Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-03-24
New York Every Day.


Wilson Miner, who caused a stir in
| the social world by marrying the widow
of Charles L. Yerkes. has been sued for
| bill OF 1913, which, it is asserted. he
! owes for furnishings supplied him. These
| furnishings are said to be fancy waist
| coats, linen, ETC.. worn by Mr. Miner
| while he was paying court TO Mrs.
1erkes.
| For some time Anthony Comstock war
| the cause of considerable noise in the
| Criminal Courts building. New York.
when he welded a large axe and
smashed many wax figures in the chief
clerks Office. The figures belonged TO Il
man named Diboll, who was convicted
some time ago of conducting museum.
! Dib0ll appealed the case and later Mr..
! Comstock learned that the conviction had
| been affirmed by the court of appeals.
| Then Mr. Comstock went TO the district
attorneys office and smashed the wax
| figures.
| No less person than Mrs. Rhine
| lander Waldo, mother of the young dep
| uty police commissioner, was called down
! at woman's club meeting at the Wal
lorf recently because her dress was cut
/ too low in the neck 4 great fuss fol-
| lowed. Mrs. Waldo is of the old knick-
| erbocker families here and ridiculously
| rich. She has five generations of culture
| behind her and some of her critics don't
| know their own grandfather's names.
| All of which is patent from the fact that
Mrs. Waldo is permitting them to do all
the talking.
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine
| in New York still consists, to the eye OF
| the passenger on the elevated, OF few
| great, naked pillars, single rude, untln-
ished arch and of great deal OF massive
litter. But it is announced that the or
| gan which is to thunder forth praises be-
meath its roof, when that roof is raised
at last. has been ordered and that it is
to be ''one of the most powerful in the
| world" 1t will need to be powerful in
| order to fill every nook and Granny of
the vast cathedral that is so very slowly
raising itself on Morningside Heights.
Thirty-fve delegates. representing
| twelve of the larger universities, met at
the New York City club and organized
| the Intercollegiate League of Civic
Clubs. The following universities were
represented: Amherst, Brown, Column
bia. Dartmouth, Harvard, New York,
| Pennsylvania. Chicago, Princeton, Will
liams, Yale and Michigan. Mr.. Fox, +.
| w. Hinrichs Charles NJ. Jesup and 9th
ers pointed out the advantages and bene
fits that would result from the formation
| of the league. \ constitution was adopt
| ed which provides for an annual conven-
ton and the admission of other college
civic clubs.
Mrs Edward J. Morgan, who is known
on the stage by her maiden name OF
Helen Bertram, tainted over the coffin of
| her husband, who was found dead
in the Hotel Beleclaire, New YORK.
| There was II pathetic scene when tie
actors wife looked upon his face, which
III be- &c
friends to an undertaking establishment
in Third avenue. Mrs. Morgan swayed
and tottered when she saw the coffin,
and falling beside it, with her arms out
stretched, moaned and cried: My poor
Jack! My poor jack! Suddenly she col
lapsed and fell PROSTATE upon the iioor
1t was half an hour before she could be
revived.
The New York Central's New Years
resolution was r.gidly adhered TO in jan
uary Not legislative nor tax depart
ment pass was issued. AS a result, Of
fcalS of the passenger department say,
receipts from passenger traffic were
greater than i'll any previous January in
the roads history
Il am not at liberty to give out the
figures" says an official of the passen-
ger department, "but you may gain an
idea of the increase from the fact that
| Ill one SeCOIlu CiuSS CITY IENtIIlS HUN the
sale of New York tickets were upward of
$500 greater in January than in De
cember. And December, you know, has
the holiday travel"
Did you ever see Z sray-headed
Chinaman?" asked one of Commissioner
Bngham's downtown men. II never did.
and l have seen whole lot of chinks
in my time. Men who, according to
every other indication, are long past the
grayheaded stage still sport pigtails as
black and glossy as any youth in China
town. Whether gray hairs have been de-
MED the Chinese by nature or whether
they have been fought off by means of
some secret Oriental formula, | cannot
find out. If they owe their immunity
from gray hair to artiice they would do
themselves and the public Il good turn
by putting their tonic on the market. for
there is many frostyheaded Caucasian
who would pay good round sum to keep
his locks as free from marks of age
When the French liner La Lorraine
locked in New York one of the first of
, the saloon passengers TO come ashore
was IL young FrenchwOman, who, as she
came down the gangplank, was glowered
at by about half dozen men passengers,
. every one of whom needed shave.
Later the cause of the young woman's
unpopularity became known. just before
the liner reached port the young woman
had gone into the barber's shop, climbed
into the chair and ordered shampoo.
When the barber had finished this and
had dried her hair she ordered a facial
massage. The Lorraine was almost
docked when the barber shouted Next.
1t was then too late for all the men pas
sengers to be accommodated, and the
: angry six were the ones that got left
There was an automobile collision in
Lakewood q year ago. and now ex-As-
Semblyman Isidor Cohn. who introduced
a bill in the New York Legislature to
fine unmarried men $50 apiece, is en-
! gagged To Miss Anna Galitzka. The Sc
quence is not exactly clear but this is
how it happened:
Mr.. Cohn was in one automobile and
, Miss Galitzka was in the other. Nobody