Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-03-31

electric light company got this note the
next day:
Gentlemen I am busted By trust You
have it on me. Send a man with the bil,
including all charges for restoring service.
promise TO be a good boy. Yours peni-
tently, JAMES j. CORBETT.
\ number of Co,umba students gath
cred in University hall on the campus
and formed the 'Fonetic Spelling Asso-
siaShun of l<olumha university" bind
ing themselves to adopt the principles of
the reformed method of photography for
which Andrew Carnegie recently fur
nished II fand Of $4,000. Martin c.
.Ansorge. third year law student, was
elected president and these resolutions
adopted:
WheraZ. numerous prominent educators
turnout the United States nav PRONOUNCED
the English sistem of spelling now In VOC
cumbersum. unweeldy. and ilojikal, and
WheraZ, movement heded by wun of our
on professors has bin instituted for the pur
pus of Treating sentiment In favor of re-
formed. reViZd ana simplitied methud and
WheraZ, that movement meets with ap-
nruval Of koiumhia students in general, BE
it
Resolved. that we, the students of Kolum,
bia university, today assembled, do hereby
form oursev2 into an organization to be
non as the"Fonetic Spelling Assosiashun of
of Kolum6ia university" be it further
Resolved, that we hereby bind ourSelW 10
abid by the desishuns of the "simplitid
spelling board recently organized by An
droo karngy. wen mad publik, and adopt
the fOllong prinsipis to lie Il gid in all
privet corresponding and in our kolii KAN
inashun papers: First that al silent letters
| be dropt; sekond, that al diphthongs be re
plased by stngl vOuls wherever possbl, and
third, that fonetic sistcm of spelling Toe
adopted.
Tony Pastor, the dean of vaudeville
managers i'll America, this week, cele-
brated his forty-first anniversary as a
manager in New YO-k. Since 1881 when
Mr.. Pastor began guiding the destinieS
| of the little playhouse that nestles in
shadow of Tammany hall in Fourteenth
street, the little thcater has gone along
on the even tenor of its way seeming
always TO escape the ills that the usual
theater is heir TO.
Antonio Pastor began his professional
career at the age of &. when he stepped
on the stage into public life in Barnum's
| museum. and did the best he could at a
salary of 81 Il week. He began work as
real actor in Chicago i'll 1856, when he
appeared i'll the role of Il Yankee farm
er. At the outbreak of the Civil war he
| made his first appearance ut the theater
known as IA Broadway" where he
won fame by his vocal rendition of The
| Star Spangled Banner" Joseph Vince
Mrs. Mckee Rankin-Kitty Blanchard
were members of the company at that
time
-Four years later he opened Tony Pas
tors Opera house on the BOwery, where
he remained ten years and then moved
over again to Broadway 1t was while
he was at the Bowery house that he con
ceived and put in operation the present
day vaudeville. OF as he called it. 'family
vaudeville. In 1881 Mr.. Pastor tool.
charge of the theater in Fourteenth
street that bears his name
Among some of the people who began
their careers under the tutelage of Mr..
Pastor and afterward achieved degree
of greatness in their profession are Lii
liam Russell, Nat Goodwin. Pat Rooney,
May Irwin. John Il. Kelly, Lew Fields
| and odd Hoss' H0ey. Every year those
of the ''old guard" who are left call on
their old master or send him some sort
of message.