Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-05-27
New York Every Day.

hrand She had filled a pan with hot
water and stepped out upon the fire es-
cape 10 dash the water on the eats in the
courtyard below. AS she did 50 the fire
escape broke and she fell and was killed.
4 church house. to cost from 100000
to S120000 and 10 be the headquarters
of the Episcopal church in Bronx bor-
ough, New York, is TO be built upon Gro
iona park. \ novel feature of this new
church house will be the hotel or apart
ment, under the management of the
clergyman and the matron, for the dea-
cons and deaconesses working in the
parishes and missions i'll the Bronx.
The will of Mrs. Mary Augusta King,
wife of Edward Leroy King, sets aside
100000 for the erection of chapel in
connection with the Cathedral of ST.
John the Divine, New York, in memory
of her daughter. Mary Leroy King. A
further sum of $4,000 is left to the cathe-
dral and among other public requests,
amounting to $4,000, there is one of
Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts.
AIss Elsie de Wolfe sailed for Paris
on the steamship st. Louis. Miss de
Wolfe has given up the stage. it was
announced recently. and has gone into
the work of interior decoration, and the
purchase abroad of valuable art objects
Chief among her contracts is that for
the interior decoration OF the new wom-
ans cub, the Colony, which is to be
erected at Madison avenue and Thir-
tieth street Miss de Wolfe. it is said
is empowered to spend 100000 for the
club.
It's a gigantic contract to protect New
York with its billions of property and
millions of population, from fire. In do
ing SO Chief Croker has command of
1900 of the bravest and most expert fire
men i'll the world. with 100 trained
horses, each wonder of intelligence, en-
durance and docility; 142 engines, Al
hook and ladder trucks, with water tow
erS and marine fleet of 147 men and I
hreboats for handling fires along the wa
Ter front. Each boat throws $4,000 gal-
Ions a minute, supplying water through
20 hose lines with inch nozzles.
There is one popular summer job in
New York \ Sunday newspaper recent
" printed more than 400 advertisements
from men, women and couples who
wanted work as caretakers for big New
York houses whose owners were to be
absent for the. summer. The work is not
hafd, ana II lnSureS luxurious homes IN
the best residence localities during near
Is half the year. Many hard working
people look forward to the caretaking
season as a recreation and a rest from
the winter labors and privations.
District Nurses Recommended.-AIiss
y. e. Casey. who has just returned from
attending the eleventh annual meeting
Of the Association of Superintendent of
Hospitals and the convention of the Ma
tional Association of Alumnae of Nurses
Training Schools Mt Washington, ID. c..
advocates the employment of district
nurses by the city, to work among the
poor, teaching them sanitation and tile
proper care of their sick. The .Associat-
ed Charities in Milwaukee employs Il
nurse to work among the poor. and so
does the University settlement on the
south side.
"Tunnel blindness is the latest addi-
ton to ailments caused by riding in the
New York subway. According to DR.
Carleton Simon. who says he has treated
number of eases. the ailment affects
almost every worker in the big tunnel
and in some cases weak-eyed patrons of
the subway are the victims. In my
opinion" the doctor also said. the sub
way will be responsible for numerous
ailments during the coming summer
Persons using it regularly will he sub
ject to pneumonia bronchitis laryngitis
and other similar affections of the air
passages
Resolutions for the establishment of Il
department of fine arts at Washington
were adopted by the Society of BeauX
Arts Architecture. the members of which
hope to start Il movement that will be
taken up by every organization of archi-
tects and Sculptors throughout the
United States. According to the pro-
moters, the new department should have
supervision of the construction of new
postoffice buildings, custom houses and
other government structures, and of the
development of the national parks, de-
signs for national monuments. and of
the fostering and the development of fine
arts.
Col. Asa Bird Gardiner vice com
mander of the Society of the War of
1872. and Col Sarah c. MorehouSe, said
TO hold the honorary rank III the same
organization, had a clash on the steps
OF the city hall during the Cronk flu
neral. Tie subject of dispute WAS Il flag
bearing the legend of the society which
formed part of the decorations of the
city hail which both colonies claimed.
Col Warehouses husband is credited
with saying he would run amy man
through who tried to take the flag away
from his colonel. The flag is a large one,
said 10 have been made Of pieces Of old
flags carried in the war of 1872.
The biggest real estate deal put
through in New York for long time
probably involves the old Broadway
tabernacle at the northeast corner of
Broadway ana Thirty-fourth street.
which is to be torn down to make way
for the new Park 4 Tilford store. The
church property, together with the abut-
ting dwellings at is and 20 West Thir-
ty-fifth street, has been sold To Park X
Tilford 10y the Roxton Realty company
for S2.500.o00. The company bought it..
along with the residences from Edward
f. SearleS last year for about $1,000
600 SearleS secured the church from
the Tabernacle society in 1902 for ST.
100000, and subsequently purchased the
private houses for 100000. In three
years. consequently. the site has in
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