The Virginia enterprise., 1901-03-22

rostbraten was sent from Hams to the
Majestic. Then the rostbraten returned
over the same course, because the hotel
| management announced that it had made
up its mind its guests needn't trouble res
! taurants half mile away to feed them.
When he learned what the Majestic man
agemunt had done Doeme told Hams to
send the lunch over again. This time
DoeMe met the rostbraten at the entrance
and carried it to his rooms. Then the
Majestic people demanded 81 for the priv
ilege of eating an imported lunch in the
! a row that is not ended yet.
Work on Col. John Jacob Astor's new
sixteen story hotel at Fifth avenue and
Fifty-ffth street is progressing rapidly.
When finished it will be the tallest build
ing Of its kind in the city and one Of the
! finest apartment hotels in the country.
! the Hudson and the Palisades. The
| building faces OH Fifty-ffth street and
has public dining hall and palm garden,
much like that in the Waldorf Astoria,
| located in the rear Private reception
! ing rooms and libraries will occupy the
two floors above the street. Apartments
! ranging from single chambers to suites
Of 10 and 20 rooms will take up the re-
naming II floors. The building when
completed will cost 81 100000. In strik-
| tion to the county courthouse, which de-
mands no great alterations and vet is
| scheduled to cost the city $2,O0O,OOO.
! Opponents of the ring, who declare this
is scheme to further loot the municipal
treasury, ar" using. the Astor hotel as an
object lesson Ct what can be done with
! S'3O.OOO less than the sum Tammany
| demands for mere addition to a wealth
er-beaten structure.
Il looks as though spring would arrive
without the discovery of even one new
bohemian resort. The hunt for mu-
sical or literary Bohemia has been very
fierce all winter, and pioneers in the
movement searched industriously all out
of-the,way haunts along Third avenue
and the upper east side Once or twice
| these amateur Bohemians thought tri-
umphantly that success had rewarded
their efforts, but it has never been a per-
manent success, and the amateurs are
as tar from the goal as ever. There are
hundreds of nice people in Greater New
York who, yearn for the Bohemian sat
moSphere, which is usually composed of
garlic, bad tobacco, bad language and
bad wine: They visit all sorts Of
strange little. restaurants, hoping to find
this atmospheric Any night after the
theaters you can find them east of Union
square or in the cross streets between
Madison Square garden and the Fourth
avenue tunnel. Once they do find an un-
conventional resort. with really Bohe-
mlan atmosphere they flock thereto un-
til the real inmates flee in disgust. Con-
sequently, the garlic and tobacco free
thinkers have kept under cover with more
| than usual care
One of the works of art which are
worth all any one is willing to pay for
them was purchased for a weli-known
private collector at the Henry de Nor
gan sale at the American Art galleries.
1t was an Apulian 'Krater'' from Ruvo,
a Greek vase 3O1a inches tall, dating
from the Third century B. c., with most
elaborate decoration in color, and it sold
| after firm and spirited bidding for $1,000.
The vase had been repaired. Only three
vases of the sort which are larger than
! this one are known to be in this country.
Seventeen loaded freight cars, filled
with Western products. lie at the bottom
of the East river as the result of some
body's blunder. A float collided with an
unknown vessel this morning and the
cars dropped into twenty-five feet of wa
ter with great splash. Few accidents of
the. sort have occurred here, and the
! problem of raising these cars, with their
+; valuable contents. is a perplexing one
There have been casualties in the East
river since the Brooklyn bridge was built,
put the loss of an entire train is some