Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-03-17

is designed to construct thentcr some
whore along the south edge of CentraI
park y. " and TO give the best pred
uCtS Of the American plaYWrights with
out regard to cost. At the same time
It is hoped the ENTERPRISE will be self
sustaining. Il is already certain that the
thcater will be built and the number of
subscribers is sufficiently large to insure
Ia prosperous first year.
When a. Woodcock Howe of Brooklyn
was 70 get married about two years ago
he made arrangements with Rev St
Clair HeSjor Of the Church of the Mes
siah. by which the ceremony should be
performed in the church with vested
choir present and the chimes in working
order To salute the bride. For this he
agreed 10 pay $780, which was to in
clude the clcrgyman's fee aud pay two
policemen nj the door. The church has
been trying to collect the money ever
since, and in the Gates avenue municipal
court Mr. Howe confessed Judgment.
Shortly before the date for the wedding
Mr.. Howe wrote 10 the rector saving he
would send his check To the treasurer of
the church before the ceremony took
place He did SD, but he forgot to put
his signature on il The church tried in
vain to get signed check for $50 from
him. and finally the matter was nut in
the hands of a law firm. Lawyer Wal
ter Il. Pate subpoenaed Howe to the
court. lie said he lost $4,000 soon after
his wedding, and had been unable to
pay the debt
Fat policemen and policemen with
whiskcrs are becoming as rare as white
blackbirdS on the New / ork force. Al
though there are over 5000 men on the
force there are only eighteen sets of
WHISPERS left. and that number is con
stantly growing lower The last police
captain who sported chilooahS was
Chapman, and he was retired some time
ago. The lip foliage still persists, but
ii must be trimmed down like h,dge
To make il pass muster. The copper
whose stomach extends over the build
ing line is in constant fear of retirement
and, therefore. the efforts to keep down
obesity are heroic, The average New
York cop these days weighs about $50
pounds. Members of the mounted squad
average about l65. The old notion that
n policeman should weigh ton to be
effective no longer prevails, The men
nowadays must keep themselves hooking
pretty smart TO escape censure. Ii will
no longer do to appear in the squad
room with II shave three days old or
shoes covered with mud. The other dry
n copper who had been using the front
of his blouse as a tohoggau slide foI red
hots was fined five days pay for slovcn-
lincss
Chicago is called the "Wmdy City"
and Pittsburg the Smoky City" but
New York has more smoke and wind
than either. That New York is anything
but free from smoke no section of the
water front furnishes more convincing
proof than that strip along the Hudson,
from Thirty-seCond to Fifty-iirst to take
u single mile by way of illustration.
Even on so clear day as yesterday that
stretch of the riverside was blurred with
n yellowsh brown haze that gave one
the impression Of looking Mt the scene
| through windows sadly in need of the
cleaners attention. If the old Munich
recipe of landscape painting which saw
existence through the brown haze of a
! glaze of btumen or pulverized mummy,
still obtained here we're subjects made
ready to hand Unfortunately, though.
| this form Of justification is no longer
available. The changing fashion of the
painters craft now demands it's skies
and stretches of water front ms pure
and indebted as the city's ordinances
command they should he. But this last
is something that the neghborhood in
question seems hlissfully content TO ig
more and the entire strip under consid-
GRAFTON reeks with coal smoke and ill
smelling fumes and gases