The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-14
IN GAY NEW YORK.
Scenes and incidents Of Everyday
Lie in the Paris Of America. i

- ciru4teu WIFI introducing the game III
to America.
Henry X. Sheldon, a well-known art
connnlsseur and director OF the Ameri
can Exchange bank, is dead at his home
in Brooklyn.
Lewis Thurber Lazell, one of the lead
Ing manufacturers of perfumery in
Amer ca, is dead at his residence in
brooklyn. He was born in Worcester,
Mass. in 1925.
John r. Mcdonald, the subway con.
tractor, has done half the digging for
the tunnel at cost Of $13, 100000. and
the engineers expect the remainder of
the excavation will be completed III thir
teen months.
Mayor Low and the board Of estimate
have decided that they cannot reduce the
budget for 1902 from the figures fixed
hy The Tammany administration if, in
ter'i> they can prevent all increase to
Sl'H.>H)O,OOO.
Mrs. Bradley Martin will give at her
house in Chesterfield Gardens a fancy
dress ball in June in honor of the coro-
nati"1, which. she intends, shall rival the
bah given by the Duchess of Devonshire
for the late Queens jubilee.
1t - now three years since Roland B.
Molineux was arrested for the murder
OF Mrs. Catherine J. Adams. Not Il
soul called on him in the Tombs, where
he Is awaiting q new trial, and he spent
the anniversary in gloomy silence.
Plans for extending the Hotel Imperial
so that it will cover the entire block on
the east side of Broadway. between Thir
ty-hrst and Thirty-second streets. have
oO.1 o& ~ 1,,,I i
The addition will be seventeen stories in
height.
Nnon John Drew appeared in Indian
ap"lis in The Second in Command"
Margaret Dale appeared for the first
time as his leading woman. Ida Con-
quest has been Mr.. Drew's leading wom-
all >4nce the beginning of the season.
Miss Conquest retires because of poor
health
Tic police discovered school for pan.
handlers on Park Row recently.
l'":cars from all parts of the country
have HOcked there to be taught how to
"nnEe up" for their work in the streets
In The raid We're found crutches. band
aSt'~ and other articles that are used to
MAX" the panhandling trade successful.
Miss Julia Lamont. daughter of Daniel
Lamont, former secretary of war; is
critically i'll with brain fever Miss La
ninn: WAS to have occupied box with
Mrs. Grover Cleveland at the Metropoli-
tan Opera house on the occasion of the
Sal:; performance in honor of Prince
Henry She was stricken that evening
and grew worse steadily.
William Waldorf Aston of London has
filed plans for Il $1.OOO,OOO hotel. The
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will occupy the entire block between For
ty-fourth and Forty-ffth streets in
Seventh avenue William c.. Muschen-
helm will be the proprietor of the new
hotel, which, it is expected, will be one
of the most splendid and perfect in it's
appointments in New York.
Through members of his suite, Prince
Henry presented to Police Captain Max
+. Schmittberger, who has had charge
Of the police arrangements at the West
Ihirty-fourth street pier, three small
pictures: One is Of the Emperor. one
Of the Empress, and the third of the
Emperor and Empress and family. The
pictures, which are small. are encased in
silver frames, and are oval in form.
havoc with the yacht Hohenzollern that
If has been decided to limit special per-
nlitS TO visitors. Visitors have ruined the
costly tapestries by cutting out bits. and
have spoiled curtains and hangings by
Stra]ng gold tassel or piece of silken
through the windows that open OH the
main deck. Some OF the ships cookery,
stamped with the imeprial crest, is also
missing.
\ monster pillar of granite-the larg-
est solid piece of stone ever Quarried
for building purposes-was swung into
its place recently sixty feet above the
ground on the Ghalf,eompleted Hall of
streets: 1t is more than sc feet long,
feet wide and 2 feet thick, and required
nearly three months to quarry. Thirty
one other stone pillars to be put in the
building will be even larger Each of the
stones will cost $1,000.
An heiress of George Drummond. Earl
of Perth, news Of whose death was re-
ceived recently from England. lives in
Brooklyn in the person Of Miss Mary
nrummond, telephone operator in the
ter Of the earl. Her inheritance, how
ever. is said to be problematical. Miss
Drummond is % years old and lives with
her mother, Mrs. II. NJ. Master. at 1864
rultOl street. Her father was George
Drnmmond, a grandson of the earl.
The Earl of Perth's estates are said to
have once been worth $15O,OOO year.
Sadie Martinez. late of "The Marriage
Came whose latest husband is Louis
Ncthersoe brother of Olga, of the Car
men kiss and the Sappho staircase Incl
dent, has decided America is not to her
liking as 4 home and is preparing to
trasfer her residence to the "dear Lun-
non" Of her spouse and sister-in-law. She
is to take the faithful Nethersole with
her. Miss Martinot's personal effects in
excess of those which she wishes to car
~ to England and all her household
goods and chattels We're today carted to
an auction room, where they are to 20
under the hammer to the most appre-
ciative bidders.
Mr.. Marconi, the inventor has become
the lion of the -Four Hundred. He sat
in box with an opera party at the per
Torrance of aida recently, and when
he was discovered by the lion hunters he
was their game for the rest Of the even