The Virginia enterprise., 1902-02-21
IN GAY NEW YORK.
Scenes and incidents Of Everyday
Lie In the Paris Of America. -

Scenes and incidents Of Everyday
Lie In the Paris Of Ameeica. -
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmagc announces
the engagement of his daughter, Miss
Maud Talmage, to Clarence f. Wyckoff
of Ithaca. N. Y. Just when the mar
riago vii! take place is not known, but
it will probably be one OF the June we'd
dinss.
Friends Of Clyde Fitch are worried
over prolonged illness of the play
wright, which confined him to his home,
1l3 East Fortieth street, for over a
week. Mr.. Fitch has gone to Atlantic
City in the hope the change might do
him good.
Miss Beatrice Goelet, daughter Of Mrs
i"bcrt tioelet, died the other after
noon ut her mothers home, 591 Fifth
avenue, after 4 week S illness with mea-
>les. Her death was 4 great surprise,
tor UP until noon she appeared to gain
steadily. She was IL years of age.
lanes X. Hackett, who has acquired
the light to bring out the dramatization
of Winston Churrhill's 1.-The Crisis by
The author Of the book, will give the first
performance Of the play ut Pittsburg
on March 8. The play probably will not
be produced in New York before the be-
ginning of next season.
The steam yacht Noma, built for s.
w. r.. Leeds, was successfully launched!
at the Burlee shipyartls, Port Richmond,
:. l. It cost $5(N, 900, and is said to be
one Of the handsomest yachts afoat.
Mrs. Leeds gave the yacht its name to-
day. 1t is named for her. 1t has Il
wireless telasraph equipment.
Princess Won Auersperg processes to be
greatly surprised ut the report that she
had left her husband. She laughs over
1t. but says it is serious matter, never
circulated. Her father said: MY daugh-
ter and her husband are as happy as they
ever We're. He is Il good fellow and very
toHd of her."
lIngues LIE Roux, chosen from Il group
Of French writer's us fifth lecturer in the
Harvard course, arrived here recently
from Paris on La Gascogne and left for
Boston. Mr.. LIE Koux will remain in
America for more than three months and
will deliver ninety-three lectures. He
will visit Chicago and all the other
proThinert cities of the Middle States.
wililgo to the Pacific coast and then tc
Cuba.
II rumors current in Newport are true
the opening Of the season Of 1902 will
l,r unusually early and will be ushere.l
stated that James J. Van Allen had ar
ranged for the early opening of ''Wakc-
hurst, and that the wedding Of his old.
">t daughter, Miss May Van Allen. to II,
x. Remington will take place from Trill-
itE church, followed by reception ut
the Van Allen villa.
O1pc Of the beautiful American girls
who will be presented to King Edward
at the, coming drawing rooms is Miss
-A'ltlo Colgate. who will be taken to court
hy her mother Cora. Lady Strafforu.
The latter mas been quite iii lately, but
N now oonvalescing satisfactorily. and
hopes to be fully recovered for the sea-
son. Miss Gladys Deacon. whose beauty
has made quite i stir, may also be pre-
senttNd She is ut present in Rome. the
Guest Of Lord and Lady Currie ut the
british embassy.
-ldolph Zimmerman, a leading mem
her Of the Irving Place Thcater com
pany, is seriously i'll with pneumonia at
who is native of st. Petersburg, is 81
years old. He made his first appear
ance at the Irving Place last season,
Mr.. Conreid having engaged him while
Ec was playing ut the Hof thcater at
Wicsbaden. Since he has been here he
1heater- -goers and has been successful in
several important rolls.
Clyde Eitcn, the dramatist. has under
taken herculean labor for the next sea-
son in contract he has entered into
with Charles Frohman, the theatrical
manager. This is what Mr. Fitch agrees
to- do: He is to keep Mr.. Frohman's $
1heater, the Savoy. continuously supplied
with plays from the middle of October
next until the end of the season, about
April l, 1908. They must be new plays,
too--new in the sense that they will see
the footlights for the first time at the
rions from plays in other languages. but
they must all bear the recognized Clyde
Fitch brand.
Probably the most expensiyely papcred
room in the world is the library Of Col
William Rowland Amory, 127 East Six.
1y-second street. 1t is covered with Ger.
he became interested ten years ago, and
which went. under in a panic in Wall
street before it had fairly been launched
The side walls represent $44O,OOO,' >
says COL Amory, "and the frieze, which
is made Of coupons drawing 6 per cent
odd thing to do-to have staring you in
the face the remains of a lost fortune
but it was the only way in which could
use the bonds. and the idea struck me as
being unique
Miss l'oelet was one of the greatest
heiresses in New York society. Robert
Coelet died in April, 1890, after long
illness. and he left to his widow and two
children large fortune, great part OF
which consists of the most valuable real
estate in New York. He was the son
Of Robert Goelet, one of the two wealthy
Goelet brothers, brother of Ogden Goe.
let and cousin of Elbridge T. Gerry
The Goelets have a beautiful home at
Newport, a house at Tuxedo, and q
town residence, Eighty-fr street and
Filth avenue. The death Of Miss Bea-
trice Goelet limits the direct heirs Of the
tioclet estate descendants Of Robert Goe-
let, second, to her brother, Robert Wal
ton Goelet, and to her two first cousins,
the children of the late Ogden Goelet
May G0elet, and son, Robert GOelet.