The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-10-24

! twenty years a score of skyscrapers have
been built up all around it. In the early
days the neighborhood of Bowling Green
! was the very center. and vortex Of New
York life, and even fifty years ago.; when
old Jacob Aston built mis- great granite
hotel Mt -Vesey street and Broadway, old
i timers shook their heads and wondered
why he went so far uptown" The past
five years have lone much to obliterate
the distinctive landmarks of knicker-
booker New York.
The New York jeweler no longer sets
Il price Upon his gems by the old stand
ards. Time was when luster and per-
lection Of cutting were the measures OF
value, but ~latterly sentimental consider
atoms have been uppermost. The alb
surd notion that diamonds present the
extreme of costliness is now regarded as
4 provincial piece Of ignorance. a man
who has a little emerald that his mother
wore or an old tiger eye that adorned the
horny finger of his g%randsire will find
that tho cohnoisscur prizes it above the
white gem of purest water. 1t p%artakes
Of the value of the signet ring worn by
Cleopatra, and has a value that chemical
purity cannot give to a gem without a
history. New York people are recognize
ing this historical quality j. jewels, ana
Outre gems in their scarfs or on their
fingers.
New York is to have a sky-scraper
church in the new Broadway Tabernacle
to be b.ilt at Fifty-sixth street. Tn
unique feature of the building will be a
nine-story This tower will con-
sist of seven floors. which will be utilized
for general administrative and religious
for a belfry. The tower will be provided
with elevator service and will be up to
date in every respect. The cost of the
new church will be $4,000.
AS a result of a decision by the court
of appeals at Albany the estate Of Cor
nelius Vanderbilt must pay an additional
transfer tax amounting to $11S,0OO. The
Vanderbilt estate contended that under
the law no tax could be imposed upon a
trust Juno created by the will of Corne-
Illus Vanderbilt. Cornelius VanderDilt's
estate was assessed by the executors at
about $72,0O0,00O. OF this $5,099,S67
Vanderbilt received the largest share.
The trust fund for him, and to provide
an income of $25O,OOO a year for the
widow, with some others, amounted to
$4,000, 600, or more than one-third Of
the estate. Alfred G. Vanderbilt is to re-
ceive one-half OF his fortune when he is
80 and the balance when he is 3j.
The. Allen, aged So years and broken in
health, is to be removed from his country
home at Bayport, L. l., to a sanitarium.
Allen, who is one of the ~best-known men
in New York through the number of
times he has been arrested for conducting
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city he was familiarly known as the pool
room king and the police labeled him
the wickedest man in New York.. Up
to a year ago he had been arrested sixty
eight times, Of which he had a record.
At Rayport Allen has lived another and
more attractive life. Since his illness he
has insisted that his wife, to whom he
was always greatly attached. accompany
him, even from room to room.. To the
villagers he has always been known as n
kindly philanthrOpist, who for fifty years
has been giving money away, paying the
rent Of the poor and feeding the hungry.
He and his wife a adopted and reared
four ~foundlings as their own children.
Oscar Hammerstein. the Napoleon Of
Stageland. is always. having something
funny happening to him. The s%ubjoined
notes tell the tale Of his most recent ex-
perience:
DcAE MI. IuululeESL6luT Will you kluuly
inform me II you have a son living in Phil
adelphia? A young man who said he was
your son called. at one of our theaters last
night and asked for five seats. We refused
him, of course, but would like to know if
you have such a son.
This is Oscars answer:
My Dear Sirs: After carefully looking
over the list Of all my sons I have come to
the conclusion that l have no child in Phila-
delphia. You say that my alleged son asked
for fSI,i Ave seats seats That Sonvinses me: Any
~ OSCAR HAMMERsTE1N.
Gratuities for servants in apartment
houses are becoming III issue. Some Of
the tenants of the apartments say that
formed without offering a tip, and that
they cannot even be certain of getting
their milk and groceries delivered unless
they have the favor Of the %janitor. On
the other hand. the j%anitors say the land
lords do not pay them living wages and
expect them to supplement their income
with tips.
Scarcity of coal for the kitchen range
is not the only cause of anxiety for the
housewives of New York city just now.
The servant girl question is more alarm
ing this fall than ever before. What
amounts practically to a strike Of the
AOuSSIlOll "OIheIS Is Ol III A<e" 1Orh.
Employment agents say they cannot be-
gin to supply the demand for household
help. The influx of green" girl immi-
grants has ceased almost entirely, as
shown by the Ellis island records, and
there is no field on this side to take it's
place for kitchen recruiting purposes. TIL,
manager of one of the largest intelligence
offices in the city said: 1T is perfectly
true that we cannot find household serv-
ants enough to meet the requirements of
our customers. For two months we have
been sel.ding South for all the colored
girls that can be induced to come here
and that ha, been our only source of
supply. There are no available girl i'm
migrants
Honors are easy between the bars of
New Jersey and New York. Some months
ago the judges of Jersey adopted a rule
that no lawyer of Gotham could practice
in that state unless he were also a men,
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