The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28
N GAY new YORK.
Scenes and incidents Of Everyday
Life In the Paris Of America. -

Cooper Union has received a gift of
$25O,OOO. The gift was made on the
condition that the name of the donor be
withheld.
w. X. Vanderbilt's departure for Eu-
rope is regarded in Wall street as an
indication that the formation of the pro-
posed Vanderbilt Securities company has
been indefinitely postponed.
Charles Frohman sailed on the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse. When he reaches
London he will begin rehearsals Of the
new comedy by Henry Arthur Jones i'll
which Miss Irene Van Brugh will make
her first appearance as the leading lady
Robert Kelly, the Fenian who shot
John Talbot, the police spy, in Dublin in
1871, went to Bellevue sick and home
less. He has many friends, according to
man who knows him we'll, but they
OH account of his rowing disposition.
Plans have been filed with the buildn,
bureau for a new three-story theater,
cafe and assembly hall to replace the old
Germania assembly rooms that have
POI and 203 Bowery: The theater will
hold 1900 persons and will cost $3.50, 900.
To Bibou Fernandez belong the credit
"The Fencing Elbow and is Il first
cousin to The Bicycle Knee Miss
Fernandez lately contracted the fencing
habit as a form Of exercise. She WELD
ed the foil with such vigor that the
muscles Of her sword arm revolted.
hence ''thc fencing elbow"
The last dinner to be served in the
restaurant that has been familiar to a
generation of New Workers as "Mar-
tins" has been given. The hotel at 20,
II and ::'':' University place will be closed
as are needed for the new MARTINS"
will be moved up to the building at
Twenty SiXth street and Broadway, for
merly known as the Old Delmonico build
ing.
Blind Robert Rimmer was happy the
other day in celebration of the 14th an
niversary Of the opening of his news
stand on Fulton street. where during all
that time he has been a city directory
for the thousands of strangers who come
across the Hudson to New York for the
first. time. The sign on the stand says:
''Bob keeps this stand, and this stand
keeps Bob 1t is the first oddly new
Corners to New York see.
Society in New York is becoming more
expensive, every season. Twenty years
ago girl could pay off her social obliga-
tons by a dainty tea or dance at her
home. Now the proper thing is a dance
at Sherry's or Delmonico's. The cost of
the BALLROOM alone is $500. Then there
for a trit1e Of $1,000 Il girl can manage
to repay obligations she has sustained
during Il winters frivolity.
The Kaiser's tars are thirsty lot.
Each morning when the city is rubbing
drawing acknowledgements wagon
are seen approaching the Hoboken ferry,
two iveried drivers Oh the seat. The
harness is decorated in black, white and
red. the national colors of Germany.
In the re- bed Of the wagon repose thirty
specially for the 300 men OH the Hohen-
zOllern.
Earl Grey stepped off the St. Paul
on Sunday and advanced toward two
women who were on the pier to meet
stride. and his body bent we'll forward
He did not recognize the pair until they
stepped in his path, and then he stopped
abruptly. changed his bag from his right
to his left hand, and reached high in the
air shake the hand Of the fl first s,S
will kiss you later on
Open-hearted hospitality has greeted
the Hohenzollern tars on every hand.
Even the Manhattan elevated scorns. to
of the yacht an order was issued to carry
gratis the Kaisers seamen, and each
night when small parties of the royal
crew have been to Manhattan and par
taken too freely y, of the flowing cup they
while riding uptown and downtown time
and time again. until morning came, and
sent them sober to the good ship Hohen-
zollern.
Nine Lilli Lehman in addressing the
members OF the Vegetarian society, told
how she was won:to the cause. A friend
gave her a dear little pig. She watched
it grow. Then she went away, and when
the pig was butchered they sent her mot
turned her into the path, of the vege-
tarians. The clear, bright complexion
and sparkling black eyes of the speaker
bear striking evidence of the good re-
suits Of her self-denial in the matter of
eating. which she also considers all-im-
of her wonderful voice. a.:
Under drug. store at Roosevelt street
and New BOWery is one of Manhattan's
queer institutions. All the policemen on
the post know the place, and now and
then they turn their searchlight. on the
den to see if all's we'll. Known as ''the
chair house, it's title is derived from the
fact that human beings so poor they
cannot buy lodging at the cheapest
Bowery resorts put up cents for a
chance to occupy chair for the night
BY II o'clock the nights contingent is
fast asleep in the chairs, the usual num-
Der being twenty-five or thirty men, of
all kinds and degrees of decrepit pow
erty.
AS a pair Of handsome bays swept
up Fifth avenue. high stenping and we'll
in hand, a man on the sidewalk suddenly