The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-05-31
N Gay new YORK.
Scenes and Incidents Of Everyday
Lie in the Paris Of America. -


with having confded to a friend that the
man Of her choice (Herry Lehr) shall
have $4,000 year and the power of at
torney of her estate.
Mrs. Ogden Goelet and Miss May
Goelet has taken a large house in Lon
don and will entertain largely during the
present summer season.
'Pie la Mode is sign in down.
town restaurant. On personal inspec-
orchard apple pie of our grandmothers,
adorned with ice cream on top!
Frank Worth, retired banker and
horseman. founder of the Stock exchange
firm Of Work, Strong 4 Co., has sold his
George NJ. Sidenberg. Mr.. Work. who is
more than so years ole, Joined the Stock
exchange in 1875.
The American jockeys backed by Will
liam G. Whitney and known profession
Thorpe have sailed for England to ride
for the millionaire horseman. "Old Man
Thorpe expects to carry the Whitney
colors in the Derby.
The profits of ''blind pool bucket
former partner in the notorious Dean
syndicate. While he was in the firm
100000 was received and but $4,000 lost
in Wall street. The partners divided
$4,000 between them.
Mrs. Clara Bloodgood. who is known
as one Of the few actresses who stepped
from exclusive society to the stage. and
who has been a member of Amelia Bing-
hams company at the Bijou, is seriously
i'll. and may not be able to appear during
the balance Of the season.
Harry Lehr and his bride will sail for
Europe on the Majestic OH June 5. In
Paris they will make brief stay with
Mrs. AstOr, who has an apartment in the
Champs Elysees. They are to be at
Cowes during the regatta week, and will
return Immediately afterward to New
port. where they have leased for the sea-
son the Pratt house.
A. H. Chamberlyn, the comic opera
manager who met disaster in the my
Lady, and "Prima Donna" companies,
has returned to New York deeply dis;
dust through sieve" SAL! slr Chamber
lyn mournfully, land fully realize the
comic opera business does not pay am
$34O,OOO to the bad and that's a-plenty.'
Mrs. Frederick Billings has announced
the engagement Of her eldest daughter,
medical school of Columbia university.
Miss Billings is daughter of the late
Frederick Billings, ut one time president
of the Northern Pacific railroad. The
wedding is to take place in June at
Woodstock. the country home of the
brides mother
Lo;
mounted on tortoise shell have reap
peared in a variety Of novel and attrac-
tive forms in the Broadway shop win
dOws. Another fancy of the season in
jewelry is the marquise bracelet of gold
adorned with long canoes or miniatures
framed in pearls or diamonds. Watt hes
as ornaments are now tabOOed. say OBJ
servant jewelers., who are responsible for
such changes in feminine adjournment.
Steam yachts are thicker than ferry
boats on the two rivers and upper bay.
The season has opened with rush, and
every ablebodied craft in harbor is now in
charged daily from the ftting-out sta
tions in Brooklyn. Experienced seamen
are glad to get berth on one of these
cruising yachts. 1t means good pay and
little hard work-quite different from Il
trip around the Cape in four-masted
Chinese freighter.
dot" Parkhurst. Brooklyn woman,
has opened, in the heart of Manhattan
shopping district, shoe shining parlor.
The rooms are furnished daintily and APP
propriately. just as woman would de-
screens. is platform of Italian marble.
on which there stands six chairs. Here
three small boys polish shoes Of the pat
rons. free from public gaze. A manicure
establishment is also maintained in con-
junction with the shoe polishing force.
Fashions in dogs are changing. and ac-
tresses who display their beribboned pets
on the promenade these afternoons are
canvassing the canine market for new
specimens. French poodles had the call
for time. Now popular fancy has
smaller the better. Julia Marlowe has
one scarcely bigger than a kitten. and
Minnie Ashley appeared in Fifth avenue
recently with two of them, tied with rib
bons and trotting along tandem-fashion,
to the great amusement of the crowd.
Plans for Pabst's Grand Circle hotel
and Park theater have been filed at the
can. architect. who has figured the cost
of both structures at $45O,OOO The the
alter building, which will be built on Fiji
ty-eighth street, near Eighth avenue, will
be one story in height, and has been de-
signed to contain an orchestra. balcony
and gallery. The hotel will occupy the
corner plot adjoining the theater and viii
be four stories high. Both buildings will
be constructed of brick and Indiana
limestone.
The ssale Of seat on the Stock ex.
change at $4,000 is now officially al.
mitted. The last seat sold brought: SO.
600. That was before the furry start,
ed by the corner in Northern Pacific.
Stock exchange seat is regarded in the
street SIS rather significant. 1t is empha
sized. however, by the rumor that one
membership was offered down $1,000 at
time till a buyer was found, and there
is growing impression among insiders