The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-18


stripped. to New London, Conn.,, the
by Christmas some of the varieties will
be IN bloom, but most OF them will be
held back by the growers for the Easter
trade. when they bring good prices. All
of this cargo came from Belgium. most
of it from Client, where the immense
nurseries supply nearly the whole world.
The consignment is the largest ever
brought by single steamer and is in
dicative Of busy social season or the
florists would not have imported so gen.
erously.
There are no end Of new apartment ho-
| tells going UP, all to be finished in the
most luxurious manner. The latest one
taking form is that at Fifth avenue and
| Fifty--fifth street, being put up by John ia
cob Astor. 1t will have a frontage Of
$50 feet on the avenue and IS feet on
| the street, and will be nineteen STORIES
| A lease Of the house has Deen taken by
Il. NJ. Ham: The apartments will con-
| slst Of two. three, four, nine and eighteen
to the larger suites. Electric elevators
| to be used exclusively for serving meals
! throughout the house will be installed.
| Each of these will be provided with cleo
trio heating tables and will make the trip
| from the kitchen in the basement to the
| top floor in about minute and half.
Society people who are interested in
automobiles and others who see in the
| horseless vehicle modern way for the
| transaction Of business will attend the
second annual automobile show at the
! Madison Square garden during the week
| of Novcmbe 20. The Automobile club
of America will make the show a much
| better one than its predecessor, and al
ready all Of the space for exhibits has
been taken. The manufacturers have
made. great progress in the past year and
! the character of the vehicles to be shown
| will be remarkable, not only in richness
Of appearance, but in lightness and abil-
ity to go long distances without trouble
| The entire floor of the garden has been
taken for automobiles exclusively, while
the overflow and the highly interesting
exhibit of the Automobile club will be
in the restaurant. The show promises
| to be a feature of the winter season, and
the representatives of makers will be
there.
Leslie Stuart, the composer of "Floro-
DORA arrived from England on the Ma
is stopping at the Waldorf-Astoria The
other night. accompanied by Mrs. Stuart,
he occupied box at the Casino. The
composer is evidently we'll pleased with
Arthur Yields musical direction. for
when he was asked what he thought Of
much pleased at the way in which it is
presented. The most noticeable thing to
me is the spirited way in which the per-
| Torrance proceeds. The chorus, espe-
cially, seem to put unusual animation into
their work. The sextette is not sung
here as it is in England. Here the tenn
po has been accelerated. 1t seems. to
make it more effective, too. although I
am afraid that we could not manage it
this way with an English chorus Mr..
Stuart will stay until December and will
conduct the orchestra at the New York
theater when ''Florodora' moves up
there.
Fred Gebhard. a weil-known sporting
| man, whose name was closely ASSOCIATED!
4 few years ago with that of Mrs. Lang
try, has filed at Sioux Fails. S. D., suit
for divorce. Gebhard has lived at Sioux
Falls since last April for the purpose OF
acquiring a legal residence. The suit for
divorce is based upon the simple ground
procedure it is probable that within tht
next two weeks the hearing will be he!1
and Mr.. Gebhard granted the divorce h,
seeks. The defendant was Miss Louise
II. Morris of Baltimore. She was fo'
years the acknowledged belle of tina:
city. Her feat of walking through the
fountain in Baltimore one night because
someone dared her to do it has Deer
equaled by other exploits. AT Bar Har
Dor in 1892 she was nearly drowned b!
jumping from q yacht into the bay on 4
dare. For year before Gebhard Wen
West he had lived apart from his wife
occupying apartments at the Waldorf
! Astoria, while his wife occupied beau
tiful home i'm East SeyenIy-ninth street
New York city, with retinue of serv
| ants.
Now that cold weather may be expect
ed at any time the throng of worker:
downtown are beginning to use thu
short cuts through the big buildings t,
escape the sharp wind that alread,
blows. There being no crosstown car:
below Fulton street, an intimate knowl
edge of the location of the big building:
is an aid to those who fit from one side
of the city to the other. There are man,
combinations which permit one to go sew
eral blocks with minimum of exposur,
to the elements, nearly all the time be
ing within 4 steam-heated building
Perhaps the most familiar route is tina
utilized by workers in the custom house
who live in the upper west side. Iron
the Rector street station they pas
through the Empire building to ant
across Broadway: thence through tn,
Consolidated stock exchange to New
Gable building: thence through it to Ex
change place and to within half blocl
of their destination, without being NOR,
than moment or two exposed to thu
elements in their journey. The peopl,
travelling north and south use the Scher
merhorn and Equitable Life building
) to save two blocks of exposure, and tn,
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