Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-05-25

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The room in the Brown university dor
mitory which John Hay occupied from
1856 to 1858 is TO be marked by p0r-
trait of him.
Charles NJ Schwab has an ambition to
make his manual training school at
Homestead Pa, larger and broader IN
scope than the Carnegie technical school
at Pittsburg.
President Jordan of Stanford unver-
sity has left San Francisco for Austria
liza. where he will deliver lectures be-
fore the university of Sydney and Auck-
land Oh American university methods.
While there is but one living ex-Presi-
dent of the United States. there are three
living women who have occupied the
executive mansion. These are Mrs. James
A. Garfield, Mrs. Grover Cleveland and
Mrs. William Mckinley.
\ bronze equestrian statue of the con-
federate leader, Gen. John b. Gordon, is
10 he unveiled on the grounds of the
state capitol of Georgia at Atlanta on
May %. The statue is by the well
known sculptor Scion II. Borglum.
Everett III. Barney, the Springfield,
Mass. millionaire, whose estate will so
greatly benefit the city in the future, is
not forgetting the present needs but has
given $1,000 toward the saner Fourth of
July observance for which Springfield
has made a reputation in recent years.
The Rev Stanley Hughes former cur
ate and now minister in charge of Trim
ity church, Newport X. l., has accept
ed the call to become the rector of that
church. which was extended to him last
week by unanimous vote of the vestry
of the church.
Prof. Brander Mathews Of Columbia
university, New York, has been secured
by the Cooperstown centennial literary
committee to deliver the Grafton of James
Fenimore Cooper during the week of Au-
gust !. Bishop Potter Of New York is
to be present and is expected to deliver
the opening address of the centennial,
which occurs on Sunday. August 4.
Frank Rutterworth the Yale football
star of former days, now a state senator
IN Connecticut is struggling to make
the Sunday laws more liberal by bill
authorizing athletic games between l and
4 p. m, in such ways as not to disturb
Sunday worship or public peace, and not
where admission is charged or by those
WHO make athletics means of liveh-
Lood.
When John Burns entered the British
cabinet there were rumors that he would
refuse to don the cooked hat and epau-
lets of official uniform. The King asked
him about it. Not true" replied Mr..
Burns, 'and, besides, ! have already
worn your majesty's uniform" The
King naturally asked when that was.
When l was in Pentonville," answered
Mr.. Burns, alluding to his three months
sentence after the Trafalgar square riots.
Phillips Exeter academy gets $40. 900
by the will of Josiah Ii. Hobbs, late of
Washington, but a native of Dover.
During the lifetime of the testator's sis
ter. Harriet n. Hobbs, the income is to
be paid TO her, and at her death all will
40 to Phillips Exeter to form the
George Frank Hobbs fund" to aid in
digent and worthy students, preference
10 be given to natives and residents of
New Hampshire. George Frank Hobbs,
of whom the fund is to be memorial.
graduated at Exeter in 1850.
Col. Eugene +. Ware of Kansas. the
poet, has accepted the $12 a month pen
sion to which he is entitled under the
new service pension law. He has sent
word to Pension Commissioner Warner
that he has selected a poor young girl
at his home in Topeka to whom the pen-
sion shall be turned over every month
TO aid her in getting an education. Col.
Ware is rich. as riches so in Kansas, and
has lucrative law practice besides. His
verses written under the name of Iron
Quill, attracted President Roosevelt.
Rev George ID. Latimer, pastor of the
North Unitarian church, Salem. Mass.
announced Sunday that he would retire
from his passionate April %. Two years
ago Mr.. Latimer received $4,000 under
the will of one of his parishioners, Mrs.
Eliza y. Hoffman. who died in Feb
Fuary, 1905. Mr., Latimer was installed
as QsSlStant. nQstQr of the North church
III 1913, aud became pastor last wear nj
the death of Rev. Edmund Is. Wilson.
1t has been announced that Mr. Latimer
%ontemplates extended travel in Europe.
Miss Jennie W. Burbier of Lynn.
Mass, has the distinction of being the
only blind librarian in the world. Miss
Burbier has been blind from infancy. hut
is an accomplished musician. has trans.
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