The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-10-31

doing a land office business these days.
Everybody who comes to%s5New Work
wants to see Chinatown to- it's innermost
depths. s5
Mckee Rankin and Miss Nance
ONeil, who recently ended successful
tour of England with their American
company, are on their way home OH the
Columbia from Glasgow
Among the passengers who arrived on
the steamer Kronprinz Wilhelm, from
Bremen, were katsunofke Jnouye, Jap
ancse ambassador at Berlin: Elonore
Duse, the actress, and Nine. Sembrich,
the singer.
Capt. P. J. Wiser, the Boer chief of
who is feet inches tall, arrived aboard
the st: Paul from Southampton. He says
ne is here to grow up" with his coun-
try. He is only % years old.
Harry Lehr. who married Mrs. Dahl
gren, is DESTROYS Of obtaining home in
upper Fifth avenue, and several real es-
looking for a house in the avenue that
comes up to Mr.. Lehr's demands.
Mrs. Russell Sage will serve as hon
orary chairman Of the festival to be held
at the Waldorf-Astoria December 5 for
the benefit of her :favorite charity, Pas
cal Institute, which affords poor girls u
thorough training in dressmaking
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1t is anticipated thats the installation of
an electric operating system on the ele-
waited railways of New York will result
IN an increase of earning power to the
extent of 81 100000 per year. The en-
tire change is to- be made by the end of
the present month.
The Park avenue tunnel disaster has
thus far cost the New York Central road
$26O,5OO in damages obtained on &C.
count of personal injuries or death.
Juries have award ed claimants $157, 800
and the company has made settlements
amounting to $1O3, 600. 1872
Burglars entered the summer home of
Arthur Coppell, a New York banker. at
Short Hills, n. j., and took $4,000
worth of jeweles and 800 in cash. Mr.
Coppell is a banker at q Exchange
place, and his New York residence is
l27 East Fifty-seventh street,
Albert Loeb. senior partner in the
banking firm Of Albert Loeb & Co. Of
New York city,, is dead from apoplexy.
years ago. Mr. Loeb was a, member of
the stock exchange and director of the
St. Louis & Southwestern railroad.
After withstanding every other test,
the so-called bullet proof Rest invented
and woven by Rev. Casimir, Zeglen, a
priest of St. Stanislaus Roman Catholic
Church, Chicago, was penetrated by sew
eral bullets from a 3S-caliber military
revolver at public exhibition in Brook
Ign. r.. ~>..l...;' <s's,
! The annual dinner of the New York
chamber of commerce has become SO
large an affair that it can 10 longer be
accommodated at speimonico.s, and viii
thiS yeaf| be- Served at the Waldorf
A storia.% Covers will lie laid for 600,
and instead of paying $40 per plate as
heretofore, each member will be taxed
The printing of the ballots for use in
commenced. It is a job Of immense pro-
portions and the cost will be 1895.
The printers are to turn out 1924, 400
lots. Each voting place in the city will
receive 800 official and 200 sample bal
lots.
One of the most fashionable furriers in
New York city has just filed an order
for an ermine blanket and collar enlarged
as head piece for the Japanese spaniel
of one of his customers. The order for
these was given with one for set of
livery furs, and when completed the
price Of the canine outfit about reached
the three-fgure limit.
There is to be a ball at Sherry's soon.
This means more than the uninitiated
may understand. Reggie Vanderbilt,
Bronson Winthrop, Alfonso de Navarro
ana other beaux have arranged it. This
palms to burn and, in short, all earthly
Eden, with more than one Eve i'll the
mix. 1t is listed as an Al social stock.
Charles s. Fairchild, former secretary
of the treasury, was knocked down by
a trolley car at Eighth street and Fifth
avenue, on his way to the offices of the
of which he IS president. Postmaster
Cornelius Van Colt was passing at the
time in his electric coupe, and he stopped
and took the former secretary to his
home. Mr.. Fairchild had sustained con-
tusions about the head and face His
injuries were severe but not serious.
>.oAN ANC A'AlNAty "do CICSlSu pueSiucAL
Of the Commercial Gable Company. the
Postal Telegraph Company and the Pa
cifc Gable Company, taking the place of
his father, John w. Mackay. Clarence
Mackay is said to have announced that
he will carry out the plans which his
father made regarding the Pacific cable
extension, and formal statement was
made yesterday that it was the intention
Of the company to complete the line from
Honolulu by way of Guam to the Philip
pine islands.
The daughter of the gods who is will
ing to pose as a cloak model is in great
demand these days. She must have a
36-inch bust. she must measure exactly
43 inches around the hips, have 16-inch
back. willowy figure, the constitution
of an athlete. the disposition Of an angel
and a face that photographers will rave
over. Any young woman possessing
these qualifications may enter one of the
big department stores of New York and
become a cloak model at SIS per week
She will receive that only during the
tusy season.
1t has been decided that the old hall
Of records in this city, which was used
as prison in the days of the Revolu-
ton, shall be removed to make way for