Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-04-14
New York Every Day.


Roller skating, which became craze
twenty years ago, is coming back. One
of the first Kinks to be opened Ill New
York will'bc at 16S4-16S6 Broadway.
Gushing forth from the solid rock in
the fifth basement of the new twenty
eight-story Hotel Belmont at Forty-sec-
ond street and Park avenue, New York,
is "A spring with daily capacity OF H.,
600 gallons. The spring was discovered
- feet below the street level after every
inch of the way 10 it had been blasted.
William Randolph Hearst has com
pleted plans for new building III New
York hat is to startle the world. 1t is
10 cover space 100x75 feet and is to
be A. stories high 1t will be located III
Columbus circle, facing Central PARK at
Broadway and Seventh avenue. ofk
is expected to begin this summer Mr..
Hearst will house his New York news
papers in the building and will rent
what is left for offices. The cost OF the
new structure will run into the Millions
The engagement of Mrs. Frank Nor
ris Avery, millionaire widow OF Chr
cago, to Howard Willetts of New York
has been formally announced. Mrs.
AveryS mad for fancy dancing and for
cakewalks made her conspicuous in Lon
don society, where she gave many enter
tnlnments in honor of the King and
Queen. Howard Willetts is wealthy
clubman. good looking and popular ana
is owner of the famous horse, Heather
bloom. whose high jumping record has
never been beaten.
=. taaI of alarm Tor
fear that the drama will languish anc
decline next season. Already select
list of titles for melOGramas to be pro-
duced the coming year has been regis
tered for copyright purposes. \ few
culled at random are as follows: "A
Pure Girls Disgrace" "Death-Traps of
n Great City" The Honor of Her
Mother" "Why Men Go Wrong" "A
Violent Love" Ruled Off the Turf
The Great Gordon Crime" and Blood
hounds of the Law"
Thirty cents was paid for n poem of
Richard A. McCurdy, The poem IS
called a Day After the Fair and was
written at McCurdy's home ut Morris
town before the Armstrong committee
became matter of history. Fifty or
more persons who were present at the
seemed to regard the offer of the poem.
its four stanzas of eight lines
III We're in the handwriting of McCurdy,
Is a joke. Only s cents was paid for n
single letter in the Mast collection from
-hauncey NJ. Depew.
Pink and lavender it is. Pink for the
women and lavender for the men. Not
store in New York but has displayed all
crtS of gowns waists, dress goods, etc
md they're all pink. or nearly all. Many
swell creations of pink cloth We're seen
N Broadway. 1t is not a vivid pink
lust Il sort of shade little lighter than
;almon color; and it is one of the fetchi-
'st things provided Cor our fair friends
'Or several years. For the men it is
lavender-ties. shirts.
lerchiefs and socks. Everywhere you
ook the windows are filled with wearing
apparel of this hue. And it is becoming
1t that.
When Edward Chressie, an old actor
fallen upon evil days, went into John
saloon in New York and
met several acquaintance, they coaXed
him to recite for them. Standing with
one elbow on the bar. Chressie began to
speak the lines of The face upon the
har-r00m floor.
Give me the chalk bartender,
That you use to mark score.
And I'll draw for you her picture
Upon the barroom floor.
Suddenly lie toppled over and died in
Heart disease killed him.
ChresSe was well known on the stage
years ago. Lattcrly he had few engage
ments, and spent much of his time in
Nan p4t = 5Al
Although 90" and "skidoo" have
been worn threadbare in other cities.
New York is just awakening to the fact
that such terms exist The comedians
are making much of their opportunity
and it is "23 for yours; skidou" at ali
The theatcrs. But there are some two or
three good little jokes got off in this CON
nection. One is: Found new re-
ccipt for skidoo pudding. Take some
flour add 23 cggs-then beat it, An
other is the story of the man who asked
the policeman for "Skidoos," Twenty
third street Another comes in the shape
of a mathematical problem. This one is:
Think of number from | to 8, add /,
by ., drop the left-hand figure:
add II. add original NUMBERS The
result will be mental skidoo.
Central park is visited every day by
anxious mothers with progeny suffering
from whooping cough. Keeper Phil
Holmes is superintendent of the jackaSs
hospital, and he is pronounced blessed
by pnrents. who say there is nothing like
the donkey cure for whooping cough.
The regulation treatment is to pass the
patient three times under the donkey 5
belly from right to left. The return must
bc made by passing the youngstcr over
the donkcy's back. \ handsomely
gowued woman rustled into the ante
lope house pulling Il resisting youngster
by the arm.
"Wnl you allow me to convey Alger
non under the abdomen of the Donkey
she inquired of the amiable Mr.. Holmes
I've tried doctors and nurses and mcdi
cincs in vain. My housekeeper told IN,
her nephew had been cured by this treat
ment Won't you please give it to Al
gernon;'