Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-11-25


support Swimming toward the rivers sur
| face. After nine lOon-like dives the aero
| plane struck the water fifty feet from the
old Station Island ferry boat Westfield
Near by was the tug Herman :. Gas.
well, which went at once to the rescue
Gambling is Mt once the delight and
| the trOuble-maker of the Chinese quarter
of New York. Here and in China it is
the besetting vice and the favorite
amusement. Except for that one weak
! ness II may he said that the Cinnamon
are, on the whole, more moral than the
| white people who surround them They
do not drink and there are fewer opium
smokers among them than there would
be drunkards among an equal number
of whites away from the restraints of
home. Chinatown here is like new
community in the western mines. They
are away from their families, their w0m-
en- and their code of responsibility. They
| work off their love of excitement il gam
bling
a man who entered an uptown New
! York police station at o'clock in the
morning discovered the sergeant
| stretched out in the middle of the floor
resting on his toes and the palms of his
hands. and alternately raising and lower
| ing himself by bending and straighten-
! ing his arms to the accompaniment of
groans. His blouse was unbuttoned and
perspiration was pouring in streams
| from his countenance. Getting rid Of
me front" he explained. Going to try
to be captain and McAdoo won't hav,,
fat commanders | have to take off me
| shoes now to see whether | need Il shine
or not, so it's up to me to reduce. This
! is great exercise to force the abdomen to
| retire.
| Useful as it is in emergencies. there is
no question that the copper cent is a
despised article There is one place.
however, where the copper cent is not
despised. This is in the automatic
vaudeville parlor. Any kind of an ocu-
| changed for it. In one of the most inn
portant of these establishments in New
! York the focus from which radate
branch establishments in I'll the cities of
the country. there are nearly 600 ma
| chimes of various kinds on one floor
alone. and the rest of the big building is
given up to Offices of the company ana
repair shops and the basement to athletic
cOntrivanccs of the slot variety. where
giants come in off hours and get Il
penny's worth of muscle.
\ package of diamond rings, brooches
and heirIooms valued at $4,000. the
property OF Mrs. NJ. -. +. HaWley of
! Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, was stolen
| from the Long Island Express company
J on september 20. lie l1lltE tblttIu
! took the jewels on that day from the
Adams Express company, which shipped
/ them from Boston. where Mrs. HaWley
! had sent them to be cleaned. About ten
years ago she was Il member of Angus
| tuS Days company at Days theateT,
! her name then being Marie Shotwell,
! She said: The jewels We're easily worth
! $4,000. The piece that ! most valued
was Il diamond cross which Jenny Lind
| gave my mother many years ago, There
were a number of heirlooms that | set
value on quite apart from their intrinsic
worth, which was considerable.
The overcoat of this year, so far as
/ New York goes, seems to be the rough
! but lightweight and loosely fitting gar
ments. 1t may be in any dark color, but
gray seems to be preferred. II is dressed
up little by a black velvet collar and
4 made to fit very Snugly around the neck.
4 crowd of well dressed men these days
! looks like pan of beans-all alike.
/ There is the black derby-cruller hats
are out-and the not too long but loose
dark overcoat. Ties are dark and suit
ings show no pronounced patterns.
| Fancy wastcoats are popular. but they
evening suits have fallen fiat New
Workers will have none of them. All
| tendencies are toward elegant and rich
simplicity. There is no striving for
original effect except among the wine
agents, variety actors, etc.
With quartette from an opera troupe
singing hymns. and Archbishop Riordan
of San Francisco officiating, Vincenzo
Giordano, Il sailor on the North German
! Lloyd steamship Koenigin Luise, which
arrived i'll New York from Mediterra-
mean ports. was buried in mid-oceau the
other day, twenty-four hours after he
/ had hnnn in iurpI Inv a II from tho rio
ging. At early dawn the body of
the sailor was laid out on deck, and
Capt. Feyen and his officers stood by
while the archbishop read the burial
service of the Catholic church, assisted
| by several other priests, also passengers
on the ship After four members of an
opera troupe had sung, the body was
committed to the deep. The passengers,
! learning that Giordano had wife and
| four children in Genoa. made up Il purse
of 2O00 lire. which will be forwarded to
the family.
THE better class of people in New
/ York cannot afford large families. They
| have too much to pay in taxes to sup
! port the large families of the thoughtlcss |
poor was the bomb which Mrs. S. NJ. !
| Cory exploded in the Society for Political
1 Study III resume OF the evils New York
| ers stand.
New York property owners, said
Mrs Cory, pay increasingly large taxes
/ every year. due mainly to the enormous
/ immigration. Who, may ask, would
want to pay taxes to educate children
! that should never have been brought into
/ the world? Why should the thrifty pay
! for the shiftless! | am not so un-Chris- |
! tan as TO say that the child once here
/ should not be cared for. But just 50
/ long as taxpayers pay for expensive play
/ grounds, etc, the children of the poor
/ will increase like rabbitS in u hurroNV
! No wonder our houses of refuge and re-
/ formatories are filed
\ long and determined search for Ben |
/ jamin f. Chadsey. a Brooklyn lawyer /
/ who had been accused OF grand larceny. I
/ had lied to San Francisco 10y the way of /
! Panama, had been captured and brought |
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