The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-21

with Ada Rehan as the masQueradlng
miss. At present Miss kidder is star
ring III the Revolutionary play called
"Mcl Pitcher"
,-.~~hrr heircss OF California mil
lin,,..:e will be brought out in New
i"ri: society next winter, If present
pla:.S are not changed in the meantime:
Sic $ Miss Jennie Croker, sister OF
T"n:!cton T.. Croker. She will come
TO tits city as the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fr:;l. is Burton Harrison.
l'.:g-pong causes those who play it to
use heir hands and arms to ali unusual
dnc--H with the result of many !am'
AREAS and shoulders. The medical men
arr o1ning to recognize the symptoms OF
l'o!- ARM There are good many
lill3-rong arms in New York now.
Wireless teiegramS are now a CONNER
rinl commodity, and the vessels of the
Fu!...:d and other lines quote rates for
>t'' messages in their Conformation for
!'.!>~+!.yrrS' on the passenger lists. The
rates quoted are: "From ship to Mar
coz: sutton. II cents per word. From
Shl: 20 passing steamer and thence to
station. II cents per word.' TO this
mus hc added the usual telegraphc
l;i1' : 20 destination.
of 1dIS G' TIC 70 Taee q Henry ns o arc st
s"i,-s the rounds. According to Il writer
in ole of the dailies, Thomas A. Edison,
Charles NJ. Schwab on the street the
other day. GLOW do you do, general?'
was the greeting the steel president got.
"t;.neral?' responded MI Schwal.
why DO you call me general?' why"
said Edison, IF | am Il captain Of indus
f, - l<,D ~, u
if the invention which it is said will
soon be put on the market is all it's own
or Claims it to be, passengers riding OH
street cars will not hereafter have to
rubber" for their destinations. The
name or number of the cross-town streets
upon a dial a block before the car
reaches the street. The inventor believes
thai his device is mechanically practical
hl" and that it is only a question OF time
before it will be at least on the market,
ii not Oh the cars.
Mrs. Jack Nilmerding, whose struggle
I" h released from BloomingdaIe asylum
kept the courts busy year ago. has en-
,tireiy recovered from the severe illness
which followed her incarceration. She
has taken suite in an apartment house
III West Twenty sixth street and is seek
Ing to re-enter the society circles in
which she was once a favorite. Mrs.
Ni!merdins is the granddaughter of
t"mm2iore Vanderbilt and a niece Of
Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt She has spent
most of the large fortune she Inherited
an'' of which her family finally secured
control through the courts.
l':!Eco Henry, next to King Edward,
has more clothes than any man in the
w"r]d. No one knows how many suits
h" has, not even his valet, who has three
assistants to help him keep the specks
Of dust from the garments. On the
NA'ht Hohenzolern great wardrobes are
filled with clothing. OF the uniforms
r%'1riately dressed in whatever country
T." may be. While Prince Henry usually
Is seen in uniform, more often in the
uniform of an admiral, his wardrobe is
very large. and contains clothes that
would have put to shame the garments
"f l.. Berry Wall in his palmiest days.
Manager Daniel Frohman has no inten-
ti"n of ALLOWING the l,vceum to .ie an
nnnal;owed, not to say uncelehrated
death, such as befell the poor old Star
last year, when the little Fourth avenue
theater passes out of existence a fort
night hence. 1he last performance in
TIC theater promises to be as notable an
event as any i'll it's history. The demand
for seats for this last performance is
81 Slt1t dlIciuy InIL It VIII scarcely De
p"ssible to accommodate everybody
aside from the farewell epilogue which
Miss Annie RUSSELL will make the audi
cnct will, OF course. demand some sort
of a valedjctory from Mrs. Gilbert and
an'ther from Mr.. Frohman himself.
\ page from history was revived by a
singular meeting Oh upper Broadway the
n,her afternoon. John Matthews, once
boon companion of Wilkes Booth. and
who Was for time imprisoned as Il sus-
perted accomplice of President Lincon's
assassin, stopped to greet a friend. AS
he stood talking there brushed by him
James Burroughs, who was one Of the
posse sent to hunt down the murderer
Not ten PAGES behind Burroughs walked
W. J. Ferguson. who, as call boy of
FOrds theater. stood in the wings. heard
life and was almost knocked down by
Booth in his wild rush from the theater
And this in one block on busy Broadway.
Contractor John B. Mcdonald will
have to spend 100000 more than he
estimated for building the rapid transit
line. The enormous extra expense in
which the contractor will become in
VOWED is due to orders now pending for
rolling stock and electrical equipment
Orders have been given for six electric
motor engines. and E. P. Bryan, chief
iAASSi, VIII nave ieuuF SQeCln-
cations for the passenger cars to be used
These cars are to be fashioned after
those used in London. They will not
differ much in appearance from the cars
of the Manhattan elevated, but are to be
the most modern designs known. Of
course, it is expected that Mr.. Mcdonald
VIII make uo what he loses in building
the subway on its operation, for he is
TO run it. or will lease it to a company
to be operated for fifty years.
Only a few months ago. New York
lack of chorus girls. If ever there was a
famine it was last August and members
of the silent throng'' who were accus-
toned to drawing not more than SIS Il
week suddenly found their services in
demand at from $1S to $35. According
to George w. Lederer, however. there
has been a sudden change and chorus
girls can now be had almost for the ask
ing. When Mr.. Lederer put on tsThe
New Workers." he was compelled to sour
~ the entire city for shapeiy women.
but that this condition now is materially