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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-11-17

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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-11-17

Dick" pet canary owned by Miss
Florence Parkhill, of Bloomfield. y. j..
deliberately committed suicide by hang
ing. The bird was 10 years old. and
until Il few months ago was possessed
Of as sweet n voice as one of its species
ever had. 1t trilled from morning until
darkness set in at night, and delighted
all who heard it. Suddenly its tones he
gan to waver. and its attempts to whis-
tie were painful TO behold. Finally Dick
was unable to make sound. Despond-
ent over the loss. the bird thrust its head
through the wires of its cage and swung
away from the perch and thus ended
its life. The remains Of Dick were
placed in a little box and Inferred in
flower bed.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-11-17

MUM bd heT, aged 40, mas deserted
ns wife, Polly, aged to, at Newburg.
Ind. it is alleged. They were married
three weeks ago and Baker was the
Womans eighth husband
james Rasmussen. an employee OF a
sugar factory, at greeley. Dlu. nptaui,.
lonesome recently and advertised for a
WlIe' Among numerous answers he re-
celVed one from Miss Eliza Morris. of
New YORK clty. 1nel corresnHnntn ana,
last week were married. The bride. who
IS well-to-do, will build a pretty home
for herself and husband.
John Tweed, aged -, of Gladstone
ILL.,, and Mrs. Nancy Bush. aged 65. of
Burlington, Ia, Were married recently.
The wedding was the outcome of n ro-
nance that started some months ago
when Mrs. Bush met Tweed in Bur
lington hospital, where Tweed was i'll.
Tweed is pioneer preacher who has
lived in this vicinity for sixty years.
The little matched cottage at East
Hampton, L. L., in which John Howard
Payne, author of Home Sweet Home, d"
lived i'll his early wears, and which. when
ne was a Wanderer on the face of the
globe inspired his immortal ballad. is
to be destroyed. The site on which it
mas stood so many years has been pur-
chased and the structure will be torn
town and church erected limits place.
BY agreeing not to wear their brown
corduroy trousers to school, boys of the
senior class have averted class riOting
in the Richmond, Ind, high school. Mat
ters were at a crisis over the school au-
thorities' ban on the garments until the
seniors gave in. The trousers are the
boys class insignia and they caused all
sorts of class ruSheS. At first the seniors
were inclined TO rebel at their tea cherS'
order, but finally agreed not to wear
them to school,
Three hundred seniors and juniors Of
the University of Nebraska are in pro-
test against a rule calling for the Segre-
CATION of male and female students.
Owing to the temper of the students
cear-headed ones prevailed upon them to
postpone action. Chancellor Andrews or
dered two male students to change their
room from boarding house in which
are a number of 'co-eds," under penalty
of expulsion from the university. The
men threatened to obtain an injunction
Fred Fich. a Southington. Conn. ice
man, grew tired of his old gray mare
and made a bargain with a peddler TO
take her for SO. When Fish hitched
the mare to portable engine she
worked all right and the money was
paid
NO sooner did the peddler get into
the engine said Fish, than old Bess
dropped down dead. | know She died
rather than he owned by a peddler."
Fish added that he would use the SD
TO erect stone over the mares grave,
inscribed with the cause of her sudden
end.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-11-17
PUBLIC DUTY.

Montpelier, o., Man Feels Compelled
to Tell His Experience.
Joseph Wilgus, Montpelier. O., says
al feel II NV dutv to foil othnrS nhO,,t
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-11-17
BRIEF NC TIES OF
GENERAL INTEREST

William Baker, aged AS. has deserted
ms, wife, Polly, aged 65, at Newburg.
Ind, 1t is alleged. They were married
three weeks ago and Baker was the
woman's eighth husband.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-11-17

In dramatic manner the murder trial
of William Crockett, white man
erson, n negro ended at Dothan. Ala
when Judge Henry Pearce dismissed
the jury with a singing rebuke
declaring that the jury had acquitted
Crockett because he was a white man
and had killed a negro.
If the dead man had been a white
citizen" said Judge Pearce, lit would
not have taken you two hours to have
returned a verdict of guilty. and / don't
from this courthouse and face his fell
low citizens in the street.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-11-17

Within n happy and talkative four
rannthS. during which Miss Mary Gittiug
Gillette Of Baltimore had caIy 70 reach
from her bed to the telephone and call
up Richmond. Va. she ran mp bill Of
S2lo.05. for which the Chesapeake *
Potomac Telephone company has en-
cred suit against her The night rate
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-11-17

He was only a bantam weight of high
school age, and had voice like Il girl
that bold. bad bandit who held up the
Golden State limited of the Rock Island
railroad the other night. When the
train pulled into the LaSalle street sta
ton, Chicago, the women in the
Pullman which the robber visited were
unanimous in the opinion that he was
the cutest little criminal they ever saw
The men were not so cheerful about it,
This is the reason: To one of the wom-
Ell in the sleeper he said: Don't be
alarmed. lady. It's all right. l don't
want any money from you. I'm only
looking for the men,"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-11-17

The climax Of n double clopmeat was
reached in Chicago. when two
young brides. sisters. asked that their
marriages be annuled. and the two luS-
bands were arrested on warrants sworn
out by their father-in-law charging them
wiri fraud and with making threats
gaiust him.
The brides are Anna Webster and
Clara Huber and the hridegrooius are
Willard Webster and Willard II HUI
her. Neither Mrs. Webster nor her sis
ter. according to Attorney J. G. Gros-
berg. are yet IS years old. Tie two had
known Huber and Webster for some
months and The young men were fire.
quent callers. although it is declared
the subject of matrimony was never dis
ctiSsed by the four until April 1G last.
when the young men are said TO have
induced the sisters To accompany them
on "A "lark' The young women declare
their companions induced them to drink
LIQUOR. or gave them drug and while
i'm q stupor. they relate. they were taken
~ Justice Koehler's court after mar
riage licenses had been secured. They
were married by the justice.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-11-17

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Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-01

a perfectly ordered home for every
suest-that lies the chief test of her
ability, and in this her tact and pa
tience must never be found wanting.
Some of her experiences would put a
severe strain on the patience of Jobs
own housekeeper, too. were they not.
after all, just the things that make her
so important a functionary. Such a
hotel purposes meeting the slightest
whim of any of its guests instantly
and perfectly"
Perhaps the electric lights on the
dressing tables have red shades and the
occupant of the room wants blue or
white. Perhaps there is a green cur
tain over the transom, while black Is
the only color the temporary monarch
can survey without shuddering. The
towels are too coarse for one, too soft
for another; or the light in the hallway
outside her room must be removed so
ii shall not shine through and disturb
my lady's repose. Every request imag-
Unable. some very sensible, others quite
must be met promptly,
and it is the head housekeeper's duty
to see accomplished the somewhat diff
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-01

Every morning, the first thing, she
makes a tour of the supply rooms on
each floor to see that the maids are all
on duty that everything is in perfect
order, and that nothing is lacking to
make the days work go smoothly
This is only a preliminary inspection,
however, and must be accomplished
with the quickness of a trained eye and
experience, for a multitude of duties
press upon her thick and fast.
If furniture is to be moved anywhere
about the house, the housekeeper must
be on hand to see that everything is
arranged exactly right. If one of the
state suites" or other specially gor-
geous apartments not constantly in use
is engaged she personally superintends
its cleaning and the setting right of its
furniture and bric-a-braC
She keeps count of the linen issued
many hundreds of pieces day-the re-
serve blankets, mattresses pillows, and
so on, and is back and forth in the fur
nlture store rooms to order the work
with an extra bed or chair, or what
ever 1t may be, is needed.
1t Is in this-the making of the hotel
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-01
eping for a Family of a Thousand

carefully regulated so 1t shall not injure
the most delicate silks or satins.
Everything this dustpan collects is dis
charged through a pipe connected with
barrel or bin. leaving the room abso-
lutely fresh and pure. The saving of
time and labor thus made Is incalcu-
liable, but any housewife can sum up
its economy of strength and nerves.
The woman at the head of the "home
economics" department of big
American hotel gets salary Of from
$125 to $3.50 a month, according to the
size of the house that employs her,
the character of it's patronage and
the standard of qualifications she must
meet. Besides this, she has a little
suite of rooms of her own, as attrac-
tive as any in that hotel. where she
lives in a style that would require
an income of $3.50 or 5000 a month if
she were a down town business woman
and had to pay as a guest for her
room and restaurant service.
But the good hotel housekeeper is
born great and cannot acquire great
ness or have 1t thrust upon her She
has done a large share In making Our
American hotels the most highly es
teemed in the world; and the exiles who
come under her care, though they may
never think of her existence, would
all agree, no doubt, that she is worth
all she gets and as much more
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-01
Concerning the Making of Glass Eyes

which is to form the groundwork of
the eye is first blown, at the end of
a glass tube, into the shape of a closed
tulip.
The eye artist is seated at a table
before a small heating apparatus that
contains blow pipes holding flames of
two different temperatures, from whose
heat his face is protected by small
hood over the top of the apparatus. He
has at hand thin sticks of pigmented
glass, blue, gray, brown, red, yellow
and green in various shades. Taking up
a glass tulip, fused at one end of a
small glass pipe, and holding it in the
flame, the artist applies to it's tip with
the other hand the end of stick of
glass, which as it melts forms the
ground color of the iris of the particu-
lar eye he has in view. The glass tulip
is kept twirling in the left hand while
the tip of the colored glass stick is ap-
piled, so that by degrees the point of
the tulip is worn away and a gradually
encroaching circle takes it's place and
forms the iris. This, as it tends to
lump, is flattened every now and then
by patting.
Whenever the glass eye in it's maxi
ing is withdrawn from the flame for
even a moment it must again be ac-
climated to the intense heat by first
introducing it into the lesser flame.
This simple precaution neglected, brit
tleness will ensue and the eye crack on
the first occasion of it's meeting the
cold air OF a winters day. The flecks
in the iris are cunningly initiated by
light deft strokes with the different
colored glass sticks, all the time the
glass bulb revolving in the flame and
now and then being blown to keep it
in proper shape. At last when the
iris has attained the proper diameter
and is fecked as it should be, a stick
of black enamel is plugged into the
center and fused off when it has
reached a certain depth. This forms
the pupil. Some more stippling is done
to form the specks about the pupil.
then the minute veins are traced on
the white of the eye with a stick of
red glass whose tip is melted and
drawn out into a thread. A stick of
pure transparent crystal is then taken
and melted in the flame until it
spreads over the whole surface of the
eye to give it the liquid, lifelike look
and depth.
The shell is now ready to be cut from
the bulb. a shell that shall fit the
socket in which it is to be placed,
with the iris in just the right situation
to prevent crossed or wall eye"
appearance. The artist takes pair
of measuring dividers and lays off from
the iris certain distances on the cor
nea to correspond with the actual
width of the vacant orbit. Putting the
globe again into the flame he intro
duces pointed instrument into it's
surface and begins to trace the con-
tour of the orbit, the glass peeling away
in strip as it follows the path of the
instrument. The edges are then poll
ished and the glass eye is ready to be
inserted
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-01
Pastebrush Battle Causes Broadway Jam

and rights exchanges of booy blows
and good deal of clever duclking and
side stepping. Miller fell on the receipt
of a left cross.
One of the crowd wearing spats, pat
ent leather shoes and a check shirt.
leaned over the fallen man and started
to count He had got to three" when
he stopped, asSailad on all sides by
paste brushes. The bill stickers
thought he was trying to interrupt the
fighters. He fed.
Miller was on his feet again and be-
gan to rough it. In a mixup Barr was
down. Nobody attempted counting.
The fighters were in the midst of the
third round. both bruised and painting,
when the reserves arrived. Others of
the paste bucket and brush persuasion
escaped, but Miller and Barr were an
rested and taken to the Tendarloin po-
lice station. There they were charged
with fighting in the street. They were
caught red-handed and red-nosei. The
small boys by the hundred, who had
witnessed the affair, followed to the
station at a safe distance to hoot at
the police for spelling their good time.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-01

has been careless with a cigar. OF
course these damaged places must be
darned, and the darning is all done by
machinery. In a hotel like the Astor,
which has become one of the great
dining places of New York city, this
single item in the days work assumes
pretty large proportions at times.
Three of the great bugbears of house
work are removed in a hotel, so far as
the women employees are concerned,
though the housekeeper has them all
to think of. Windows are washed,
woodwork polished and the sweeping
done by men.
Incidentally the method of sweeping
and busting is one of the most inter-
esting details of this great system of
housekeeping. BY means of a COM
pressed air hose every. crevice and
Granny, about the chandeliers. cornices
and the ornamental woodwork, is first
cleared of dust. Then the pneumatic
pipe is attached to a machine that looks
a good deal like dustpan with very
long handle, and the dirt is literally
drawn out of carpets and upholstery
by suction, the draught of air being
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-01

They began to put their own sheets
over the other placards. The poster
men of the other concerns tore down
the freshly pasted advertisements and
replaced them with their own.
The game went on good-naturedly
until the rivals began to grow careless
in slapping their brushes against the
wood, splattering one another unneces-
sarily. Those who love a fight sighted
trouble and stopped to see il. Those
who didn't took to the street. In a
little while there was a crowd.
After the skirmishing, the action
really began when intruders carried
the outer works and started to put up
bills on the church walls. Some one
spilled a bucket of paste on them from
the steeple. Then the hostilities were
lively.
"One-Eyed" O'Flynn slapped "smil-
ing Mike" Costello across the mouth
with his paste brush and the affronted
one returned with a saturated brush
carefully placed upon OFlynn's work.
ing eye. The others of the paste-pot
crew went at it, warding and fencing
with their wet brushes. The crowd by
this time stretched over to Broadway
and lent encouragement to the duel
lists with shouts ard directions to give
it to him"
The smiling one, tripping the one
eyed and rolling him over, proceeded
TO paste a sign on his back on which
in big letters were tho words "A Howl
ing Farce" The crowd was exultant.
A policeman who tried to force his
way through made no impression. He
called for assistance. and this brought
the reserves, but not in time to stop
the greater part of the last act of the
street vaudeville.
Charles Miller removed his bespat-
tered coat and rolled up his sleeves.
James Barr did likewise. 1t was
evident that the two men knew how
to spar and very prettily. There
was no shaking Of hands as the two
came together. There were rapid lefts
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-01

Paste brushes and fists We're used in
the livelest sort of a fight just before
noon theother day at Sixth avenue and
Thirty-fourth street, New York. The
conflict brought around crowd of 5000,
and the Broadway and Thirty-fourth
street and Sixth avenue car lines were
bdlocked until the arrival of police re-
serves from West Thirtieth street. The
police soon spoiled the entertainment
of the thousands and made them go
amout their business. 1t was an odd
incident in Gotham life.
The old Broadway tabernacle, which
is being torn down by S. r. Rosoff, a
contractor, was the scene of conflict.
Rival bill posters supplied the fighting
men. Contractor Rosoff has been add
ing to the profits of the wrecking
enterprise by renting advertising
space. Already the steeple bears a big
electric sign telling the way to some
body's cleaning establishment. Clean
liness is next to godliness," says the
contractor. The church walls make
convenient sticking places for posters
that can be read from both the ele-
waited railroad and the street, setting
forth the virtues OF dry goods hair
oils, whiskies, etc.
For the protection of the public from
falling brick or stone the usual rough
scaffolding has been built around the
church on the Sixth avenue and Thir-
ty-fourth street sides. This frame
structure bears the words, Post No
Bills" but is well covered with them.
For the most part they are theater
playbills. Two theaters are not repre-
sented in the general collection.
Bill stickers bearing the announce
ments of these two theaters, with the
usual selected quotations from news
paper criticisms, appeared at the
church one morning at IL o'clock.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-01

performances of the Boston Symphony
orchestra and who also gave some per-
formances in New York city. profound
ly stirred the eastern musicians, con-
noisseurs of music, and the section of
society which supports the fine arts.
A few years ago if you wanted to be
in it with the world that listens to
and talks about music, you had to be
familiar with Wagner, and to be able
to compare the merits of Parsifal with
the Gotterdammerung, but from now
on American papas will be dragged out
of an evening by culture-bent mammas
and daughters to listen to works by
d'Indy, Faure, Dukas, Chausson, De-
busy, and, above all, by the beloved
master of modern French music the
humble and pure-minded pedagogue
who found time in the exacting per-
formance Of a long day of private
teaching from house to house to pro-
duce some of the most imperisha BILE
works of the nineteenth century, Cesar
Franck.
The current enthusiasm may even
have its humorous side. Just as Wag-
ners music, which is now accepted as
classic, was a few years ago the butt
of every nine-dollar week jokesmith,
we may expect-well, some of the
French comic papers have for years
been poking fun at what they call "la
Republique Frankaise." The reputation
of the clever Frenchman will not be
hurt by little drollery.
Those who best understand oriental
music say that it has a similarly archi-
tectural character, and that our failure
to apprecite it is generlly due to it's
intricacy and it's lack of the kind of
melody on which we have been brought
up. So that there may be something
in the Chinese diplomats prophecy.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-01

flcult feat of removing the rose leaf un-
der the forty mattresses SO a princess
may sleep.
Like other housewives this one has
her troubles in keeping things in re-
pair. In the linen room there are half
a dozen clever seamstresses who darn
the lace curtains when they get torn.
make the maids caps, receive the linen
as it comes in from the laundry adj
joining, keep a check on it and give
II out as 1t is requisitioned. Every
sheet, pillow case and napkin that
comes in or goes out is noted in the
account books; and three times a day
gang of men replenish from the main
linen room the supply with which each
floor is provided, so the maids need
never leave the special part of the
house to which they are assigned.
In this tremendous mending depart
ment as little as may he is done by
hand. but electric machines are used
whenever it is possible. Each day table
cloths used at the banquet the night
before are brought here with great holes
burned through them where some one
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-01

T%WENTY or thirty years ago the
idea of passing Sunday in hotel
would have been fraught with hor-
ror. American hostelries in those times
were refugees sought only when no es-
cape from them could be found. Their
discomforts were proverbial, their at
fractions most conspicuous by their alb
sence. Even Robinson Crusoe would
not have envied the habitual American
hotel dweller then. Today no other
country in the world offers in it's cara
vansaries for travellers such comfort
and luxury, and, more important than
these, so much of the quality of home,
as ours does
The science of hotel housekeeping
which has brought about this change
seems to be an American science. Our
cooks are still imported from France;
Italy, Germany and the rest of the
continent-even the Orient-are called
upon to add their contributions to
those of Uncle Sans broad acres that
the hotels hospitabe board may lack
nothing the world has to give; from
England and it's islands come many of
the functionaries and servants who
make American public houses the best
attended that there are. But the Amer
lean housewife adds to all these the
special qualities the inns of no other
country have, though to the guest she
is the least conspicuous figure in the
entire menage.
IN he al Nf h icr
American city-hotels THAI are regal in
Sheir luxury and beauty, the position of
h housekeeper is a very important one.
TAle household of Windsor castle does
not require more capabilit:y in it's man
aEl,ment than do our dem ocratic pal
aceAF' for any and everyIbody's enter
tainment. In fact, so careful is the
supervision of every smallest detail in
the h'ousekeeper's realm that it would
be i'm possible, proba bly,, for a maid to
survive in one of these public estab-
lishmel ITS such an expert ence as that of
the servant whom Queen Victoria rep
rimanded by writing the royal cipher
in the dust on a polish ed cabinet each
morning for three days until 1t was dis
covered NY the offender.
An enormous responsibility rests on
the shoulders of the hotel housekeeper
RESPONSIBILITY for the health and COM
fort of 500 or 1000 people and for the
reputation of an establishment that
represents, in many cases. millions of
dollars invested. Take, for example,
the woman in charge Of the internal
economy off such hostery as the new
Hotel Astpr in New York. typical of
great twentieth century houses of It's
kind. She has under her supervision
nearly 200 servants; to help her in the
mere work of administration requires
two assistants: the army which she
comma nds includes a corps of men to
do cleaning and another of women
cleaners, one of parlor maids, one of
chamber maids, and one of maid
maids, these latter to look after the
rooms of their fellow employees. In the
housekeeper's charge are the linen room,
the house laundry and the furniture
supply rooms, all of the six hundred
and odd guests rooms. forty or fifty
parlors and the fifteen or twenty semi
public dining rooms. Fier servant
problem is something that would appal
the head of even the most luxurious
private establishment.