Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-04

buffers and Wallets for $1,000 each with
one OF the leading surety companies. III
the out Of town department photographs
Of servants, with descriptions of meL
on hand, together with q record OF ref
erenccs and accomplishment are to be
kept. On application an assortment OF
stock on hand is sent 10 choose from.
Every gas lamp in the streets Of Great
er New York is to be removed and cleo
tricity used solely in street lighting If
Mayor Mcclellan is able 10 carry out Ger
tain plans on which he is working. The
mayor has ordered the members of a spe-
cia expert commission named by the
board Of estimate to prepare plans and
specifications Of the estimates of the cost
10 the city to substitute arc lamps for gas
lighting on the side streets, and make this
report supplemental to the report Of plans
and specifications of the estimates of the
cost for establishing ii municipal electric
lighting plant to supply the current sim
ply to existing arc lamps used by the city.
The mayor has taken hold of this idea
seriously and is urging it forcbly.
What became of Lyman s. Andrews
and how much he stole in his capacity rs
confidential agent Of the late Andrew IL.
Green are things as yet unknown. 1t IS
learned. however, from sources close 20
ance of Andrews that the loss to the es-
tate Of William Il. Ogden is likely to be
more than $20O,00O. The estate of Green
is involved to Il degree unknown. and the
loss Of the books and papers which An
drcwS took with him or concealed prob1-
bly, will cause a tangle in the conduct Of
the other estate. Green had charge of
The estate Of Samuel j. Tilden, Of Os-
void Ottendorfer and of William
O'Brien and John O'Brien. private trus-
tees for the Baroness Raymond Seilliere.
who was Mrs Chester +. LivermOre of
New York city. Since Green's death
Andrews has collected Sl6000O for the
Ogden estate alone. The Green estate
iDycntOricd ut Si600,000, Of which a lit
tie more than half was personal.
Plans contemplating the spending Of
Sl00,0OO,000 of New York city's money
by constructing a tunnel TO the ESOpus
river capable of bringing 40O,e00,000 gal
Ions of water to this city daily. will be
considered at the meeting Of the board
Of estimate ana apportionment. SO press
ing Is the problem and so inSistcnt are
the merchants and manufacturers that
immediate steps be taken to prevent n
water famine that no time is to be lost
by the city authorities. The Burr report
declares that there are several streams
Oh the east side of the Hudson which
could very well be used by the city, but
declares that if they are to be ignored
the tunnel to Esopus could be turned
across the Hudson at Peekskill and
much shorter route to Esopus found
This great tube. which is proposed to
stretch ont to the Catskill watershed,
will be capable of draining 100 square
miles and bringing the water Of that
great stretch of territory to New York
city for use.
Terrorized by series of bold daylight
hod-upS and dcspairing of securing po-
lice protection, residents of Fifth ave-
nue. and the upper west side have taken
upon their own shoulders the work of
guarding their dwellings against robbers
Hundreds of houses have been fitted
with chain locked front doors and the
servants have been instructed never TO
open the door unless the safety chain APP
pliance is i'll position. This apparatus
permits the door to be opened only few
inches, aud an intruder under no circum-
stances can force his way inside To-
gether with the great sale of chain locks
hundreds of reyolvers have been made
part of the household appointments. The
weapons usually are kept i'll the hall
and in some instances used by servants
in connection with the chain lock- AL
though ali these precautions are being
ing crisis in the servant problem
Scores Of domestics have left good places
to escape from sections of the city which
they believe have been marked by rob
bcrs for plundcring.
Chief Edward F. Croker of the New
York fire department has recommended
that steps be taken at once To prohibit
the use of NIL fireworks except firecrack-
III IL. a
tireeraCkers because he finds that great
stocks of them are in the shops and
aboard ships now or their way To this
country, and to prohibit their use on such
short notice would work great hard
ship. He recommends. however, that at
the end of another year the prohibition
he extended to tirecrackerS as well. Dur
ing the week of July 1. 1904, he says
there were 30J fires i'll Greater New
York, of which 12S were traceablc 10
fireworks Mr.. Croker states that SAG
persons were injured by fireworks on last
Independence day. At fire headquarters
it was said that Chief Cookers letter is
the first step in n campaign which he pro-
poses to wage against all fireworks Mt all
seasons in this city. New York is the
largest fireworks market in the country
and the industry is said to represent an
annual expenditure n this city of $1,000
600
The proportion of female help in all the
big New York hotels : rapidly increasing.
| Women bookkeepCrS and cashiers have
Supplnnted men almost altogether IN the
! larger hotels. Except in such big places
| MS the Waldorf they are rapidly gaining
control of the hotel kitchens Where Ell
| iciency Is equal proprietorS pIeftr wom-
! en-, claiming that they are more honest.
New York hospitals. whose kitchen sys-
TENS are now under the supervision of
women experts. are the Roosevelt. New
! York, Post Graduate. St lakes and
Bellevue. In the Presbyterian n dietary
expert has charge of the nurses classes
in hospital and sickroom cooking. These
young women are all graduates of such
institutions rs prcNel Nrmour's. pratt'>
or Teachers college. Columbia. Thcy
are not mere cooking teachers. They
have taken a college course in chemistry.
hoct'rialogy aud the kindred branches.
land are qualified teachers rs we'll a> ura,.-
t}rai chemists and .,nl.s I'm M "A