The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-09-05

for me that l went from society to the
stage and now l am going back to soce-
ty. The American public don't care for
art any more. l gave them the real
pazzazza art when I acted Simon Le-
gree. but it was no use. The company
Of which | was the star went up the
tue. and am back in the old town and
have sworn Off-actiny.'
The most recent type to impose on
the man, usually comfortably dressed,
who may be seen ostentatously eating
dry bread which he picks up in the
street. This is a ruse which rarely fails
to bring aims from the most sophisticat
ell. The trick is 4 very simple one. The
bread along the gutter, and then. when
crowd is passing, PUSHES ont, picks up
one Of the cruSts and begins TO eat it
ravenously. After he has collected a
dollar or 50 from sympathetic crowd.
he drops the bread where he picked it
up and awaits another crowd.
Green vines now cover the front Of the
house in West Thirty-third street where
Frank Farrells new gambling palace.
Just a step from the Waldorf Astoria,'
- cSAAAso A1ittuS 1StNs' @AtlN lNt " CURIOUS
people who try to get look ut the
$50, 900 stairway was posted on the out
or door recently. The placard said
NO admittance. Positively something
doing to intruders.'' 1t was thought
that the house would be ready to onen
on July /. but it may not open until
September. To open in August would
terested said today, the house ''wouldn't
take in enough to keep the police from
the door, Farrell will spend August
in Saratoga.
The pins-pong fad is responsible for
much, and now we have the ping-pong
kleptomaniac. In the Waldorf Astoria
ping-pons gallery last night young man
in evening dress was playing. His fire.
attention of an attendant. who at last
saw him deity slip Il ball into his coat
tail pocket. Then the attendant called
4 house detective, who watched the man
until he repeated the operation, when he
interposed. With nonchaant smile
the individual cooliy lighted a cigarette,
procured his hat and sauntered out.
been here long time and have seen all
kinds Of 'em. but that guy is the slickest
ever ran up against
Mrs. John \. Norris Of Chicago has
recovered the Jewels that were stolen
from her at the Castlcton Hotel, st.
George S. I. They were returned to her
hotel through the mail by the thief, but
ne Kept the S4SO in cash which he found
in her jewel bag. Mrs. Norris, whose
husband is Of the firm Of Smith &
Barnes. Chicago piano manufacturers,
spends part Of the year in New York
and is we'll known in social circles The
stolen jewels included. an opal ring Of
great value. a diamond and emerald ring
ana several pins and other articles Of
JeWrlry. The stone in the opal ring,
which weighed six and one-half carats,
was one OF the largest and finest ever
500 III THIS country and was an heirloom.
l! Was surrounded by thirty blue-stone
diamonds.
More than 5000 persons will be en-
p.oyth next season for the production
Of klaw Il Erlanger's plays. The n]ays
OF the managers and the openings are:
IN" Rogers Brothers, I'm Haryard.'
VIII open at the Knickerbocker, Scptcm-
per |; '"Ihe Beauty and the Beast"
ilur' opens at the New Grand Opera
house. Cincinnati, September 8; .:Liber.
~ Bellies at the Chestnut Street the
alter. September 5; Jerome Sykes, in the
.Money Burner' at New Haven about
October 1; "Huckleberry Finn" at Hart
ford, November 10; Miss Ada Rehan in
Dlana of the Crossways" in November:
Martin Harvey at the Herald Square and
blue Beard at the New Amsterdam
thcater now being built in Forty.second
street, in December,
Mrs. Ida NJ. F1agler, formerly the
removed from the sanitarium in Pleas
antville, Westminster county, where she
has been confined three years, to ''The
Orchards,' the large mansion of Francis
Wilson in New Rochelle. Dr. Carlos NJ
Macdonald, the insanity expert, paid the
actor $1,000 for the use of the house
while Mr.. Wilson and his family are in
Europe this summer. Mrs. Flagle made
the journey willingly when told she was
being taken to the palace of his i'm
perial majesty the Car of Russia. Mrs
Flagler has delusion that she is en-
gagged to be married to the Car and
is constantly talking about details which
she has arranged for the wedding. On
all other subjects her conversation is
rational.
Fifteen hundred voices were lushed
during the last storm in Central park.
That number Of newly Matched robins
met an untimely end by being blown
from their nests in the tops of hi Oh trees.
1t was Matching time for the songsters
and there was large number in the tree
tops. The sympathies of the park police
were aroused by the misfortune Of the
robins. and where they found the little
ones still alive many of them did what
they thought would help the tiny birds.
In several cases where nests had been
blown from the trees and the little ones
not killed. the policemen replaced the
fedglings in the r homes and then stuck
the nests securely in low branch, while
the parent birds hoped around as close