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

DISAPPOINTMENT.
In pleasant contemplation
He unused on his vacation,
And pictured the sensation
That he realized his newly-purchased golf
toys would create.
But he lacked intuition,
His hopes saw no fruition,
And lost was his ambition
Others, too, had got bargain at $119S
New York Herald.
Ole Bracke, arrested for annoying
Helen Gould with his attentions, was
sent to Iowa, having been declared in
sane. Henry lakeland, editor of a news
paper i'll Story City, Ia, heard of the
mans case, and he wrote to the Bellevue
hospital authorities that the man was IL
citizen of that place.
The farewell banquet to be given by
the BradleyMartins at the Waldorf-As-
toria next Tuesday evening will simply
be u return for the many hospitalities
shown them by their New York friends
since their arrival here Il month ago. 1t
was then the intention of Mr.. Martin to
remain in New York at least six weeks,
but the visit has been slightly curtailed
and the family will sail for their London
home OH Wednesday. During their stay
Mr.. Martin has placed his home i'll West
Twenty-frst street in the hands of real
estate dealers. While the number of
guests at Tuesdays banquet has not yet
been settled, it is believed it will not ex-
coed fifty.
The latest fad of the up-to-date women
here seems to be to design their own
tombstOnes. The example set by Bern
hardt and Calve has been followed by
many in private life, and the practice is
getting to be so common that one of our
leading sculptors and designers has sug-
gested regular school for ladies desir-
GUS of keeping in the swim.
Plans have been drawn for magnifi-
cent hotel, which will be built on the site
of the old Hotel Brunswick, fronting on
Madison Square, Fifth avenue and
Twenty-seventh street. The property
has been bought by syndicate, which
paid $1,5OO,0OO for it, and $2,0OO,OOO will
be expended upon the building 1t is
said that the hotel will be leased by
James H. Breslin of the Gilsey house
and Robert Dewey Of Chicago, at an an
nual rental of $15O,OOO a year, and on
condition that 100000 is expended in
furnishings. The Brunswick site is con-
sidered perhaps the best for hotel in
the city
Emil Fischer, who was recently mar
ried in Germany to Mile Seygard, a
young Russian singer, was familiar by
who had no idea who he was. He was
not tall. but had tremendously broad
shoulders and carried himself in way
to make every inch of his medium height
tell. 10 create further the impression
that he was tall he wore shoes with heels
two inches high. He was usually dressed
in black broadcloth, and with his Gus.
NV tyhSfn do R,,:1
ing enough. to attract attention as he pa.
raded in the afternoon crowd on Broad
way. He was frequently seen there and
ON Fifth avenue, and became known to
many persons who wondered who this
curious-looking man was. Although he
was at the. Metropolitan Opera house for
many seasons, he rarely appeared in char
the singer and the man with the broad
shoulders. aud high heels who was SO
frequently seen on the streets. Mile.
Seygard was at one time associated with
the family of Theobald Chartran, the
French artist, and they were very much
interested in her artistic progress.
attention than Mr.. Whitney paid to his
wife during her illness. When the finish
ing touches were being put ON the house
at Wheatley hills she. lay there in, her
second floor room. The contractors were
DESTROYS of completing their work, and
large force was employed, but it sell
dom was permitted to labor more than
half a day at a time. If Mrs. Whitney
dropped off to sleep her nurse immedi-
atcly whispered it through the house, and
there was dead silence until she awoke.
Carpenters, masOns, interior decorators,
painters, plasterers and GLACIERS tiptoed
out to the barn and smoked their pipes
until summoned to return to duty.
One Of the familiar figures Of this
country's history seen in the rotunda of
the Fifth Avenue hotel is Gen. Benja-
min Harrison, ex-President of the
United States, just returned after many
months recreation at Hot Springs, Va.
The rotund form of the .eX-President is
we'll filled out, and he still affects the
high ''stovepipe,' which has as big a
name. in history as his own. He will re-
main in New York until the 18th of the
month, when he will sail on the steamer
St. Paul for London, he being chief coun~
sci in the Venezuela case, to be in Paris
mt the meeting OF the commission. Gen.
Harrison is accompanied by Mrs. 'Benja-
min Harrison and daughter.
Measles is no respecter of persons, and
has again paid a visit to the Vanderbilt
household. It has now attacked Alfred