The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-11-02

The second-class French cruiser s,
and prototype of our cruiser Brookly
craft. whereas Uncle Sans ships of ,
coming to be prying in such affairs. socie-
t. Will not rest until the rumor is veri
fed or shown to be a mere fairy tale.
Fay Templeton is Bonita and Charles
Ross is Lieut.. Tention, who. almost as
in the original. jealous!y inquiries: Did
any other fellow use this comh:''
II should Think" replies Miss Temple
ton. that man who has seen as much
rs YOU have has seen enough OF life to
make his hair curl without combs
Throngs inspect the new waiting room
of the Grand Central station. which has
been. thrown open to the public. 1t is
the largest waiting room in the world.
OF the New York Central, railroad. New
Haven 4 Hartford and the Harlem
roads. There is no comfort which a trav-
eler can want that is not to be found in
this waiting room. There is IL waiting
room for women fitted as elegantly as Il
private parlor, and off this is Il cozy tea
room. The smoking room for men is as
handsome as the sitting room in first
class clubhouse. Opening north. out OF
the waitin: room, are a score of doors
through which passengers pass out to
trains. Each doorman wore new uni
form today in honor of the opening of
the new room.
Shinbone alley. the last and worst of
Bowery alleys, is now only memory.
The narrow. dark passagcway between
Nos. 1893 aud 3S5 Bowery, where thugs
were wont to drag drunken sailors,
where panhandlerS led their drug-be
numbed victims, where many Il man has
awakened to find his watch and money
gone. whence ambulances have often
taken unidentified. men with fractured
Sku ms: has passed into history. The
building adjoining it and four others
were pulled down yesterday to make
room for a magnificent new structure.
These lofty buildings had made the alley
pitch dark. and its propinuuity to the
dives in the vicinity Of Fifth street. Just
opposite, made it admirably suited for
robbery without detection
The scene of the discovery is well bur-
lesQued.
Are we alone" excla;ms Lillian.
Miss Russell: Must we 20 tonight ?"
Warfeld, who has on new clothes:
Must press my suit all over again:'
II there be one form Of so-called ZEN
tertainment' that deserves showing m
more than another it is The Theater
Party. as known to certain society
none the less provincial because it han
pens to come within the city limits Of
lem. Jersey City and Staten Island are
particularly gwen to this sort of thing.
1t begins with notes dispatched by 4
young matron to several bachelors of her
acquaintance and suggesting that they
join theater party for such and such
an evening. Interpreted. this means that
each bachelor, without the slightest clue
as to the girl he is likely to sit beside.
will pay for Two tickets. Supper some
where, of course, follows after the play,
the bachelors being good for that, too.
Few men object to paying for what they
have bought with their eyes wide open.
knowing perfectly We'll now much or how
little it is worth. All men are opposed
having to pay the costs by an unscrupu-
lous young matron with a lot Of obliga-
tons to work off, Jersey treat and
dutch treat are names too good for
this form of entertainmen1; they also re-
fleet discredit upon the much-maligned
Jerseyites and honest Dutch This kind
OF theater party amounts to nothing less
than species Of social blackmail.
Mrs. Adolf Ladenburg is still obliged
to depend upon the assistance of a stick
IN walking, owing to the accident which
she suffered while out hunting the other
day, and her cane served as chic COM
plement to the natty tailor-made frock Of
biscuit-colored cloth with a braided Elton
jacket and black velvet turban hat which
she wore when leaving the Palm garden
at the Waldorf-Astoria after luncheon
the other day.
The premiere of L'Aiglon brought out
the first nighters in force, but the audi
ence could hardly be called representa-
is out OF fashion to attend first nights,
except those at the opera. Then again,
the ticket spectators overrea ched them
selves and fell into the tureen in conse-
quence. Absurd stories about would-be
purchasers sitting up all night in line at
the ticket office frightened off many who
would gladly have taken part in the nota-
bic first night. No; a seat could be OBJ.
tanned TOR love or money during the latter
part OF last week and up to the time the
curtain rose the spectators had their
hands full of them-at 81 and S. apiece.
Dut LOT once the eaSy-gOlng and easily
imposed-upon New York public cot I'D on
its hind legs and refused to be buncoed,
Consequently the shrieks of the killed
and injured spectators could be heard
outside the theater until nearly 10
o'clock. AT that hour you could buy an
excellent seat for so cents.
THE Reason Lone Rosine" seems a
strange title for a perfume. yet many
Americans returning from the Paris ex-
position have brought back TASKS bear
ing the name in French. 1t is never
likely to reach this country in any other
way, and under such name would be
Impossible here. The names of perfumes
and cordials in particular have acquired
the same picturesuueness that attaches
to the names Of alleged American drinks
IN Europe, where sabbath Calm and
similar phrases are invented to describe
drinks that were never heard of in this
| country.
Visitors who insist on "slumming" on
the east side have always been shown
| through Suicide hall and Dubin's hotel
as two of the leading attractions. But
Dubin's hotel is no more. The French
orchestra leader, who had seen better
days. made a fatal mistake the other
morning in answering the demand fo1