The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-01-09
ed. Later he went as medical officer
aboard Lady Randolph Churchills hos
pital ship, the Maine.

ed. Later he went as a medical officer
aboard Lady Randolph Churchill's hos.
pital ship, the Maine.
After forty-seven years the Union Club
EFT its Sd home 9St at Fifth fa cnSs ha and
some new home on the northeast corner
of Fifth avenue and Fifty-f first street will
probably be ready some time in Janu-
airy, though no date has yet been set
for the opening. Furniture and appur-
tenances of the old house were sold at
auction on the premises.
Michael Madigan, fifty years ago the
Beau Brummel Of the Bowery, is dead
Madigan, who in the early days was
known as the Count" set the style fol-
the sporting fraternity, making two trips
to Paris and London each year to replen-
ish his wardrobe. Reverses came, and a
year ago he was found destitute by !,
friend. He was sent to Bellevue Hos.
pital, where he died. He was 81 years
Robert G. Ogden, the partner Of John
lWanamaker, announces that it is intend
ed as soon as practicable to begin the
erection of large new store OH the block
bounded by Broadway, Fourth avenue,
Eighth and Ninth streets. Mr.. Wanna,
maker has been acquiring this property
for some years. A ten or twelye-stOry
building will be erected and will be occu-
pied entirely by the Wanamaker bust
ness.
The new building of the metropolitan
Museum Of Art was formally opened On
Monday. Bishop Satterlee Of Washing
ton offered prayer and Park Commits
sioner Wilcox than delivered the build
Ing over to the trustees of the museum,
remarklng in his address that it was the
fourth dedicatory service held since 1850,
! when the museum began it's history. Pres.
ldent kh1nelander accepted the building
for the trustees and Mayor Low declared
it open to the public.
Russell Sage is becoming dreadfully
prodigal. He came downtown the other
day in an automobile. At noon he went
in the ''auto" to the Western Union
Of taking his lunches. This is the first
time Mr.. Sage has ever come downtown
i'll an "auto," it is said. 1t has been
rarely, if ever, that he has used even a
carriage in coming from his home. It
is his custom to use the "L' road, of
The steamship La Sovoie, after one of
the most tempestuous voyages across the
Atlantic ever experienced by anyone on
board. reached port with it's lifeboats
stove III by the gale and seas and several
casualties on the surgeons list. For
three days the propellers were out of the
water half Of the time, Capt. Poirot said.
Some OF the passengers were made near.
~ insane by the strain and one seaman
was saved from death by his fellows
forming living rope and rescuing him
from the constantly deluged deck.
The heirs Of the late Hugh O'Neill
have sold the dry goods store known as
O'Neilrs, between Twentieth and Twen-
ty-first streets on Sixth avenue, to Will
liam Z. Strange, manager of the bust
ness, and he in turn has sold it for S..
10000 to the United States Realty and
back mortgage for 81, TOO, 900 at 4 Der
cent. The store is to be leased for twen-
ty years at $15O,0OO year to a corpora
ton that takes the stock of dry goods
and general merchandise for $9OO,OOO
Col. John Jacob Astor and his cousin,
William Waldorf Astor, have arranged
to sell for $1,000. 900 eighty east side
building lots, which were. just 100 years
which the founder Of the house of Astor
paid $4,000. 1t is estimated that the
farm land of century ago is now worth
I$5,OOOO0O. The property comprises two
city blocks, lying between Avenue A and
First. avenue and Fourteenth and Six
ment buildings put up by tenants, who
are to have the first chance to buy.
Under the incognito of Mrs. Paul
Kolbe, the virtual queen of a group OF
South Sea islands and one of the half.
dozen wealthiest women in the world
with her husband and grandson, is 6
New York visitor: Her wealth is in the
t HsshS1Fho1d Of f. nsee2 @ o and she
ers who only score of years ago were
among the fercest cannibals in thu
world. This remarkable woman is EN-
ma, known among her dependents in thu
Bismarck Archipelago as their queen ani
herself snp princess RI en ha Of royal blood o.
!. Germany, where she has been negotiat
ing for the sale to syndicate for 81,
OOO, 1000 of about one-e;ghth of her pos
, sessions. It is her hope that within til,
next five years she may be able to dis
pose of all her interests in the archipel
ago and spend the remainder of her lif,
travelling, with a residence OH the Ha
/, waiian islands.
Marie Louise Wimsatt, better know
, as Marie Wilson of the original 'Floro
dora" sextet, who is said to have won
I fortune OF Sl0O,OOO IN Wall street, oh
, , tanned decree Of divorce from her hus
band, r. Henry Wimsatt. Wimsatt wa
government clerk in Washington whe,
he first met Marie Gamble, who becam
his wife. They eloped and the bride soo1
, went upon the stage, taking the nam
; of Marie Wilson. Her first success wa
in 1.-THE Belle of New York" Then, a
end girl in the ''Florodora'' sextet. sh
danced into fortune. She retired iron
the stage to buy $4,000 diamond neck
. lace and villa on the banks of tn
Potomac. s:.,
Considerable comment was occasione,
by the report that Herbert Gresham ha
replaced Ben Teal as stage manager 8
, sMr. Blue Beard" the new musical ex
! trayaganza soon to be produced by KlSy
4 & Erlanger. Mr.. Teal is general gtar
d director TOR. the firm and has stare
y many Of its most notable productions