The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11
In GAY NEW YORK.


Letter sailed on the Cymric. Their moth
er, Mrs. Letter, is abroad. Their sister,
Lady Curzon, sailed on Sept. 26 from
England for India.
Actress Mamie Gilroy says her purse
containing money and jewels fell over
board from the ferry and We're fshed out
of East river by a diver. Their value is
variously estimated from 81 cents up.
Mrs. Robert Goelet will open her
house at Newport next summer, and she
Of the winter. Miss Beatrice Goelet
will. however, not make her debut for
some time.
The handsome house Of Frederick w.
Vanderbilt at FOrtieth street and Fifth
avenue has been leased to John II. Drex-
bilt stables at East Fortieth street.
Mr.. Vanderbilt will spend the winter al
his country house in Hyde Park, N Y.
Ihere was report some time ago that
Mr.. Vanderbilt was anxious to sell the
house.
"A movement has been, begun by the
NC" 1UAh w Oucu hedlLu IrOLeCuVe
ASSOCIATION to erect a memorial to Col.
New York. The president, MIS-. Mary
>. 1rautmann, announced at a meeting
recently that a life member. a woman
prominent in society, had given $500 to
f t1e fund, .o Which it is hoped may reach
Mrs. Mary Say Hoe, widow of Col.
Richard NJ. Hoe, died at her country
nome at Lawrence, l.. l., in her eighty
fifth year. Her husband was a son of
Robert Hoe, the founder of r. Hoe &
Go. Their children were daughter, who
married Charles Platt, the artist, at
John He nry Harper, and a third daugh
ter married John Harper.
The first entertainment of the winter
among the smart set will be held at the
Waldorf-Astoria early in December. It
will be the Newport fete arranged to be
held at Newport, but postponed because
Of the Presidents death. Miss Leary
viii have charge Of the function which
will be for the benefit of the Stony Void
hospital, charity which is Of interest
to many well-known New Workers..
1t seems almost certain that Mrs. o.
den Goelet will not return to this coun-
try this winter. Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt have taken her house for a
time. They are looking around for a
ington square, as they wish to b be nearer NJ aSe
the colony in the upper part Of town.
They have made some plans about q
short trip abroad, and may sail next
week, to be gone about a month, return
ing home in December.
One of the officers of the surface
lines said, speaking Of the effect the sub.
way would have on the surface lines,
that he is glad the subway is being built
sengers," he said. 1T would pay US to
station a man ut One Hundred and
Twenty-fifth street with bag Of nickels
and pay people for riding down town in
the subway. The number Of short-haul
passengers we would get on the way
down would repay us that nickel"
At the handsome estate of w. X. Van
derbit, idle Hour" at Oakdale, l.. L,
1t was found that the electric lighting
was defective at some point Thorough
inspection of the machinery failed to re-.
veal the source Of trouble. 1t was, how
ever; found in the immense marble slat
IN the switchboard: A vein of iron in
the marble was sufficiently deyeloped to
allow the current to ground The new
switchboard being put in will require
the time of six men for one month.
John Curtin, whose yacht Marin COM
peted against the old America before tho
latter went to Europe to win the cup for
which Sir Thomas Upton is now striy-
ing, is dead at his home in Hoboken.
ny, who were prominent in building up
Hoboken. Mr. Curtin, who, in his bust
ness as sailmaker, made sails for the Ma
RIA and other famous yachts, bought the
Maria from the Stevens family and
raced the America just before she went
to Europe.
white list" Of theatrical managers
anti-vice committee. This is projected
not in the interests of the individual
against the trust, but as protection for
ballet and chorus girls from disrespectful
managers. The matter was brought III
by Mrs: Charles Russell Lowell at the
Friends seminary in East Sixteenth
street. She cited recent gathering in
London for the purpose of considering
ways and means Of espousing the cause
of dancers and singers. where it was de-
cided that in a white list" of managers
lay the only remedy. Mrs. Lowell rec
commended such crusade here
The death of J. Ridgeway Moore
brought up many "reminiscences of socie-
ty some years ago in New York. Mr..
Moore was one Of the best-known cotil-
Ion leaders Of his time. He was a
nephew, not brother-in-law, of the late
Bloomfield Moore. whose wife was the
sponsor for the Keely motor. The Ridge
way family to which J. Ridgeway Moore
belonged is we'll known in Philadelphia,
and his aunt is the Countess Dowager
de Ganay. His cousin, Henri Ridgeway,
who married Miss Munroe, the daughter
OF the Paris banker and a sister Of Mrs
John Munroe of Paris. is one of the best
known s,portsmen in France. An nnfor.
tunate divorce suit in which J. Ridge
way Moore testified led to a great deal
OF discussion years ago. and he was Sc
verely censured for his testimony in the
case. His friends have always main.
tanned that he was most unjustly treated
in the matter. But the affair proved
on his mind. and. although a member
Of the knickerbocker and Union and
other clubs, he was seldom seen in his
old haunts, and lived for the most part
abroad.
At the annual meeting of the governors
of the Newport Casino, it was announced
that the net profits Of the season exceed
ed $1O,OOO. 1t was voted to retire the