The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-06-07
IN GAY NEW YORK.

town Saturday morning for Newport
where they arrived in the afternoon, and
opened Beaulieu. which they nave leased
from William Waldorf Aston for the sea
son. Cornelius Vanderbilt will put his
IO-footer in commission.
William c.. Whitney will spend the
summer in this country, dividing his time
between New York city and his place Il,
Westbnry, Long island, where Miss Dor,
Othy Whitney is at present. He was ia
have sailed for Europe last week, but
was prevented from doing so by stress CT
business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Levi P. Morton are re-
naming abroad this summer, and have
taken a house near Windsor, where they
will remain until late in the autumn, as
daughter, Mrs. Eustis, whose husband
has succeeded w. Bayard Cutting. Jr..
as third secretary of the United States
embassy. :.
Among those VINO arrived Saturday
from Europe were Edward Tiffany Dye:
and Lady Edmund Fitz-Maurice, daugh-
ter Of William John Fitzgerald of Litch-
field. Conn. whose marriage with Lord
Edward Fitz-Maurice, younger brother
OF the Marquis of Lansdowne, secretary
of state for foreign affairs, was dissolved
by the English divorce court some six
years ago.
The tennis courts in Central park have
not been so crowded as usual thus far
this year, though they are not deserted
by any means. Every pleasant after
noon brings out enough players to give
animation to the scene, and if marked
out court here and there is unoccupied
there is more room and more comfort for
players on the others. At the height
OF the season and especially on Saturday
afternoons there is apt to be uncomforta-
be crowding.
The eyes Of the attendants and instruc-
tors at Durland's Riding academy opened
wide when Miss Helen Gould left the
academy for the season. Miss Gould. be-
ing pleased with the attention she had re-
ceived. distributed about 5000 among the
attendants as ''tips.' This was doing
things on large scale and created a sen
sation. Miss Gould is horsewoman OF
more than ordinary merit and always a
favorite at the academy. but since dis
pensing these "tips" her praises have
been sung more loudly than ever.
roads between Morris park and the Coun-
try club the agitated natives refer to
willie X. Vanderbilt, Jr's, twenty.
horsepower automobile as the white
Reaper" This is the same machine that
created such havoc about Newport last
summer, and is one Of the most danger
Gus engines of destruction known outside
OF battleship. Along the upper drive
ways Of the city and on Fifth avenue the
fiftepn-h horsepower machine Of Jim
Breese is known as the Red Devil
Ten thousand grocery and tea store
clerks are banding together to fight for
do
Quainted with their families and friends
Fifteen hours is supposed to be day:
work for grocery clerk. On Sunday
however, he has to work almost as Ions
as on other days. and against this he i:
rebelling. For twenty years the clerk:
err hours. Their present campaign take
legal turn, the police department beint
petitioned to enforce the Sunday CLOSING
laws which require grocery stores to sus
pend business at 10 a. N.
The wet weather and late spring viii
have their effect on the supply of straw
berries for the New York market.
needs warm sunshine. with either yer,
wet or very dry weather, to make a goo,
berry crop. and as the conditions hav,
not been favora BILE for the growth Of tn
season will be short one and the suppl,
somewhat less than last years. TIL
height Of the strawberry season is usual
ly during the week beginning with Ne
mortal day. and generally from sevent
to eighty carloads 4 day are sent iron
Maryland and Delaware alone to Ney
York during that week.
Straw hats appeared in profusion o.
Broadway recently. 1t was the hotties
day of the year. 81 degrees being record
ed on the Park Row thermometer in tn
afternoon. Loungers in City Hall parl
spread out their summer course of read
Ing, and overcoats We're once more in
TERED in cedar closets. with the hop
that they can stay there This reall,
mot wave stimulated the cold drink in
duStry TO a wonderful extent. Severa
Broadway bars advertised new decoc
tions. and "sherry high balls" were gen
ment. although slightly more wearing o1
the nervous system than the popular
Several Of the visiting beggars had lists
or wan street winners in their pockets
t Mnen iocked up. Some of the entries or
these lists are interesting. J. Pierpon1
Morgan is labeled. Falls to sick baby
dying wife" meaning that Mr.. Morgan
is supposed to be susceptible to hard.
luck story Of that kind. The name of
James j. Hill is endorsed: Fails to
But many of the men named on the list
would not give so cents to relieve a dy-
ing apple woman, showing that the con
hding Westerners have got wrong steer.
They are still arriving by every freight
train. however. and the delegation in
Mall street remains undiminished.
The sailing of Mrs. Arson Phelps
Stokes and the Misses Stokes puts an ef-
fectual quietus on the hope that Shadow:
brook will be opened this summer. It is
feared will not be as gay ut Lenox as
formerly, and that the little town Of
villas in the Berkshires will have to wait
until autumn before the season really
sets in. This used to be the order in
other years. But the people who had
places at Lenox began some time back
TO go early in the spring and stay through
the summer until late in the autumn.
The Willie Sloanes are still absent. and
there Is no prospect Of their coming bnck
for the present Even Peter Marie. WIN
does so much to make the summer AZ
southampton and the autumn at Lenox
agreeable has gone abroad for q long
stay. Very few Of the Lenox people