The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-13

plOyeu also US second Dutler. Kelly
forged letters Of recommendation in Mr..
curing employment with Mr.. Juillard,
and is held now to answer the charge Of
forgery as we'll as that of grand larceny.
Police Commissioner Greene's new six
section, twelve hour patrol system has
gone into effect, and for the second time
in over thirty years the two platoon sys-
tenn has been abolished. Under the new
system .one-half Of the force will be off
duty, one-slxth on reserve, and one-thirl
patfolllng at all times. Police s~tatisti-
clans have figured out that there will
now be on duty at night 2160 patrolmen,
whereas; under the two platoon scheme
there were 3241.
Edward Ladterbach, president of the
Maurice Grau Opera Company, made a
statement of what the exact situation in
regard to the future of opera at the Met
ropolitan is. 'There will be no lapse Of
q year in the lease of the Metropolitan
opera House to the Maurice Grau Opera
Company by the Metropolitan Opera and
heal estate COMPANY" Mr.. I.auterbach
SAID, ''and there will be a season of opera
the Maurice Grau Opera Company.
The retirement Of Mr.. Grau does not
make 1t necessary for that company to
go out OF existence. He will retain his
control of the company, and the name Of
the organization will continue the same
for the next five years."
For years the men who pick up Uttered
paper in the. city parks went about bend
ing their backs all day after the vagrant
scraps. Then a new man, on the second
day of his engagement, came on the scene
with a broomstick, in the end Of which
he had set a nail, with the %sharpened
point downward. He speared a dozen
pieces of paper while his comrades were
stopping for a third as many, and never
bent his back at all. Now all the men
carry %harpoons; and the worst of it was
that the ingenious ma never thought of
a patent.
The Seventh-Day Adventists are multi
plying their vegetarian restaurants in
New York. All members Of that sect
are not vegetarians, but their religion
teaches the doctrine of vegetable diet.
ana the strictly orthodox and conscien-
tlous follow the teaching. The fact that
the ,proprietors of two Of these places
would not do business. on Saturday has
initiated against the financial success Of
the restaurants, which are both in the
downtown shopping district. An uptown
place recently opened is attracting large
patronage, and enthusiasts claim that
tins IS from the momentum gained by q
truth set rolling. but in this they are prob
ably too sanguine. The craze for novelty
IN New York is an important factor in
aA new enterprises. Great success at
tended the opening of all kinds of foreign
tables de hote, but patronage has worn
away with the novelty. This is also true
of Chinese restaurants. which no longer
have the vogue they once had.
The Erie Railroad Company has ar
ranged for three handsome new ferry
Doats to connect its station in Jersey
Glty with New York. Each is to be
feet in width. There will be a sealing
capacity Of 800. the boats will be hand.
$230,0OO each. Nc
Vanderbilt Allen, who was recently, re-
leased from a sanitarium, declares that
he IS the victim of a great c~onspirac CIV.
and that: during his Incarceration, his
fortune has mysteriously disappeared.
lie says his relatives refused to answer
any one of the hundred letters he sent
them while in his sanitarium prison. Al
len is the grandson Of Commodore Van.
derbllt. He is recuperating his health as
a boarder in the Egbert home at Bronx
vale. Accustomed to every luxury be
has, by his own admission, barely enough
to live on. Instead Of the comforts of a
country seat and a town house which he
has Known, Mr.. Allen has a single small
room. To him this apartment is 10Y bed
chamber, lounging room and studio.
The man who dramatized John Hay's
poem, "Jim Bludsoe," and the astute
manager who invested a couple of thou
sand in scenery are said to have sold out
the whole business to Sullivan, Harris &
Woods for $4,000. The play has been
a hit in New York and goes to Boston
next week.
The young man who, according to the
box Office clerk at the Princess Theater.
paid for two orchestra seats with a $1,000
bill the other night and did not come
back for the change, as he said he would,
after the second act. nor ven after the
show, has. according to the same box
office clerk. called at last for his
change, not, however, because he saw
the advertisement in a morning paper.
but just because he happened to remem-
Der that there was 1896 coming to him at
the theater. His name? Well, the box
office clerk has forgotten that. What
tAulc III LIE COLue 1OI HIS cuUISe. well.
according to one employe OF the theater.
in the morning; according to another, in
the afternoon: according to still another,
in the evening. All passionate press
agents. whose passion is on the ebb, are
advised to discover the particular brand
Of pipe fodder used at the Princess
New York Sun.
Miss Julia Martin. a chorus girl in
when Johnny Comes Marching Home"
was bitten by a pig on the right arm one
night and blood poisoning has since set
in. The pig was the property of the play.
and became savage because one of the
supers tweaked his tail to make him
squeal. The wound forced Miss Martin
to stop playing, and she finally consented
to try formalln as a cure. Her physician.
DR.. w. P. Bryne, made the injection Of
the germicide.
At a joint meeting of the American
Neurological Society and the New York
Academy Of Sciences, DR.. Maurice Fish
berg, a we'll known anthropologist, deliv-
cred an address in" wkichahe made the
declaration that there was no such thing
as a Hebrew race, and that Hebrews
were not descended from Abraham,