The Virginia enterprise., 1899-02-24
IN GAY NEW YORK,

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The engagement Of Iaspenard Stewart
70 Miss Komola Dahlgren, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Dahlgren, which was
announced in newspaper, has been de-
MED by Miss Dahlgren and Mr.sStewart.
Miss Elizabeth KiIsyth Livingston has
embraced the Catholic faith. Miss Liy-
ingston was taken into the church by
Father Healy of st. Lawrence's church
ana received first communion t{tlie con
vent OF the Sacred Heart. Miss Livings-
Ton IS ilneal descendant of p. Van
Brugh Livingston, whose wife was Mary
alexander, u sister Of the Earl of Ster,.
the son OF Philip, second lord OF the
Manor@of LiyingstOn, who was president
OF the first Provincial Congress in this
city: An elder brother Of r. Van Brugh
Livingston was one of the signers Of the
declaration OF independence, and another
brother was governor Of New Jersey.
Miss Livingston is 10 beautiful and ac-
cOMplished young woman, and her debut,
which was made a few years ago at the
home Of her cousin, Mrs. John Lyon Gar
diner. was brilliant one. She was q
Baptist, but later Joined the EpiscouaI
church. Mr.. and Mrs. Van Brugh Liy.
'ingston, her guardians, are devout at
tendants at the cathedral, and Miss Liv-
ingston's change of faith is therefore
natural.
The most original of Friday evenings
entertainments was that given by How
ard Constable and Miss Constable. The
affair was referred to as a "studio even
ing" but was really an elaborate costume
dance: Impersonations of the "echoes Of
the late war" caused much amusement.
Rev. Madison Bloomingdale Peters.
who finds time when he is not reporting
French balls to preach in a west side
Reformed church, is on the rampage
again. He is now warning against the
size Of the "growler," which is the tene-
ment dweller's substitute for the wine
cellar of the Fifth avenue millionaire.
He says the worst wrong connected with
the saloon against which the poor have
to contend. is the excessive measure of
the beer. A pint of beer for 10 cents
means from three to six Dints,
The popular impression that the Rialto
that section of Broadway between
Ihirty-second and Forty-second streets
is the center of life and gaiety Of New
York, is rapidly being revised. Fame is
that the so-called Rialto, which he had
imagined the haunt Of fashion and the
promenade of respectable pleasure seek
ers, has degenerated into a lounging
place for sleek. well-dressed, disreputa-
BILE loafers. These leisurely persons
work for their living in the peculiar fash
ion known as ''by their Wits" and it is
out of the question, when taking an aft
ernoon stroll. for the visitor to eyade
them. They have thousands of plausi-
ble stories and schemes for raising the
wind, to which many passengers can
testify. and their apparent carelessness
hides schemes for money-getting that are
as unscruDulous as they are keen. But
in the face of all this these gentry dwell
in absolute security and are never mo-
Tested by the police.
The shirtwaist girl will be in her ele-
ment more than ever next summer. AL
ready the up-to-date store windows are
bristling with attractive varieties of the
comfortable and catchy garment, and all
the genuine vitality of the shoppers these
days are centered about the shirtwaist
counters. White, in cambric and lawn.
seems to have the preference over the
colored gingham variety. Wide-spotted
ribbons, lengths of soft silk and white
lawn are all materials for the new ties,
and nothing will be considered more fit
ting with a pink-striped shirtwaist than
tie made Of white or cream point d'es-
prit, knotted in very liberal front bow.
An uptown photographer discovered a
''Klondike" and Is working it for all it's
worth. He has hit upon plan to please
his patrons, and, incidentally, to fill his
Golfers with rich pay gold, or it's enuiva-
lent. In his studio he has a stuffed
horse, posed in the gallop attitude. The
animal Is affixed to a platform, the sur
trail purl scene is in the background.
Young and old women, but particularly
the former, who are anxious to give
their distant friends the impression that
they are we'll up in equestrianism, come
to the studio in battalions and have
themselves photographed in the act of
thkng their cir morning norm 9r ha canter
sizes of habits on hand to accommodate
his patrons.
''Cholly Knickerbocker' criticises Olga
Nethersole for not wearing hoopskirtS in
her costume production of "Cainille.' He
says: The reason for this hOopskirt
abstinence on the part of Miss Neither
sole is, am told, the impossibility of
fainting gracefully in it. How the ladies'
in 1910 managed to swoon in their crino-
lines nobody seems to remember. They
must have done it, for fainting was even
more popular then than it is now
Mrs. William G.. Whitney will be
brought to her new home at Fifth ave-
nue. and Sixty-ninth street in few days.
She is much imprOved-sO much so that
her physicians think she may safely be
moved from the Whitney country home.
A 500 shirt that is we'll worth the
money to the man who wears it, is the
latest acquisition Of certain New York
professional gamblers. The shirt is for
''hold-up'' SHIRT. It has a false sleeve
and cuff and metal clamp, which
catches card ahd catises it to vanish in
between the two cuffs attached to Il cord
which runs up the sleeve across the body
and down one of the wearer's legs. 1t is
easily operated, and tenderfeet who are
fond of draw should fight shy of this
modern invention in the big games that
flourish in some of the best New York
hotels.
Mr.. Carnegie says the report that he
is to build Il million-dOllar dwelling for
himself in this city is nonsense. 1t will
not cost quarter of that sum, and vii!
be a plain, roomy brick house. His fam
lily needs more room and more sunshine.
especially the latter, according to the
doctor, and that is what they are after.
The garden is the sunshine spot Mr..
Carnegie intends to make feature of
his premises, because, having spent so
much time out of doors, he and his wife,
they wilt when cooped up too much.
Thomas Nevins, d rich contractor of
East Orange, once heard a fortune teller
say that if sisters marry on the same
day one will end her life in the poor
house and the other will be rich. His
two daughters had arranged to be we'd
ded on Wednesday, but he suddenly re-
membered the superstition, and one cere-
mony was postponed. Lillian Esther
Nevins became the bride of John Fred
erick Nestor of Detroit at st. Johns
Catholic church, East Orange, yesterday.
Today her, sister, Catherine Deering
Nevins, became the wife Of Nicholas
Doyle of Wexford, Ireland, in the same
church.