The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02


come favorite resort for the Western
element which has become so prominent
! in the street. The club is the outgrowth
| Of the heavy midday lunch habit which
John w. Gates and Judge Moore of Chi
caso are conceded to have inaugurated.
The club is a favorite place because Of
it's exclusiveness with those who have
| deals on hand and do not care to be seen
! together in their own offices. 1t was
| there that the Metropolitan lease to the
! lnterC rban and it's lease in turn to the
Metropolitan Securities Company were
arranged There William c.. Whitney.
Thomas F. Ryan, p. A. B. Widener and
H. H. Vreeland held daily conferences
for weeks before the deal was made.
The cost of the litigations and trials
i'll the varied cases in which Millionaire
William Marsh Rice's name is blended
will be immense. With the examination
Of the handwriting experts the probate
proceedings over the Rice wills are liable
to take several months. The Patrick
trial cost $4,000, and about dozen of
been kept away from their homes and
business several months in looking out
for their interests. There are more than
a score of lawyers III the case who will
demand large fees. If William Marsh
Rice could have foreseen the present
coined Cecil Rhodes plan for the estab-
lishment of some permanent institution
i to which the wealthy could leave their
| fortunes with the knowledge that endless
| litigation over the estate would not fol-
! low.
There is probably no city in the world
that has finer hotels than New York,
and what seems extraordinary, there al
| ways seems to be room for new One
numerous as they are at present. A new
hotel is opened and in few days every
room is occupied, and apparently the
other hotels are just as we'll patronized
rs ever. Investors evidently see gold
mine in the construction of more hotels,
and. as proof of this. since January l
fifteen hotels have been projected in the
borough Of Manhattan, and they are to
cost $3,29O,00O. During the first three
months of 1901 eight hotels We're built
that cost $3,640,O00. And this had beat
ell all previous records. This wonderful
| dwellings and flats is rendering the sites
! Of other dwellings available for improve
nent with sKyscraper elevator struc-
lures.
While members of the Weber &
Fields Company were bidding farewell
to the audience a little dried-up woman
weeping alternately in the throes of hys-
| terics. She was the washwoman who,
during the season, did odd jobs for raem-
bers Of the company and made a fairly
comfortable living: The close of the
season meant for her an absence of in
come and consequent hardship. She
pairing to leave slipped bills of various
denominations into her hand. But the
climax came when Miss Lillian Russell,
just before going OH the stage for her
final appearance, sent for the aged wom-
an and handed her hundred dollar
bill; 1t was some time before she could
| realize the extent of the gift. Then she
broke down and began to cry and laugh
by turns, while Miss Russell fed up the
stairs to escape the torrent of thanks
which the grateful woman showered
| upon her.
All the hotel proprietors are wearing
| broad. expansive smile, for there never
were at this time of year so many Wis
ltors. to the city as there are at present.
them have no 'pnoccupied rooms for late
callers. However; most of the guests are
| translents, of course, and there are con-
seQuently intervening days when there
is no such demand for rooms. Strange
to- say. whenever the hotels are. full the
restaurants OF the first order fare better
all over the city. This is accounted for.
the hotel men say, because men who
! come to town on business and room at
hotels take luncheon in the business
marts they go to, and often dine in res
taurants. down town with men they were
dealing wi. With during the day. It's the
They leave the hotels after BREAKFAST
and go sightseeing, and the nearer the
| sight is to a restaurant at lunch time
the better for the bride and bridegroom.
And the city is full of them.