The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-04

bles in New York. Now there are only
-. OS6s horses 1926 STABLES, "a de
| crease OF $500 intahorses and=A1 323S$s*iE
| stables. OF course, part Of this decrease
is due to.sthe constantly growing use ct
4 automobiles, but the mains cause lis the
Substitution of electricity for horses" on
the street cars. ,......,......,.. .
George C.. Tyler Of Liebler & Co. ca
bled the home Office from Italy that he
had just made arrangements with Pietro
| Mascagni to write the music for '"The
Eternal City, in which Viola Allen ap-
pears here next year, Beerbohm Tree
producing the Hall Caine play at the
same time i'll London. Mr.. Tyler met
Mr.: Maseagn by appointment in IN f No.:
Tyler that he thought it was impossible
to get Mascagni to undertake this work,
but the composer of "Cavalleria Rus
! ticana" submitted to the Establishments
of the energetic young American man
| ager, who closed the contract with an
advance payment Of $1,000, cabled by
Tyler's New York bank to Florence.
| Edward s. Dix, a well-known yachts
man Of this city and for six years man.
cy, has been committed to the Tombs
on charges Of embezzlement brought by
Julian G. Buckley, the president Of the
agency. The amount involved is said by
Mr.. Buckley to be between $4,000 and
$15, 900. Dix is a member of the New
York Athletic Club. He formerly
owned the cutter Portia. About two
months ago he sold the Portia and pur-
CHASED from w. H. Langley the schoon-
er yacht Comet, 52-ton boat. Mr..
Buckley alleges the money to buy and
| fit out the Comet was stolen from him,
and he will begin al action to attach
the boat. Dix declined to say anything
| when arrested save that he was lnno-
| cent.
Killed at the age of 175 years, one
| buttonwood tree, 10 feet tall. laborer
on the subway demanded it's trunk and
| new pillar. 1t has stood for generations
east of City hall, breasting the tempests
and storms that have swept over Man
| haitian island. In all probability it was
| growing when Hendrick Hudson sailed
up the river which was to bear his
many smoked the pipe of peace with
| Peter Stuyvesant. while within few
yards of it Nathan Hale died, Septem-
| Der %, 177G, the first martyr to the
| American cause. 1t has seen admins
trations come and go, and has stood as
unruffed as the graceful Justice that
surmounts the City hall, which is COM
paratively modern.
Detectives from the tenderloin police
station rait1ed pool room on Sixth ave-
| nue. at 4 o'clock the other afternoon,
! where they found a crowd of elderly
women, some OF whom are said to be
! the wives of Sixth avenue shopkeepers.
Six who had been seen to place bets
We're arrested. Rushing up the stairs,
| they broke into the pool room through
! you are all under, arrest"' Had it been
| the announcement of a death sentence
there could not have been more confu-
sion. 80, don't tell my husband!" i'm
plored one shrill voice. 80. please, let
us co." came the chorus, while one stout
woman raised the window with the idea
of jumping out. The distance to the
| turned to futile tears.
The Kroonland, the longest steamship
ever built in the United States, is now
lying tied up to the dock Of the, Red
Star line, where she arrived from Phila-
delphia. She will run between this port
and Antwerp. The KrOOnland is $50 feet
long, which is 26 feet longer than the
St. Louis and the St. Paul, and has
a register Of $4,000 tons, or 400 tons
more than the st. Louis and the st.
| Paul. She possesses every approved de-
/ vice for the safety and comfort of pas
sengers. and carries the latest improved
appliances for the protection Of life.
Except in one point OF speed the kroOn-
land is the equal of the. finest steamships
afioat. and will enable persons of mod
crate means to enjoy all the luXuries Of
the fastest ocean grayhounds. There are
berths for 343 tirst-class passengers, 1S4
.second-class and about 1000 third-class.
A summer home for the salesgirls en-
ployed by the firm has been opened by
one of the large department stores 1t
is in Il Fashionable locality, too, on the
beach at Long Branch. About sixty
young women went down on steamboat
one afternoon, accompanied by members
of the firm and the heads of several de-
partmcrts. During previous years the
cottages used were rented For this
year the company purchased the cottage
which is to be used hereafter for recrea-
ton. The home is on the site of an old
homestead, surrounded by a tract Of
wooded land. 1t is about three minutes
walk from the ocean and has big porch
extending across the front. On Satur-
day next another contingent will 90 to
! Long Branch, those who went down the
previous Saturday returning home, the
period OF stay at the cottage being one
week.
The annual rose and strawberry show
Of the Newport horticultural Society at
Newport is Of special interest to the sum
mer residents because the exhibits are
principally from the greenhouses of the
Newport estates, and because of the
rivalry between the gardeners to win
for their employers the special prizes
which are offered. In the present show
the greatest interest was in the contest
for the silver cup offered by Mrs. Burke
Roche for the best display of roses. Tho
prize was awarded to the display made
by Perry Belmont. William Barth, gard
ener. which consisted of an artistic and
effective arrangement of American
beauty and trademarks roses. The sec
| ond prize was given to the display from
! Mrs. Robert Goelet's greenhouse, and the
third to that from "Beaulieu," occupied
by Cornelius Vanderbilt Mr.. Belmont
also took the first prize for a group Of
| twenty-five American beauty roses, with
the j. j. Van Allen houses second.
Park illness. new disease. is puzzling
the physicians. The first to cali atten-
ton to it is DR.. Goldsmith of the park
ambulance system. The doctor blames