The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18

ment to philanthropy in honor of Baron
and Baroness de Hirsch, and suggesting
that the following sentence from Presi-
dent Roosevelt be inscribed on it:
When all is said and done. the !:
rule Of brotherhood remains as the !:
Indispensable prerequisite to success
in the kind Of national life for which
we strive.
Because of the death of his sister,
Beat rice Goelet, last February, young
lance under the will of his father is
doubled and that where he would have
received something like $5,0OO,OOO or &c.
OOO, 900 had his sister lived, he will now
receive upwards of $12.0OO,OOO. This
was made known today through the
filing in the supreme court of the report
rs referee of Henry, E. Rowland.
w. Goelet, as executors, have received
about $2jO,OOO each in commissions for
the work Sc far accomplished in settling
the estate.
The first letter that the new collector
Of the port, Stranahan, opened Of the big
pile that he found on his desk one day
money there was this memorandum writ
ten in Il splendid hand: "'Render there
fore unto Caesar the things that are Gaze
sarS, and unto God the things that are
Cod .-Matt. xii, 21.' And if l have
wronsfully exacted aught Of any man |
restore fourfold.-Rom. xiii, T. Five
dollars from 4 dying Morse lady, for hid
den things. her own dresses The col
lector shook his head sadly without say
ing a word and handed the letter over
to clerk for 4 proper reference Of the
letter and the money.
Chorus girls are growing not only
stronger but taller. an operate manager
says: Chorus girls and other women
on the stage fifty years from now" said
he. will be siN-footers and over. Year
after year they have been growing taller
as we'll as stronger. because they are
always out in the air when not OH the
and walk miles every day instead of
lounging indoors. Fancy chorus girl
s by / in height in fifty years from now,
golf stick in hand. calling on the man
ager. 5 foot /, and bidding him put her
back in the front rank of the chorus from
which he had removed her the night be-
fore! Well he'd compromise, at least
for the time being.
While the price OF beef is said to be
going I'D. temporarily. at least, because
Of the corner" made by the syndicate in
the West, the ''beachcombers" in two
villages on the Rockaway shore line are
! feasting gloriously on corned beef and
beans that have been delivered to them
free gratis in large quantities. Sacks OF
one and barrels of the other as we'll have
come ashore from nobody knows where.
The shore people, who have good appe-
ttes, declare that, although the beans
needed fresh water bath over night be-
fore they became Bostonese in flavor. the
salt water soaked beef was in 10 way
off color or taste. Corned beef hash a
lAtlantique is just now the attractive
feature of the breakfast menu at almost
every table Of the winter residents Of
Rockaway.
Soon the familiar toot of the tallyho
will be heard on Fifth avenue. 1t is
announced that the fOur-in-hand Good
Times, with Aurel Batonyi as the whip,
will begin its trips from the Waldorf
Astoria May ,. when the racing season
Budleston and George B. Hume now
own the coach, and both are members
Of the American Coaching Club. Mr.
Hulme will do a good deal Of it's driving
this season. but Batonyi will practically
be the manager, as he has been in past
years. A decided change has been made
this season. The drive to Inwood and
back will be abandoned and the coach
will go out to the races at neighboring
tracks. When the Morris park races
close the coach will run to the Shpees-
head and Grayesend tracks.
John a. Mccall. president of the New
York Life Insurance Company, will pre-
sent q $4,000 pulpit to the Roman Cath
Ollie Cathedral of the Immaculate Con-
ception in New York. Mr.. Mccall is a
native, of Albany and on a recent visit
visited the cathedral as the guest of
| Bishop Burke.
as this old one is hardly in keeping with
! the harmonious architecture OF the rest
OF the church, said the bishop with a
sigh.
Let ME beg your reverence to order
the very best pulpit. to be constructed
''and send the bill to me. l do not de-
sire to figure as the donor. however,
so Bishop Burke now has in his DOS
SESSION the design for the new pulpit,
which will be completed within few
weeks.
Poor Georgia Cayvanr' That is the
| expression that can be heard on the
Rialto, for some one had heard that the
great actress was fast nearing her end
! IN the Long Island sanitarium where
she has been so long. The last time a
1rend saw her. Miss Cayvan, she says,
was dragging a toy cart full of twigs
and pebbles along the gravel walks Of
the sanitarium, where she babbles away
her weary days, a hopeless mental wreck.
Sometimes. her physician said, the clouds
that mercifully hide her condition from
the once brilliant actress lift for a mo-
ment and the unhappy woman realizes
her tragic fate. Fortunately these mo-
ments are rare and brief. for the parox-
ysms Of weeping to which she gives way
when the knowledge of her loss of all
that makes life worth living comes to
her speedily cause her to lapse into a
blessed unconsciousness again.
| Diamonds, pearls, and other rare Jew
els, valued at nearly $4,000, a part
Of the estate Of the late Charles H.
Hoyt, the playwright, will, it is re-
ported. soon become the subject of litiga-
ton in the Surrogates court. Apart
from the value of the jewels, most of
which were worn first by Flora Walsh
Hoyt. and later, with costly additions.
by Caroline Miskel Hoyt, so much senti-
mental and family interest is attached
to them that the contest promises to.
be exceedingly bitter. The Jewels. are