The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-05-19

tive fortune of $1OO,OOO,O 900. Young Mr..
Vanderbilt may be out IN IL day or two.
After his graduation from Yale next
month he will begin a tour of the world
and then will commence the arduous
task of looking after the Vanderbilt mil
lions and seeing that none get away.
An awfully swagger girl whose gowns
were miracles, her diamonds beyond
criticism, likewise her beauty and ac-
lions, has been one of the very familiar
figures at the dinners de luxe at Sherry's.
the palm room at Delmonico's, and a pa
tron at the Waldorf this spring. Al
men of the very glittering set, and on
equally good terms with the substantial
beaux of the older generation, men with
millions, she was sort of a social enigma.
No one believed the careless little story
she occasionally related about the great
inheritance which came to her by the
timely decease of an aged relative. The
dresses were there and the diamonds, and
suite at an exclusive hotel. No one
could whisper a breath of scandal about
the handsome girl who nightly dined and
wined in the gayest of company. Since
the middle of last week she has been
misscd-sailed quietly for Rheims, where,
she will do considerable collecting, for
she has been for several months the most
ca. Swells are still trying to explain that
they knew it all the time"
Smith E. Lane, a former park commits
>ioner and now an East River bridge
commissioner who says that in 1895 he
was employed by Mrs. Hetty Green to-
protest against tax upon her personal
property. which was valued by the COM
miSSiOners of taxes and assessments ut
81 800, 600 and assessed for that year at
$2S,SOO, is suing the wealthiest woman in
America to recover $1,000. which hc
claims as the value of the services he
rendered to her i'll that matter. Mrs.
Green saws that her agreement with
Lame was that she should pay what was
satisfactory to her. She thinks 500 is
sufficient for his services. and this she is
willing to pay, and no more.
The latest in the world of finance is
corner on puppies. a young woman
is doing it, and she is going about it
IL manner that would challenge the ad-
miration of the Napoleons of finance and
make the ordinary dog fancier gasp with
bewilderment. This enterprising young
lady is Miss Grace Reed. and the partic-
ular breed of puppies on which she is
making a corner is Maltese terriers.
who closely resemble their feline name
sakes. 1t was only a week ago that
the ''cornering" process began, but there
is already dearth of Maltese terriers.
and the animals that had strict market
value of $25 are now bringing 500.
The young lady hit upon the idea of
making the corner by noticing that the
Vanderbilts and Astors had taken fam
cy to Maltese terriers, and will make
small fortune out of the large number
she purchased.
But few New York restaurants of any
pretension presume to serve dinner any
more except with an accompaniment of
music, ranging all the way from rag
time" melodies to selections from Tam
haeuser." Within the past two or three
years this practice has increased very
perceptibly. -Four years ago the places
in which the orchestra was Il dinner-time
feature could be counted on the fingers
Of one hand without many repetitions.
Now all Of the small and unpretentious
dinner hours" All of which goes to
show that if New York is a nerve-dis-
tracing place. it also has it's cures for
the disease. Who knows but that, in
time. we shall recline OH luxurious divans
around n low table, as did the Romans
Of old, and, while the evening meal pro-
crosses. soft music from Tyre or tam
There are those who say that the present
generation is fast falling into the degen-
eracy of the ancients; but II music be
one of the matters upon which criticism
Is based, many persons will probably not
try to stem the tide.
: Diamonds valued at between $4,000
und 5000 were taken from the apart-
nlents of Mrs. Frederick Norton. in n
boarding. ouse Mt 43 and IS West Thir-
ty-tifth street. The thief, it is supposed
was q woman who posed as an assistant
OF Mrs. Norton's dresSmaker. She did
her work so adroitly that Mrs. Norton
talked with her face to face without
Knowing that she carried the stolen Jew
els with her.
Hand me knife, WAITER" said a GUS
toner recently in small restaurant op-
p0slte the entrance to the postoff1ce, which
ls much freQuented by newspaper men
from the row" 1--WE haven't knife in
the place, see" said the waiter. ''Some
guy came in this morning and asked the
boss If he wanted his knives sharpened.
He said he'd do it quick and cheap. He
did the boss all right" Further inquiry
developed the fact that the visitor was
given every knife in the place to sharpen,
and he took them ostensibly to his grind
stone on the sidewalk; but he forgot to
return, and those patrons Of the place
who train for a sword-swallowing every
time they eat, hare to use fork, for
once in their lives, .ss s.. E.