The Virginia enterprise., 1900-08-03

venture Of the Earl Of Yarmouth and
Miss May Robson. The "company"
played The Councillors Wife, and the
| audience Was fairly-good one. There
were Il number of dinners given before
the performance, both at the villas and
also in the Casino restaurant. The ur,
| OF conVersation--gellcral conversation
mot tete Il tetc)-:,nd the French salon,
which ut one time there seemed to be
prospect Of, have now entirely given
way to thcatrica}s of one sort Or another,
or song and dance performances. Per-
FrancaiS:" where there is nothing but
good acting to look ut and listen to, No
music between acts, and no song and
dance, society, when it go.~ away for
the summer, will not have such Il craving
for ''sunncr shows as it has NOW.
With the sailing Of the big liners ON
Saturday next the eustbound transatlan-
tic passenger season will close The otli-
cialS OF the several big steamship COM
panics say the first seven months of the
Gus i'll the history of transatlantic travel
No statistics are yet available, but it is
roughly estimated that $4,000 cabin pas
scnscrs journcyed to Europe from Amer
lean ports. at least two-thirdS of them
from New York. From the early part Of
NIit ~ tIt 1ISl NcCk III June no inner
sailed from New York with an empty
cabin. but during the latter part of this
month there has been a slight falling off
in this business. Still, the bookings for
the balance of this month. as we'll as for
August. arc far above the average. \
feature OF the increased travel was the
extraordinarily large number of second
cabin passengers, indicatin IL prosperous
condition among the middle class.
The most prosperous bootblack in New
share in the work that made him Il
wealthy man, but he began in the GUS
tomary way. and worked tor some years
before the tide Of fortune set so strong
ly in his favor that he became the owner
Of Il Sacing stable. He conducts half-a-
dozen establishments i'll various parts Of
the city, but direct supervision OF them
has recently been handed over to /; su-
perintendent. and the visits Of the boss
III these days are rare. His earnings
last week on one race won by Il horse
from his stable were 100000, and as it
would take good many shines to make
up that amount his greater interest in
the racing stable may easily be under
stood. His wealth has made this young
Italian figure regarded almost with su-
perstltion by his poorer compatriots in
this city. They have come to believe
that ne cannot fail and are prepared to
see him accumulate millions. Every boy
who starts in to earn his living as a boot
black has before his eyes the example
OF this man.
Russell Sage t1azzled Wall street the
other day with pair of new rusSet shoes
as yellow as Ii Hung Chang's celebrated
Jacket and as rCSpltndcnt as the morning
sun. This is the first time Mr. Sage has
worn yellow shoes in Wall streets re-
membrancc. and the departure from his
old-faShicncd black ties to modern fash
ION caused the whole financial district to
stand still with surprise. The great
tnanrier. however, had improved his
Whole attire. He had on 4 druh suit :},,-
parrntlv new. or which at least was ull-
familiar to Wall street loitcrers There
was Il perfect crease in the trousers.
winch caused great surprise in Wall
street, because only two weeks previous
III an interview Mr.. Sage expressed littl:,
cohhdence III young men who wear
creased trousers. The rumor that Mr..
Sage had Il new suit as we'll as the vel
10" shoes caused Il profound sensation in
the street: Manhattan Railway dropped
from 321s to 81, and the demand for
Western Union was the smallest in many
months only 313 shares being sold. At
$50 O'Clock Private Secretary Menzies
sent out an official denial of the story
that Russell Sage had Il new suit. He
SAID that the story had been circulated
for stock jobbing purposes. The suit had
merely been repressed.