Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-01-14
New York Every Day.

Europe on the steamer Philadelphia
The Phoenix line steamer British Prin.
cess, from Antwerp, brought among a
large general cargo 100 tons of wheat.
1t is announced that Edna Wallace
Hopper will give the ground for a news
boys home in Oakland, Cal. The dedi-
cation will take place during her engage.
mont in San Francisco.
Word has beer received thai the court
Of appeals had Gtlirmed the Judgment
awarding Nicto. Herbert, conductor Of
l1erbert's orchestra $1,000 damages and
costs against the Musical Courier.
Fians for the erection of the largest and
most completely equipped sailors home
III the world. to be erected in New York
city are being prepared for the American
Seamen.s Friend society. The society
has Oh hand $4,000.
New York eity's financial condition. nc.
cordlrg to Mayor McCleIlaD's message.
Sn2WS Il gross funded debt of S55S, 265,-
oil Against this there is a sinking fund
81 SIol,%30.352, leaving Il net funded
debt of S400, $50, 164 The present bor-
rowing capacity of the city is $S6,326, ~.
Edward GrOh, considered one of the
best authorities on ancient coins in the
country. and who was curator of the
American Numismatic and Archaeologi-
cal society of New York. is dead at his
home in Brooklyn. His personal collec-
ton Of ancient coins is valued at thou
sands Of dollars.
The profit sharing plan of the United
States Steel corporation, under which the
employees are permitted to subscribe to
the preferred stock, will be renewed in
Il short time When the plan was
first put out the subscription price was
$3.50 a share. Late in 1908 the sub
scription price was reduced to 500 a
share. the stock having had a correspond
ing decrease in value.
The big hotels in the uptown districts
Of New York city alone have an under
ground population of fully 10000. Some
Of the receatly built skyscrapers have a
basement, suhbasement, a cellar and
subceilar, thus making four floors under
the curb line. New York cannot spread
out literally, so it Is going up and doNli
and the inhabitants must adjust them
selves to the new building conditions.
Breyet Brig Gen Edward II. Wsrner,
retired, died suddenly of heart disease 10
the Marlborough hotel in New York re-
Gently. He was born in Pennsylvania
and served in the Civil war as lieutenant
colonel of the First New York artillery
retiring frcm the volunteers as brevet
brigadier general in 1860. He enlisted in
the regular army and served as captain
and as major of artillery and retired in
1887.
The New York Times has moved into
its new building, referred TO by experts
as one of the notable architectural
triumphs of the world 1t Is situated in
Times square. is thirty-one stories high
and the tallest structure in the city. The
presses are situated tifty-tiye feet below
the level of the street. The editorial and
composing rooms and executive Offices
occupy from the fourteenth to the TWEEN
ty-hfth stories.
After receiving favorable opinions from
Corporation Counsel Delaney and ex-
Judge John +. Dillon, an authority on
municipal corporation law, the board Of es-
innate made preliminary move toward
building the municipal electric light
ing plant The two opinions we've SIM
liar IN the advice they gave. Both agreed
the city had power under the charter TO
run plant of its own for public lighting
aud that additional legislation was UNI
| necessary
One thousand dollars reward will be
pald for information leading to the dis
| coNery OF Owen Kelly, living or dead,
I VINO disappeared from Philadelphia 0e-
| tober p. The reward is offered by his
! brother. Patrick Kelly of Philadelphia
owen Kelly is well-to-do Philadelphia
grocer and wooden manufactures, and
prominent member Of several Irish so
cletieS. Relatives believe him in New
York, In II letter received from Patrick
Nelly he says; within the last few
days friend in the Clan-na-Gael has
told me that the fractional fights there
were at times so bitter that he feared
for Owens safety"
The demurrer interposed in behalf of
| the Mercantile Trust company of New
| ork city in an action brought by Jacob
| Edwards of Boston against the Mercan-
tile Trust company and the Bay State
Gas company of Delaware was sustained
| IN an opinion given recently by Judge
Ray in the United States circuit court
/ This diSmlsseS the action which has
dragged tediously through the federal
courts since fling the original complaint
in September 1902 The action asked
the court To appoint a receiver for the
/ Bay State Gas company and to require
the AltttHutiC trust company. as truss
tee, 10 render an accounting of 1900
nUo of the capital stock of the Bay State
| Gas company.
Upon the arrival of the steamship In
| dian nj Philadelphia from Boston ii was
reported that Thomas Hardin, paSSen.
ger, had been drowned at sea. Hardin.
I whose nome was at Braintree. Mass.
I disappeared from the steamship near
/ Block island and it is thought that he
committed suicide because of domestic
! troubles. He was about 30 years old
/ lie married Miss Susan E. Porter of
/ Braintree. Mass. He left that place and
some days after his departure a note
was found saying that he proposed to
commit suicide Mrs. Slade, sister AZ
Hardin. says Harbin had recently dis.
eovercl that his former Wife, whom he
married i'm ENGLAND and whom he sun
I posed 10 be dead. was till living,
I Charged with rohliug their cuplovers