The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-06-06

professors, and at least one woman adj
vertiSes as 'professoress.'' One of the
fortune tcllcrs claims to be "unprincipled
and unexcellcd.' The mind reading part
Of the business counts for little with
east siders; They want proof of the
serves that purpose. The past has passed
and. as it was hard OH most of them.
they DO not care to have it raked up.
That Wall street is most carefully
guarded against petty swindles or any
ed the other day. A wel-dressed wom-
an, with a pretty child, girl about 5
years old, stood in front of one of the
! largest skyscrapers in the financial dis
trict for a few moments. The woman
was offering collar buttons for sale. Two
| remarkable circumstances struck a Sher-
lock Holmes on the opposite corner. The
first was that the woman wore heavy
black veil that concealed her features.
| The other was that she and the child
| We're we'll dressed and not ordinary ped
dlers. One or two passersby had left a
piece Of silver on the collar button tray,
| when a sjeuth was seen carefully ap-
| have to move on The woman started
and made 10 reply Several persons
who saw the little drama are still Won
dcriny whether it should be called "a
humbns' or "a pity
| N;cDougal Hawkes., commissioner of
docks. has obtained from the board of
estimate an appropriation Of $4,000, 900.
The dock department will now be en-
abled to complete the greatest project
70: water front improvement ever un-
le:taken by thu city. The plans have
been on paper fol-. two years. The river
| fl(nr .f,.iv TO In
Charles street to West Twenty-third.
The piers are to be of the new steel
kind and will extend 800 feet into the
river. The total wharfage capacity
will be more than FIVE miles and the
plans call for the construction of a mar
street will be $50 feet wide. 1t is
planned to concentrate all ferries along
the section to be improved at Twenty
! third street. This will call for the re-
moval of the I1oboken ferry at Four
teenth street to this point For the ten
immense piers to be erected there are
already application from the trans
Atlantic steamship companies.
After once having made a million dol
lars out of conducting policy and faro
games in New York Jacob Clute has
passed in his last checks. When An
thony Comstock and his agents got after
!
close down and get out of the business.
One of his intimate friends said that
Clute had distributed at least 100000
to charity, and that most of this went
to sporting men who had been prosperous
in the days when gambling was not
looked upon with disfavor by New York
ers. OF late years he spent most of his
time in Pork Row poolroom, where he
! made small wagers on the races. Then,
when the races were over, he was seen
on the street with his brother James.
The brothers attracted much attention as
they walked arm in arm along Park
Row to the bridge entrance on their way
numbered among his friends many men
of prominence throughout the country
and was intimately acquainted with
many Washington politicians.
According to a decision of Surrogate
Silkman Of Westminster county, filed at
executor of the estate of the late Charles
Saxer Of the town of Rye, II will have to
regain 600 shares of the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad Company stocks,
which it sold in violation Of the provi-
SONS OF the will Of the testator. The
days previous to the Spanish American
war in 1898 for about $4S a share. The
stock is now rated in the market at some
thing like 100, and by the decision of
Surrogate Silkman, if it is upheld, the
trust company i'll regaining the stock or
it's equivalent will lose in the neigh
6orhood OF $4,000 by the transaction.
Mr.. Saxer for many years was janitor
of the old life insurance company, and
while there he was advised to buy the
railroad stock mentioned. He saved all
his wages that he could spare, and in
March, 1882, he bought fifty shares; then
in 1888 he purchased fifty shares more,
the time of his death he owned 600
shares of the stock. He purchased the
stock at prices ranging from 23N to 2411k,
and ever since then its value has been
advancing, so that at the time Of his
death he was worth q small fortune.