Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-05-20
view York Every Day.

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Charles T. Yerkes arrived in New
| YORK city from Europe He declare,
/ rs soon as ne set foot on shore THAT lt
/ WAS opposed 10 municipal ownership Oh
street railways because it was Illegal.
Wallace McCreery, aged IS. ana dur.
ing his time one of the hest comic opera
| tenors, committed suicide by jumping
| INTO the Hudson river from a ferrvbnot
| Ii IS believed he was mentally unbal-
anced.
Members of the executive committee
ana the committee of arrangements for
the lhterchurch conference on federation
nave approved plans for Il meeting of
the representatives Of the various Pro;
eStant churches of the United States N
carnegie hall November 1920. The con
terence Is to he the largest in the his
tory OF the Protestant church in Amer
lea Delegates will represent 100000
church members.
Mrs. Mary Carroll. widow OF DIR. VIII
liam Il. Carroll, has presented to Rev.
Father Whalen of st. Patricll's cathe-
dlal, IN Newark, y. j., a large and val
liable collection of diamonds for the
benefit Of the church. Instead Of selling
tile gems it has been decided 10 have
them set in Il new ostensorium of solid
gold which is being made for the grand
altar of the editice, and which will. ii Is
said be the most costly and beautiful
one i'll the United States.
Mrs. Bob Osborn. the brilliant New
York woman who has made success III
most of her numerous enterprises. has
been granted a divorce She married
Robert a. Osborn III 1883. Mrs Osborn
will be remembered as the promoter and
manager of Mrs, OsbOrns playhouse, an
enterprise which for time. had the en-
thusiastic support of the -Four Hundred.
Later she established dressmaking cs-
Enlistment, and in this she attracted
the patronage OF the best people.
1T Wall street is right in it's informa.
ton August Belmont is making money
faster than any other man in America
with one or two exceptions. The inan-
cal goSSips place the increase in this
wealth ut from $12O00,0O0 to $4,000
oUo III the last year. This is Il little more
than 81 100000 a month. and any man
who finds his stock of this worlds goods
plling up on such n scale as that is like
~ to have some attention paid to him,
even in district that has its Rookie
fellers and MOrgans.
grand opera singer now connected with
the Metropolitan Opera company, to J.
Reed Littell "a patent attorney, was an
nulled by Justice DugrO in the supreme
court of New York They were married
three years ago. after Littell's first wife.
Miss Mabel Il. Raum. daughter of Gen
Green H. Raum of Washington, had Sc
cured a divorce from him in Chicago
Justice Dugro declared that the Chicago
court had not acquired jurisdiction in
that suit and that its decree was void.
Having worn out one after another of
its keepers and being the indirect cause
of the death of one, the old clock in Trim
lty church Steeple has ceased to turn.
Weary from nearly sixty years of CON
slant service, its great works have
stopped ticking. a new and modern clock |
Will replace the old one. Because of its
cumbrous winding mechanism. the old |
clock was known as Il killer j |
Sperry, who used to wind ii. was injured |
by winding mp the great !
weights and his death was attributed to |
tnls cause. The heavy work connected |
with the old clock has worn out every |
man who ever undertook to care for it. |
The three principal routes of the rapid |
transit commission S3O0.000,U00 pro- |
gramme were finally adopted and ordered |
sent to the board of aldermen of New |
York city at meeting of the commits
sion. These routes provide for three
four-track subways from the
Battery to Harlem. as follows: Third |
avenue, Lexington and Fifth avenues
via Thirty and Thirty-siXth streets
and Seventh and Eighth avenues. At the
last moment an important change was
made hi the original plan and an indie
pendent crOss-toWn route was laid down
on Thirtyfourth street to be built with
out any connection with any north and
south lines.