Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-06-09

sivelv Of milIionaires. It is harder still
to make country folk believe thar hdn-
dreds Of men join the so-called swell
clubs in large part from motives of econ
omy. There are scarcely three clubs in
/ the city that do not include a consider
able number Of poor men in their mem-
/ berShip. The average income of the
whole membership of the best known
clubs in the city is probably nearer $10,-
| OoO year than 100000 year, and al
/ most every one of those clubs includes
/ scores OF men with incomes well below
( $4,000 and = good many with incomes
! well below 5000. There is Il real democ-
/ racy of New York club life. Many a man
Of small means regards his membership
| in a first rate club in the light of i profit
able investment.
Il want a 1J-year-old miss as secre-
! tary and matinee compartment must be
| pretty and possess a good figure; am =
wealthy retired bachelor: splendid oppoI-
( tunity. Write particulars in own hand.
/ Address Matinee, Brooklyn" This adj
| vertisement, printed in the personal col
umn" Of New York paper, has landed
! Christopher j. Burns, a prosperous in
/ surance broker of Brooklyn. in a cell
/ He was arrested as he sat on the front
stoop Of furnished room house at 357
! JAY street.
Frank l.. Folk, agent of the Society
! for the Prevention Of Cruelty to Chill
dren. stands sponsor for the charge
| against Burns. 1t is a queerly worded
one Of attempted abduction by use of
! the mails.
Burns is 40 years CID Of good appear
ance and address. He lives with his
/ wife in a handsome nome at fI5 Jeffer-
son avenue. He has a suite Of offices
in the Temple Bar building
! Inwood, not being a seaside resort,
! tbara U-a naturally Scaptinicr,,
! pressed when the rumor spread along the
| Hudson that a sea serpent had been
caught in the neighborhoOd. John Me-
! Donald. Waterman. who captured the
creature, said it was not a sea- serpent,
| but might have been if it had been al
| lowed at large a little longer and per-
mitted to attain its full growth He
! found it in his eel pot. 1t was a very
| proper thing to be in an eel pot. as it
was unquestiOnably an eel. AS TO its
size. Mcdonald would not commit him
self. but he declared that it was the
biggest eel ever caught in the Hudson.
| 1t might he Il matter of six feet III
! length and it might be more. Perhaps
| if an angler had caught ii off the pier
! it would have been ten feet long. Nc
| Donald said he hoped to sustain his
! family on the eel for at least week
which indicates dimly that il was an
! eel hig enough TO be mistaken for a sea
! serpent if it had been seen at sea off
resort supporting live press agent.
| Miss Emily A. Mayer, daughter of
! John Mayer and of the beautiful Natalie
! Havemeyer, who met a tragic death ut
| the Mountainside farm of Theodore \.
! Havemeyer at Pahwah. y. J.. six years
! ago. has renounced the faith of her
mother and grandmother, Mrs. Theodore
! a. Havemeyer. Last Sunday she was re-
ceived into st. Peters Episcopal church
a ~TafpN 2 ilT, hon F..tE
! is Il veStryman.
Miss Mayer is just y and is to be mar
ried shortly to Joseph G. Willis, son of
| Grinnell Willis of MOrristown, a wealthy
wooden manufacturer. Her conversion
to the Episcopal faith is connected by
! MorriStown folk with her approaching
marriage with non-CathOiic.
! Mrs. Mayors death was due to a pistol
! shot. She was alone in her room al the
! time and the testimony went to show she
shot herself. She had but little while
| before been chatting with Clifton Page,
a member of the household. After her
death an effort was made to keep secret
her will. When it was filed the bequest
of $4,000 TO Clifton Page excited com
| ment Page had been Overseer of ac-
counts at Mountainside farm for many
years.
Thou shalt not straiehten thy hat or
prink myself in elevators" Such is the
commandment that owners of New York
| SkyscrGpers would enforce in regard to
vanity fair And all because of the few
! seconds lost on each elevator trip when
AIiiady pauScs to give her hat a final
! tilt or the stray lock a wee tuck. But
seconds mean much in New York, and
especially in Il skyscraper where thou
sands are daily to be transported As Il
result OF this agita ton most of the new
er tai! buildings are mirrorless so far
rs elevators are concerned. Hotel pro-
| prletorS. however, do not seem to regard
the mirror proposition in the same light
| al dc managers of office buildings. The
new Hotel .AstOr's elevators were found
to be very attractive by women when il
opened q short time ago. But the real
woman's paradise is the new Hotel Bel
mont, opposite the Grand Central sta
ton. The nine passenger elevators
ere entirely lined with mirrors, while the
| building itself is a veritable crystal maze
! In all there are $1,000 square feet of
mirrors. In other words. Il woman
could walk along Broadway and then
across Forty-second street and see her
hat every step fer three miles in
panel mirror Il foot wide
Stephen Sharpe. who soleully an
nounces he is a rencarnaton of Conan
DoyIe's Sherlock Holmes, and who adj
vertised himself as ready to undertake
rs weiChty problems as the English de-
tective ever solved. talked complacently
in his apartments at the Battery Park
hotel, New York, of his plans and pow
ers.
Il have always professed wonderful
powers of deduction said Mr. Sharpe
and rally, We know friends tell me |
am the Twin image of Mr.. Holmes, that
is, if | was some seven inches taller and
had my moustache trimmed off
Il have been in the literary field UNI
til the present time, and have had an
opportunity to work on out four cases.
| am not rigging yen when | tell you
/ that my work was little short of the
marvellous in each instance In Johannes
burg a case which had bafTied the bail
IFS for two months was unraveled by
me in two hours. l have been in your
country but few days. but stand ready
! To grapnle with government cnses or