Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-03-18


was avenged for the manner in which he
spoiled their plans to make him an I'M
willing guest ut their dinner.
With physicians. nurses and her fam
lily about her in her home at iJ1 West
End avenue. Miss Grace Carpenter, Il
handsome young woman - years old, Is
raving mad due, her family says, to
her infatuation for Christian Science. the
study of which she took mp two years
ago. So violent did the young woman
become today that before daylight her
family was forced to send for the police
and an ambulance from Roosevelt hos
pital. Miss Carpenter became a con
vert to the theory of Christian Science
two years ago. She had no ailment of
her own. but it is said a friend had been
| cured of an illness and the girl became
an advocate of its use in disease to re-
| place medicine.
| Concert giving in Carnegie Music hall
| will he so much more expensive next
year than heretofore it is possible sew
| eral organizations accustomed TO use the
| big auditorium will abandon or greatly
modify their series. The music hall com
| pany has notified managers of the in
| crease in rent for the auditorium, IN
| some eases amounting to 60 per cent.
| The one-night rate of S4UD next season
will be enforced on every occasion. There
| will be no reduction, as heretofore, for
| a series of performances. The present
! rates are: One night. 800; two engage
| ments. 800; three. $1,000; four. S125O;
| five or six, $500: every additional time.
| $3.50 more Further, the nail no longer
may he used free for orchestral re-
hearsalS The charge next year will he
| $40 a time plus the cost of arranging
| the stage considerable item.
Three men arrived on the Oceanic
whom the officers of the ship declared
to be card sharpers. They sailed from
New York on the Oceanic February IL
| and returned on the same ship under
| the names, according to the ships Of
| ficers. of j. II. Council, G. w. SimondS
| and Il. A. Willard. On the eastward
| trip. it is said. they won money mt cards.
| After the arrival of the ship ON the other
side an army officer wrote to the com
| pany that he had lost quite a sum- On
| the return trip a warning against gam
| blers was posted ill the smoking room
| and Capt. Cameron stationed stewards
| outside the statero0ms of the three men
| to prevent them from taking passengers
| into them They were indignant, bur
| PurSer Russell warned them if they at
| tempted to play cards he would have
| them arrested, and they did not play.
| Mabel Spang. daughter of Charles ii.
| Spang. Il wealthy manufacturer of Pitts
! burg, Pa. who was remanded to Il pri-
/ waite sanitarium in YonkerS January 10
| by order of Supreme Court Judge Ma
rpan. has been released and is now said to
| be in Brussels. Miss Spang'S case at
| tracted considerable notice early in Jam
uary, when Il man in New York city
! whom she did not even know brought ha-
beas corpus proceedings before Judge
| Marean seeking to have the young WOm-
an released from confinement. alleged to
| he uncaed for by any mental ailment.
| Her restraint in the sanitarium was the
result of proceedings which the court re-
! fused to make public and after several
| lengthy hearings Judge Marean refused
to order her release. 1t is stated that
| she was released. however. two weeks
later, the entire affair remaining myS-
| terry.
When the Manhattan club elects its
class of five governors an attempt will
| be made to defeat Perry Belmont, who
has been a governor several years. The
| club has fifteen governors, who are elect
| ed in classes of five for three year terms.
| The committee on nominations recently
chose the following regular ticket: John
| Hone, William 5. Rode, Pierre f. Mae
| Donald Louis j. Conlan and Perry Bel
mont All are now governors except
| Conan. Some members who frequent
| the club a great deal are not entirely
| satisfied with the ticket. They specially
are displeased by the denomination of
| Belmont, who, they say, has not visited
! the clubhouse often. The upshot has
! been that the younger and more clubbish
| element have put UP an opposition ticket.
! 1t differs from the regular ticket only in
! that the name of George +. Hartman
| appears instead Of that of Perry Bel
mont
There are no negro milionaircs in
! New York nor probably in any other
! city. but there are many negroes here
/ who are worth upward of 100000. The
| five richest men of the African race are
! james c. Thomas, William H. Smith,
/ James Baretield. Dr. r. W. Ray and l..
/ s. Williams. All these men are above
| the 100000 mark. There are in this
! city large number of negro women of
! independent means. Mrs. Lulu NJ. Shep-
! herd owns an apartment building in
! West l34th street, Mrs. Hannah Walker
! possesses Il fine residence in West both
| street, Mrs. Charles Gale owns an ex-
| penSively furnished home in Penn street.
| Brooklyn. and IN the same block Mr.. and
! Mrs. Daniel Brooks have an elegant
| residence. Mrs. Brooks also OWNS two
! apartment houses in Brooklyn Mrs.
! Philip \. White. the widow of negro
| druggist formerly in business at William
! and Frankfort streets. owns property TO
the assessed value of nearly 100000.
| Women complaining thar they lacl;
/ wholesome diversion. owing TO the fact
| that they are engaged six days Il week
| in business pursuits. have effected an
! organization called the business Won,
| ems New Work. lea%ue which VIII seek
10 bring the memt ers into touch for
mutual helpfulness and to provide pleas
| ern branch of an organization. the RuSi
ness Women'S National league which
was formed in St. Louis. after the last
meeting of the General Federation Of
Women's Clubs with Headquarters in
| Denver. Social meetings will be held
deavnring 10 work ont plan hrona