The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-10-17

Edward NJ. Shepard has retired from
the law firm of Parsons, Shepard &
Ogden, thus terminating Il professional
association with John E. Parsons of
many years standing.
Miss Henrietta Crosman will come in
to Wallack's Theater with her new play,
1.-The Sword Of the King" one week
earlier than was originally intended,
opening October & instead OF October Is.
William C. Whitney is expected to join
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney at
October Mountain, his Lenox estate,
upon his return from Europe. 4 car
load of riding and driving horses has ar
rived at October Mountain.
A gentleman from the Shamrock isle,
who evidently was unused to New York,
stood looking at the famous "hatiron"
block on Broadway at it's junction with
Twenty-third street, with signs of amaze
ment on his face.
"Well, what do you think of it?'' asked
a policeman
Gan l wos thinking, sor. that it was
the first building l ever met, where yez
could see the both sides Of it at once"
Owing to the high prices for coal an
organized plan for securing supplies of
the 'dusky diamond from the waters of
Long Island Sound will be put in opera
ton. Many barges loaded with anthra-
cite have been wrecked in the sound. A
company has been organized to recover
this coal by means Of "sweep" boats,
which will be used to locate the wrecks.
n diver will be sent down to each wreck,
and If the outlook is satisfactory power
ful pumps will be put to work, the coal
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into the dredges.
land has been established. The transact
ton, which was the feature Of the mar
ket, disposed permanently of the old
southwest corner of Madison venue and
Forty-second street. The 36.7 by % lot
was sold by John J.. Roberts to Drs. An
drew A.. Smith and Dawson H. Smith
at $244 a square foot. The price paid
was $25O,O0O. The square foot price
was the highest ever paid on Manhattan
island outside the financial district, with
the exception of the northwest corner of
Broadway and Thirty-fourth street,
which brought S34O.
When the Celtic warped into its pier
on Sunday morning, Rev. DIR. Parkhurst,
who was one of the passengers, was I'M
able to get started uptown until 10
o'clock. His church service was to be-
gin at II and he told the cabman to race
for it. He assumed that his robes, which
he left in a closet when he went away
last spring, were still there, and what
was more important that the notes of an
undellyered sermon were still in one of
the pockets of the robe. He made the
trip in time, donned his clerical gar
ments, found his notes, and delivered the
ermOn
The old bell in the steeple of St. Paul's
Chapel downtown tolls every Sunday
60, when the faithful abided near and
heard it's resonant tones. Blu these days
few who attend tine services ever hear
the bell. For a mile on all sides Of the
quarter where it stands is given over to
skyscrapcrs. and with the solitary excep
ton of the guests of the Astor no sleep
ers are warned that the hour of worship
the congregation come from remote parts
of the city, and the bell has long ago lost
its primitive utility.
Crockery, bric-a-brac. and even china
dolls are going to waste these days to
provide realism for the stage. Oscar
Asche breaks up a fine assortment of
nOuSeuOlu furniture anu ornaments nlSlL-
ly at the Criterion in his role of Malde-
made in Iris" and Mrs. Harmony is
equally reckless at the Bijou, where she
smashes 4 fine dolls head at every per-
Torrance. These dolls heads cost s.
each, and as there are eight perform
ances a week, enough toy babies go to
waste to bring grief to the most hard
hearted little mother But the man
ayers s~toically pay. the doll man SIG
every Saturday night and feel that they
have a good bargain.
Reginald c: Vanderbilt will leave
Lenox next Friday for New Haven,
Conn, where OH Saturday he will take
the delinquents senior law examination
s a9 4ale un5vf fc15 Mr. During Tngaa all Of this his
been tutored by r. r. Tollitt, who grad
uated from Yale in 1901, and who last
year was in the law school. Mr.. Van
derbllt has been very studious while in
Lenox and has taken considerable time
each day to acquire a thorough under
standing of the law course during senior
year ut Yale, for that was his only de-
fciency. He is now well prepared to
take the examination. and when that is
passed Mr.. Vanderbilt will be given the
coveted "sheepskin' from the Yale
faculty.
Enc nome OF II. II. Rogers, the Stan
dard Oil magnate, at Madison avenue
and Fifty-seventh street, was threatened
with destruction by fire, caused by the
crossing of electric wires running be-
tween the second and third floors. It is
estimated that the damage will reach
$4,000, caused mostly by water. A can
vas in the library, The Landing of Co.
lumbus," which cost Mr.. Rogers $40, 900,
was burned beyond redemption. His IL
brary, which contained invaluable books,
was reduced to a mass of smolderine pa,