The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-26
IN GAY NEW YORK.

IN 1AY NE" yOAh.
Miss Pauline Astor, daughter Of Will
liam Waldorf Astor, sailed for England
aboard the Teutonic.
Sarah Eddes, who wrote short stories
under the pen name of Sarah Jeanette
Burke, was accidentally asphyxiated in
her room at 2O3 West Twenty-fourth
street. A tubing to a gas stove was
broken.
Mrs. Annie Koerber, mother Of Marie
Dressler, the actress, died at her home in
Bay, Side, Long Island. So critically i'll
is the actress in this city that it was
necessary to withhold from her the news
OF her mothers death.
Plans have been filed for new twelve
story freproof hotel to be built at the
southwest corner of Broadway and Fifty
fourth street for the Construction Realty
Company, of which Robert s. Finney is
head. 1t is to cost 100000.
Howard Gould's steam yacht niagara
has sailed with it's owner and a party of
friends for cruise in the Mediterranean.
which will include visit to Egypt and
a trip up the Nile. The party will be
away little less than four months. -
The first rumor regarding the name
which the new yacht now in course of
construction for the defense of Americas
cup will bear was started the other day.
The name will be the Eagle. according
to what is said to be reliable informa-
ton.
A valuable collection of bronzes, jades,
literary manuscripts and decorations,
which would have gone to the Metropol-
itan Museum of Art at the death Of Will
burning of Mr.. lie Gendre's country home
at Mount Kisco.
Heber r. Bishop died at his home, SSl
Fifth avenue. He had been confined to
his bed for five weeks with heart trouble
and an aneurism. He was one Of the
most prominent members of the Metro
collection of jades worth $75O,OOO.
Mrs. Elihu Root arrived on the 9th
from Antwerp on the Red Star line
steamship Finland. She sailed on No
vember 20, having been summoned home
by the illness of her father, Salem Howe
Wales who, however, died December ?,
while Mrs. Root was in midocean.
Rev. Ernest M. Stires, rector of st.
Thomas Church, Fifty third street and
Fifth avenue, has received more than
$4,000 for missionary work from the
thought the total contributions may
amount to $4,000. Already they sur
pass the gifts of any previous year in
the church.
In the fish world it would appear that
scarcity brings epicurean distinction,
hence scallops, which are the dearest in
twenty years, may soon take rank with
at 81 quart, and terrapin, which, ac-
cording to the facetious marketman,
"crawl up little each year." are selling
at from Sc to $40 apiece.
Mrs. II. Littlefeld of Hoboken was
setting ho of street car ss the ether
which she had just drawn from the bank.
A young man picked up the roll, returned
it to her and disappeared before she
could thank him. Mrs Littlefield count
ed the money and found that she had
only SIT. She reported the robbery to
the police.
Henry l.. Gatchitt, vino, as lad, was
the first newsboy in New York to cry
his papers aloud, has just died at his
home in Prooklyn, a rich man. He was
born on the east side and sold newspa-
pers OH the streets when the site Of the
Cooper Union was cornfeld. Acting on
an inspiration one day. he took his stand
names of his papers and an inkling Of
their contents to passersby. The present
extra yell Of the newsboy dates from
that time.
Supported by Mrs. Alfred G. Wander
bilt, Mrs. katherine McClusky, who
found a $1,000 diamond ring in horse
show box occupied by Reginald Wander
bilt, says she has done right in selling
by Mrs. Henry r. Woodward Mrs.
Woodward says that she had been visit
ing friends in New Jersey since horse
show week and had not missed the ring
for several days, and then she did not
feel sure whether she had really lost the
ring or left it at her friends house where
she had been visiting.
The infant daughter of Col. and Mrs.
John Jacob Aston was christened at the
Astor country home, Ferncliffe. Her
name Ava is her mothers. There were
no guests at the ceremony. COL Astor
held the 5-months-old baby in his arms
and his wife stood at his side while
Kew. Mr.. Saunders performed the cere-
mony. Mrs. Lawrence, a relative; Mrs.
Astor, the child's grandmother, and
Richard Stevens were the sponsors. but
none of them were present. The Astors
have one other child, William Vincent
Astor. who is IL years of age.
There are other lucky girls in New
= York besides Margaret Carnegie, who.
on Christmas day, is to become the tiny
mistress of great Fifth avenue man
sion. Yet the children of John Jacob AS
tor, those Of Cornelius Vanderbilt, little
baby John Nicholas Brown, who at 3
years of age has fortune of SIS,
900 aud many houses, and even the little
! grandson Of Senator Clark of Montana,
born the other day, thereby winning the
I prize Of 81 ,OOO, 900 offered by the senator
to HIS first grandson. cannot boast of
such good fortune as little Margaret Car
negie.
New York eats more and wastes mora
food than any other city in the world.
says q man who has made q speciai
study Of disposing of the waste materiai
Of great cities. 1t wastes less fond In
February than in any other month.
Z probably because 3 smaller number o7
green vegetables is eaten then fhan +,