The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-29

starving itself to death. 1t refuses to eat
the lizards provided for it and has lest
five pounds i'll us many months.
The personal estate of the late Charles
L. Tiffany one of the founders of the
business Of Tiffany Il Co., stands APP
praisement to amount to $96:}S, GG2.
under the appraisement The appraise-
ment shows the extent of the discrininl-
ton made in the testamentary papers
against the son, Burnett Y. Tiffany
under the viii aggregate $2,615, is.
The two requests in favor of Burnett Y.
Tiffany aggregate $1.282,226, but the
are held in trust, so that only the income
is available.
No horse or Other animal need go
thirsty in New York. There are 36J
drinking fountains Of various sorts in the
care Of the city in Manhattan and the
Bronx: thirty-fye beast troughs, besides,
are maintained by the Society for the
! Prevention Of Cruelty to Animals, the
Ut the junction or Liberty street and
Maiden lane. in honor of the late Simon
St"rnr: there are 1856 more fountains in
the city parks under the jurisdiction Of
the department of parks. and thirteen or
thrrtaHout whose initial cost was de-
trayrd by private individuals are for the
| most part kept up by the park authori-
ties. The only trouble is that some Of
the fountains are NOT always kept in good
! condition aId need repairing.
Chief Croker Of the fire department
has been relieved from duty by Fire Com
| missioner Sturgis. The latter will be-
served with Il writ of mandamus for him
to show cause why he should relieve the
chief. Croker said that his temporary
removal was the result Of politics and !,
part of the game to get rid of him. The
commissioner gave !; longer explanations
1t was to the effect that Chief Croker
mad asked for a vacation and got it, and
that 1t was not convenient for the COM
missioner to have him come back at the
end of two weeks The chiefs name has
been dragged into a hearing OF Battalion
'hlef Ryan, who was accused Of doing
repair work for private individuals at
! the citys expense. Croker. it was
stated. had his automobiles rcpain;yd
without charge.
Ninth district politics, announces that he
IS going to give a monster barbecue to
the longshoremen of Manhattan and
! serve 1t in true longshoreman's style.
There will be no frills or etiquette This
Is What the keeper OF the pump says:
II III going to give those boys the biggest
blowout they ever had. Some Saturday
afternoon soon I'm going to borrow one
Of the big steamship docks. or fence off
strip OF West street. and get IL couple
of bands and give these poor fellows Il
rattln' good time. I'll feed EN- on beef
steak and beer and everything else they
want and they'll think they're all nil
i iS
over this latest scheme. and he chucl1!es
III anticipation every time he thinks of it.
| 1t will certainly make other famous din
nerS look like 80 cents, which is Just
| what Big Bill wants.
| Something entirely new will be tried
this winter on the roof OF the New York
thcater, for menagerie will be the chief
attraction there. ''The Belle of Broad
way and "Florodora," badly acted,
We're almost as quaint as an animal show
when they We're lifted up to the winter
garden last season. but now the exhib-
ton will be real. Contracts We're signed
last night by II. B. Sire of the theater
and John H. Havlin, of the firm of
Havlin 4 Stair, for Hagenbeck's show.
Most of the animals that will be in the
exhibition are on the way from Europe
NOV. The show will open October 6
and two performances will be given daily
all winter The roof garden will have
to be greatly altered and an enormous
cage will be constructed for the acts.
A picturesque sight in the business
quarter Of this city is the Russian horn
peddler. The man himself is pictur-
esque, having the strong features, dark
skin, long beard and ill-fitting clothes
which mark the Slovak, while his wares
are always noticeable for their oddly.
Sometimes it is hat rack, consisting of
| two OK horns beautifully polished and