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

twelve blocks to the hospital Finding
The fellow alive despite such treatment
the surgeons hurried him 10 tie operat-
ing table. To get at his heart they
sawed Off an inch and a half of the
third right rib. Their next task was
the legation of two arteries. It was then
fouEd that the right auricle Of the heart
had been seriously puactured. the
quarter of an inch. This was closed
with a single stitch and the usual dress
ings applied.
Mrs 4. Adams, mother of AIaude
Adams. the actress, has solved the sery-
ant problem to her own satisfaction and
to that of a faithful maid who for ten
years accompanied her daughter back
and forth across the country wherever
her engagements took her. Mrs. NJ. L.
Smith. the cOlored maid. was the soul Of
devotion. and watched Miss Adams as a
cat watches a kitten. In hotels and on
Pullman trains the maid was as familiar
a figure as Miss Adams In return for
this faithful service. Mrs. Adams with
the full approval of her daughter has
just presented a house and lot at Au-
verne-On-the-Sea, N T. to the maid who
is now a matron and has a lucrative laun-
dry business The house is a comfort
able $500 cottage on the bay north of
the railroad 1t has eight rooms and has
been beautifully furnished. Miss Adams.
who has been very i'll after an operation,
but is now better, has sent word to her
former maid from her home at Lake
Ronkonkoma, l.. L.. that the gift is glad
ly given in recognition of the long friend
ship between maid and mistress.
Lily Langtry is going into vaudeville.
She is going TO take the dip in this coun-
try, at a higher salary than has ever
been paid before to a vaudeville per
former She rs to play ten weeks in New
York city, beginning in the fall That
she anticipated appearing in vaudeville
in England became known TO vaudeville
managers here, and greater financial in
ducements were offered to her to appear
in this country than were offered in Eng
land. She is to get $500 a week for ten
weeks, which will net her the tidy sum
of $4,000. She is to appear twice a
day, but it is not yet settled whether she
will give a monOlogue or a sketch. Ii
she presents a sketch she will have to
pay the members of her company out of
the salary she receives. The managers
who have contracted for Mrs. Langtry's
services are Oscar Hammerstein, Proctor
and Percy Williams. As the arrange
ments now stand she will appear two
=,
Proctor houses in this city and three
weeks at Percy Williams theaters. The
tenth week she will probably play in
Boston.
Announcement has been made TO few
intimate friends of the gagement of
Miss Frederick Vanderbilt Webb
daughter of DR.. and Mrs. w Seward
Webb, to Ralph Pulitzer, son of Joseph
Pulitzer, owner of the New York World
The betrothal will not be great surprise
to society. Miss Webb is a great-grand-
daughter of the first Cornelius Wander
bilr, the commodore, as he was called.
Her mother, formerly Miss Lila Osg0Od
Vanderbilt, the youngest daughter of the
late William H. Vanderbilt, married DIR.
Webb twenty-siX years ago. DR.. Webb
is a son of the late Gen. James Watson
Webb. Miss Webb was introduced into
society three winters ago, and since that
time has been much in evidence at social
gatherings here and at the country place
of her parents, Shelburne Farms, Yer
mont. She is a young woman of COM
handing presence. being considerably
taller than the average American girl
She is fond of outdoor sports, is u capt.
tai shot, and one of the best whips in
society. She is a member of the Ladies'
Four-in-Hand club of this city, of which
Miss Ruth Vanderbilt-Twombley. her
cousin; Miss Jean Reid, Miss Angelica
Gerry and Miss Louisa CULVER are
members. Mr.. Pulitzer graduated from
Harvard university in the class of 1900
and was popular at Cambridge He
Travelled extensively and now is associat-
ed with his father ON The World. He
has taken Il prominent part in the do
ings of the younger set in New York So
ciety since he left college