The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-05-31
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serger licenses, the passengers have to
sign articles as members of the crew at
e cents month. which they never get.
Then they live with the captain and have
a good time, being finally landed at some
serlo-c6mic port in England like Sunder-
ships leaving for North Atlantic ports
have an occasional passenger. A few
resource sul tourists confronted by full
bookings from this port have gone to
amaica and there taken ship co South
ampton, while others are escaping east
via Montreal.
Variety actors are rather disconsolate
these days.. The vaudeville craze is
waning and Broadway is lined with idle
sketch teams, who are. wondering how
they can put in the summer The char
acter Of entertainment at the continuous
performance houses and music halls has
been undergoing gradual TRANSFORMED
ton. and even the best vaudeville acts
plays and dramatic sketches. Stock COM
panies have made their appearance in
one chain of continuous theaters, all To-
Gated within Greater New York. This
weeks play bills show very clearly the
effect this substitution has had on vaude-
vile talent. AT some of the houses sne-
cialty teams are used only as ''fillers,''
and to occupy the time between acts.
One well-known Thirty fourth street mu-
sic hall: after years Of straight vaude-
vile policy. has taken to light opera. with
Just enough Of the. old,time specialties
to make the entertainment continuous
one. After all, the change may be a
blessing in disguise. for the theatrical
weather sharps prOphesy that rag-time
o1i
The something old which Miss Wv
ian Sartoris,. daughter Of Mrs. Nellie
Grant Sartoris, will wear on. the day she
marrieea. Archibald Ba1four. in LontlOn.s n
August, will be fine old point lace which
belonged to her grandmother. Mrs. L. s.
Grant. The wedding gown is simple,
ana Its ITS beauty is to be found in the sim
pie lines and the beauty Of the heavy
ivory satin and the lace. The waist is
SIMPLY cut, fitting the figure. and with q
little fuilness drawn in at the waist line
IN front. 1t has a high-cut neck and il
fastened in the back, finished with box
plat, which has the effect of being con-
tinued in the skirt, where a single box
plat is carried down to the long train.
The skirt is without trimming. and the
vast is embroidered in the front and
around the collar with pearls, the yoke
being of mousseline outlined with pearl
embroidery. A tapering effect is given
to the waist by the lace. which is carried
over the shoulders and slopes down to the
waist back and front. 1t falls we'll over
the tops Of the sleeves, and more of it is
q full frlll at the wrist of the gown.
Miss Sartoris' tronsseau contains many
charming but not Over-elabOrate gowns.
A fierce dispute over the Cornelius
Vanderbilt estate, which incidentally
discloses the. fact that, the, three-execu-
tors in addition to legacies are to get
$l,15OOOO in commission, has arisen be-
tween the heirs and executors on one
side and the state and federal tax au-
thorities. on the other. Both the state
comptroller and the executors of the es-
tate are dissatisfied with the report of
the appraiser: Charles D. O'ConneIl, and
the taxation levied Hereunder. The case
will be carried to the court of appeals
by either or both parties. The amount
involved is about 100000. The execu-
tors. William X. Vanderbilt, who re-
NJ. Depew. who got $2OO,OOO. and e. 7.
w. Rossiter. who got $4,000, are dis
satisfied because of the taxation on the
estate without making deductions The
estate comptroller is dissatisfied because
the appraiser has declined to impose
tax upon the transfer of the remainders
IN Hteres! III trust 1unQS OF SoUUU.UUU
each to Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Reg
inald C. Vanderbilt. Gladius NJ. Van
derbilt and Gertrude B. Whitney: also
in the fund of 81 .OOO,OOO in the fund for
Cornelius Vanderbilt: the fund of &c.
723.51O. set aside to produce the annual
income of Mrs. Alice G. Vanderbilt. and
also in the net residuary estate left in
trust for Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt.
Greater New York is threatened with
spasm of reform along new lines. Her
by the Municipal Art society as .of-
fensively hideous," and it is proposed to
inject bit of art into the business and
street signs, guide posts, newspaper
stands and other Furnishings of the yari-
Gus thoroughfares. The society declares
that New York is worse off than any
crudity and inartistic designs OF its lamp
post and corner markings, and, to show
its good intentions, a committee has been
appointed to urge the adoption Of reform
measures by the city fathers. The, art
society takes for its model q. similar or
spontaneous movement for the promotion
Of public art. One of the first things
this society turned its attention to was
zOpen-alr decorative work in giving aes-
thetic and enduring form to- municipal
and tradeSmen,S signs. BONE of Bel
gums best artists lent themselves to the
ranging for competition for designs in
signs, including models for ornamental
electric light poles, postodice boxes park
seats. number plates for residences and
newspaper stands. II any benefit is pro-
sduced on Broadway alone the campaign
viii not have been in vain. That world
famous thoroughfare is ..iRartistic' from
one end TO the other, US far as signs go.
Col. Winfield Scott Proskey, in what
appears e; be - capricions mood, has