The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-01-10


\ large group Of curious subterranean
rooms and passages is to be found at
the foot of Broadway. extending out lat
continuous line Of them follows Broad
way. Several of the banks and trust
companies have offices fitted up below
the crowded sidewalks, where rows of
clerks are working silently. unmindful Of
the rush and turmoil above their heads
In the safe deposit vaults built below
ssau and Broad streets are stored mil
mons OF dollars worth Of securities, over
which the crowds hurry all day heed
lessly.
\ barber shop on West Broadway
holds holds the record OF having attended to
d d9SG customers in one day last year.
me management has just published tie
record for October: On the 18th of that
month 1917 men We're either shaved or
had their whiskers trimmed. The small
est ia! during October was on the Goth.
when 1927 victims were tempered with
All work is done absolutely free, conse-
auently trade is brisk. This barber shop
Is a curious institution. There are fifty
Il room and apparatus for facial mas
sage In the background of this shop
there is a gallery with TERED seats which
seats some 400 poor persons and there
they sit patiently watching the lathcr fly
and waiting their turn. The place is run
IN connection with barber schOo.
where students attend from nil parts Of
the country.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, who lately
purchased Sycamore lake and 1900 acres
OF surrounding forest from w. West Du-
rant. is personally directing many inn
portant improvements in this. which, has
always been considereu one of the finest
forest parks in the world. Mr.. Wander
Dit Is now at Sycamore lake, where sey-
en- log camps are being constructed On
the, shores of the lake. In connection
with the main camp new billiard hail
is being erected, new stables. and a large
building which will be devoted to hen
merry. Mr.. Vanderbilt, in addition to
maintaining large stable, will have gar
'ens and nurseries there in the noun
lures of the improvements is the. col-
struction Of about thirty miles Of new
highway. \ road is being built around
the shores of the lake which are entirely
within the preserve. and through the
forest to Eagle lake. which is sixteen
miles from Sycamore lake.
The project of Mrs. Frederick Bron-
son and other members of the ''4OO'' to
rename East Seyenty-second street. be-
tween Fifth and Lexington avenues.
Park Lane.' after the famous society
street in London, was defeated by i
unanimous vote of the board of public
improvements. None or the chief signers
Of the petition requesting the change
Mrs. Bronson. Col: William Jay, w:
Bayard Cutting. James Stillman and
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but host of Directing property-ow owners
and residents Of the locality were pres
ent. George Edwin Joseph severely
scored the scheme. 1T is an instance Of
the regrettable tendency among our peo-
pie Of wealth to initiate in servile manner
the customs Of fashion abroad" he said.
Park Lane might be nice addition to a
weighty reasons advanced for the chang
ing OF street name. The petitioners are
not even original. The name they would
use is simply that of an avenue in Lou
don where they have often been guests
in homes of fashion. Why not call Bow
cry Cheapside and make even it fash
ionabe?"
Much clamor and confusion will be
done away with at the Metropolitan OPP
era house in January by the installation
of an illuminated carriage call system,
which will signal to waiting coachmen
half-mile distant. The proper numbers
will be flashed from conspicuous place
commanding the streaches of pavement
where the carriages. cabs and automo-
blles now crowd and jam the crossings
after opera hours.
Operators stationed at the entrances
Will give numbered checks, and, without
the aid of the man with the foghorn
voice, calling ones vehicle will be only a
matter of switching a series Of levers ar
ranged somewhat like typewriter board
each of the three large apertures, so that
carnage calls may be numbered up in the
hundreds and changed every two seconds
The principle of the device is similar to
that of the shifting advertising legends
written in colored incandescents light.
The owners of several theaters are
waiting to adopt the. system if the test
at the opera house is as successful as
seems probable. The inventor is Morti-
mer Norden, secretary of the Norden-
Blttener Electric company.
"A mysterious robbery of a diamond.
chain valued at $500. of which either
the Adams Express company Or Shaw &
Berry, a Washington jewelry firm which
shipped it to New York, are probably the
dispatched from here to Joseph Franke,
= Sons, New York. When delivered
there was no evidence that the seal had
been tempered with and the package was
not opened in New York until the fol-
lowing day, when the chain was found
missing. The stolen gems numbered 200
and We're set in platinum iorgnette
chain ffty-four inches long. The pack
age was made up by the Washington
firm under the personal supervision of
the proprietors and duly registered. It
is supposed that the package was opened
by some one acquainted with it's con-
tents, the chain removed and the package
then restored to it's original appearance.
Twenty head Of cattle and two horses
near Manistee. by the burning Of the