Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-10-06
New York Every Day.

3 New York Every Day. 5
Edna Wallace Hopper has returned TO
her old place at the Vaudeville theater
London, with the result that the box
office receipts are said to have jumped
5000 q night, which would seem to
prove that the icy young lady from
Syracuse is as popular as ever with
| our British cousins?
Pauline Chase-little polly" Chase Of
the pink pajamas-has made a real hit
IN The Scapegrace' at the Duke of
orks theater, London; that all tho
British critics vote her piece and her act
ing ripping" and that every night she
is given a great reception by the audi
ence, which seems to have fallen com
pletely i'll love with the American girl?
The corner stone of the Verdi monu-
ment on the Triangle at Broadway and
Seventy-third street, in New York, was
laid Thursday in the presence of 10000
spectators. The speaking at the exer-
clses was in the Italian language Three
hundred children sang in English a new
national anthem. The author, Signor
Quintano, has written President Roose-
welt with view of having his compost
ton adopted by the United States
Dan Cupid decries that report that
lovemaktg in the auto is DANGEROUS and
that the chug-chuggery worn by the mo-
florists is often proof against his darts
New DIRK women. as n rule. claim that
II Is dangerous to spoon in the motor
car unless both persons are experts IL,
Jlu-JltSu They urge all women who
venture on an auto Irritation to insure
their lives heavily. Lovemak king and
Donebreakng don't gee, the devotees of
the auto say.
The word restaurant will soon have
been thing of the past as far as New
York IS concerned. Gradually ON the
novel signs of eating places it is being
supplanted by cafe" For many years
there were restaurants devoted excIu-
slyely to women. Many of these are
now designated as ladies cafes
Broadway has several cafes which de-
pend solely upon the patronage of wom-
en-. and they thrive. TWO Of the larger
hotels have opened ladies cafes" ana
at any hour of the day one may see
scores of business women discussing
commercial affairs over their sherry.
claret or favorte drink with the sang
trod of Wall street brokers.
Before long one will have to read
Howells to believe there ever was such
a thing as a wedding journey. Every
body IN New York is waking up to the
ldea--that Is, everybody who is anybody
that one may take an automobile tour
or sail Oft in balloon or something of
the sort after the wedding ceremony. but
these excursions are not spoken of as
wedding journeys any more. The old
time merrymaking when q newly mar
rled bride and bridegroom drove away
mt the beginning of their honeymoon is
mostly done away with. They are no
longer speeded by a shower of rice and
old shoes; in fact, everything is usually
as dead as the proverbial door nail.
New York has never been so well sup
Piled with housing of all kinds as it is
Just now Few private dwellings have
been erected in Manhattan for some
time. Such dwellings, however, are to
be found in unprecedented numbers and
variety in other boroughs, particularly
III brooklyn. The least expensive grades
OF hats and apartments are also fewer
IN Manhattan than they are elsewhere
But ON the whole, people who look for
apartments or flats this fall have no
difficulty in finding what they want with
out going outside the central borough
30 numerous are flats that on Washing
ton Heights alone upward of 5000 apart
mentS are said TO he for rent ut prices
from SoU to Sl2 a room a month.
Sanitary laws are enforced with more
SiHctuesS in New York than in any other
city IN the country, but there is one fea-
| ture of the life of this city that strikes
one as being altogether out of accord
/ WIN the progreSsiyeneSs and modern air
| OF the counry's largest city. And that
/ Is the custom of placing garbage cans
on the streets in front of residences In
some OF the most exclusive districts in
J Ill !
| smelling cans can be seen on the streets
/ Oh the best sections of the upper west
/ side. In little town it would he re-
| @arded as positive offense to the com
! munlty for a family to allow can of
garbage to stand in front Of the door
/ step.
"On the water" said srizzlod old
| New York bayman who stood smokin@
! his corncob and surveying the hay fEs
! other day, when you see n thunder
storm rising you want to keep an eve
on the lightning If You see it in the
distance striking down farther omA
farther to the right from where Won frst
saw 1t, or farther aud further to The
Ieit TINS indicates that the storm *
working TO the right or to the left ana
u may pass around you. But if Won see
II all the time continue down I'm +b..
Same place and at the time getting
'ut brighter, why, that indl-
Gates that its coming straight tow1r5
You; aud yhIs is the time, son. when Won
want TO make Tor home or cot i'm yn,,r
SaIl and make everything snug tin tIs
storm passes over"
During the theater and shopping rush
len broadway. New York. the attention,
LET pedestrians was attracted by 4 lonI
strange sound that was entirely foreigi
10 he Vein of commerce. "MJow-oo-
IsNyScrapers. The sound made the chor,,,
I't auto honk-honks sound like nm or.
ieheStra of tin whistles. 1t startled tLe
Wo@kmen at first because cursor.
glance revealed Il big monster with o',s
norm which was rushing in their diren.
from the Bronx menagerie nan. si 49, :.
escape from the wild animal show NJ ~