The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-03-06
IN GAY NEW YORK.


The. shareholders Of the National Park
Bank voted to increase the capital
stock of the bank from 5 100000 to
S3,OOO,OOO, the new stock to be issued
to stockholders of record pro rata at
pow d snure' s..:s :. : y 'n' :.
Will Mcconnell, manager for Amelia
Bingham in .''The Frisky Mrs. Johnson
had a misunderstanding with the actress,
which resulted in Mcconnell: resigning:
The actress. it is said, had been too u
acting to suit Mcconnell.
"A A Ara new bit trs Of slang has r made its ss aP;
alights and begins to look at the ma
chinery some man or boy OF the side
walk yells at him: "Get a horse" The
phrase has become an equivalent to "Get
a move on" in other respects.
Hilda Clarke, formerly prima donna
of the Bostonians, and Frederick Stanton
Flower were united in marriage at the
home of Miss Clarke's parents. Miss
Clarke won fame as "The Bride-Elect."
MI. Flower is a member of the firm Of
Flower & Co., bankers. and was one OF
the principal heirs of his uncle, the for
mer governor. ,
Samuel J.. Kennedy, who is under III
Odds at the Grand Hotel in July, 1895,
and who has been at liberty on $4,000
bail, has been released without bail. the
prosecution abandoning the case. He is
practicing dentistry on Staten island.
Kennedy was convicted and sentenced to
death. On two subsequent trials the
juries disagreed.
Thomas w. Miner, son of the 10 e
Plans for the building, which will be
three and four stories high. have been
filed: 1t is to be built on the east side
OF. Third avenue, just north of One Hun
dred and Twenty-seventh street. 1t will
be of ornamental brick with two bal
comics and a seating capacity Of 1850.
1t will be called Harlem Theatcr.
Rumors are afoat concerning the mar
riage of Mrs. Mamie Langhorne Shaw
and Robert Walton Goelet. Mrs. Shaw
is in Europe. Her divorce from Robert
Gould Shaw, to whom she was married
in October, 1897, was granted on Febru-
airy 5, and Mr.. Shaw almost Immediately
married Mrs. Mary Converse. widow of
Goelet is the son of the late Robert Goe-
let and q cousin Of Miss May Goelet and
Robert GOelet.
Visitors to Coney Island next summer
will be surprised at the transformation
wrought in that famous resort. An army
of 5000 workmen is at present at work
tearing down all old wooden shacks and
building new and handsome structures of
brick and stone. Over $4,000, 900 will
be expended before the summer sets in,
and it is the design Of capitalists WIN
have recently acquired large real estate
holdings on the island to improve the
moral tom of the resort without dimin.
ishing its attractiveness.
The famous Thirteen Club, having ex-
hansted all its gruesome stunts, is nov
looking for a haunted house to hold its
meetings in. The following "ad' ap-
pears in the afternoon papers: "Wanted
"A haunted house, within fifty miles of
New York, furnished Or unfurnished, iso.
lated or otherwise. Address. for thir-
teen days. Brian G. Hughes, XIII. Club,
242 Center street, Manhattan" Afida:
Wits that spooks, ghosts. spirits and other
supernatural phenomena have been seen
within or about the house must be pre-.
sented.
The art student population of New
York, according to the statement of the
director of one of the largest art schools
in the city, is about 1000. The proportion
OF Women to men is about 8 to /. The
resident population-that is, those who
live permanently in this city-is compar.
atively small. New York is the art cen.
ter Of the continent and as such draws
to it the best painters the best sculptors
and the best designers. In no other city
are there so many great art schools, sc
many museums and, galleries and sc
many opportunities to develop talent.
Henry Clark Rouse Of this city, presi
dent Of the Missouri. Kansas & Texas
the world. While abroad he investigat.
| ed the construction and equipment of the
Trans-Siberian. railroad, making the trir
from Pekin to Moscow in the record time
of II days and 10 hours over the East
Chinese & Trans-Siberian railroad. MI
Rouse believed that the road will be OF
great commercial value. He finds it vel
constructed and we'll conducted, and be
lieves It will soon be, possible to- make the
trip by rail from Berlin to the Pacific
; coast in less than a fortnight.
Another "aatiron" building will b,
erected on the triangle formtN by tn,
junction Of Wall, Pearl " and$%Beaye
streets. 1t will be fifteen stories high
There are no unusual wind currents q
that point and n%eighboring owners Dc
not believe the Wall street fatiron will
i play such antics with the winds as does
the Twenty-third street building, which
is twenty stories high. The fact thai
Capt. Kids famous treasures have new
er been found stimulated lower Wal
streets imagination yesterday and it. wa
freely predicted that work on the exca.
v%ations might lead to sensational reveal,
tons.
Mrs. Frederic Nelson, mother Of TIM
fancee of Reginald Vanderbilt. has rem.
ed for the summer the Newman cottage
known as the Nutshell, at Newport. Mrs.
Nelson is expected to take possessiol
soon, and will be accompanied by, he,
daughter, Mrs. Arthur L. Kemp. VIII
has been i'll for some time. and Mis-,
Cathleen Nelson. The rental of 50 an III
a cottage as the Nutshell would hardi,
give force to the rumor that the Vander
bile-Neilson nuptials will be an early in
cident in Newport this spring. Work
however, is being rushed at Sandy Poine
in Portsmouth. on the cottage and stable:
of Reginald Vanderbilt.
Mile: Helene Gerard. described l.,
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