The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-04-19

various resorts to close up these we'll
fed sleuths at the big uptown establish
1t has spoiled an excellent graft" for
them. Every stranger who comes to
New York with bundle of money and
an exaggerated conception Of the city's
wickedness wants to ''see the town."
They have heard of big gambling games,
and are curious to witness roulette and
faro operations. Then opium dens, vari-
Gus thieves resorts, and score of other
interesting resorts known only to the
initiated are much sought after by such
people. Hotel detectives who could be
relied upon for their wisdom and dis
erection were often appealed to for in
formation, with the result that they
would volunteer to act as guides. 1t
meant a comfortable '.V'' at the very
least. "Now all is changed. for the
town as tight" and "Foxey CUTLER has
taken to wearing Grape.
Sarah Bernhardt occupied the last week
Of her American tour buying slippers.
The great tragedienne has several fads,
and one of them is dainty footwear. One
day. boxes and boxes of slippers were de-
on the sixth floor of the Hotel Savoy
There We're just 167 pairs in the consign-
ment, and the divine Sarah tried them
on-every one. Six weeks ago she Or
dered pair Of slippers-she never wears
shoes-from 2 we'll known New York
shoemaker: For days he visited her with
she said to each one. Then she made her
own design. 1t was square at the toe and
high at the heel. This slipper was sue
cess. From various points of the COM
pass. while Bernhardt played IL 'Aiglon',
in other cities, her shoemaker was bonn
barded with kilograms and letters. He
n nd ocf Thn 80 l. -
labors could be found in the boxfuls of
silken footwear delivered to the actress
There were 48 pairs of white silk, "a
pairs of rose-pink silk. "a pairs of yellow
silk, "a pairs Of black silk, "a of green
silk and 23 of patent leather.
The steel kings are pouring millions in
to their new mansions on upper Million
aires, row. When Andrew Carnegie
tending from Ninetieth to Ninety second
street two years ago the district was en-
tirely unimproved. Lots were not very
marketable. Then the boom started and
the frontages are now held at very high
prices. Henry Phipps, Carnegie's Pitts
burg partner, paid over 100000 for Is
x123 north corner at oEighty-seventh
W. B. Leeds, the '%Tinplate king" paid
$15O.OOO for 1OO-foot square south cor
ner at Eighty-ninth street last week as
the site for another 81 100000 mansion.
Joseph Hamerschlag Immediately paid
100000 for plat surrounding the Leeds
corner on two sides. Leeds paid $780,
600 Il month ago for the new mansion at
9S7 Fifth avenue as a gift for his bride.
The Pittsburg steel magnate. w. G.
Park. paid about 100000 for the new
mansion at 5 East Eighty second street.
Another new structure on the same mag
nificent lines at the south corner Of
Eighty-second street was sold Saturday for
$4,000 to another of the Western steel
contingent. President C. NJ. Schwab of
the billion-dollar steel trust has been look
ing for site to build a $1,5OO,O00 man
sion near the Carnegie blocks.
The unwilling of memorial tablet in
the front corridor of the old Hall of Rec
ords disclosed the fact that serious err
FOR had been made in the wording of the
inscription. The tablet is the gift to the
city Of the Daughters of the American
Revolution. and commentaries the fact
that the building was used during the
Revolutionary war for prison. This in
scription reads: