The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-04-21
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The day after the testimonial perform
ance for the widow Of Anton Seidl $500
more was received lii checks, thus bring-
ing the total receipts up to about ST..
900. Or this, $4,000 was paid out III ex-
pelses. The remainder will be invested
by Mrs. Seidrs friends In d way to make
it yield for her the greatest possible in
cOmp.
Young William X. Vanderbilt, while
on his way to Oakdale with his bride yes,
terday afternoon. was in l. happy frame
reached Oaktlale Mr.. Vanderbilt called
Conductor king to him. Mr.. Vanderbilt
then Handed the conductor 5000 to he
divided between the crew Of the train.
John rimDson was the engineer. He
had charge Of the engine Of the special
train which took the Duke and Duchess
of Marlborough to Oakdalc two or three
years ago.
There is nothing picturesque in the
ruins of the Windsor hotel as they have
been for the past week. but on bright
days they have been the target for hum
dreds Of amateur photographers who will
find when they develop their films that
they have merely photograph Of half
cleared cellar and lot Of broken brick
and stone. The steps of the houses op>
posite the wreck on Fifth avenue were
filled with men and women one afternoon
last week who were taking snap shots of
the ruins.
Buffalo Bits" wild West" is having
record experience here, and is showing
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den, While the rough riding and other
cowboy features are still present in
plenty, it is the battle OF San Juan Hill
and the work of the Gatling gun which
delight the big crowds.
with costume dinners. These were given
by MIR. and Mrs. T. Cooper Hewitt, Mrs
Burke Roche, Mr.. and Mrs. Erskine
Hewitt and others. All of the operate
characters who have sung at the Metro
politan Opera house We're not persOnated
but caricatured. Others were costumed
so as to suggest musical instruments.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hewitt were themselves
made up as ''rhe Old Folks at Home"
The festivity opened with sort of grand
march of the guests generally upstairs
and down. Mr.. and Mrs. Hewitt re-
viewed the procession.
hlSS Jane AOISGI, sister OF Miss
Mildly Morgan, the livestock reporter.
is dead at her home in Livingston, Stat
en- Island. Of diphtheria, aged 81 years.
Miss ''Midy" Morgan died in 1882. in
her sixty-fourth year. Miss Jane Nor
gan was an artist of some repute, and
studied several years in Europe, going to
Rome in company with her sister in
1865.
The two sisters designed and had built
in Livingston, ;. l., the extraordinary
many years. This edfice, which was
said to have cost $4,000. was two and
a half stories in height, with a mansard
roof, and was thoroughly tireproof, all
the beams being of iron, and many of
the floors being laid with marble and
tiles
There was only one door OH the ground
floor, and that was Of heavy quartered
oak, crossed and recrossed with iron
bars. All the windows on the ground
floor were heavily barred. The two sis
ters, who occupied this dwelling alone,
lived only on the upper floors, and gained
access to the second story by means of
a ladder, which was drawn up after
their ascent. After Miss "AIidy's' death,
however. her sister constructed stair
way. She decorated many parts of the
house, and spent much time and labor in
it's establishment.
One of the great Broadway depart
ment stores keeps female hair dresser
constantly at work ON dummy head
that is adorned with flowing and most
beautiful golden tresses. She is watched
necessarily by large and interested
crowds.
Music by the yard is one Of the new
things among the sights and sounds in
Gotham's streets. a few of the Italian
pushers of street pianos have an i'm
proved machine into which they insert a
bunch of punctured cards, turn crank
and grind out music to suit all tastes.
The cards are held together by bits Of
tape. The longer the tune the larger
the pile Of cards ut the end of the med
ley, which drop out and pile themselves
up Systematically on shelf provided for
their reception. 1t is an amusing sort of
a performance to witness and the capaci-
ty of a machine thus rugged is limitless.
The music produced is IL great improve
ment over the wheezy, -distracting
hand-organs.
.Twelve.-year-old, Dorothea Z. Grouse,
the daughter of the late Daniel Grouse,
the millionaire of Syracuse, n. Y, who
for some time past has been enjoying an
income of $500 a year, received fur
lucf illlOWiuce OF 9tCUU year from Sur
rogate Fitzgerald. Miss Grouse is living
with her mother in Europe. 1t was on
the mothers application that the little
girls allowance was made $4,000 per
annum.
One of the many cripple mendicants
along Broadway has a dog that holds in
his mouth tin cup for the reception
of charity's pence. The woebegone beast
has learned to turn his head promptly
and surrender a coin the moment it is
dropped into the receptacle. He knows
that to allow the contributions to accu-
mulate would be to discourage their con-
tinuance.
Lavinia Dempsey, the first Queen of
the Holland Danes, is having trouble
over the order recently conferred upon
her at the Waldorf by French prince
Some of her enemies affirm the princely
gift was nothing but a Gotham police
mans gilded star. The Queen has of
fered $4,000 to be distributed among the
poor of the city if it can be demonstrated
to her satisfaction that she was the vic
tim of hoax. Queens have their trou-
bles the same as the rest of us.
There is any amount of "kicking' to
be heard in the uptown hotels and
among visitors, when they find them
selves ''short' and find it necessary to
get check cashed. They are assessed
10 cents each time, which shows that
the Clearing houses modification of it's
rules will not remedy individual rockets