Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-04-01

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President Arthur Won Rriesen OF the
Legal Aid society of New York city has
received letter from President Koose-
welt accepting the honorary vice presi-
dency of the society In his letter. Mr..
Roosevelt lauds the work of TIE organi-
cation, SAYING: You right wrongs for
the very people who Of all others most
need to have their wrongs righted and
who are yet most helpless to secure their
righting.'
Plans for slbways to cost $500. 000.000
submitted by the New York City Rail
way company and the Interb0ruugh COM
pany We're made public recently by the
board Of rapid Transit commissioners.
The plans of tae New York City Rail-
way company cali for an outlay of Sl65.-
00000o. August helmont's plans for adj
ditionS to the marlborough system pro-
vide for the expenditure Of $4,000 600.
Mrs. Allon f. Black. wife Of Harry
S. Black the millionaire president of the
United States Realty and Construction
company, who resides at G67 Madison
avenue. New York city, has left her hus-
band and brought suit against him for
divorce. Mrs. Black is living AT the Ho-
tel Savoy, Independent. it is said of the
have millions invested i'll her own right
She is the daughter of the late George
\. Fuller of Chicago, who founded the
= eat Fuller Construction company Be
fore any marital troubles Mrs. Black iig-
ured in Il sensational controversy with
the United States. based on the discov-
cry she had brought from Europe to this
city pearl necklace valued at $4,000
without payment of duty. When the
custom house men got through with The
paris Black was notified the duty was
just $4,000. 1t was paid. 1t is reported
that Il year ago the two had some do
nestle difficulties and that Mrs Black
wel-t To Europe, but reconciliation was
effected or her return. 1t is understood
Black will not make any serious opposi-
ton to his wife's suit
Fanny Crosby. the famous hymn writ
er. celebrated the eighty-ffth anniversary
of her birth at her home in Stamford,
Conn. while services i'll commemoration
of the event We're held in many churches
throughout the country.
No society so puerile and schoolboyish
as the BLACK Avengers the Columbia
sophomore class vigilance committee,
aazed Kingdom Gould the other day.
That work was done-but let il be whis-
rCred by n new upper class secret so
ciety, which has adopted the name of
the 'kukluA Khan with all that south
erl Socety's terrible shivery oatlS. whicn
are said 20 have sent shudderS racing
up and down the spine of President
Nicholas Murray Butler The "l<uklux
Khan" includes men from all the upper
classes and started, the students whisper,
10 maintain the traditions of Columbia
life against encr0achmentS." DR.. But
ler'S policy is that of eliminating from it
all the features of cOmradeship most at
tractive t. undergraduates.
Women's clubs New York has in
plenty, but the new Colony club. incor-
porated in. Albany, marks a new era in
society and club life. 1t is being organ
lied with only the very elite OF New
1ork'S society wOmen-wiVeS and daugh-
ters of milionaires-as members. The
purpose of the club is to promote the
social and athletic life of its members.
and there will be no club in America
that can afford its members more COM
forts, Injuries, and opportunity for a
good time than the Colony. The founders
and managing trustees of the new club
are Mrs. John Jacob Asfar. Mrs +. H.
Hartman, Mrs. Richard Irwin. Miss
Helen Barney, and Miss Anne Morgan.
Mrs. Aston and Miss Morgan being in
Europe the executive business of the
club is for the present conducted by Mrs
Hartman and Miss Barney. \ splendid
location for the club has been secured.
and handsome clubhouse. in the colonial
style. is to be erected. The gymnasium
will take up an entire floor. and the
swimming pool will be the second largest
in the United States.
Plans have been filed with the build
ing bureau for the addition of another
story to the Flatron building on the
southeast corner of Fifth avenue and
Nv, ., q
area of the present roof and will he
10 feet high built of angle iron and terra
Gotta blocks, and covered on the ex
terror with copper All the interior fit
tings will be of tireproof construction.
The additional story is to he occupied
by draughting rooms. The cost of com
plotting it is estimated at $4,000 by Jay
II. Morgan. architect for the owner. the
Firth Avnue Building company. The
building will be twenty-five stories high
when the new story is completed. 1t is
now twenty STORIES with an attic.
The New York supreme court affirmed
the decree awarding former Secretary
John q. Carlisle %23349 for professional
services IN the trial of the Porto Rico
import cases.
Sterling Stuart, aged -, son Of Ruth
McEnery Stuart, the novelist. is in
Flushing hospital, New York city, with
a fractured spine Garrow \. Geer,
son of the vicar of st. Paul's chapel,
who was in Stuart's company, told the
police that Stuart and himself were at
dinner and that when they returned
10 the Stuart home in Flushing the doors
we're locked and they tried to enter the
house by climbing to the roof Of the
porch and breaking Il window In do
ing 50 Geer said Stuart fell. Doctors
at the hospital say Stuart cannot re-
cover. Mrs. Stuart has been away from
home on a visit for several weeks.
A conference has been held ny repre-
SentativeS of SiXty-two public and pri-
yate hospitals of New York city to de-
wise the best methods Of dealing with
prevalent conditions and raising Il com
mon endowment fund. The conference
was the first move TO meet the annual
deficit which every hospital reports. The
speakers say it is necessary to educate
the people to give more financial aid. \
committee win he appointed consisting
of twelve well-known men and women.
The mansion of Gov. Tilden in Twen-
tit,th street. overlooking iramercy park,
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