The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-11
IN GAY NEW YORK.


Of the West Thirty.seventh street lpre,
cinct call him 'the: athletic cop."f has
fallen heir to fortune of about $4,000
through the death at Nashua, n. H.,
uncle. =.
Lebler & Co.; who will bring Flea
nora Duse to this country this fall for
tour, have secured her consent to in
crease the number of performances from
nifty, as first stipulated, to 100. The
itinerary has not been arranged, but the
hrst performance will be given in Bos-
ton. ~
The Roman Catholic diocese of New
York has given $4,000 this year to
Peters pence. At the time of the Pipes
jubilee Archbishop Corrigan sent him
check for $4,000 as New York's contri-
button to Peters pence. The archbishop
expected that the generosity Of the do
cese would approach this sum. :,
Plans have been filed at the bureau of
buildings, Manhattan, for an eighteen
story brick hotel to be erected at@thee
Fifty-6fth street, being is feet front a by
1908 feet deep. The Fifty-ffth street
company, 100 Broadway, is the owner.
600. ~0'' 40 p''~e a. F-' -
Ernest Hogan, the ''unbleached Amer
ican," who introduced "Go Way Back
and Sit Down." and many other songs,
will be q real star in the autumn. He
Friend from Georgia." which was writ
ten by Allen Dunn, a newspaper man
now in Honolulu. Words to several of
the songs which will be sung by Hogan
are being written by Paul Dunbar, the
negro poet.
Maj. Ira A. Shaler died at the Presby-
terian Hospital in New York as a result
Of injuries received in the Rapid Transit
subway June II, when large rock which
had been lOosened by a blast fell OH
him and broke his back. Maj. Shaler
was a civil engineer and held a subcon-
tract for building a portion Of the tunnel.
He was born in New Jersey in 1862, edu-
Gated at Cornell and became major in
the First United States volunteer engi-
neerS.
George 81. Phillips Of Chicago, who
has figured prominently in a number Of
recent corn deals, and by some of his
friends is known as the corn king"
has opened an Office at Is Beaver street,
New York, and will have a branch at
the Hoffman house connected by direct
wire with his principal office in Chicago.
1t is understood to be Mr.. Phillips in
tention to alternate between here and
Chicago, though most of MS time will
be spent in the latter city.
Mrs. Howard Gould is planning to be-
come cave dweller. She is laying out
at Sands Point, short distance from
New York, very picturesque country
seat, to cost 100000. Old grottoes and
rock gardens will be scattered over the
place somewhat on the order of some
| estates which Mrs. Gould saw while on
a tour through Germany and France.
There will also be cave, ferns in Il
picturesque ravine and vast conserva-
tory similar in shape to those at Lynd-
hurst, Miss Helen M. Gould's place at
1rvingtOn.
Surrounded by houses which have
| cause their occupants are at their sum-
mer homes, the great house of Col. John
Jacob Astor, at $40 Fifth avenue, is still
open, and Mrs. Astor is deferring her
visit to their home at Newport to q
later period than ever before. All this
is because the stork is lowering over, the
Astor mansion and may alight with his
burden on one of the days in July. At
Tuxedo the only child Of the Astors, Will
liam Vincent Astor, now 10 years old. is
spending the summer with the tutor,
governess and nurse and q retinue of
servants, with a full equipped stable.
Later he may go to Newport, where the
father and mother will be seen before
the close of the season.