The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-09-12

stage, which is being erected substan-
| TALLY enough for permanent theater.
Mrs. Vanderbilt with all else will nave /,
cotilon, with some Of the prettiest favors
| ever seen there.
blockade checks on the az: are the lat
est thing in New York. Patrons of the
Third avenue elevated railroad who were
! caught in q blockade at One Hundred
and Twenty-rinth street and Third ave-
the various stations which entitled then,
to another ride. For years New Workers.
have grumDed al paying fares which
| were Dot returned in the event Of a block
AIDE, and that the Manhattan Company
had at last come TO recognizes their right
to compensation was hailed as an euuita-
bic solution Of the trouble.
A New York society woman has just
given a ''farmyard dinner" Green sod
covered the table. which was twenty
/ feet square. Live ducks swan in pond
in the middle and chickens and two little
pigs foraged in the grass. The room was
set as a country farm scene. The de-
scription is somewhat mystifying, es-
pecially as seventy guests We're enter
tanned. At the same time the idea is bet
ter than that Of inviting people to meet
| monkeys and poodle dogs at table. It
must have recalled to more than one
diner the days when they wore one ''gal-
lus'' with their pants and went bare
footed.
Miss Maude Adams is now to have a
''home' theater. Charles Frohman has
decided that the fame of this star, here
after, shall be linked with the Empire,
and in no other theater in New York will
Miss Adams be permitted to appear.
John Drew, Miss Adams and the Empire
Mr.. Frohman has decided that no new
modern play written for Miss Adams will
be produced for the present. During her
forty eight performances in New York
she will appear for the first time as Rosa
lind, in Gas You Like It." For this en-
gagement subscription seats viii be sold
| in advance.
William S. Devery figures prominently
again in the real estate market 1t is
| thought if he continues to be as active in
| the future as he has been in the last six
months he soon will be the largest holder
! Of tenement house property in this city
he took title the other day to the now
! slX-stOry tenement house at the northeast
| corner Of Fifty-fourth street and Ninth
! avenue. The property carries a mort
gage of 1900. The state considera-
| ton was 500. The property is said to be
valued at at least $4,000. Devery now
owns property valued at nearly $500. 600.
title Of which is held in the name of his
nephew.
! When masculine prejudice finally sue
ceeded in suppressing the bifurcated skirt
of the feminine bikist the lords Of crea-
ton thought they had the ''pants' ques-
ton settled forever. In this. it appears
! from the shop windows along upper
Broadway and. in Fifth avenue. they
has, arisen and is being persistently
pushed by the modlstes. This is nothing
more or less than ''ladies: pajamas."
| Dummy figures. clad in dainty creations
of gossamer silk, stand in many shop
| windows, and what was once the fad Of
the, few seems now about to become the
! fashion of the many.
Hotels are fairly hopping out of the
ground. A twenty-story affair to repre-
sent a $4,OOO,0OO investment is one OF
| the first operations under consideration
by the new $G6,O0O0OO United States
| Realty and Construction Company. The
! site is the entire block bounded by Fifty
seventh and Fifty-eighth streets. Broad
way and Eighth avenue. The block is
now occupied by old two, three and four
story tenements, with stores. Plans for
the big hotel have been drawn. The es-
| timated CONSTITUTIONAL outlay exceeds
$2,OOO.OO0. This is only one Of the thre.,
or four hotel enterprises Of the first mag
nitude now under way in New York.
| While the tipping system is firmly i'm
| bedded in all the large restaurants and
hotels in New York city, an at
tempt to extend it, or at least
to make it arbitrary, has Just received Il
| setback at Ellis island. The manager of
a large cafe there has just discharged all
| the male walters and snpplanted them
| with girls. In explaining his action he
said: 1.-THE men walters who had been
here for some time seemed to think that
because they belonged to a union they
conld do as they liked with patrons who
did not fall in quickly with the tipping
| system. They finally Disseminated so
hard against tipless diners that we had
to discharge them"
will in future be cooled by the same
system that is now used to preserve dead
hogs in Chicago. Plans have been COM
pleted for the installation of Il "brine
cooler plant in the new building of the
New York stock exchange. The contract
recently signed for an ammonia machine
in the stock exchange building is the first
ever made for public building. The
INTRODUCTION CT this process of piping
for utilizing ammonia-known as the
brine cooler system--will cost about $780,
600. The same pipes will be used for
warming the building in winter. The
heating and cooling machines will cost
: about $4OO, 600. The system adopted for