The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-16
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IN GOTHAM's STREETS. y I,
In Gotham's streets / spend my days, &E
- A locker on, 4 passer by;
Can draw from me- M e one eetjng s sigh,
't' Or tempt my ever feasting eye.
y Here shallsI live, here shall die.
NO woodland scene no mountain sky
Gan lead me from the human maze
X In tGotham's streets.
One Of the million. that am I:
One of the million wondering why
ana what 1T u.s. and If 1t pays.
ms living In the city,s Ways ~
This laughing when the heart would cry
In GOthams streets.
Y$f Tom Hal! in New York Daily News.
The buyer of the estate of the late
Charles l.. Tiffany at lryington. n. y.
consisting Of house and about forty
three acres OF ground. is Charles Mat
thiessen, president Of the Corn Products
Company. 4Ir. Matthiessen bought the
estate for his own use.
James Henry Smith is going abroad
soon. He has chartered Anthony j.
Drexel's yacht Margherita, which Mr.;
and Mrs. Charles B. Alexander have at
present. and will spend the summer
cruising in European waters, having as
his guests Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Dana
Gibson and Mr.. and Mrs. William Rhine
lander Stewart.
There is new fashion in city transit
little vehicle is attracting great
deal of attention in Central park.
Shaped like the chairs one sees on the
board walk at Atlantic City. but with
the attendant seated in the rear like a
6icyclist the chair carriage moves rap
idly and can go anywhere that ordinary
carriages 60. The bicycle chair squad
first appeared on the sidewalk in front
OF the Hotel Majestic few days ago.
The charge is IS cents an hour, and
the route anyone chosen by the riders.
The New York Life Insurance Com
pany has about: closed 4 deal to sell the
Plaza; Hotel for something above So
NU,OOO. The name Of the buyer has not
been made public The Plaza faces tn.
circle at the Fifth avenue entrance t.
Central park. 1t was hid in by the in
Surance company fourteen years ago at
S22,I4,S35 The company leased the
completed hotel in 1889 for nine years
mond Mt graduated rental varying from
$1O2, 800 to 1927, 800 a year. This OK.
PRED May /. 1899, and was renewed at
higher rental.
One Of the best known and at the same
time the most substantial and roOmy, as
we'll as centrally located. churches in the
city will soon disappear to make way
for a mammoth business building 1t is
the famous Broadway Tabernacle at
Broadway and Thirty fourth street. The
first services were held in the tabernacle
in 1871. Among famous men who spoke
there at anti-slavery meetings were Gar
rison, Phillips, Emerson. Fred Douglas.
E. P. Whipple. Father Gavazzi, Lyman
Beechcr. Henry Ward Beecher and Louis
Kossuth. The site at Broadway and
Thirty-fourth street cost the tabernacle
in 1851 $7S,3OO. 1t was sold some time
ago for over $ 100000.
Here is the latest Nanki-P anki-Poo
story that is being told along the Rialto.
When Mrs. Patrick Campbell was in
Baltimore both she and Dan Daily, who
was also playing there. were guests at the
Rennert house. In the dining room Mrs.
Campbell and Mr.; DAILY, occupied adjoin-
ing tables. The English actress always
insisted upon bringing her little dog to
the dining room. Mr.. DAILY didn't like
the dog from the outset, but he stood it's
ne dy at w6pn Until po4
.. L
set the dog on the table in front of her
and kissed it. WAITER cried Mr.. DAILY,
III his loudest, most tired tone, 'please
bring in my horse. | want to feed him.
Evander Berry Wall and Robert Hill
lard were sitting in the corridor of the
Waldorf-Astoria Il few evenings ago.
Fifteen years ago these two young men
were deadly rivals for the designation of
fhn
writing both are infinitely better dressed
than they We're in those times, when
glaring ties. elaborate CATERS and weird
trousers were their main stock in trade.
Middle age has taught them that quier
color> are the essentials of correct sar-
the question:: Has not the dude be-
come as obsolete as the buffalo? Just
now j. Waldere Kirkes. with their 500
styles of WaistcOatS and exaggerated
hats. Startle the natives of smaller COM
munities but they no longer obtain any
where within five miles of Longacrc
square.
It has been learned on positive authori-
ty that arrangements have been practi-
cally concluded for the sale Of the Boreel
building at 115 Broadway by the George
\. Fuller Construction Company to a
corporation which is in process of Or
ganization. The new corporation will
take the property at valuation Of 49,
100000. and will improve the site with
Il twenty-tive-story Office building. which
it is estimated will cost $2,3OO,OOO more
The site of the Boreel building contains
about 10000 square feet and includes
the block bounded by Broadway and Co.
dar. Thames and Temple streets The
building is a Seven-story structure. COM
pleted in 1879. Sarah Boreel received
the site in 1872 as Il dowry from her ia
Their, John Jacob Astor. 1t then con-
tanned the City hotel which had been
preceded by Burns coffee house.
Some of the broadway restaurants are
adOpting the German nlan Of haxinn the