Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-07-01

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Miss Bryan sailed for Europe on the
steamer Vaderland
j. w. Alexander, president of tile
Equitable Assurance society, is seriously
i'll of a chronic complaint, and will have
to go away for long rest.
All that remains of the hull of the
excursion steamboat General Slocum has
been turned over to a Philadelphia barge
company. 1t will become coal barge
on the Delaware. The Slocum's hull will
hold about 1000 tons of coal.
j. II. Stoddart is now at his home in
New Jersey, rapidly regaining strength
after his illness in Canada. He will
probably be able to act again next sea-
son. though his family is trying 10 per-
suade him to retire permanently.
n strike by the Optical Workers. Assoc
ciation, composed of men employed in
the eyeglass factories of the New York
city. has come to an end. OF the 200
men who were idle all except 20 or %
are back at the benches, the union hay-
ing declared the strike off
Two parties of college students, one
from the Troy polytechnic, the other
from Malone, y. y, will start for the
wheat fields of Kansas in few days
with the first division of laborers sent
out by the free employment bureau in
tins state. Appeals have come from the
Kansas employment bureau for 10000
meD
A ten-ton bowlder will mark the last
resting place of Joseph Jefferson in the
bay View cemetery i'll Sandwich. The
huge rock now resting in its bed of sand
Will be carted to the cemetery within a
few weeks and placed on the jefferson
family plot; After it has been placed in
position a handsome bronze tablet bear
ing simple inscription will be affixed.
David Il. Henderson, ex-speaker of the
House of Repi esentatives, has deter
mined to spend the remainder of his days
at Dubuque. After practicing law in
New York for year and quitting it be-
cause, as he said, the street cars were
too numerous and the sidewalks too slip
perry. he has returned to his former home
at Dubuque, where, he says, he will
spend the remainder of his days.
Maude Adams has gone to the Adiron-
dacks, where she will stay a few weeks
to complete her cOnyalescence In July
she goes to France and to spend some
time with the Barries in England, study
ing her new part i'll his Peter Parr.'
She will not act again until she appears
in that role at the Empire in November
Already her health is better than it was
almost any time during last season.
Miss Rose Pastor, the Ghetto girl who
is soon to marry John Graham Phelps
stokes, the millionaire settlement work
er, has received her wedding gown. 1t
was delivered to her at Noroton, Conn,
where, with her future husband, she is
staying with Mrs. A. B. Stokes, her
RANGES mother. She was in a great
hurry to get it, and employees of the firm
which made it had to work overtime in
order to have it ready.
James Hazen Hyde of the EQUITABLE
Life Assurance society and James Henry
Smith are the two richest bachelors in
New York. Smith is worth about $780,
100000. and Mr.. Hydes fortune is about
half that sum. What Hyde lacks in mil
lions as against Mr.. Smith. he makes up
IN the matter of years. He is only %
while Smith is 81. There are about 1OO.-
600 bachelors, all told, in New York, but
the whole lot of them put together could
not make UP IA pot of money big enough
to place against these two.
Ramon Rosales, agent for gold min
ing company, was arrested i'll New York
city by a customs inspector as he was
leaving the Mexican steamship Monterey.
He was taken in charge after box full
OF rings had been taken out of a coat
which Rosales carried on his arm. The
rings were set with precious stones be-
lleved to be worth several thousand dol
lars. Rosales said he intended to send
the rings to Italy at once and thought it
unnecessary to declare them for duty.
Nevertheless, lie was locked up.
Frank A. AIunsey. editor of Munsey's
Magazine. has returned from an extend
ed automobile trip in Europe, and an
nounccs that he will this fall issue Il
new magazine to be made up on lines
entirely different from anything ever
published in this country or abroad Mr.
Munsey stated that publishers in Europe
are rapidly coming to realize that Amer
lean newspapers are the most successful
in the world and are adopting the Amer
lean style. He said that Sir Alfred
Harmsworth, publisher of the London
Mail. is soon TO begin the publication of
4 chain of daily newspapers in Berlin.
st. Petersburg, Naples aud Brussels, with
one press service and all printed in Eng
lish.
Every one of the fifteen railroads hav-
ing terminals in New York or Jersey
These men are scattered along the route
from here To Chicago. st. Louis or points |
north or south. 1t is their duty to pro- |
tect the company's property, trace freight |
robberieS, watch for thieves who make Il |
speciality of setaling coal or fittings |
which may have dropped from trains or |
been pried off ut stations. Few travellers |
realize the amount of work these indie |
pendent policemen are called TO do. The |
conductors and hrakemen were at first in |
clined to look upon them with disdain. |
believing them to be new species OF |
Spotter. Now, however, the employees |
look upon the policemen as their chief |
allies in time of trouble
The old yacht Fleetwiug. famous in |
the annals of American yachting. has
been purchased by TIE American Raptist |
Home Mission society. aud is in Jersey |
City drydock undergoing repairs to fit |
her for Il mission boat. She is 10 MY |
about the harhor of New York. some |