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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-10-25

dents brother-in-law, is the same size
from his collar bone to his fourth rib,
after which he juts out in rectangu-
lar manner. Between his wishbone
and his, waist line Admiral Cowles
weighs more than many persons do
between their shoes and their hats.
The sight of Admiral Cowles down on
the Potomac river front trying to quail
ify for Mr.. Newberry's test would
draw tears from the eyes long unused
to grief.
Reports from Rear Admiral Evans's
headquarters by intimate friends of
his are that "Fighting Bob is conf
dent of being able to come up to New
berry's test. Evans, ever since the
battle of Fort Fisher swims entirely
with one foot, the other being used
mainly as a sort of screw-propeller.
The general effect is that of fiat
wheel locomotive trying to climb a
hill.
Evans fortunately is the same size
all the wa down. He has nothing to
kick about. The walls that are now
deafening the Washington horizon
arise from globular admirals with con-
vex proturberances abaft and midriff.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-10-25

WAS George Washington a liar?
W Must another idol be shattered?
These questions seem to be answered
In the affirmative by official records
now musty with age but in a fairly
good state of preservation. For years
there has been legend in Virginia
that George Washington was seven
times indicted for perjury. No one
gave serious consideration to the ru-
mors, unworthy of association with the
beautiful childhood dream of the little
Ratchet and the cherry tree. A young
man of inquisitive temperament, hear
Ing the legend, made inquiry at the
congressional library to ascertain
whether any records gave it support
He was cited by the expert in charge
to the court records of Fairfax coun-
ty. There he discovered that Nc
Dowelrs men, after the battle of Bull
Run, ransacked the courthouse and
carried away most of the records, but
that one volume had recently been re-.
covered through the executor of the
estate of one of the Pennsylvania SOL
diers. This volume was carefully ex-
amined, and it was found that on May
Fl, 1850, the grand jury returned a
presentment against George Washing
ton for having lodged taxes on "a
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-10-25

station, situated in the most thickly
populated part of the city, responded
to only 376 calls in the year 1906, in
Guiding false alarms, an average of
one call day.
Shoreditch reported 269 alarms Of
fire for the year and Manchester
Square 266. The firemen at these sta
tons on an average answered an
alarm a day for two days, and on the
third they rested.
To be fair it should be said, how
ever, that the two New York COM
panies cited were exceptionally busy.
The average of calls a year for New
York fire company is about 600.
The other extreme is found in the
case Of South Beach Hose Company
1, on Seaside Boulevard between
Ocean avenue and Sand lane, South
Beach, Staten Island, which consists
of one four wheeled hose wagon
manned by eight men. Hose 1 an
swered one alarm in 1906.
Truck &c, installed only few years
ago at 52-54 East 114th street, Man.
haitian, answered last year no less
than 95S calls and did duty at more
than half Of them.
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GIVING HIM A CHANCE.
Surely Time for Hubby to Do 4 Live
Iy Sidestep.

Mrs. Wilson's husband was often
obliged to go to New York on busi-
ness, and frequently did not reach his
home until the arrival of the midnight
train. Mrs. Wilson had been in the
habit of sleeping peacefully at these
times without fear, but number OF
burglaries in the neighborhood during
one of her husbands trips to New
York had disturbed her calm.
On the night of his return Mr.. Will
son was stealing carefully up the
front stairs, as was his wont on such
occasions, so that his wife would not
be wakened, when he heard her voice,
high and strained:
II don't know whether you are my
husband or burglar" came the ex-
cited tones, "but I am going to be on
the safe side and shoot, so if you are
Henry you'd better get out of the
way."-Youth's Companion.
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RECORDS. CHARGE THAT
WASHINGTON TOLD LIE

wheeled vehicle"
Washington was in good company,
the presentment also naming George
William Fairfax, William Mason and a
number of other distinguished gentle
men of the day. At that time in the
colony of Virginia two methods were
in vogue for taxing property, both
personal and real. Either the assessor
was permitted to make the list or the
subject under oath submitted a list
AS the presentment was returned
against George Washington, it is evil
dent that he made oath to the list of
his property and failed to include "a
wheeled carriage" of which he was
possessed.
Washington, not being indicted,
shows that the grand jury acted upon
it's own initiative, because had the
matter been called to their attention
by the prosecutor for the colony an in.
dictment would have been returned.
There is only one volume of the rec
ords of that time, and it does not
show what became of the presentment.
Whether Washington was tried will
not be known unless some veteran
of McDowell's command, directly or
through an heir, returns the volumes
that were carried off after Bull Run.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-10-25

being fitted with thick carpets, chan.
deliers, pictures, leather lounges, brass
beds and bar and grill, and actual
ly it is costing the New York branch
Of the International Geneva Associa-
ton $4,000 a year for the single item
Of rent
The Geneva association extends all
over the world and takes IT'S name
from Switzerland where bookkeeping
is an exact science. Every man who
carrys a tray can't get into the Geneva
association. The least he must know
is, two or three languages and the
whole gamut of purveying fine food
in superfine way, and the best terms
on which he can squeeze into the &C.
neva association are a regular pro-
posing his name for membership and
a consideration of his pretensions by
captious board of governors.
One of the especial things the club
does is to afford first-class New York
hotels and restaurants an opportunity
of securing house help trained and
grained in the best Geneva traditions.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-10-25

POSTMASTER GENERAL GEORGE
I Won L. MEYER has leased the
Jewett mansion on the corner of Con-
necticut avenue and S street. It is
the intention of Mrs. Meyer to return
to the national capital in time to pre-
sent her pretty young daughters to
society during the social season. These
girls have been presented at the Rus
sian and British courts, but it is now
quite customary to give series of
debut parties. Miss Julia is barely 20
and her sister two years her junior,
so they are still eligible to coming
out functions. They are strikingly
alike and have been educated together
and seem to have identical character
istics.
With Miss Edith Root, they will
form a delightful trio of cabinet girls,
and will be the only representatives
in that depleted set. :" T.,
With the passing of the Misses
Shaw and Miss Hitchcock, Washing
ton might we'll wall: WANTED few
handsome and socially inclined maid
ems for the highest executive set.' -
The Misses Meyer are unaffected
girls, sure to be popular, for their in
tercourse with kings has not turned
their heads any more than it has
changed their charming mother. Both
have studied music and art under the
best masters abroad and having, re.
sided in many alien lands are gifted
linguists.
Young Mr.. Meyer, aged 16, has been
the schoolmate of Kermit Roosevelt
at Groton, and for a few months In the
spring took a preparatory course at
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-10-25
NIGHT COLLEGE IS ONE
OF LATEST DEPARTURES

go by day. School teachers are in
the majority in the college, but there
are lawyers and men in many lines
of business who wish to get the bene-
fit of a college training. even men in
factories and motormen or engineers
who wish to rise, and as preliminary
seek to gain the many rungs in the
ladder which education will give. A
large group of students is composed
of well:to-do married women who live
in the neighborhood of Washington
square, Stuyvesant square or Gram
mercy Park, who come to study in the
literature or language courses. There
is a small contingent of Japanese in
the night college, including young
woman, graduate of the normal
school at Nagasaki, Japan, who last
year took courses in English philoso-
ply and sociology, and there is a Chin
csc student who specializes in eco
nomics. The large out-of-town con-
tingent is composed mainly of teach
ers and principles from small towns
who have no college degree.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-10-25
A REAL "HosS" RACE.
Country Fair the Place to See It at
Its Best.

II you would see horse strap
ped, booted, braced and geared to
the limit. you must seek such a
track as you see at the old-time
country fair. Here comes an awk-
ward flea-bitten gray which never
went under $50 in his life. He is
hobbled and checked and goggled, and
hitched up sidewise, lengthwise and
crosswise until there is more har-
ness than horse. You wonder how
his driver ever got him into this rig
ging, and how he will get him out
again without cutting him free with
a jackknife. A farmer with a
gray beard and twinkling eye OBJ
serves to his neighbor:
Last time John Martin had that
plug out on the road I told him he
had the old cripple overloaded with
Observation-Disclosures. Them straps
that was carlated to hoist up his
knees must ha' pulled too tight and
the critter was yanked clean of the
ground. What John was gettin'
ready for was a race for flynn ma
chimes, not a boss trot" From 1.-THE
Country Fair" by David Lansing, in
Outing.
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Mems Beauty Show.

R1onS 6eduIy 0uo"s
The beauty show for men at the
Victoria pier, Folkestone, continues to
be the chief subject of conversation
i'm the town and its vicinity, says the
London Mall There are many aspir-
ants and many inquiries, but with the
execution of courageous few the
|would-be exhibits hesitate to face q
great audience even for five minutes.
councillor Forsyth, who is RESPONSE
bile for the show, has decided that
only facial beauty can be considered
in the matter of awarding prizes. In
view of this, he has arranged for q
huge gilt frame draped with black
velvet to be erected. In an opening
in this frame only the head and face
will be allowed to appear. Councillor
Forsyth, in answer to inquiries by the
Daily Mail, wishes it to be widely
known that, with the full approval of
his colleagues, he has decided to make
the competition open to all England.
The judging will be by the audiences,
and the scrutiny of votes by women.
Several local beauties" in order to
gain chest measurement, are training
with dumbbells. Others are giving
over flesh for a fruit diet, and many
are taking a course of Turkish and
other baths in order to get into form.
The greatest obstacle to many is the
lack of moral courage to face an audi
pnce
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-10-25

ers for blocks around they at once
started subscription in which Presi-
dent Gompers of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor is reported to have
Joined.
There are few residence blocks in
Washington upon which negroes do
not occupy one or more houses, except
in the ultra aristocratic section, and
even in that. section some negroes
dwell. Race Aprejudice is constantly
growing more4inte nse here; and in the
new subdivisions in the suburbs the
whites, have attempted to protect
themselves against negro invasion by
restrictions placed in the original
deeds similar to- that carried BY the
Bloomingdale conveyances. The negro
owner will assert his right to hold
the property under the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments and a merry
race war is promised. 80 -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-10-25
Didn't Need Cyelopedias.

The canvasser for cyclopedia
came to the home of a colonel, whose
record he had carefully studied be-
fore his visit The colonel was es-
pecially proud of some of his sons,
so the canvasser began with:
"Those are very fine boys of yours,
colonel"
''They are" replied the colonel.
II reckon you are ready to buy any
thing those boys want?"
II am So" said the father of the
fine boys.
well, then, let me sell you this
cyclopedia. There's nothing will do
your sons so much good"
But the colonel looked at him
aghast. ''Why, them lads of mine
don't need any cyclopedia. They ride
mules!"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-10-25

Man Whose Memory Was Bad.
For more than an hour a witness
for the defense had lodged questions.
His faulty memory was particularly
exasperating for the counsel for the
plaintiff, who was seeking to recall
to the witness recollection an event
of four of five years previous. Event
ually the man remembered "some-
thing about it"
"Ah," continued the lawyer for the
plaintiff, what id you think Of it
at the time?"
Really" said the witness, speak
ing before the lawyer for the defense
had time to interpose objection, 1T
was so long ago can't recall exactly
what thought of it"
"Well," shouted the cross-examin-
er, excitedly, IF you can't recall, tell
us what you think now you thought
then"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-10-25

COING to night college on the part
~ of New York men and women is
one of the latest developments of this
nocturnal city, which wants night to
be just like day, and therefore has it's
all-nfght banks, all-night stores and
restaurants, all-night dentists and bar
Der shops, and practically everything
but an all-night sleep. The lecturer
on 'seeing-things-at-night" wagon can
point to a rather novel sight in Wash
tngton square, massive college
building with the windows of it's class
room brilliantly lighted. But this night
college is not to be classed with the
other night features of New York. It's
students are not butterflies so fond of
pleasure that they have no time to
sleep before II o'clock.
The night college is sailed the
Washington square division of the
collegiate division Of the New York
University. The majority of the stu
dents are school teachers and profess
sional men who desire to complete a
college education, but are unable to
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-10-25
At the National Capital
Gossip of People and Events
Gathered in Washington
DIVING AND SWIMMING
TEST FOR REAR,ADMlRALS


WASHINGTON consterna-
w ton is felt in the navy over the an
nouncement said to have been made
by Assistant Secretary Newberry that
rear admirals must shortly undergo
a test to show whether they can swim
or not. In the army test of whether
colonies can ride horseback was re-
Gently made. Mr.. Newberry's declar-
alton in favor of swimming test for
admirals, however, is considered far
worse, although the average colonel
weighs several times more than his
horse.
The assistant secretary's plan is to
have rear admirals dive from shore
shore and swim to their ships. Many
admirals who have not moved wheel
for years except from the navy depart
ment to the club are indignant. It is
felt that what the assistant secretary
is really proposing is a general hari-
kari among the most eminent naval
heroes of the age.
Nevertheless, the rear admirals &C.
cept Mr.. Newberrys announcement as
a fact against which there is no use
in kicking and are preparing for it.
Rear Admiral Cowles, the presi-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-10-25
Tobacco Tomas,


The tongs, the size of a wishbone,
were of rough gold, studded here and
there with turquoises.
"They are tobacco tongs," said the
antiquary. 'They date back to Eliza
beth's time. This pair belonged to
Raleigh-at least have been told SO,
and who is there to contradict me?
'1n Elizabeth's time they had no
matches. When a man wanted light,
therefore, he took his tobacco tongs
from his girdle and nipped out Of the
fire a redhot chunk of wood. This
glowing coal, held in the tongs, made
a beautiful light.
Tobacco tongs, as my pair wit
nesses,, were often very costly and
ornate. OF gold, of silver, of ivory and
decorated with diamonds, rubies,
emeralds and so forth, they were pref
ty trinkets to dangle Upon silken
coats. They are being revived now.
Cigarette holders are being made in
their shape. That is why I keep thia
old pair In my window"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-10-25
SEEK TO WIN SOLDIERS.
Russian Girls Risk Life for the Cause
of Liberty.

when the university opened last
autumn I started to work again
among the soldiers" said the young
woman. LAS you know, the revolu-
tionists are at present working very
hard to win over the army, and one
of the means is to talk freedom d.
rectly to the soldiers. For this girls
have been found to be more effective
than men; the young peasant soldiers
are more willing to listen to girls,
and are far reader to protect them
from arrest. So all over Russia hun
dreds and hundreds of girls are now
nightly meeting with groups of SOL
diers, in working mems homes and in
barracks. To 60 into barracks and
talk revolution to the soldiers, hard
ly anything is so dangerous-for the
girl caught is tried by court-martial
and in a day or two is executed
From Leroy SCOTS Interview with
Russian Woman, in Everybody's.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-10-25
corHAmElREMEN ANSWER
MANY ALARMS YEARLY

A VISITOR to fire headquarters in
~ East Sixty-seventh street was
prompted to inquire how the number
Of calls in year in the busiest fire
houses of Greater New York COM
pared with the number of calls for
a year in the busiest districts in Lon
don. He was told that there was real
ly no comparison possible, as the New
York firemen answered more than
twice as many calls year as the Lon
don firemen.
It was found later that this was
rather undertaking the case. Truck
10 at "a Attorney street answered
more calls in the year 1906 than any
other company in Greater New York.
It responded to 1922 alarms in the
year and did duty at 500 fires.
Engine II at 81 Ludlow street was a
close second with 1,062 calls during
the year, of which only 227 turned out
to be real fires. In other words, the
men of these two companies had to
answer an alarm before sitting down
to breakfast, dinner or supper, and
then some.
The figures for London show an
amazing disparity. The Whitechapel
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-10-25
RACE WAR WITH COURT
WRITS AS THE WEAPONS

THE Injunction has been invoked in
a local race war. The white citi-
zens of a suburb of this city propose
to restrain a negro from occupying a
house he purchased.
The suburb known as Bloomingdale
lying between the northern boundary
of the old city and soldiers home, was
several years ago subdivided, and long
rows Of houses erected for sale. The
purchasers were given deed which
stipulated in one of it's clauses that
at no time should the property be
sold to negro. One of the original
purchasers sold his residence to a
man who placed second trust mort
gage on it.
The holder of this second mortgage
to protect himself, placed the house
on sale with a real estate firm, which
disposed of it to negro. When the
sale became known to the household
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-10-25
Cost of Milk.

The president of a New York dairy
concern gives the following itemized
statement Of the cost of milk: I'VE
have been paying the farmers three
and one-half to four cents for milk,
and after the first of October will
have to pay four to four and one
quarter. 1t costs cent bottle
freight to bring it from the farm to
the city. 1t costs half a cent bottle
for cleaning, filling and icing. 1t costs
another three-eighths Of a cent bot
tie to haul it from the depot to the
wholesale house. That means that it
costs practically six and one.quarter
cents bottle to put the milk in the
delivery wagon. Out of the balance
we have to pay drivers, inspectors and
bear other expenses. There is really
little or no money in the milk bust
ness He might have added the cost
of bottles that customers fail to re-
turn and fatty refuse to pay for-an
item by no means small. The wonder
is to people who read such a hard
luck tale as this-and producers AID
dealers of almost any variety of farm
product that can be named can put up
story to match it-that all agricul-
tural pursuits are not abandoned.
Somehow or other, though, they go on,
with everybody concerned showing
signs OF prosperity. Queer, isn't it?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-10-25
= Around the Metropolis
What Is Going On in New York
City Told in Interesting Manner
WATERS HAVE A CLUB
MExCLUSlvE DISTRICT

NEW 'Y0RK.-So agreeable is the
~ sense of being real live New
York clubman that when he sits down
to his bird and bottle in any first-class
restaurant he feels that he is enhanc-
ing the reputation of the house, quiet
~ but effectively, by his presence
And II, above all other persons, the
waiter who serves him were to take
the opposite seat and open a general
conversation as one clubman to anoth-
er, it is fair to assume that the club
man would repel the others advances
with the terse but forcible sentence:
Get the manager
Yet nearly all the "big" waters in
New York are enrolled clubmen; and
the proof of it is the new Walters
Club house that is being fitted out on
West forty-fourth street. The new
foundation is right in the heart of the
city's most exclusive club district.
Outwardly it is four-story brown
stone house, without any marks to
distinguish it from the home of any
ordinary aff1uent citizen. 1nwardly it is
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-10-25

Philanthropy in London is often con-
fronted by the, man who makes it HIS
business to be out of work. One char
ity worker was appealed to by a we'll:
dressed woman, MARRIED." asked
the philanthropist. .,.,;,..:..., "
Eyes" =
what is your husband?'' 4,
'"out O. work" !; :: ;: e, =
"But what is he. when he is n
work." asked the philanthropist. u
you don't understand miss was
the reply, "he's a regular out O. work
err" >-. ..