The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-12-16
IN GAY NEW YORK.

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The memorial fund that is being raised
for the support of the widow and daugh-
ter of Col. George e. Warning; Jr., has
reached $52,328. The largest contribu-
ton in the latest list, announced today, is
fF9m JOHN ,; d; Rockefeller, who gave
Workers more liberal in the matter of
memorial offerings. The Warning fund
grows faster than did the Grant monu.
ment subscription.
1t is rumored that the Mills hotels nay
~ per cent. profit instead of 3, the official
figures furnished by the management.
However that may be, the millionaire who
planned and built them ought to be con-
graduated, not envied.
A worthy widow on the east side has
offered home to Mrs. Jennie Babcock,
the once wealthy philanthropist who has
met with reverSes and is now at the CITY
lodging house. Mrs. Bapcock will accept
the offer if none of her rich friends comes
to her aid. The east side widow will
probably win.
Howard Gould gave up his rooms in
the Holland house today and moved into
he has leased for the season Mr.. Gould
spent the last few years of his bachelor
hood at the Holland house, and when he
returned from his honeymoon, after his
marriage to Miss Katherine Clemmons,
he took his bride to the hotel until the
house in Fifty-seventh street could be
made ready for their occupancy.
Stock exchange seats are booming, with
supply unequal to- demand. Wednesday
another chance to break into the game
yielded SIS. 200, an advance of $1,000. Hot
birds and cold bottles are displacing sand
Wighes and beer in the haunts of Man
mon.
The superiority of horseless car
ciages, even in the snow; has been dem.
firm, where horseless delivery wagons
have had no difficulty in riding through
the drifts brought by the great storm.
The rear wheels Of one of these wagons
vas bound with small but stout rope,
which helped the rubber tire to get a
good grip on the slippery slush.
Brooklyn and Manhattan, which has been
the subject of discussion for the past
year or two, Is now apparently assured.
The structure is to be erected as quickly
as possible, and if the present plans are
carried out it Ought to be ready for traffic
within four or FIVE years.
A collision in which were involved a
cable car, a push cart, a horspless car
Eiake bicycle a and d. three thFeeh or coal
Broadway recently. The busiest street
on earth Is COSMOPOLITAN In the matter of
methods of l6cbftiUti0il.
DROWNED IN BROADWAY.
He was an expert swimmer,
~, And feared not not the ;e,a raging ngon main;
And then swan back again.
Three times he jumped the Brooklyn bridge
To show his sporting blood:
He swain the English channel
And Survived the Johhstown flood.
He even braved Niagara
With nary harm at all,
And sported in the whirlpool
After swimming Ger the fall.
But once too oft he tempted fate
And he was drowned today;
Alas! lie bet friend that he
O'' ""'' New York ESening Sun.
The diamond crescent that Mrs. Corne-
Illus Vanderbilt, Jr.,. wears at the opera
house these gay nights nearly covers the
top of her head.
Four shares Of Chemical bank stock
were sold at. prices ranging from $41O0
to S411O. The par value is 500. Hetty
Green is heavy stool holder in this prof
table concern, which has been touched"
but never hurt.
The big clock in the steeole of old
Trinity church is being overhauled. 1t
had stopped at frequent intervals, and it
was decided to take the works apart and
was found to lie ,ftisted and in very bad
condition generally. The once reliable
old timekeepet is missed by the bulls and
bears WHO have 10 catch traits.
The whims IF t1fima dUniie are most
amusing One of Manager Gratis song
birds notified him the other day that she
did not like the. paper on the walls of her
room in certain hotel: She did not wish
but she declared that she could not stand
the color of the PAPER. The point of this
story is the fact that the paper was inn
mediately changed.
One method of gauging the popularity
of an actor or actress is to keep tab on
the same at the portrait booth set up in
the Waldorf-Astoria by the Professional
Women's league Edward Morgan, pho
tographed as John Storm, leads easily
Next comes "Our Babbie," Miss Maude
Adams. The demand for portraits of
Richard Mansfield has been large, but up
to date none has been on SALE The mod
ern Cyrano has promised to send sup
ply
A Broadway business main with an ar
tistic talent saw glorious opportunity
in pile of snow. He seized an ink
fraser and went out and carved an effigy
OF Count Esterhazy in the earth tainted
whiteness. The workmanship was good.
He placed paper cap upon the head
and paper epaulets on the shoulders A
mustache of hair was fastened to the
upper lip. The butt of cigar was
stuck in the mouth of the snow image.
Crowds gathered about the effigy and
laughed at it and cheered the artist. who
used to be in the German army It was
a cold deal for Esterhazy, they declared,
but we'll he deserved the frosty treat
meIt.
Butter Made from Peanuts.
A new factory has just been put into
facture of butter from peanuts For
working on a process of making butter
product Of the farm COW, and claim to
have succeeded in producing the desired
article. At the present price. of the nuts
rho hutto,. ha So1I IL rnr,ts ,,a,