The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-17

IN GAY NEW YORK.
Young John ID. Rockefeller is now a


holdings of the stock Of the road, he sits
like Samuel Sloan, as his fathers repre-
sentative. Young Mr.. Rockefeller is n
type of a new development in American
finance. In London they call d man
who, because Of family influence rather
than his personal attachments, is elected
u member Of financial boards and sits
silent at their meetings guinea pig"
because bright, new-minted golden
guinea is paid to each director present.
Since Mayor Patrick Jerome Gleason
the former versatile mayor Of Long Isl
and city. started to write his book, he
has suffered from heart trouble. His
physicians put him on diet of settler
water and milk. When he grew tired of
this bill of fare and raised row his
physicians humored him by changing the
menu to settler and milk The cx-boss
thinks he has found something better
than this in cranberries. He says they
are the best remedy for heart trouble
ever known. He has foresworn his old
diet and is now feeding almost entirely
on cranberries. For breakfast lie has
stewed cranberries; lunch consists of
cranberries, and dinner finds him brood
ing over the remnants of his breakfast
and lunch. warmed up. He is, of
course, taking great interest in the
coming cranberry crop, but for the pres
ent he is not working on his book.
At barber shop on Fifth avenue a
sign is displayed: Ladies' hair dressing
done free every afternoon from l to )
O'clock" The ladies' Embarrassing
parlor is neat, coy place with number
of chairs standing in front of long mir
ror, which covered one side of the room.
Doing" the hair of a respectable looking
woman was q nice-lOoking little woman
the head Of the Embarrassing establish
ment, and gathered around the chair were
half dozen white-coated young men,
watching the progress of the work and
occasionally giving assistance. And that
is how the apprentice or student III hair
dressing gains his experience, and the
clever women who are in touch with the
trick get their hair dressed for nothing
Last night belonged to Oscar Ham,
merstein. 1t seemed as if all New York
had crowded into his new music hall,
the Victoria, to give him rousing send
off. Tickets were selling on the side
walk at SIS each long before the curtain
went up. Not only was every seat occu-
pied but the long, spacious promenade
was packed with people, who pressed
against one another like sardines in a
box. Richard Croker and Mayor Van
Wyck occupied a box, and there was no
end of wellknown faces in the audience.
At the end of the second act Mr.. Ham
merstein was called for and made
short speech. The performance of the
evening, musical farce called "A Reign
of Error" gave the Rogers brothers un-
limited opportunity for the display of all
their old specialties and a number of new
ones.
Guests present at luncheon in the
WaldorfAstoria the other day given by
and are still talking OF the little passa ge
at arms which took place between two
of the young women there. One is a
beautiful blonde, bride, and comes
from the South. She met the other, and
shaking hands in her characteristica!ly
cordial way, said: Il am SO glad to see
you; you have afforded me much amuse-
ment. l have been through my hus-
bands desk and read all his love let
ones were from you. l enjoyed them SO
much II am glad you enjoyed them y
purred the other. But do come to SEE.
me very soon. l have the answers to all
those letters and you may like to read
them, for his are very much warmer and
more atfectionate than those l wrote"
FASHIONS are as uncertain as the stock
market. One thing only seems certain.
and that is the clinging skirt. No wonl-
an VINO wants to appear smart need hes
itate to order one, as they are seen in
large numbers OH fine afternoons on
Broadway and Fifth avenue. The Prin-
cess gown also seems to grow more popu-
lar.
Society is ever no the watch for some
thing new in the way of diversion. In a
fit Of sudden fancy the other day a dig
nlhed New York sewing class, which met
at an orphan asylum and had tea, rushed!
into the colored baby ward and, headed
by charming woman of fashion and a
leader who is renowned for her eccen-
trlcities, each seized a small pickaninny
and, fondling it in her arms, danced
around the room in procession, singing
coon songs. This was an inspiration
of fashionable genius. 1t has been hailed
as wildly original, and now there is talk
of organizing parties for Minetta lane
and Seventh avenue, where it seems at
night there are stands presided over b,
old colored "aunties' at which such deli
cacies as fried bluefish sandwiches and
Holsters a little off color are served
"Old Tom's,' the celebrated chop
house at Temple and Thames streets, at
one time favOrite resort, is soon to 90
under the auctioneer's hammer. For
years Gotham's millonaires and bust
ness men have lunched Oh good, plain
cooking at "Old TOMS" and there is
universal regret on the street that the
place is to he no more. Thomas ]. Hola-
han, the last ''Old Tom," died a year ago
and his father a quarter of a century
before that. The place was in 1900
l-r,nI oil csI
consisted of Il two-story frame building
with a gable roof When the original
"Old Tom" Holahan died his widow
married, but her husband quarreled with
his stepson, and the consequence was
that party wall was built through the
center of the building. Great rivalry
existed between the two places and the
patronage was divided, but because of Il
misunderstanding the trouble got into
the courts, and the property was Or
dered sold at auction.
The loud golf stockings, the designs of
which can be seen easily at a quarter of
mile distant, are to stand Il second
seasons favor
Cord and tassels instead of ribbons
are the newest fastenings for the nose
gay of violets. Like the ribbon, the
cord and tassel must be precisely Of
the same purple as the flower Individ-
ual cases of this manner of wearing
violetS have been seen for the past few
days on the promenades, and the fad is
rapidly becoming epidemic.
The Rainy Daysies" have out,laysicd
themselves. They had business meet
ing the other day at which the old suuab-
BILE, as to whether the club skirt on wet
days should or should not be six inches
from the ground, was renewed. but with
no decisive result, as the women couldn't
agree. Consequently. some of the men,
bers will continue to show trife of
their stockings while promenading on
disagreeable days. The limit has always
been not more than eight inches nor less
than three, and when some of the daysies
attempted to revise their inches" there
was trouble. Some of the konorcd mem
bers ''tiounced'' at the idea of shorten
ing tho wet-weather skirts, and the club
meeting was anything but harmonious.
The old rule stood, but, notwithstand-
ing this, there are many ''rainy day
sies' seen on Fifth avenue and Broad
way today who wear skirts that were
IN violation of the clubs constitution,
Those who take an interest in the work.
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