The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-09-21

eleven hours. For steamyacht the trip
Is considered fast one. In the after
| noon Mr.. Vanderbilt made some calls on
friends, and at night he left for the city
en- the yacht. 1t is said Mr. Vanderbilt
will not return to Newport this season,
Never check $4,000 worth Of securities
of Montrael is wandering diSconsolately
around New York, occasionally visiting
the wise men of Mulberry street, who
give him just the same advice. But it
doesn't do any good now. Mr. Partridge
wanted to visit the theater. But his UNI
e prSa b an' E5p hcd S: with bonds { both
He did; Now he has bit Of brass
stamped II 90" 1t IS the only thing
left. The diSconsolatc Partridge cannot
locate the hotel and everyone he has
visited says there is nothing for him.
The pretty coloretl electric lights which
have played such a prominent part in
Newport decorations this summer will
automatically figure at Winter functions'
for they have proved a fascinating addi
ton to floral displays. Meantime tins
! fashion set by leaders Of society is bound
to be taken up by their ilnitators wher~
ever electricity is installed. aud there are.
few houses that do not now have thar
iAISNlAS VI G( COlll1IluIlU. Mrs.
\ellSonS decorator. however. carried nfI
the palm for his arrangement Of grtrnery
and electricity. and it will he difficult to
! design anything more lovely than WAS
that dinner dance for the 'han<lsomest
debutante OF the season.
! These are busy days on the I,ialto.
Many Il familiar face can be found dur.
ing Il stroll along Broadway and book
ing offices are filled with anxious :ppii-
cants. The soEbrette crop WAS never
more promising and every twenty-four
hours finds new arrivals from the sea-
shore, willing to trade q coat of tan for
a $40 niche in somebody road company
And, as usual. tn" impeclnious gentle
man who wants to borr"W 4 quarter on
! the strength OF having signed for thirty
hence. is greatly in evidence. You can
find him at Thirtyfourth and Broadway
any afternoon or evening. watching the
cable cars run both ways.
financial crisis that would Stagycr
most men confronts William Waldorf
Astor. lie must pay more than 81. 100
GOO taxes on his New York property this
year and probably much more in tn.
next. Mr.. Astor inherited vast real cS-
tate holdings, Lot after lot was uni1I
~ O|Nu, lAOuSA1 IACy "t1c CuOlCe CORNERS.
gradually values increased and taxes did
likewise. AN Aston never sells real cs-
tate, hence year after year tax bills have
been paid. He has been getting land
poor fast. Seemingly a limit has bce1,
reached and Mr.. Astor must improve his
holdings as business precaution. With
regent years he has spent between &c.
1000 and $40, 100000 in building An
other big family hotel costing him ST.
600, 900 is nearing completion and several
equally costly structures are under way
In fact, nowadays at the great houses
it is even almost impossible to keep tally
Of who calls or who may be at one of the
large affairs given. Hostesses like Mrs.
lists which are gone over by the secre
taries about twice year to weed out the
dead people and change about those who
have been divorced and married or re-
married, Consequently, there are very
few ''tahs' kept on people. But there
"dead-heading it a greater part Of the
season. Some take refuge in mourning,
and others fee just as soon as the busy
season is over. and then people forget
until next year. This summer has been
peculiarly prolific of ''dead-heads.' How
kept. The dead head" will not have as
nice a picnic as they had last summer
They will be gradually dropped out.
Lady Francis Hope, that was May
Yohe, who arrived in New York last
week to fulfill twentyweeks' engage
ment as the star of a musical comedy to
be produced by G. II. Chamberlyn, an
nounced today that she was going to
sail for England within ten days unless