The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-03-29

carried out. will see the Metropolitan Or
era as mammoth temple of amusement,
to include every sort of performance,
from circus acts to burlesque, with side
dishes of minstrelsy, variety, foreign
vaudeville acts and possibly pantomime.
10 to so cents. with proportionate rates
for the large number of boxes. The play
house will be converted into a veritable
amphitheater Of wholesome amusement.
Iearooms will be fitted up for women,
while men will be permitted to smoke in
certain parts, of the ttheater. There vii!
be ward where babies can be left with
trained nurses, to say nothing about
score of other bats to tempt the people
into the theater where they can feel ut
home all the while. Seven performan noes
will be given weekly with three matt
nees. No liquor refreshments will be
sold. The next grand opera season will
necessarily cause a TEMPORARY cessation
OF Mr.: Lederer's scheme. but will last
only ten weeks, beginning Christmas
week and ending April 10. The Ledercr
Amusement company. which was organ
lied last week. will finance the scheme
The restaurants and chophouses fire.
quented by women in the shopping dis
trict are nothing if not accommodating.
They, will serve anything from bowl Of
punch; they will check for safekeeping
anything from baby to brougham. and
the orchestra will play anything required.
The other day two women were discuss
ing luncheon of chicken and something
in tall, cool glasses. A waiter with a
heavy tread and jaw like the blue-rib-
bon bull in the dog show, was lowering
was conscientiously banging and twang-
ing in q bower of palms.
from San Toy - said one of the women
at the table near the window. The
heavy-footed waiter leaned over the table
They'll play anything that you loike:'
"Oh, I wouldn't ask, .them.'' said the
woman who liked light music ''Sure,
that's what they're for said the waiter
with Hibernian bonhomie. ''Is it Sam
Toy you want? I'll have it for yez in
jiffy,"' and he was off. In second he
nounced, with a sigh, "but Sam Toy'I'
be the next. First they've got to play
piece by request-the Holy City, it isl
character known as "Gumdrops.' was
found entirely nude and insane on that
thoroughfare recently. Meyers fought so
hercely that assistance had to be called.
lie was strapped to stretcher and TAX
en- to Bellevue. Meyers is about 80 years
old. 1t is said that about twenty-five
years ago he held good position as
bookkeeper in Baltimore business
house. In that city he met a handsome
young actress. with whom he BEGAN in
fatuated. He came into possession of
S2o'UO, and hastily left Baltimore with
her, intending to go to Australia. The
couple got to San Francisco, where Mey-
ers began to gamble. For time for
tune, favored him, and the $4,000 was
swelled to 100000. Then he abandoned
his plan of going to Australia and, with
the actress, came to this city, where he
entered upon a sporting life; His LUCK
changed. and he was soon almost penni-
less. The actress disappeared from his
life about this time. He became card
dealer, it is said, and was employed at
various. times by well-known gamblers.
When he had money he always drank
wine. For years he had been in hard
luck. and finally was obliged to resort
to the selling of gumdrops for living.
In that way he got his sobriquet. He
Is said to have a brother living on West
Thirty-first street