The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-11-14

At meeting here Of the Peary Arctic
Club it was decided to give Lieut.. Peary
a dinner when the explorers physical
condition will permit of his attendance
Edmond H. Lay, an old-time actor, is
dead at Bellevue Hospital from general
debility. Lay, who was Is years old,
was born in Virginia. He appeared in
minor parts with Edwin Booth and other
prominent actors.
The question of accepting 1880
from Andrew Carnegie for the erection
of library building in Albany was put
overwhelming majority.
Over 100000 are to be put into
bachelor apartment house on Fifth ave-
nue.. The increase in buildings of this
character shows that New York capital
bachelors giving out
The famous Richardson "spite house"
at the northwest corner of Lexington
avenue and Eighthy-second street. d.
mansions 100 feet on the avenue by 5
1eet on the street, has been sold by the
Richardson heirs TO james Y. Graham
and Charles r. Reckling.
n ololA lew uOWH from the NOftn
Pole, and after alighting in the Central
Park menagerie presented the big polar
bear with tiny white cub. The Arctic
nanny is we'll and the big white-feeced
old pop" Gen. Greeley, is looking be-
comingly foolish and happy.
The Grand Hotel at Point Chautau-
qua, one of the largest and finest hotels
around Chautauqqa lake, was burned to
also the amusement hall and summer
cottage belonging. to the hotel. The
hotel was owned by a Beaver Falls and
Buffalo syndicate. The loss will be fully
The space in front Of the barge office
resembled a barnyard just before noon
tined for the officers mess on Bedloe's
island was brought down to the landing
of the island boat. The craft being laid
up for repairs, the man in charge Of the
COW tied her to wagon while he wan
dered away to wait for the next boat.
The expressmen and boarding house run
ners soon spied the COW, and in a few
from the crowd had filled dozen cans
milk.
William NJ. Hartman, the well-known
banker and member Of the stock ex-
change and brother of Edward H. Harri- |
man, is seriously i'll at his home in this
city from heart disease: While his con
dition is serious, the physicians say it's
outcome will not necessarily be fatal He
has suffered from the trouble for several
years and spent the summer at Mann
helm, Germany, under treatment.
We no longer hear Of ''parquet,' "par-
quette'' or ''parterre' in New York the
c c5er5 yte twn is the e
chestra,' says the purchaser of tickets.
occasionally, at the Metropolitan Opera
House, You will hear this order or re-
quest: Two seats in the auditorium"
Were the box-ofice man to inquire
where 'bouts-orchestra or galIery?''
the chances are he would give serious
Auditorium as the parquette only.
Amelie Goddart de Bookstores, who was
guished French women in New York city,
died on the 31st ult. in her eighty-fftE
year at "a West Fifty fourth street.. She
was unmarried. Mile. de Bookstores was
the daughter Of Josef Benjamin Godart
de Bookstores, who was an officer in Ma
poleon's army, and who came to this
country in 1850 In 1871 she was in
strumental in planning and bringing to
success large fair for the benefit Of the
French who suffered in the Franco-Prus-
sian war. The fair took up all of Union
square, and was so we'll managed that
it brought in over 100000. This sum
was later taken to Paris by Mile de
Bookstores.
Tho RAT thn thor
night at the inopportune moment. This
time the rodent was the corpse of the
Keith stock animal and it emerged while
twenty women were on the stage. It
was during the concert of the Fadettes
Woman's Orchestra that he made his ap-
wouldn't blow and she shook the instru-
ment. Out fell the rat, dead as ever a
rat was. The scramble INDUCED in then
and there was most undignifed proceed
ure for score of young women from
Boston: The concert was temporarily
discontinued, but as soon as the corpse
was carted away the music was con-
tinued as though nothing had happened.
The house cat was promptly discharged.
One Of the most important details in
the mechanism of Wall street is it's elab-
crate system Of detective protection. A
very effective dead line has been estab-
lished at Fulton street for years, be-
yond which no crook known. to the police,
nor even a suspicious looking person, is
allowed to pass. AS an additional pre-
caution score or more of central office
detectives are constantly on guard at the
principal entrances to the financial dis
trict. They usually congregate near the
United States treasury building at. Broad
and Wall streets. Millions of dollars are
constantly being carried past this point.
The money comes in gold, packed in
sacks and carried by the ton iii steel
wagons; it is brought downtown in cabs,
or carried in ordinary travelling bags or
i'll the pockets. of the crowd which con-
stantly pours into Wall, street. Such
thing as holdup is unknown. ~s, n.,
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