Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-04-13

William c. Whitney, all but So. IT'S
which he admits is taxable under the
laws of New York. His sister. Dorothy
Whitney had her personal assessment re-
duced from S2,000,000 TO $556,0O0. and
another sister. Gertrude Whitney, al
| lowed the S250,000 assessment against
her TO stand. Harry Payne Whitney
swore off all his personal assessment Of
10000 and Payne Whitney his of
Mrs. Henrietta Frances Hanan for
mer wife of John H. Hanan, a million
aire shoe manufacturer, who successfully
defeated two attempts of her husband
TO obtain a divorce, and who later Oh
tanned divorce herself and won a for
| tune, lies dead in her home in Brooklyn
She had just returned from Porto Rico
where she had spent most of the winter
Mrs. Hanan gained her divorce in
1903 and soon afterward Mr.. Hanan
married Mrs. Charles Talbot Smith
Thompson, who, under the impression
that the manufacturer was single. had
accepted lavish gifts from him. Expos
ure came when Mrs. Smith-Thompson .
who was a widow saw Hanan in an
adjoining box at the horse show, learned
that he was married and denounced him.
\ few days later she married James II.
Thompson of Newport, Mr.. Hanan
promptly suing her for the return Of
gifts valued at 100000. Mrs. Smith
Thompson became a widow again soon
after the Hanan divorce and Mr. Hanan
successfully renewed his suit, the we'd
ding being celebrated at the st. Regis
with $4,000 dinner January II. 1905
Mr.. Hanan was sued for breach of
promise by Mrs. Buelah NJ. button
formerly of Chicago, but this was set
tied with n provision that she return to
Chicago.
Because the Criterion theater in New
| York was not built to John Lund's or
der the audience at that playhouse was.
! treated to as rare an exhibition as that
of camel trying to percolate through
the eye of needle. Lund is the new
musical director of The TattOoed Man"
He comes from Buffalo and is trying to
live it down. Meanwhile his girth has
enlarged at an alarming rate. At the
Criterion the door that leads from the
orchestra pit to the music room under
the stage is .2S caliber, while Lund's
abdomen is a ~.
So when Lund at s o'clock sharp the
other night stuck his head out of the
door in pursuit of his musicians and at
tempted to squeeze his frame through a
small panic ensued The clarionet play
er and the second fiddler rushed to his
rescue, while the chief electrician pried
at the conductor from the rear. At SOC
! ing. The French horn and the oboe
were called into the struggle. At SIP
the second button of Lund's waistcdat
was in sight. and 1T S:i6 he had com
pleted the trip, although most of his
buttons and a section of cuff had fallen
| by the wayside.
! At the end of the act Lund retired to
the music room by way of the stage en-
trance, and he resumed his seat for the
second act by way of the main aisle.
Here again he got into trouble, for in
attempting to struggle over the brass rail
| separating the musicians from the or
Ghestra he lost his balance and did
Rice & Provost int1~~tAe lap of the
'cellist
In short Lund was funnier even than
Frank Daniels. and Charles Dillingham;
promptly offered to substitute him for
Daniels EXTRACT curtain speech. The
dor has been enlarged and is now wide
enough to accommodate May Irwin and
EVE Stetson tandem.
How many autos are there in Greater
New York? This question is asked a
thousand times day in that city. New.
Workers have practically completed ar
engagements for great auto fest which
Will last for a week. Much enthusiasm
has been aroused among the members of
the auto clubs in this city, and the auto
mobile trade by. the announcement that
an automobile week" had been planned.
The object is to mark the advent of the
spring season, which has always been
the busiest in automobile sport and
trade, and to arouse greater public inter
est in motor vehicles. Features of this
event as now outlined, embrace mon
ster parade, a series of contests-includ-
ing races and tests-at the Empire track
and special display or all the new mod
els in the various SalesroOms i'll the city.
The big parade could well be conducted
by the Auto Club of America, which for
several years has held an annual auto
parade. This club also held the CONNER
cial vehicle tests, which was scheduled
for last fall and postponed. "AutomO-
bile week would undoubtedly be Sc
lected by the New York Motor Club as
a most appropriate time to hold its an
nual orphans Day" and this Organiza@
ton also could run off another economy
test. New York automobilists have
wanted a 24-hour race for some time.
and such an event would be a star fea-
ture for program at the Empire track.
In short, the possibilities of an auto
mobile week" are unlimited. The New
York automobile trade must realize the
necessity for events which will stimulate
popular interest and gain valuable pub
hcity for the motor car. For the first
time in years the New York public has
nothing definite TO look forward to in the
line of automobile sport. AT the open
ing of last spring the open air show NJ
the Empire track, the Atlantic City race
meets, the New York Motor Clubs econ
omy test and the Brooklyn parade Were
all scheduled events, and created no end
of discussion and interest.
Not since female angels. instead 81
male ones, were made for the cathedra
of st. John the Divine, in New Yors
has there been such an excitement amou-
the persons who are overseeing the con
struction of the cathedral as there wa
when Gutzon Borglum, who has design
all the statuary for the building sin,
work on it began, declared that goad
part of the completed sculpture was RI
bish.
1t in no way represented his arts
ideals or judgment, he said. and he wei
on to declare that if something was u
done about it he intended to take le-
measures for the purpose of protectil-
his reputation as a sculptor. One pie"
of sculpture in the Belmont chapel. p.
said, was the worst in New York.
In any event said the sculpi