The Virginia enterprise., 1900-06-08
park races, keeping under her wing two
or three of Philadelphia most winsome


In a short time a colony of fifty rich
English bachelors will settle at st.
clubhouse at great cost and teach
to cultivate fruit and garden prod
uce on scientific principles. The col
ony is open to bachelors only. 1t is
pet scheme of Joseph c.. w. Willis OF
London: Willis is IL rich sheep owner of
Australia. Associated with him is En-
These men recently paid $75,OOO for 1000
acres of land at st. James. They will
arrive III New York next month to per-
feet details Of building.
Most people who have seen the single
electric spark in the hand of the Statuc
of Liberty in New York harbor at night
have remarked that it is very small and
insignificant to be ''enlightening the
world \ Mr.. Garfield makes sugges-
ton for an Improvement in this direc-
tion. 1t is to discharge jet of steam
from the center of the torch which would
catch the reflection of the powerful arc
lamps, and look like huge flame floating
off in the wind. Thus Liberty would ap-
pear to be holding mighty tiambeau
aloft, and if she did not exactly light up
the whole world she would be a striking
object at night in New York's beautiful
harbor.
The Squirrel inn'' in the Bowery is
to open Oh Memorial day. 1t will be a
quick lunch" restaurant. under tho au.
spices Of the Church Temperance society,
with Bishop Potter at its head Good
food will be served at low prices, and
women, as we'll as men, will be served
The intention is to sell the viands at as
low, price as can be done, consistent
good clearinghouse, where one can get
enough to eat and drink for a nickel or
two, will prove, boon to many Bow
cry denizen. At all events, the expert
full. there will be other Squirrel Inns
Mrs. Langtry has sailed for England
st. Louis. She said that in spite Of ali
that had been said against her play,
The Degenerates. she had closed a
most successful tour. Il am going away
| from the country with the kindest of
feelings" she continued. Indeed. every.
one. almost without exception, has been
kind to me, and anything that may have
happened which was not pleasant has al
ready been forgotten. l am going home
! now for rest and recreation, for l have
| been working hard. and feel the need Of
rest. In the fall | will make ii tour OF
the provinces with The Degenerates.
Then will follow the London season. and
then | am coming over to the States
again."
A burial in the oldfashioned church
yard of st. Paul's church, in lower
Broadway, took place the other day, fol
the first time in many years. 1t was that
of Miss Grace Schuyler Ogden, daughter
| of the late Richard H. Ogden. The
grave diggers removed the turf from neal
the west door Of the church and disclosed
a stone slab bearing the inscription. "Og
den, 1911" Below the slab is flight OF
stone steps leading to q vault, and there
the remains were deposited with the roal
of Broadway in full hustle of business
coming in hum to the mourners' ears
A very few families have the right tt
bury their dead anywhere below Cana
street, but the Ogdens date from the
Revolutionary times, and it is one Of theil
privileges to lie in this ancient church
yard, where so many of the crumblinl
tury old and some even more than two
centuries.
| MiIlc DIeSSlef, Tue dclIeSS, Will uO
play golf on the links of the Jamaica
Golf club this summer. She thought she
would for a while, but some of the wom
en- in the Jamaica Golf club said that il
Marie Dressier were allowed to obscure
the landscape OH the links they would
take their golf sticks to some other links
Therefore the actress will putt and loft
and approach elsewhere. The Jamaica
Golf club is a new organization, com
posed of selected number of the aris
tocracy of the village. 1t happens that
Marie Dressler's sister, Mrs. Rober,
Ganthony, lives on the Black Stump
road, near Jamaica, and the act
ress frequently runs down tc
stay over Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Ganthony. She has friends il
Jamaica and friends in the golf club
Some of these friends thought that sh'
would be notable addition to the clul
and her name was regularly posted fo,
membership few days ago. Mis-!
Dressler is in the vaudeville. She ap
pears in a sketch called"Twenty Minute: