The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-08-23
IN GAY NEW YORK.

According TO dispatch from London.
q. l.. GOdkin, former editor of the New
York Evening Post, is again seriously Ill
in that city. The Evening Post has no
private information to confirm the re-
port.
When the theatrical season opens in
Brooklyn the Rapid Transit company will
operate parlor cars on a special schedule
for theater-goers. The intention is to start
them on October l. The fare will be %
cents.
1t was reported in Wall street in the
course OF raid on sugar stock that Hen
ry o. Havcmeyer was seriously i'll at his
summer home at Bayberry Point. lslip,
l.. l., but a member of the household
SAID Nr. Havemeyer was not i'll.
Prominent business men Of New York
city are said to be interested in an invi-
tation to be extended to Serge Yulewich
Gle Witte, the Russian minister of
finance. to visit the United States. II
he accepts the invitation banquet will
be given in his honor
lilly Haynes. proprietor Of the Broad
way Central hotel, New York city, and
the United States hotel in Boston. and
one of the best known hotel men in the
country, died last week in his Boston
hotel. Mr.. Haynes was born seventy
four years ago in Billerica. Mass.
Joseph keppler, one of the propretOrs
and editors of Puck, has come into pos
session Of wampum belt. presented to
him by Mrs. Harriet Maxwell Converse
who is an authority on Indian relics
The belt was obtained from the Caugh-
nawaga Indians. near Montreal, and was
made about 1911
The Fleet Street A. NJ E. church in
She is Rev. Mary f. Taylor of Nash
vile, Tenn, who has been in charge Of
a church there for several years Some
Of the Brooklyn people heard her preach
and liked her sermons so we'll that a call
was extended to her, which she has just
accepted.
The old st. Cloud hotel. at the corner
OF Broadway and Forty-second street, is
not to be torn down. for the present at
least. 1t was intended to erect a new
hotel building on the site. but at a meet
ing of the propertyowners the other day
the scheme was abandoned The pres
ent building will likely remain unoccu-
pied for the time being.
Gay Standing, who did not accompany
it's tour to San Francisco, will play an
important role in John Drew's production
of THE Second in Commando Mr..
Standing. it will be remembered. distin-
suished himself by his excellent perform
ance Of the role Of Count Orloff in ''Di-
lomacy at the Empire last spring.
Charles q. RosQuence of Brooklyn Man,
or shot off part Of his ear with the
cork from a ginger ale bottle. He snap
ped back the wire covering the top of
the bottle, but the cork would not yield.
came out with loud report Half an
inch OF flesh was cut off as if with a
knife. \ doctor had to be called to treat
the wound
The smallest parcel Of real estate in
New York city is for sale. 1t is located
at the corner of Third avenue and East
One Hundred and Forty-ninth street,
and the lot is OKLA inches. 4 new build
ing is going up on the corner and the
people who are erecting it wanted the
small lot. They offered 5000 for the site.
Frederick Uhl, the owner. demands
$1,000, and will very likely receive it.
Officers Of the New York Central rail
road deny the story that they will join
with the Pennsylvania railroad in the
erection Of new union station. It is
also declared by the same officials that
there will be no improvement of the
Park avenue tunnel for the present. in
spite of the orders of the court. Next
spring they expect to take up the matter,
but they are undecided yet as to the ma
ture of the improvement.
Maurice Campbell has engaged joseph
kilsour for the position of leading man
with Miss Henrietta Crosman next sea
son. to take the place of Hobart Bos
worth. who has by illness been compelled
to cancel his contract. Mr.. Kilgour was
last year Miss Blanche Walsh's leading
man at the Broadway theater, and before
that played the leading business with ia
cob Lifts Sporting Life" He has haG
considerable experience in stock work.
That portion of Broadway known a:
the Rialto is almost impossible these
days on account Of the abundance of the
atrical people. They are coming into towr
in droves after having spent the summer
at the resorts or in such remote sections
Of the country as Medicine Hat, where
they may be fortunate enough to have ;