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

The question is: How will the new
buildings affect the appearance of the
city? Artists and disinterested archi-
tects agree that the city is not beautiful
now as viewed from the wafer. The
irreguarity of the sky line is too great.
1t is jagged outline, Viewed from the
street lower Broadway is staggering
rather than beautiful. The fifteen new.
tall buildings will not make things worse.
however Very likely the filluG up of
the gaps will improve matters by pro-
ducing a better effect of mass. The city
will look more like a range of mountains
and less like stump lot.
Central park has lost its mayor Fred
erick Bang, historian, philosopher and
sage, is dead. And the veterans with
snowy locks who haunt their rocky re-
treat i'm the Ramble lament. Bang was
their oldest member They declined TO
attend his funeral because almost every
one of his associates verges on the grave
Instead they left vacant his customary
seat on the park bench and held me-
mortal services And loud was the la
ment of the patriarchs. Mr.. Bang was
four score and four. For the last fifteen
years he had been member of the self
constituted Central park board of al
dermen." He may not have been known
by casual park visitors, but to habitues
he was the dean, the chairman by right
of age and service. Every day the board
may be found in the Ramble In sum
mer they seek "A slight wooded eminence.
In winter they obtain refuge in a nat
ural rocky cavern called the Bakers
Oven" Here they puff their pipes and
solve international tangles. Over this
congress Mr. Bang presided. Last year,
April /. the board honored its chairman
by celebrating his birthday anniversary
and Mr.. Bang bonored his associates
with Il poem by Schiller.
The New York state board of railroad
commissioners has issued Il compilation
of statistics showing the transportation
ana operations of the surface. elevated
and subway lines Of New York city for
the years 1904 and 1905. The total mum
Der of fares paid in all the boroughs in
1904 was 1,077, 65S,247 and in 1905 l.
171,1J1 sos, an increase of J3, 493, 1J1
The total number of transfers issued in
the boroughS in 1904 was 26:3.3T9, 262
and in 1908 211 1885, 24, an increase for
the latter year of 7,SfG,3G2 The car
mileage for all the boroughs in 1904 ag.
grcgated POI ,5S49i2 and in 1905 DO
249, 400. an increase in the latter year of
2S664. .J43
The Metropolitan Street railway, Man
haitian system, received $40, 12l ,631 cash
fares in 1903. Il decrease of 1929
1856. 10. 412. IL decrease of 12623.91S.
The elevated carried 249,955, 1855 pas
sengerS during 1908, Il decrease of ~,
691, 5OS. The subway carried f16. 209.-
BIB. compared with 1924 1863 in 1901.
The net increase on all the lines of this
company of passengers carried was 81.
2S0.936 On the roads of the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit system ;i31 .G1S.930 cash
fares were received in 1905, an increase
of 33, 762,390. and 7S,923.32S transfers
were made, an increase of 1870, 1G4.
Along Forty-fourth street. from Broad
way to Fifth avenue, New York. is lit
tie less than IA third oil Il mile. yet within
that limited stretch of territory more
money is said to he expended annually
for pleasure than in any other area of
similar dimensions in the world. 1t is
estimated that 5000 pleasure vehicles
pass through this street daily and $500
of this number are there between the
hours of Il and II each night, when the
clubs, the dining palaces and the ball
rooms are in full swing. Those for whom
this street exists. as it is. touch foot to
ground only where the ground is covered
with velvet. AT one end of this region
stands Sheuy's and Delmoncos. and at
the other end the new S1.OOO,0O0 Hotel
AStor. Between these are to be found
some of the finest and most exclusive
clubs in the world. Here are the st.
Nicholas, the Racquet club. the New
York Yacht club. the Yale, Harvard and
Pennsylvania clubs. the home of the Bar
association, the Lambs club. and several
other places of lesser note. 1t has been
estimated that club dues in this street
amount annually to $4,000 and that
each year $l.000,0O0 is spent for wines
and cigars alone Counting the money
spent by the clubmen upon themselves
their wives and families. it is believed
that within the area described the sea-
son gives a result of between SS,000,000
and Sl0,OGO.0OO.
Miss Susan Elizabeth Brown. the
Brooklyn girl who snubbed prince. is
bride. Miss Brown, who is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs Melvin Brown and a
niece of former United States Judge Adj
olson Brown, was married the other
day Mt Lakewood, n. j.. to Lieut.. John
Wisdom Of the British navy and Il mem
Der of the right good crew Of i'll. NJ $.
Berwick.
lie and Miss Brown met for the first
time mt Bermuda, hut ii was not until
the visit to New York last winter of the
second cruiser squadron of the British
navy under the command of Prince Louis
of Battenberg that the young couple he
came engaged. Then the dashing en-
~illFti anu ituttlidll iitIl SlCn ardent
court to tho handsome Brooklyn girl that
she referred him to her parents. who
gave their consent to the union
During the visit of Prince Louis
squadron Miss Brown was on board the
berwick with her mother and Lieut.
Wisdom when young mildly" came M
and endeavored to make her acuuaint-
ance without the formality Of an intro
/ duct n. The young woman promptiy
'snuhbed' him. 1t afterwards was ey
planned to her that the cub was Prince
| Alexander. nephew of King Edward
| VII, and that the ethics of the British
/ navy gave him. as Il prince of the blood
/ the right to speak to a young woman
| without an introduction.
! Work on the alterations ON tho TIofr-
man house has begun. 1t is said that
| fourteen months will he required in tear
| ING down the original part of the house.
/ reaching TO Twenty fourth street. and re-
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