The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-19

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Justice Fitzgerald granted a capias for
the arrest OF Mrs. :kurton Babcock,
known as Onoto Watanna, the Japanese
authoress. The application for the order
OF arrest was made by David HelascO,
who is suing her for $4,000 damages
for libel. The order was given to two
deputy sheriffs for execution. bail be!n:,
fixed at $500. Mrs. Babcock announced
that she intended to restrain Belasco and
John luther Long from producing their
play, THE Darling of the Gods" be-
cause, as she alleged, it was pirated from
story she had written. Belasco's an
swer to her charges was to instruct \. }.
Dittenhoefer, his counsel. to sue her for
libel.
The employees of big Wall street firms
are deeply interested today in the story
money had been taken from the United
States subtreasury. A wealthy tinancier,
said to be head Of one of the biggest
houses in Wall street. sent to the treas
ury for twenty-five new $1,000 bills to
he, used as Christmas presents for Lis
employees. Every year tho subtreasury is
called upon for new money for; Wall
strt ct presents, although this year the
demand is inaugurated unusually carly.
One department store has placed an Or
der tor 2,5OO,OOO 1-cent coins to be de-
livcred as required between now and
Christmas.
Romance has received deadly blow.
1.-THE little church around the corner
has turned it's back on it. Hereafter low.
ers pursued by angry papas; overnight
acquaintance smitten heavily by Cupid
darts; rough and tumble tacklers Of mat
rimony without previous training for the
ordeal; in fact, all unconventional per
sons, who want to have the knot tied
with as little ceremony as possible, will
have to hunt another Gretna Green. Dr..
George Clark Houghton, the rector, who
succeeded his uncle at the Church of the
The game is too strenuous for Dr..
Houghton, and, in the language Of the
stage, he ''cuts it out" This is official,
for he has published it in the Kalendar,
the monthly paper OF the church.
Projects for the erection of a sixteen
story apartment building lin millionaire $
nounced, have been abandoned. When
the property, which is between Sixty
fourth and Sixty-ifth streets, changed
hands not long ago plans were given
out for the new building, there was a
great commotion among the residents
nearby, among them Frank J. Gould.
Such Il structure would have shut of:
the light from his new home and also
would have affected many other man.
sions. The man who, caused the excite
ment has now sold the plat and it is
believed the holders Of the adjoining
property either formed pool to buy
him out or secured Il purchaser who has
agreed to erect a private residence.
Because his sisters object to tho Gro
nation of their brothers remains the
body Of Alfred Prayer, a millionaire dia-
mond dealer, now lies in a vault here
until it is settled whether or no the dead
mans wishes shall be carried out. pra-
ger was one Of a famous trio Of recluse
New York millionaires known as 1.-THE
three friends" During life they were
nseparable. but generally repealed all So
cal advances. They lived together in
fine apartments at the Hotel Netherland
for years. When Prayer felt the APP
members of the trio to have his body Gre
mated. They had prepared to do this
when the two sisters appeared on the
scene and insisted upon burial according
to orthodox Jewish rites. A truce fol-
lowed and the remains were place in the
vault at Cypress Hill cemetery.
The first ease Of the tearing down OF
a modern steel skyscraper is to be the &C.
moval Of the Pabst building at Forty
second street, Broadway and Seventh
avenue. The work was begun recent
ly to make room for the new home of
the New York Times, and it is being
looked forward to by builders, architects
and others as involving problems never
encountered before in the building trade.
Everybody is familiar with the method
Of tearing down the old-fashioned struct-
ures, no matter how large, in which the
supporting walls are taken down story
by story. In the present instance it is
the removal Of an eight-story building iii
which the masonry is only an inconspicu-
GUS item, the supporting structure being
Of steel frame work that is capable Of
standing alone, without a brick or stone
about it. 1t was erected in the fall of
1898.
The conspiracy against matrimony
goes on apace in New York. Splendid
bachelor apartment houses continue to
rear their heads de6antly in the finest
neighborhoods, and the newspapers TEEN
with advertisements which promise every
prices range from 5000 to $4,000 per year
for four-room suite and bath. OF
course. every apartment has a telephone
Service is plentiful and prompt, and in
some of the larger places they have the
handy valet system-that is, one man
takes care of a number of wardrobeS,
making the expense to each bachelor
light. Every good bachelor apartment
house has its own cafe and dining room,
and most of the tenants find it conven-
lent to eat their breakfast at home,
and in dull times their dinners too. But
your eligible bachelor is in bad way
if he can't dine out several times a week.
and, if he chooses, spend his Sundays in
the country.
Every hotel in New York has a store
room for articles left behind by guests.
1t is one Of the important departments
Of the establishment and often earns the
gratitude of those travellers whose unfor.
tunate habit of forgetting leads them to
look for things that are missing. In such
hotels as the Hoffman House, the Fifth
Avenue, the Victoria. the Grand, the
Vendome, the Imperial and the Marlbor-
ough book is kept in which are jotted
down descriptions Of articles forgotten,
When hotel does a large transient bust.
ness it is frequently with difficulty that
lost articles are arranged for identified
ton. The integrity Of servants must be
relied upon to large extent The cham.
bermaid takes immediate possession of a
room uDOn the guests deDartnre Sim