The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-01-24

PRESIDENT Roosevelt will the guest of
C"lumbia university on April 10. Oh the
occasion OF the formal ton OF
lar. Nicholas Murray Butler as president
Ut eli j close personal friend OF DR.. But
lei .0- Il number Of years and will be
the principal speaker at the Inauguration
ceremonies
The c9t9 e1 gIYtn Monday, night by
residence. 451 Madison avenue. for their
niec..s the Misses Mills, daughters Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ogden Mills. was an eIab-
crate affair. Craig Wadsworth and
Elisha Dyer. Jr.. led the cotilon, which
began at l O'Clock, supper having been
served at T..
When Amelia Bingham begins her Sec
one season at the Bijou theater, OH Mon
day, January -, in Lady Margaret"
The play adapted by Edward Ross from
tn" east will include, among others.
Charles Walcott. Frank Worthing. Fer
'linand GottSchalk. Arnold DAILY, Edward
s. 4 De!es, Mrs. Charles Walcott, Minnie
I,r:ree, Annie Irish, Cora Tanner, Mrs.
M;:..Se Carr Cook and Bijon Fernandez
.t:tAr living seventeen years in France,
Wi:..am Frederick Macmonnes, the
sculptor, has returned to this city to
work, and live. and travel He is now
at lis mothers home in Brooklyn. His
wifi, and two young daughters will follow
him as soon as the season of smooth voy-
a"ns across the Atlantic comes.
Il have come back" said Mr.. Mac
MULnitS, because l was homesck. I am
glad to get back. and am happier here
than l would be i'll any other place in the
WH,.C.
Lion W. Gates would have lost his
ST'(WO bet made at the Waldorf-As
terra the other night with Herman
Sicl<'ke1. that steel rails did not sell as
10y. as $18 a ton in 1890, if Charles De-
Wiz, the stakeholder: had not persuaded
'!ls' bettors to allow him to tear up the
checks placed in his hands. Rails sold
Mtveen SIG and SIT 4 ton that year.
IN" argument started ut 4 dinner and
My Slelcken said later that it was ''all
talk. all talk He smiled knowingly,
l,;E->yer, and refused to say more
News comes from Paris of the divorce
there OF Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Gardiner,
who have for several years been more
NJ .css conspicuous figures in the life of
TIE American colony. Mr. Gardiner is
mar Of great wealth and was, with Bar
hey Barnato, one Of the richest Of the
operators in South Africa stocks. Mrs.
Gardiner was before her marriage known
as Carrie Daniels ac>l was an actress in
musical farce. At the time of Barney
Ra-nato's death Mr.. Gardiner was said
10 te worth $1O,OOO.0OO. Mr.. Gardiner
settled fortune on his wife.
Preliminary work on the construction
OF the new Pennsylvania tunnel which
Is 70 extend from Long Island city to
New Jersey, beneath the East and North
rivers. and the borough Of Manhattan,
Was begun here recently. Engineers
started drilling holes and taking meas
ur' 1nents OF track No. 6, the central
track running into the Long Island pas
>rEcer station at Long Island City. The
work was done about 300 feet east of
tn" rear end of the passenger station, the
object being to ascertain at what depth
they would strike water at that point.
Charles Hoffman, three pounds, and as
hl: as naf pint of cider, has conceived
that the barred top and sides of the 90
degree warm incubator in which he is de-
veiopng in the sub rosa ward of the Post
Graduate hospital is his mamma. His
tiny, scrawny. inhnitesimal hands 90 up
from the little nest Of softness in which
ne lies to the sheer sides of the mechan-
zeal and ingenious incubator, and they
feel It over slowly and gropingly. Then
his tiny mouth opens. and through the
glass top those outside hear fine-strung,
rlt-ike "M-m-ma." Charles is the small
US: infant ever born in New York
The Simpson-Crawford company, TIL,
N..OOVOOO corporation recently organized
with Henry Siesel at its head, has taken
charge of the business heretofore CON
ducted by the firm Of Simpson, Crawford
Il Simpson. Mr.. Siegel disposed of his
interest in the New York store OF the
Slegel-Cooper company early last fall,
and in October acquired a controlling in
in no oe
n Simpson,. The transfer included the
new, building in process Of erection in
sixth avenue, covering the block between
Nineteenth and Twentieth streets. a por-
ton of which is already occupied. The
real estate OF the new corporation when
an investment Of $500 900.
The engagement is announced of Miss
Eleanor Russell Morris and Robert Hall
Mccormick. Miss Morris is the eldest
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs: Henry Lewis
Morris of II West Fifty.third street and
old New York families, including the
Reekmans. Rutherfords and Crugers.
She made her debut in the winter of,
1M0-19O1 and is a tall and handsome
blonde. Mr.. Mccormick is the son of
Mr.. and Mrs. R. Hall Mccormick Miss
Sarah L. Day. of Chicago, but who for
over year have made their home in
New York. He is nephew of Mrs.
Charles Thorndike Parker. and is also re-
lated to many prominent New York fam
lies, lie is a student at Columbia uni
versity.
.!ohn [. Davenport, for years the Car
Of a Maah thts a. on election day. man who
year. the most talked about man in New
,York, decade ago., is today broken in
health and almost destitute, though not
vet 60. From a modest little fiat he goes
daily to lower Broadway, where he visits
the office Of an old-time friend and sits
the fve-minutes' audience that he knows
will result in little aid. During the war
Davenport was military secretary of Gen.
BENJAMIN F. Butler. His notoriety came
in 1874 with his appointment as chief su-
pervisor of elections under federal law
applicable only. to New York city. His
plan Of campaign was to arrest Demo
Gratis by the wholesale on election day
ana lock them up in an iron cage built
on the fourth floor Of the Federal build
ing. His object was to keep them away