The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-05-17
tainment skyward in few weeks. The
Casino roof garden, it is said, will not be
open this summer.

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Casino roof garden, it is said, will not be
open this summer.
May day was prettiiy observed by the
children in the lower part of the city on
Sunday. Battery park was thrown open
to them. and a red, white and blue May
pole, from which hung ribbons in the
same, colors, was placed not far from
old Castle garden. Two hundred years
held similar Qualifications on every May
day, but not until i few years ago was
the ancient custom revived. Yesterdays
celebration had been postponed from May
/ on account Of the children being in
school. ''Keep Off the Grass signs were
Danished for the .onl y day in the year.
and the children Of the tenements. to
hearts content. A little German band
furnished dance music, and five lusty
Italians. manning as many mechanical
pianos, worked in shifts. during the in
tervals when the Teutons paused to hold
conversation with Il stein of something
cold and foaming. During the afternoon
the Battery Park building shut I'D shop
and joined the spectators.
Central park has put on summer garb.
despite past errors in the matter of
weather predictions. The trees are no
longer bare, while the stretch of green
OH either side of the Mall is good to look
upon. On Sunday the park held attrac-
tons for all sorts and conditions Of peo-
pie. A hundred small boys and not !;
few grown men held the first miniature
near Seventy-second street. The swan
boats and goat carriages made their ap-
pearancc and the familiar nurse maids
convention. which is held every sunny
afternoon at the upper end of the Mali.
had an animated session. There were
many automobiles in the park, but speed
limitations governing them have not
would be were they allowed to scorch
at their own sweet will. The horse still
reigns supreme in New YOrk's big sum-
mer garden, even if he is outclassed when
he returns to Fifth avenue. There
seemed to be malice and considerable
satisfaction i'll the way several high step
per-; passed lone automobile near the
putting laboriously behind.
The passing of 'Old TOMS chop house
at : Thames street marks the destruction
of building that has sheltered more
great and distinguished public men than
any other place of public entertainment
in America. "Old TOMS was estab-
lished in 1901 and it's Tooth anniversary
was established with due ceremony on
not the original one-that was torn down
in 1SG1-but the associations of the place
remaining SO that gray boards who ate
there when they were Junior clerks, still
cling to the ola resort. Commodore Van
dterbilt was a steady patron of ''Old
Tom when he was plotting boats be-
tween New York and Staten Island. The
with Thomas Hamblin, when Aston could
not count in thousands the money his de-
scendants low count in millions. Char
l0tte Temple lived in the old house and
Edwin Forrest attended many of the ia
nous dinners of the Beefsteak club there
William Waldorf Aston was poet laure-
ate of the place. He was prominent
and the society of Pup Monkeys -
There was never Il bill of fare, a table
cloth or i check in the establishment.
The Rialto has become almost as op.
timistic as Wall street. Plays which a
short time ago seemed to be close to dis
solution have suddenly revived. People
have focked to the theaters in numbers
quite, unprecedented for May. Curtains
Whlch We're to be run down by the middle
of the month have been ordered kept up
until June 1. Many actors vacations
which had been planned to begin early
have been deferred. the explanation is
that the boom in the commercial world is
making people more liberal with their
money. The brokers who are making
fortunes hand over fist downtown are
parting with little of it at the box
offices. Amelia Bingham's drama, 1.-THE
Climbers" at the Bijou, will remain in
definitely. although it was believed q
while ago that May Is would terminate
the season. Seats for the Empires re-
viyal Of ''Diplomacy', are selling as fa1
in advance as May Is. although, accord
| ing to first calculations the company
should have now been well started on its
tour. It may still be sent to Londoi
il arrangements can be made to can.
eel cnt-of-town bookings. Ethel Barry
! more. who was to sail for Europe abOu,
the middle Of the month, has decided Il
postpone the trip and keep Captain
Jinks of the Horse Marines at the Gar
rick as long as the public cares to show
its enthusiasm for. it. Instead Of endips
his season at the Fourteenth Street the
| ater Chauncey Olcott will revive another
OF his old DlayS. Sweet InniScarra y IA,