The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-11-21
IN GAY NEN YORK.
Scenes and Incidents of Everyday
Life in the Paris of America. -

Aue IN inc Tae0 OF <4nef1Ca~ y
Victor Herbert. composer and orches-
IRA leader. has been awarded $4,000
damages because New York musical
magazine branded him as a plagiarist
Mr.. Herbert sued for $4,000.
Mrs. Douglas Robinson, sister of
President Roosevelt, who has just ar
rived from Europe, was seriously i'll dur
ing the entire voyage and is still very
sick woman. She is under the care of q
physician.
One Of two Yorkshire terriers at the
dog show has his hind feet done up in
blue ribbon stockings. The attendant
who was brushing and combing the dogs
couture said that that was $50 he
shouldn't tear his hair with his back
An arrangement has been made by
which the Cornelius Vanderbilt heirs will
pay $GS.OOO in the aggregate on the es-
state. This is prorated on the personal
property inheritance of Alfred, Reginald,
GLADYS and Alice, each Of whom in
herited $2,O0O,00O.
Thomas Embley Osmun, better known
under his pen name of Alfred Ayres,
died, following an apoplectic shock, sus-
tanned September 20. Mr.. Osmun was
known works were "The verbalist,"
1"rhe Orthoepist,' and ''Some III Used
Words" He was also writer OH elocu.
ton and acting.
return to the stage Miss Marlowe goes
to visit relatives in Hot Springs. She
was told by her physician, DR.. John E.
Stillwell, that the sooner she could get
out of New York the better, and she de-
termined at once that she was we'll
enough to undertake the trip. She be-
gan preparations Immediately and was
soon on her way.
The demand for oil stoves is increasing
with amazing rapidity in New York. OF
course, the coal strike did it, Every
calamity, from the Pelee eruption to the
forest fires in Pennsylvania has been
charged to Mr.. Baer and Mr.. Mitchell.
In the meantime the city rests under a
cloud of smoke, and it hardly seems like
" that it will fold up the black tent
before Christmas.
A new form of thief has made his ap-
pearance in New York. In some way OBJ
tanning a cap like that of an expressman,
with metal plate and number upon it,
is a sign asking an express company t.
call for goods. He then enters the store,
receives the goods, receipts for them and
carries them off, and that is the last the
merchant hears of them.
Fire was discovered in the upncr mart
Of the Mills building, in the Wall street
annex. and in the central part of the
financial district When the firemcr ar
rived flames were bursting from the
eighth and ninth stories. The sub-treas-
ury is across the street, and J. ?. Nor
cams office is only two doors away.
Hard work prevented the spread Of the
flames. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
After lying buried for over a century,
the famous English prison ship Jersey,
in which several hundred Americans
were martyred while the British held
New York in the days Of the revolution,
Brooklyn navy yard by the workmen
who are putting up the launching stays
for the battleship Connecticut. His
tOrical societies have been searching for
the Jersey for fifty years. The half
burned hull Of the ship is lying under
twelve or fourteen feet of dirt and wa
ter, and is in perfect condition.
The city of New York owns a farm
on Staten Island and employs an official
farmer who runs it. Among other things,
he has raised this year twenty thousand
cabbages, one of which has been sent to
the office of the charities commissioner
soil can do. The head weighs twenty
pounds and one ounce. The products OF
the farm are used in the city's charitable
institutions.
Preparations for the construction of
the highest building in New York
0a and h5 sfse have
been resumed, and it was announced
that the site will be cleared after the
expiration Of existing leases on May /
The new structure will be known as
La Grande. 1t will be 3O-story Office
building, the full height of which from
the level of the street will be 400 feet.
1t is estimated by a progressed expert
that should all the Inhabitants of the
great buildings on Wall street, near
Broadway, chance to leave their Offices
at the same moment, there would only
be standing room for about one-foqrth
of them. In other words, the population
of Wall street between Broadway anG
Broad street would be sufficient to fill
the street four times over. The crowd
ing of the black hole in Calcutta seems
trif1ing by comparison.
Steel trust row is to be enriched will
four new architectural gems. William
3. Leeds, the tinplate king, is to built
a million dollar mansion within stone:
throw of Mr.. Carnegie's house, and tire.
other houses, which approximate mil
lion in value, are to go up just around
the corner in Eighty ninth street: Prop
erty around this spot is at present quoted
at fabulous figures. An offer of les!
than Sic. 900 per foot for sites anywher,
near it is regarded as joke by rea
= estate men.
the wedding Of Reginald C. Vanderbilt
and Miss Cathleen Nelson has beer
brought to an end by a member of on,
Of the families, who said that it had beer
decided that the ceremony would tax,
place in January at the home of tn,
brides mother, Mrs. Frederick Nelson
= in Fifth avenue TOgethor with Mr. onf