The Virginia enterprise., 1903-02-20

Frank Mordaunt, the we'll known actor
and manager, is in sanitarium at Stam-
ford, Conn.,, suffering from serious nery-
GUS disorder. MIR. Mordaunt has been i'll
for six months. but it was only two weeks
aso ss:o that his malady became acute: His
where she had been called on business,
and the actors condition became serious
during her absence. She hurriedly re-
turned to New York and agreed with the
physicians that sanitarium was place
in which her husband would have the
best chance for recovery.
Because she thought the leading role
in Haddon Chambers English society
play written for her, was a mans, Miss
Ada Rehan has decided not to appear in
the play in New York. The part select
ed for her was supposed to be the leading
one, but Miss Rehan though otherwise.
Consequently new play will be selected
Marshall Field Of Chicago is reported
as Il purchaser Of the Horace p. Whitney
house at 2S7 Fifth avenue. The pur-
chase would give Mr.. Field the entire
: block front between Thirtieth and Thir-
ty-first streets. except the adjoining num-
Der, 2S9. Mr.. Fields brokers refused to
admit that he was the buyer, though he
has paid fancy prices for several parcels
in the block, and the price paid was high.
Dir. Field says that his purchases are
purely for investment.
The appraisal of the estate of the late
AuSustln DAILY shows that, after the pay
ment Of his debts and liabilities. there is
dehclency of $2S,4GO. The gross per
sonal estate is valued at $500, ,996. The
total liabilities are $361 44G. OF this
amount Mr.. Days debts in the United
Mates aggregate $22G,65S, and his debts
in England $4,000. The commissions
on the sale of Mr.. Daly's books, ETC.,
amount to 500, ,0SS.
Mr.. Dana, so called for his striking
resemblance to the well-known editor,
the patriarch Of Shanley's uptown restau-
rant is dead. He was as familiar to
those who linger OIL upper Broadway as
the yellow trolley cars. When he died
his room was searched, and there
strong box bulged with wealth-Unted
States per cents, railroad bonds, mort
cages on city real estate and wads of
gold certificates tied up in $1,000 pack
ages. In all it amounted to $4,000
all saved in tips during his forty years
service in Shanley's restaurant.
1t is believed that Louis Foster.
brother of Clarence Foster, who met a
tragic death by drowning with Sarah
Lawrence in Tiana bay last summer, has
suffered a like fate While engaged
alone oystering in the bay opposite his
home at Good Ground, l.. l., he was
caught in gale, and his boat, loaded
with oysters, was swamped. One of his
oars and gloves washed ashore today.
Louis, like his brother, was an expert
the theory that the latter may have
been drowned, and not murdered, in the
tragedy here last June.
BY an order granted by Judge Leven-
tritt in the supreme court the will of \.
L. Stewart has again been opened for
contest The old documents are to be
submitted for the examination of lawyers
and handwriting experts, retained in an
effort to prove that the accepted will
should be thrown out and new line Of
heirs admitted to share in the estate
Seven witnesses were brought from Ire
land October 16 to prove the pedigree of
heirs who base their claims as descend
ants of a third cousin of Mr.. Stewart.
Father lAoysius, parish priest, is to es-
tablish the records of birth and to iden-
tify the claimants. The claim is for one
sixtieth of the estate. which is probably
worth from a quarter to half a million
dollars. and is directed against the prop
erty at Tenth street and Broadway,
600.
The Earl Of Rosslyn, who is i'll from a
congestion of the left lung, will recover
and haze another try at the bank of
Monte Carlo: That is, just as soon as ne
has settled the dis spute with his brother
as to which of the two famous "Rosslyn''
systems really is the best. This will be-
right good news to the Prince of Monaco
and the citizens Of the little princpality
IN the Mediterranean. Rosslyn lost SIT,
900 advanced by an English syndicate
that had faith in the infallibility Of his
system, but he says there was not enough
money to give his system a fair trial. It
now remains to be seen how much Ameri-
can money he can lose in organizing his
American syndicate.
President McKinley's memory is to be
honored in Brooklyn by the placing of
q stained glass window in the Twelfth
Street Reformed Church
Pattison Weaver, a retired minstrel.
~ years Of age, who made his first pub
lie appearance in 1853, died at the Ac-
tors Fund Home, Staten Island.
Spy Oak" said to be the largest tree
in New York state, standing on the Pei
ham road, Winchester, has been con-
.1eAiAASN uHSu1c, anu " III PROBABLY soon
be cut down, it having become hollow
and in danger of falling. 1t is said many
spies and deserters were hanged from its
branches in Revolutionary times.
tranblln L. Roberge, a veterinary sur
geon, is suing the estate of Robert Bon
ner, the horsemsn, for $1OO, 900. Roberge
claims that he attended Bonner's horses
for tWenty-three years without payment,
the horseman having promised to give
him 100000 or leave him that amount
in his will
More of the residences along the line
Of the Park avenue subway are beginning
20 snsY signs of slipping into the sub.
. way: Fark avenue has been prolific of
accidents of many kinds. The building
department. has established a bureau on
tnat street with an adequate force to
meet emergencies. The residence of
banker Charles T. Barney had to he
snored up and others in the same vicinity
are being propped up.
There are book agents in New York