The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-03-01

man present. The feminine bouquet for
which he was the busy bee comprised be-
sides Miss Mannering, Hilda Speng, Cis-
sic LOTUS, Beatrice Morgan. and Mrs.
Charles Walcot.
Senator Piatt has changed mis- rooms at
the Fifth Avenue hotel for the first time
Republicans since the early SOS has been
the apartment with mo. $780, on the
| door. Ever since Mr.. Plat resigned
from the United States Senate with Ros-
coe Conkling the plans and policies Of the
famous politicians have been outlined in
| and the senator decided yesterday that
| he did not care to remain in No. $50.
so he was given another department,
which will be his home winter and sum-
| mer. 1t will be hard, however. for hi,
followers to accustom themselves to this
| change.
In few short weeks the site of old
| Volks garden, landmark on the Bow
cry that dates back to the days immedi-
ateiy following the Civil war, will be
occupied by cracker factory. The
work of excavating, the cellar was begun
few days ago. Thirty years ago Volks
| ty and occupied the place in the hearts
of the Bowery boys of that period that
was accorded to Niblo's garden by The
more fashionable element on Broadway
1t was built after the Civil war ended
and was the first concert hall ever con
Quoted in this country. The perform
ance consisted of drama and olio. SINH
day.
Steve Brodie the King of the Bowery
who died in Texas the other day, once
told how Senator Timothy D. Sullivan
got the nickname DRY Dollar" which
has stuck to him for SO many years.
Don't you believe he said, that Tim
key and dried it and said it was a dry
dollar. Tim never was fool, no matter
how small he was.
Heres the way the thing really hap
pened. There were lot of us kids who
used to. sell papers along the Bowery
after. school. Tim was the greatest hus
tier in the bunch. He wasn't like the
wasting our money. lin was always
looking out for his mother.
Zone day Tim had big luck in his bust
ness. He had all the pennies and silver
he made changed into dollar bill. anl
showed it to the rest Of us. Some Of the
wet his dollar by. blowing us.
dry dollar; and it's going straight home
The White Mice met on Sunday to per
feet their organization. They are tn,
women of the stage who do not draw bi,
enough salaries to enable them to posl
as head-liners. "Please remember" sait
one Of them, that the Mice are not onl!
chorus girls. They are chorus girls ant
lesser stars who are not head-liners. Tn,
head-liners are all White Rats. They d.
not suffer half as much as chorus girls
who are dropped without notice and lef
without railroad fare. Our aim is to pro
vide girls with railroad fare and brin;
them home when a manager fails and t,
provide an employment agency so the.
will not have to give up half a week
salary for a position.
And then we are going to make tn
manager give them half pay for rehear
sails as they do in England; in fact, he'll
them from getting cheated all the! time b,
the managers. a. =.
Are we going to strike? Well, no
yet, but it is too early to talk about that
We are going to strike for railroad fare
and incidentals, which sometimes We d
not get now"
The executive committee announce,
that ball would be given at the Gran,
n Central palace on March Z. The meet
ing passed resolution providing that al