Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-07-15
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Tne steel car is to supplant the
wooden car on trolley lines in New York
city. For a week a steel car has been
running up and down Broadway. II is
painted yellow and lettered and decorat-
ed in perfect imitation of the wooden
cars. 1t can be distinguished from the
outside only by the rivets, which show
family through. the varnish. The ear IS
of solid steel. Inside it looks a good
deal like the steel cars in the subway
An official of the Metropolitan company
said today the steel car had run salts
factorily and would be followed by mary
others, with the idea of entirely sup
planting the wooden cars.
With all the pomp ana ceremony ac-
corded king of the Bowery," big
TiIn" Sullivan was escorted to the Cum
ard steamship Campania by a host of
his constituents, who babe him bon vOy-
age on his seven weeks trip abroad. In
stead of valet the senator had with
him demure looking valise The valet
story was just 'cunard," he said. Dur
ing the trip he will visit Richard Croker
on his Irish estate. Accompanying the
elongated senator were Louis Sternber-
ger, Eddie DrooRey and Emil Westfall,
three of his stanehest henchmen in his
Bowery bailiwick. The latter is his bet
ting commissioner. and is known on the
race courses as Berlin Dutch"
Unless patriotic citizens come to the
financial rescue of Commander Robert
e. Peary, his dash to the north pole will
in the auxiliary schoOner-rigged Roose-
welt the finest craft ever built for polar
exploration. She is all paid for. but
money is needed for food and equip
ment. ut is true that the Peary Arctic
club has not yet obtained all the funds
desired for the expedition" said the
commander recently. Money has been
the equipment, but l am still short of the
full amount needed. In order to have
the equipment as it should be | need
between $4,000 and $4,000 more"
In Wall street circles there was gen
orally circulated story that Henry H
Rogers, the Standard Oil magnate. had
joined the Christian Science church. RAJ
NOR had it that Rogers had been afflicted
with rheumatism, for which he had made
trips to Baden Baden and other CONT
mental resorts without effect AS last
resort he had turned to the faith cure
it was said. When Mr.. Rogers was
called up OH the telephone in his sum
mer residence at Tuxedo Park and told
of the rumor he laughed and said: 'Why.
that is the most absurd thing l ever
heard. Ha. ha, Where did that come
from? That's a joke" Then with a
parting chuckle he dropped the receiver.
Diamonds. jewelry and silverware
valued at about $4,000 were stolen
from the home of James Jackson Hig-
ginson, a banker at 16 East Forty-first
street With his wife and daughters,
Mr.. Higginson attended the theater.
Upon their return home the women put
their jewels away as usual in a safe on
the second floor, off Mrs. Higginsons
loss in the morning, when she was pre-
pairing to go with her husband to their
country place on Long island. Among
the stolen jewels are a necklace of
eighty-one pearls. worth $500; a neck
lace Of fifty large pearls, worth $4,000;
ruby and diamond ring, worth $500:
sapphire and diamond ring, worth
$1,000.
The Bronx Zoo, that most wonderful
of all New York's show places of which
visitors know so little and natives less,
showed a new wonder to the eyes when
the bird palace was for the first time
open to public inspection. In this cage
the birds are only nominally confined. 1t
ing influence. The parrots have cage
nearly 100 feet long and so feet high.
Trees. wading and drinking pools,
stretches of sand and green grass, and
all that the bird delights in are provided
in the new palace. The new bird home
is only one of the many delights of the
Bronx Zoo. Next time you come to New
York ask the clerk how to get there
quickest. 1t is only fifty minutes from
the hotel district.
The old Catholic cemetery at Null
berry. Prince and Mott streets, sur
rounding st. Patrick's church. New
York city, will soon cease to exist. The
few bodies remaining there will be re-
moved, it is expected, into crypts under
the church. Then another phase in the
interesting history of the building will
be concluded. When a New Yorker
speaks of st. Patrick's cathedral it is
the large editice in Fifth avenue he has
in mind. And yet that cathedral is but
the offspring of the much smaller, more
modest structures situated at Mott,
Prince and Mulberry streets, now in
the heart of the Italian quarter. There
St Patricks church has stood since
1909. 1t was the hrst Catholic cathe-
dral in New York and to this day it is
known as the old cathedral.
The fact that Mrs. Langtry is coming
to act in the New York vaudeville the
aters does not necessarily show that she
needs the money. 1t is true that she
built in London several years ago a the
alter which has been a source of almost
continuous loss, but she is not poor. She
has a mania for increasing her cash
bank account and is in the habit of turn
ing her property into cash whenever she
feels that her balance needs it. To have
her deposit go below a certain sum
seems to her the approach of grim power
ty. Last spring she sold some of her
jewels which she was not in the habit
of wearing. because her bank account
had fallen below what she believed it
should be. 1t is the prospect of COM
paratively large sum in very short
time, with no risk about plays, that has
led her to decide to come back here in
vaudeville.
Frederick w Thompson of Thomson