The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-18
IN GAY new YORK.
Scenes and Incidents of Everyday
Life in the Paris Of America. y

August Belmont sailed for Liverpool
On the Campania and expects to remain
abroad about month.
Mrs. Theodore A. Havemeyer has re-
turned to New York from Newport and
opened her house in Madison avenue.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has been
elected a director Of the National City
bank. William Rockefeller, his uncle,
has been a member of the board for sew
eral years.
Miss Jessie Shay has been engaged by
Daniel Frohman to accompany Jan Au-
belik on his American tour. The first
concert will tax. place in Carnegie hall
OH December ,.
The personal property of the late the
atrical manager, Henry c. Miner, has
been appraised in the surrogate's court
at $95,114 net. The value of the en-
tire estate is not shown.
The public baths have closed for the
season with a total attendance Of over
1,5W,OOO people, The baths have been
towed to the foot of Thirty-fsth street,
where they will remain during the winter.
John D. Rockefeller has returned to
his home at TarrytoWn. The people
out his mustache They are SO accus-
toned to his closely -cropped lip adorn-
ment that it will take some time to get
used to his new appearance.
James X. Hacketts leading woman,
Miss Florence Kahn, has retired from
the cast of Don Caesars Return" at
" IL. %h<c H..
ett's company. Miss Kahn has been
dissatisfied with her role, and there is
said to have been friction between her
and the star.
MONDAY meetings" is the sign on a
large building on Broadway near Grand
street At first one had visions of re
hsious or temperance crusade. but in
vestigation shows that the ''Order of
Acorns" is an organization which has as
one Of its principal objects the election
Of newspaper man to the Assembly.
The new buttons for the police depart
ment which Commissioner Murphy de-
cided to have some time ago have been
distributed among the police tailors.
They will cost $:}.O7, as against $1.1O
for the old buttons, and are gold-plated
Around the coat Of arms are the words
"Ncw York City Police" instead of a
Alfred G.. Vanderbilt has subleased for
the winter from Mrs. Ambrose {. Kings
land the house at 72l Fifth avenue
owned by William Waldorf Astor TO,
$4,000. The house stands on the north
east corner Of Fifth avenue and Fifty
sixth street, opposite the house occupied
by Woodbury. G. Langdon. On the cor
ncrs across Fifth avenue are the houses
Of Edwin Gould and Edward Kemp.
Mr.. and Mrs. George J. Gould, with
their sons, Jay and kingdom. the boys
tutor and Mrs. Gould's maid. left Geor-
gian court at Lakewood Monday evening
and after spending the night in New
will thoroughly cover the country
reached by Mr.. GouldS railway lines
The party travels in the Gould private
car and the length Of their absence from
home is indefinite.
Transactions in church pews in New
York city get into large figures once i!
feiein have sold to B. \. Sands pew &:
in Grace church for $1,000. The pew
was bought by Mr.. Schieffelin in 1S4i
for $40 and yearly ground rent o
SIS. Mr.. Sands has hcen attending an
other church. hut for two years pas
church, which he attended early in life.
Among the passengers VINO rcturne,
on the Umbria the other day were
Capt. s. w. Gilchrist OF .Alpena. Mich
and his daughter. Miss G. 4. GilchriS1
Several weeks ago Capt. Gilchrist wen
to Europe on the receipt of Il cable dis
signed. telling him that his sister, VIII
was in Europe. was dead. When tn
captain crossed the ocean be found tha
the dispatch was hoax and that hi
sister was alive and well.
Recently a man whose office is no
far from the Stock exchange wrot
said he hoped he would be invited O
board the Corsair for some one day 0
the yacht races. Mr.. Morgan wrote tn
following note:
My Dear Sir: Unfortunately I hay
for the yacht races However, if you thin
er Mr.: Gould; Mrs; Goelet Col Aston, 0
any Of the others that may be going dow
the bay, will try to get an invitation 70
you, and will assure whoever may take 20
that they have the honor of entertanin
the chcekest man ever heard from.
Kyrle Belew has arrived. He come
to appear under Liehler & Co.'S manage
ment for three years. He will start i
"A Gentleman of France" at the Gran
Opera house. Chicago, on November !
His last appearance here was Wit
Cora UrQuhart Potter under Augusta
Days objection in Romeo and Juliet
and THE Queens Necklace and hi
first was many years before, under Les
ter Wallack. The cast of "A Gentle
man of France" includes Eleanor Rot
son, John Blair, John Flood. Charlie
Barron and Clarence Handy side. ~
This is the season for the importation
of shrubs and dormant plants whic
bloom in the spring. The steamer South
wark. which arrived few days since
brought over 1000 bay trees and 200
cases of Towering plants, mostly orchid
and amleas. The latter will be potte
hyc tho florists Hocoi1.od