The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11


19o1-o2. The attention of Of the Whole c
ate $4,000 for improvements, for next sea-
son. The entire property originally was
received from James Gordon Bennett
| who bought the grounds and erected the
buildings at his own expense. MIR. Ben
nett has been paid in full, and the orig
inal Indebtedness of $4,000 has been
| reduced to $4,000, secured by first
mortgage bond. The past season was a
| record-breaker from financial point Of
view.
OF bathrooms and restaurants for So
One to rival Sherry's will be put up by
Carl Berger, proprietor of Bellevue
| lodge, Newport 1t will be located in the
vicinity of Fifth avenue and Thirty
eighth, Thirty-ninth Or Fortieth streets.
three sites being under consideration
| The building will be ten stories tall, with
the ballroom on the top f1o1e covered by
| a glass roof. The idea is that there can
| be only one dance there at a time, and
| to the privacy of home will be added
! the accommodations of a irst-class res
taurant Every suggestion of public
~
| Work has been begun on the site of
the hotel which William Waldorf Aston
will build for William c.. Muschenheim
on the west side of Broadway, facing
Long Acre square, and occupying the
block front from Fortyfourth 10 Forty
fifth street. The structure is to be elev-
| en- stories and to cost about 81 500, 0OD
| Work will be begun within three weeks
| hn hot ~
John Jacob Astor will build fer Phila-
delphia capitalists on the site OF the ST.
| Cloud hotel, the southeast corner a.
| Broadway and Forty-second street,
which will cost $2,50O,00O The two As:
tor hotels will be erected simultaneously
The aggregate cost will be $4,OOO,O0O
John Jacob Astor's steam yacht Nour-
mahal was badly damaged and straine<,
by being in collision in the lower bay one
afternoon recently with the North Star,
the latest addition to the fleet of the
Maine Steamship company. The latter
vessel had four of her plates stove in
and about dozen feet Of her railing car
ried away. Although there were about
300 excursionists aboard her at the time
| there was no excitement to speak of, but
| aboard the NOurmahal. which was
dragged along for some distance by the
headway Of the liner with her deck
awash: much confusion was seen. She
righted herself, however and when it was
ascertained that there was no great dam
age below the water line proceeded on
her way to her anchorage.
Sir Thomas Upton is to be immortal
lied with a new drink named after his
yacht. The Only Wiliam'' announces
the Shamrock punch. Sir Thomas has
been duly notified of the new punch. A
sample, bottle was forwarded to him re-
Gently by special messenger. coupled with
a graceful invitation from the Only Will
liam" to ''come and have some more. ~
| The punch calls for a well-iced blending
Of the following ingredients: Juice OF
one lemon. half a pound of loaf sugar,
three cups of Upton tea (strong). one
quart of Upton Scotch whisky, one quart
Of American champagne, one whisky
glas sof maraschino, one Of Curacao, one
Of green chartreuse, one pint Of brandy,
one pint of sherry. Mix in sliced banana
pineapple and orange. Serve in small
sherry glasses. If this will not make you
successful in anything you undertake
| William does not know what will.
One paradise" has gone to smash 1t
was good one while it lasted, according
the Metropolitan Opera house did not
produce enough to pay the actors. 'The
Ladies Paradise was there for brief
period, at no time having greater re-
ceipts than $500 daily, while the average
was considerably below this. The mana
ger was told that the lease of the house
must be surrendered at once, while ut
the same time a number of the ladies
who were in Paradise" remarked rather
| loudly that they had not been paid for
six weeks rehearsals or for twelve per
formances. The statement is made that
one of the financial men of the company
dropped out when he saw how things
ferred to New Haven, and then go on
the road if the ghost walks in time.
Mrs. Ellie Williams has brought suit
against the Stanley company for ask
Ing her and woman companion to leave
the restaurant at Forty-second street
and Broadway on the night of August
~ simply because they had no male es
cort:. The case will be watched with
high class restaurants, all Of whom have
an infexible rule that they will not serve
women after 9:3O or 10 o'clock unless
accompanied by men. NJ. J. STANLEY
said today that he did not think the case
would stand. He said: eve make nc
never has been any trouble about it, As
the rule is we'll known. Sometimes there
will be fifteen women or so in a week
and sometimes not one in three months >
The managers at the Waldorf. Sherry's
Hahn's and other places spoke in thu
same strain when asked their opinion Of
the case.
Some Brooklyn people think that tbs
immense new bridge going up at Crane
street is being built upon bed Of Quick
sand. The Brooklyn approach is said t.
be built over a sewer that was laid il
1888. at which time the quicksand wa:
discovered. Then the sewer collapsed
and boy was buried in the trcacnerou:
earth, while three others were rescued
after much difficulty. The bridge en-
gineers say that they have arched~ the
dangerous spot with concrete and fca1
no danger. Work on the bridge pro
crosses steadily. The cables are i'm place
and temporary footwalk has been sus
So .: =. Sta.