The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-06-13
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Scenes and incidents Of Everyday
Life in the Paris of America. -


ern Union Telegraph Company.
Police Capt. Michael F. Foody Of the
West Thirty seventh street station, found
guilty BY Commissioner Partridge Of neg
lect of duty in failing to enforce the ex
clse law in his precinct, escaped with
public reprimand.
William G. Whitney and Thomas =.
Ryder, it is definitely learned, were the
buyers Of the controlling interest in the
stock Of the Hide and Leather National
bank. The Whitney-Ryder interests also
control the Morton Trust Company.
The engagement is announced of Miss
Clarisse Coudert, Youngest daughter of
the late Charles Coudert, and Condo
Monthrose Mast, son of Mrs. Esther A.
Mast Mr.. Mast is a graduate Of Har-
yard and is in the publishing business in
New York.
The largest number of passengers
that has been carried by a steamship Of
any one trip this season went OH the
kronprinz WILHELM the total being 1850.
Of whom $50 We're in the first Aabin, $50
in the second and $50 in the steerage.
Peter Ross, Ill. D., thirty third de-
lodge Of Masons in this state and the
author of many books Oh Free Masonry
and Scottish history, is dead at his home
IN New York city after a long illness.
Mrs Di Cesnola, wife of Gen. Louis
Palma hi Cesnola, chief director of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, died of
heart disease. She had been an invalid
for many months. Mrs. Di Cesnola was
the second daughter of Capt. Reid, the
hero Of the battle of Mayal. Her grand
father was Lieut.. John Reid of the Brit
ish navy, a lineal descendant of Henry
Reid, Earl of Orkney
In forming the third panel of the
sheriff's jury to serve during the ensuing
three months Sheriff O'Brien has sum-
moned fourteen men whose aggregate
wealth is estimated at more than bill
lion dollars. Among those called are:
J: D. Rockefeller, William Rockefeller,
Frederick w. Vanderbilt. William X.
Vanderbilt and John D. Archbold.
Suits for $2312.OO have been entered
against the New York Central Railroad
by the victims Of the Park avenue tunnel
disaster Of January s. and verdicts for
SllS,WO have been already rendered.
This is the largest sum total ever de-
mandc,l as damages from one corpora
ton. Motions for change of venue by
the company i'll suits for more than
81 ,OOO, 900 damages. have been overruled
by Judge Smith in the supreme court at
White Plains.
Another OF New York's landmarks is
to be RACED to make room for improve
ments. One Of Washington 1rving's old
homes in this city, III West Thirty-third
street, in which he wrote astoria" and
several other books, has been sold to the
Stuyvesant Real Estate Company, repre-
senting the Pennsylvania railroad. 1t is
fonr-story brownstone front, just west
Of Eighth avenue. The property brought
$23, 500. The land is needed by the rail
jroad company as part of it's proposed
mammoth terminal station.
Capt. Nibbs of the British ship Lena,
which arrived from Barbados, has
a cargo of volcanic dust which he is
willing to dispose of at reasonable fig
ure to folks who want mementos Of the
eruptions Of Pelce and La Soufriere.
Most of the dust is from La Soufriere
While the ship was at Barbadoes on
May 10 a rain of dust, lasting several
hours, fell on the ship, covering the
decks and awnings several inches thick
The skipper needed more ballast, so he
got his men to shovel seven tons of the
dust into the hold
Harry Oclrchs Of New York, who has
been member Of the Newport colony
for many years. died at his cottage in
Newport recently. He had not been
strong physically for Il number OF years
having suffered from complication of
diseases. Mr.. Orlrichs was the son of
the late Henry Oelrichs of New York,
He was 45 years of age and was a
graduate from Columbia College and 4;
member of the New York bar. For Il
time he was superintendent OF the Anglo
American Cattle Company in Dakota.
where he founded a town which bears
his name.
There is "milky way in many of the
tenement districts and parks now. 1t is
the tenth annual season of the fourteen
milk depots maintained by Nathan Straus
for the benefit of the poor children.
Hosts Of mothers and children welcomed
the opening. and as it so happened that
on the first day the heat was sweltcring
the hosts We're numbered among many
thousands. An idea of the immense good
done by these depots can be had from
the fact that last summer, in addition to
the hundreds OF thousands of glasses of
milk dispensed, 10000 bottle of the milk
We're used by women and children in the
tenement houses.
Through the sale of the Plaza hotel
property at Fifth avenue, Fifty-eishth
and Fifty-ninth streets, to the George A.
Fuller Company and allied interests,
there is to be erected on the site new
twenty-story hotel, which those interest
ed in the enterprise say is to be the finest
structure Of it's kind in the world. The
price paid TO the New York Life Insur-
ance Company for the property is 49,
100000, and among transactions involy-
ing no element Of trade it is believed
that the purchase ranks as the largest
in the city's real estate annals. Includ-
ing the cost of the new hotel building
the enterprise will involve nearly S1O,-
100000 Associated with the George A,
Fuller Company in the purchase are the
Central Realty, Bond and Trust Com
pany and Hallgarten & Co. Through
the bankers, it is understood, considera-
bic foreign capital will be interested in
the project.
Edward E. Gwynne, a nephew of Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, seeking to be re-
lleved of debts amounting to SIC, 4O3, has
hled petition in bankruptcy. The sched-
ule of his assets consists of but a single
item, claim for $57 against Perry Tiff
fanny for a loan. The principal claim