Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-06-02

piece. he was seen at the corr,
Nassau ami Wall streets when - u
Of business ON the street had sci IN ""
turned and stared in surprise. Ne~>s-l.'4
boys and owes dressed Office boys -irt
try 10 look IKE hnanciers, laughed H.,
the hero minded them not. Ovs.-.. I'1'
were not uncommon, although n @
about 40 degrees in the shade En@S
ton Fish. the banker was one Of I'm
caught wearing a topcOat If H..
perature continues to go up the ono .-.
bet for New York is the straw haf
John Il. Haggin, wealthy horsenap o..,
copper magnate, has white eler,I...' 'l
his hands. But he is rich and cam .t...,
IT, About three years ago thert s+.-,I
his fancy the property at Ed~t Siv,,N
third street and Fifth avenue, New M
Just above 'Millionaires' Row ~
place. four-story brick structure ~.
lot about 2O0Xl50 feet-was occuu5ed I-
a swell club. and the members ~ ,,
refused to entertain an offer Nh ~.
gin wanted the place and he was hornl
10 have H. The property probably VA,
worth si,oOOooO. but Haggin went ,hs.
several better and showed a check ....
something over S4,000.000 under rt..
noses of the clubmen. That did the rn,t.
ness-the club took the money and n .
gin the property. He has had il .yt.
since. 1t is shut up, and the only .n.j
il has ever done its owner il Ia s:y,.
him opportunities to sign checks for taN-
es. Since the club vacated thu place
has never been opened.
Joseph Wartscher, the famous G,rr..,
aeronaut will attempt to make a b.IIa.,'
trip from New York TO Europe IN An
gust. The start will be made from LINN,
park, and Wartscher is sure he can maxi
the trip in four or five days.
Wartscber is a native Of Tyrol. He
aeronautic circles in Germany and
France. He worked with Aerouaut Sgr
couf in Paris, and built tn aeronaurt.
observatory for the meteorological in>ti-
tute at AK la Chapelle. The Aero oluh
of America is deeply interested in his
project. Wartscher has signed a con-
tract with Thompson Il Dundy whereby
he agrees to ascend in his airShip from
Luna park at Coney Island and sail ,ey-
eral miles out sea, descending into tb.
Atlantic, where he will be rescued by
steam yachts which will follow his
course. The feat will be performed ON
Wednesday. and Wartscher extends am
invitation for six passengers to accom-
pany him.
Artist John w. Alexander is q glv,-
ton for work. His friends say he j. m
it all the time and apparently does not
know when to quit. Mr.. Alexander is
enjoying the patronage of many Of New
YOrk's richest men and women. and be-
is quite the vogue now as a painter of
portraits. In order to keep up with the
demand on his services he has struck Oh
a unique plan. Finding that he grew
tired in his studio, and that, too, with
out great effort. he struck on the scheme
of laboring elsewhere. Finding th.,
worked he has rented two other studios
making three in all. Now he works two
or three days in one place and when he
gets tired he moves on to the next. ana
then to the third. finally winding up in
the studio he started from. Mr., AleXan-
der says his plan is admirable. He de
clares the change from one studio to aU-
other is as good as loaf of two or
three days, and at the same time he has
the satisfaction of knowing that he is
not permitting his paintings 10 suffer
for want of attention.
Sixteen tons of gold coin have been
dumped into the subtreasury building
here from the vaults of the continental
counting houses. Six expert coin count
ers are wading through the lot, and it
will take them some time to finish the
JOD. All IHb COIN mas 10 De W6igHHu anu
counted-no easy task when the bulk Of
the metal is taken into consideration.
Then, too, the milling on Uncle Sans
eagles and double eagles, the English
sovereigns and the German reichsmaTk is
very sharp. and hands unaccuStomed 10
handling the coin would be cut and bis
tered. The men at work have hands as
hard as parchment. and they plunge
their arms up TO the elbows into the
rrli nil of frQa
aside with deft fingers any coin that is
the lightest shade below standard weight.
The coins are not counted one by one.
but are sorted out and weighed. Every
half hour the men have to leave the
tables and turn their backs to rest their
eyes from the sheen of the metal. So
piercing is it's brilliancy that after a
short time their sight becomes affected
and everything appears in reddish-ycl-
low aspect. The work cannot be done at
all at night so the counters begin short
ly after daybreak and work until dusk.
The counters receive no extra remuuera-
ton for this trying work.
Old sailors along the New York water
front sat up and rubbed their eyes the
other day when the little Dutch schooner
| Mary HGssel came into port, bringing
twenty-eight Portuguese fishermen from
st. Christopher, bound for the Portu-
guese colony III Rhode Island. The ar
| rival of the schooner was quite unrX-
pected, the immigration authorities hay
ing no report that it was destined fer
this port with immigrants. No prepara-
tons, consequently. had been made fer
the inspection of its passengers. When
the information of its arrival was trie-
phoned from quarantine there was
scurrying around for customs and imn"-
grafton inspectors TO go down on the
cutter and take charge of the vessel,
The Mary Hassel is one of several small
trading schooners which have been fitted
up with Storage quarters, little bettr'
than those of the old immigrant ships. to
bring passengers from the West Indies
and other southern ports of the nt~'
States. These schooners make trips al
intermittent periods. and generally arr.''
| Jad 70 fba;,. full 90 rrvinU pgU..lft.