The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-04
IN GAY NEW YORK.
Scenes and Incidents of Everyday
Life in the Paris of America. -

Scenes and Incidents Of Everyday
Life in the Paris of America. -
William Bement Lent of this city, au-
thor Of "Halcyon Days" and other books,
died at his summer home at Norfolk,
Conn.,, aged 60 years.
Charles Case Minister, a wealthy mine
owner, dropped dead at Seventeenth
street and Fourth avenue from heart
disease induced by 4 narrow escape from
death beneath the wheels of 4 trolley
car.
Commodore E. c. Benedict rescued a
party of five young people near Oyster
Bay after a sQuall had broken the mast
Of their catboat and half filled the boat
with water. The boat was the Lobster
Of the Riverside Yacht Club, owned by
Abbott Brush.
In the Broad street curb market the
other day S21 900 Cuban government
6 per cent. bonds sold at 80 per cent.
This is a decline Of 10 per cent. in three
weeks. The bonds are of the S3,OOO,OOO
issue Of 1896, signed by Estrada Palma,
now president Of Cuba.
Mrs. Seward Webb is suffering from
severe bruises and other injuries received
by Il fall from a horse at Burlington. VT.
The animal became frightened and bolt
ed, unseating Mrs. Webb. She was rem
dered unconscious and remained SO some
time after being removed to her home.
The personal estate Of Miss Beatrice
Goclet, who died on February II at
about l6 years of age, amounts, accord
ing TO the official appraisement, to $751,-
Goelet, who died on his yacht Nahma off
Naples in April, 1899, leaving a large
estate.
You will be surprised to see how often
veal chops Ia milanaise,' Dreaded veal
outlets with tomato sauce, and roast
veal' figure on the bills Of fare Of New
York restaurants just now . This is due
20 the low price of veal and the high
price Of beef. The quality of the meat
is excellent, too, and the la carte prices
rather reasonable.
One of the pleasures of owning PAN
anna hat to most men is that they are
IN extravaganza. The high price APP
peals to the imagination. The limitations
deceive nobody and humble their owners.
What effect the sort of hat advertised
by a Broadway halter will have is hard
TO determine. His sign reads: ''Genuinc
After 4 life Of twenty-four hours the
tinest baby in Greater New York is
dead. 1t was a boy, and although per-
fertly developed in every way weighed.
only twentycight ounces when born. He
Neissberst. From crown to heel he
measured ten inches. A small tea cup
t;rl him as a hat and his mothers we'd
ding ring made Il large bracelet for his
tiny wrist
An effort is being made by tho police to
put a stop to the cry: Civ. me Il nickel,
lni>tcr"' that is sounded nightly by pro-
feSsionai hrggars on Broadway and Fifth
avenue. -Four policemen nave been de-
tailed to devote all their attention to
keeping track of the pest;ferous mendi-
cants. The men will work in conjunction
with the charity organization board, and
records. The plan worked we'll when
Roosevelt was police commissioner.
Already the motor vehicles for bust
ness purposes in use in New York include
eight anbulances in use by various hos
pitfalls, truck used by a safe manufac-
turing company, which has a hosting
attachment under the seats; large furni-
ture vans, brewery truck which carries
fifty half barrels Of beer, and over 100
delivery wagons Of various sorts. One
express company uses motor wagons ex-
clusiyely for its delivery service.
Oscar Darling, q wealthy civil engi-
neer, promoter and inventor, living at
Amityville, L. l., was presented the 9TH
err day by his wife with his twenty-sixth
child, son. The little one has twenty
one brothers and sisters, five of twenty
six having passed away, four in infancy
and one after reaching manhood The
father is but 60 years Of age. He was
twice married. His first wife bore him
fourteen, and then he married a blushing
belle OF but 10 years, who has become
the mother Of twelve.
John Voelpel, the boy accused of mnr-
dering his old mother, who kept a news
stand at christopher and Hudson streets,
is now in charge Of the stand, freed from
any implication in the crime. The MUIR
derer is still at large and unknown. He
sits where his pleasant-faced mother
used to sit. The old customers have re-
words are spoken as the pennies, nickels
and dimes flow in. The police exerted
every effort to place the guilt on young
Voelpel, but the boys Innocence was too
manifest to the jury.
Charles NJ. Schwab's new steam yacht
Safa- El-Bahr. has arrived from Naples,
by way Of Gibraltar and Fayal. The
yacht was built in 1894 by A. &. J.
Ingals Of Glasgow for the Kherive Of
Egypt. She was bought for Col. Francis
L. Leland, who has chartered her fol
the season, to. Mr.. Schwab. She is
schooner rugged and her dimensions are
221 feet 5 inches in length, 27-foot beam
and Is feet deep. Mr., Schwab will use
her in running down daily to the sum.
mer home he is building for poor chill
dren on Staten Island.
About once every six Or seven years the