The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-07-18
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~ "a. Scenes and Incidents ef>Everyday )
Life in the Paris Of America. ~

LCorinne,f who will BE Starred next sea
son in MY lAntoinette," will spend the
summer in q canal house boat on the
Erie and Delaware canals.
Police! Commissioned Partridge dis
Reardon Of the Manhattan and Green
port avenues station, Brooklyn, for neg
lect Of duty and classifying his blotter
records. T., RI =, ~ e
A man committed suicide the other
afternoon by jumping from the Brooklyn
bridge. A rope was thrown to him from
passing tug, but he refused to seize it
and soou sank from view! The body was
not recovered. In his hat, which bears
the mark "South Norwalk, Conn.," he
left four 81 bills. ~
Mrs. B. .~Cheneyj KNOWN on the stage
as Julia Arthur, underwent surgical OPP
GRAFTON at the summer home of the Che,
neys, Brewster, Island, Boston, harbor.
The operation was not a. serious one, and
was made as a. precautionary measure
against appendicitis, with which the act
ress was Threatened The patient is re-
covering u So =
Miss Kitty Rampone~has Deen engaged
by the park department to sing at the
band concerts in Morningside park and in
Mount Morris park. u She has the dis
tinction Of being the only woman; New
York city has employed to- sing before
the" public. She is the daughter of the
late Sig. Rampone, who was the leader
of the Old Guard band. r.. - w.
Through the~gencrosity Of Miss Annie
Ieary, the only American woman to be
made Countess Of the Holy Sea, and
OF Mrs. Henry 3. Plant, widow Of the
wealthy railroad and steamboat-owner,
the Fathers Of the Blessed Sacrament
who are in this city are soon to have
q church of their own-the first in the
United States and the only ono which
will be permitted by the rules Of the
orde".
Columbia College students have found
4 new means of livelihood at the sum-
mer hotels. Instead Of serving as wait
ers, which is a rather onerous task, they
are hiring ont as ping-pong attendants
at the miniature courts in the country.
1.-The young person. will also find that
mamma will not object so much to a
love affair with png-pong attendant as
she will to an attachment to tray car
rier. The first is in the fashion, any
how. ,
IhOmdS Preston, seaman on the
schooner Sirdar, is afflicted with an ag-
gravated case Of moon blindness caused
by sleeping on the deck in the full glare
of the tropical moon. Moon blindness as
a rule is merely temporary, but return
ing with a slight attack at full moon.
but in the case of Preston the facial
muscles have been affected and his whole
face is drawn up and staring. IT is not
thought he will recover his sight unless
an operation is performed.
Because they give the conductors an
opportunity, for dishonesty. the, 3 cent
brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. In
all lines Of the company at present chill
dren between ; and II years old are al
lowed to ride for cents. The old Mas
Sau electric company had no half fares.
Children under 5 years old were allowed
to ride free and all others paid the regu-
lar cent fare. This is the system which
the rapid transit company t,intend Is to
adopt.
Capt. Swain Of the LIVERPOOL, ~. s..
schooner Potanoc has just arrived in
New York from Cayenne and the San
Bias coast, a country where. a glass OF
lemonade costs a dollar. In Cartha-
five Colombian paper dollars to make one
American dollar. Lemonade ut dollar
Il glass is really cheap, it's actual cost
being a little more than 2 cents" The
captain and the crew are now drinking
New York beer at cents glass.
President Charles NJ. Schwab of the
steel trust returned to New York and
confirmed the report that he is going to
build mansion in this city. He is en-
thusiastic over the home he will build
1t will cost him between $2.O0O.OOO and
$4,000, 900, The, building OF the man
cent grounds on the old orphan asylum
site in Riverside drive, between Seventy
third and Seventy-fourth streets, will
take nearly three years. The mansion
will combine the chief characteristics Of
the Chateau d" Bots and the little Tria-
non, two of the most luxurious and arts
tic houses in Paris. 1t is the intention
to make the residence the finest in New
York.
New York is threatened with an epi-
demic of typhoid. Two physicians of
prominence declared the other day that
the cause was the recent heavy rains.
which washed into the streams large
quantities of decaying vegetables and ami
NAL matter. The month of May was
accumulated, which, was carried down by
the heavy storms They thought that
too much care could not be exercised at
this season with regard to drinking wa
ter The water. should be filtered if there
were indications of impurities. At the
same time attention should be given to
the choice Of food. A number of deaths
from the fever have occurred within the
past two weeks.
i: The flatiron"-officially the Cumber-
handwriting, now going up on the tri-
angular lot at the intersection Of Broad
way, Fifth avenue and >-Twenty-third
street, will soon be initiated by a similar
building to be-, erected on "a. triangle in
Longacre~ square at. Broadway; Seventh
avenue and Firty-third street. The
building,rhke that at Invent -third- street
will be put up by the George A. ~Fulier
Construction Company, and part of it,
when sayeompleted, will be leased to a
morning newspape Der (which thereAs good
reason for belieying.is the New York
TheNPabst hotel. The only 6uildine
standing on the site now, has been aban-
doned .for hotefpufposes, becaSBe its
. vaults were needed byS the SubwW Con-
struction COMPANY. The remaihaer of
the plDt hasfbeen purchaseds1Tam the
Subway Realty Company and the new
will I~1 I'D