The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-04-12

demimondaine beside the duchess, taking
the 1000 francs and coolly walking off.
The duchess the next moment turned
around and exclaimed: "Where is my
stake straight? I was winning"
Everyone saw what had happened, but
the duchess refused to lodge a formal
complaint, not caring to be involved in
a Casino police case.
What promises to be the largest real
estate transaction made here in many
years involves the entire block on Broad
way between Thirty-fourth and Thirty
fifth streets. and extending back $50 feet
to Roster 4 Balls music hall. Soubrette
row will be a thing of the past when the
well-known professional people have
apartments in that section, and all of
them have received notice to move. There
are four estates involved in the deal,
which has for its object the erection of
combination hotel, theater and office
building, the largest of its kind north OF
Union square. Western capital is said
to be behind this transaction; On Broad.
way a row of old-time buildings will be
RACED, among them the Hotel Aulic, a
favorite resort of vaudeville performers.
The proprietors of the Aulic received
$15O,OOO for their recently-made twenty.
year lease and were given rent free until
next January besides. The syndicate
had to pay fancy prices for some Of. the
property involved.
Never again will the ''pikers club al
the Waldorf Astoria attempt to lambaste
James r. Keene in Wall street. The
''pikers' club is composed of amateur
spectators who have come to regard
themselves as the only powers that prey
on the defenseless stock market. Yester-
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ket. and, incidentally. to bump Mr.
Keene, who. a few days ago. had de,
clared himself to be an irresistible bull
During the last hour of the market, how.
ever, Mr.. keene got wind of their CON
spiracy and he went at them with heavy
artillery. Mr.. Keene is one of the
shrewdest and ablest leaders in Wall
the lambs a: much needed lesson, the
lambs get all that is coming to them
He doomed Il few stocks and kept his
agents busy making trouble. When the
closing gong sounded the 'pikers' were
strewn around the stock exchange arena
financially cut to pieces. An air Of in
tense gloon, pervadess the Waldorf-Asto
Grape.
Another one of Chicago's wealthiest
families is to leave that city and take ul
It's RESIDENCE IN New York. This is the
family of o. w. Potter. Mr.. Potter has
placed all his Chicago holdings on the
market, and as soon as his business can
be thoroughly adjusted his departure will
take place. One reason for this change
is because Mr.. Potter bitterly resents the
attacks which have been made there
upon his family. Another reason is that
his favorite daughter, Mrs. Gertrude Pot.
ter Daniels. and her husband have deter
mined to live in New York. where Mr.
Daniels will go into business with his
father, George II. Daniels of the New
York Central railroad. Just what the
nature of the business is has not as yet
been divulged. Mr.. aud Mrs. Potter are
now in California, together with Mr.. and
Mrs. Daniels, where both Mr.. Potter
and Mr.. Daniels have large interests in
oil wells. The departure of the Potter
and Daniels families will be a great loss
to literary and social circles here. and
their determination to go away is deeply
regretted