at Cornell uni
VerSity in the interest OF scientific re-
search will never be fulfilled. The body
of the physician has been cremated by
order of his relatives, who objected to
the fultillment of his reported wish re-
Commits relatives heard that the doctor
had willed his brain to the. scientists. bur
say they were unable to find any such !
provision in the Doctors will.
\ son and heir has been born to VIII
liam Astor Chanler. The wooing of the
Young clubman and politician was very
He first met Miss Minnie Ash
ley when she was the star in ''San Tow
at Days theater. Before the termina- !
ton of the season Miss Ashley. whose |
pretty brown eyes were the most striking |
feature of her beauty, was stricken with
something in the nature of a cataract and !
for months was threatened with blindness.
Throughout her atfliction she was tender /
ly cared for by her atfianced husband and |
her eyes were saved.
Women may smoke rs much as they |
choose while riding i'll automobiles. so far |
as the police department is concerned.
according 10 an announcement made by |
Police Commissioner McAdoo This an I
uouncement came after much newspaper |
comment had followed an arrest Of a |
member of an automobile party SUNDAY |
evening. the arrcsting policeman takinl |
occasion 10 rebuke "A woman in the autg-
mobile for smoking in public. ''The |
smoking WAS only an incident of the rem /
orally diSorderly character of those in the /
automobile. said the commissioner to-
cay.
Comforts are multiplying 50 fast in The /
new apartment buildings here that when /
the average New Yorker goes AWAY from |
home he fees that he is camping aus. /
There are. fer example, at least 100 |
apartment houses where tive rooms and n /
BATH cost $50 month which nave ac. /
comm Nations undreamed OF a few years
il%o, OF course, there is elevator service
day and night. hot and cold running
water for bath. hy'l boy and maid serv- /
ice and telephones in every apartment.
ms much Is inciI.ed in the rent. In
addition breakfast Is served in the apart
ment for the same ltice charged in the
lining room; y house valet will answer
a bell or the telephone and press and
clean clothes for reasonable rates.
Amid scenes of weeping. Seventy-6ve
children havt taken their departure from
he New York founding asylum for new
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