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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15
Washington Day by Day
:. ! e - -
News Gathered Here and There
at the National Capital
CHANDLER SUCCESSFUL
AGAIN AS PEACEMAKER
w fears enter.

w ASHINGTON.- fears enter
" tanned that because of their sharp
interchange of compliments recently
over the race question Senators
Spooner and Tillman would not again
be friends have failed to materialize.
Apparently they are now as chummy
as they were before this exciting COL
loquy threatened to make them enc
mics. 1t undoubtedly estranged them
for awhile, but each obviously has for
given and forgot, for they are seen to.
gether quite as much as formerly.
Their reconciliation was brought
about only few days ago, and it is
said that Hon. William Eaton Chand-
Ter, 1.-The author of peace and lover of
concord" was the intermediary. Mr..
Chandler is a warm friend of both of
them, and at little informal lunch
con about week ago he surprised
each by having them both as his
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15
An Example Of Unselfishness.

A noteworthy example of high-mind
edness and unselfishness was recently
set by a southern woman bearing an
honored name. A resolution was in
troduced in the state senate of North
Carolina providing a pension of 500
per month for the by-no-means-rich
widow of the famous General Stone
WALL Jackson. OF it's passage there
would have been little doubt, says
Leslie's Weekly, had Mrs. Jackson
herself not interposed. But she
promptly wrote letter to the senate,
saying that the present state laws
limit all pensions to persons who have
not $500 of personal property, and as
she possessed more than that she re-
quested that the bill be withdrawn
and the money it was proposed to
give her be appropriated for the re-
lief of destitute widows of confederate
veterans. Mrs. Jackson's plea was
needed, and now she is held in even
higher general esteem than ever be-
fore.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15
SIX SENATORS WHO ARE
NOT AFTER PRESIDENCY
r HERE are six United States sena-

r HERE are six United States sena-
l tors who are not eligible to the
presidency because of having been
born abroad, and they are free from
the buzzing of ambitious bees, having
reached the highest elective office to
which they are eligible under the pro-
hibition of the constitution. Senator
Gallinger, chairman of the committee
on the District of Columbia, was born
in Canada, but went to New Hamp-
shire at so early an age that his
friends would long ago have forgotten
that he was not born there were the
fact of his birthplace not occasion
ally brought forward in such records
as the congressional directory. Sen
ator Nelson, the scholarly member of
the senate from Minnesota, was born
in Norway, which is the birthplace of
so many of his constituents. Senator
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15

Wetmore of Rhode Island claims Eng.
land as his birthplace. Senator Mil
lard of Nebraska first saw the light
of day in Canada. Senator Suther-
land of Utah, who is a warm support
er of Senator Smoot, the Mormon SEN
ator, although he himself is not a
Mormon, was born In England, and
Senator Patterson, the editor of the
Denver News, who is ready for a
two-hour speech at almost any time,
is proud of Ireland as his native land.
Very many senators were not born in
the states they now represent.
Throughout the western states there
are many instances in which men of
the east and of the south went west,
and then, taking an interest in poll
tics, found themselves in command
ing positions that permitted them to
move to this city as United States
senators.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15
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MANSION builders are planning to
N1 invest $20,000,000 within a year
along the one-mile stretch Of Million
aires Row, in Fifth avenue. H. c..
Frick has practically closed a deal
for the purchase of the Lennox H.
brary site in Fifth avenue, between
Seventeen and Seventy-first streets.
The property is in; the midst of the
storm center of the "400'' and it's
dimensions are .200x125. feet. The
library trustees have asked legisla-
tive permission to sell the ground.
The price asked is said to be $1,000
600. MI. Frick now has ten-year
lease of the George Vanderbilt man
sion, on the Fifty-first street corner,
at $4,000 year. During the past
few months more than $6,000,0 900 has
been paid for mansion sites in upper
Fifth avenue. Most Of these buyers
will erect homes to cost double the
price of the land. Others who have
been holding costly sites for the past
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15

HE heart of New York's China
town. which was wiped out Off
cially at recent meeting of the
board of estimate, when a new park
to occupy the acre and half block
bounded by the Bowery, Doyers, Pell
and Mott streets was authorized, is
owned largely by Chinese firms and
individuals and includes thee Chinese
theater, in which several Chinese re-
Gently were shot to death in a high
binder war, the joss-house, and all
the other oriental features which
have made the locality the most pic
turesque plague spot in the city. Be,
fore the year is out most of the in:
habitants will have moved to Brook
Ign, where they are establishing a
new Chinatown, and the narrow,
crooked streets around Chatham
Square are affording their last pic
turesque spectacle to the rubber
neck" tourists in the celebration of
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15

| F Representative W. Charles Adam
son, of Georgia, succeeds in a
scheme that he has undertaken it is
not unlikely that the boarding house
mistresses of Washington will appeal
to the president to invoke the aid of
the bureau of corporations in break
ing gigantic combination composed
of senators and representatives. Mr..
Adamson is trying to organize among
senators an association the members
of which will pledge themselves to
pay just so much and no mre for
board, for house rent, for midday
lunches and after theater dinners. In
a word, his association will fix a
maximum price for every necessary
of life for representative during his
stay at the national capital.
Representative Adamson says he is
meeting with encouragement from
members he has approached and he
hopes to launch his association next
session. He says 200 members will
be necessary for the success of his
undertaking and he adds that when
once the association gets in working
order hotels will cheaper their rates,
landlords will reduce their rents and
restauranteurs will sell go meal
tickets for $3.50" According to Mr..
Adamson, the people in Washington
who control things that representa-
tives must have have agreed among
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15
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financial district. 1t all. Every time
the stock market tumbles disquietiae
reports are circulated from one end
Of Wall street to the other that, the
"old man. is seriously ill, and in
spite of frequent denials from other
members of the firm, including
Jack" the, reportsa persist and: come:
to the surface at @;every favorable OPP
portunity. But there seems to be
nothing immediately alarming in Mr..
Morgan's condition. The ! affairs of
the great house of Morgan are now in
the hands Of three men, j.. p. Morgan,
Jr. George w. Perkins and Charles
Steele. Mr.. Steele is the legal man,
so that the heavy financial work, for
merly the JOY of the "old man Life,
is in the hands of Jack Morgan and
Perkins. Not that these are the only
members of the, firm, but they are the
active ones. The Morgan firm has II
partners, but the members, other
than those mentioned, are little more
than head clerks. J. P. Morgan, Jr.,
is by no means an inexperienced boy.
He is 40 years old and his training
in the intricaries of banking has been
long and thorough. Whether he will
prove the genius in the world of bust.
ness that his father has been remains
to be seen. But if genius consists in
an excessive, devotion to hard work
he may compare favorably with his
illustriOus father.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15
Round About +: New York !.
Gossip of People and Thing.
in the Great Metropolis
QUIET RETIREMENT: OF
MORGAN FROM WALL ST.

r HAT Wall street has been look.
4 Ing forward to anxiously and
with much speculation for. several
years has actually come to pass in.
the House of Morgan The "old
man." as J. Pierpont Morgan is gen.
orally called in "the street." has to all
intents and purposes gone into retire
ment, and in his place in the most fa-
nous banking house in America there
re1gns J. P. Morgan, Jr., or Jack"
as he is more frequently called and
spoken of in the same district. No
one can cry, "The King is dead!
Long live the King!" for the head of
the house is very much alive. Only
he has handed over the practical ad-
m1nistration of his banking concerns
to his son, while in his magnificent
new library on East Thirty-sixth
street he is spending the evening of
his days in the pleasure of the col:
lector amid his collections. Like all
the things the elder Morgan does,
this change in his banking house was
accomplished with little fourishing of
trumpets. So quiet and gradual has
been the process that until the last
few weeks but little attention has
been paid to the important change
which has for several years been go.
ing on in the house of Morgan. OF
late Morgan, ST., has not been in
any too good health, and for more
than month has not been in the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15
CONGRESSMAN PLANS A
COMBINE OF LAWMAKERS

themselves upon a scale of prices,
and. these prices are such, he de.
clares, that every cent of legisla-
tors salary is exhausted before he
leaves Washington. He maintains
the salary makes no difference; the
net surplus at the end of each ses-
sion will be the same-many unpaid
bills.
IF representatives received only
$4,000 year they could live just as
we'll as they will live on the $780,"
he says. ''The people of Washington
are determined to get all the money
a representative draws in salary"
Recently, Mr.. Adamson rented, or
agreed to rent, a couple of rooms on
K street. He described them as
rooms he could have obtained in his
native town of Carrollton for five dol
lars month or in Atlanta for ten dol
lars. He agreed to pay the landlady
$50 for them and instructed his sec
rotary to move in. He returned to
his Office in the afternoon to find that
his order had not been obeyed.
The landlady, had learned that
Adamson was a representative. She
also learned of the increase in salary
that had been voted and she accord
ingly notified the secretary when he
went to take possession that the rent
had been raised to 500 q month. Mr..
Adamson commended his clerk for
not moving.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15
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guests. Neither knew that the other
had been invited to sit at the hos
pitable board Of the New Hampshire
statesman, or perhaps both would
have automatically declined the in
v1tat1on. At the luncheon no refer
ence, Of course. was made to their
spirited colloquy in open senate that
led to personalities, but the host kept
them in such merry mood that when
the luncheon was over they found
themselves as fast friends as they had
ever been.
1t is recalled that on a certain men,
orable occasion, not so long ago, Mr..
Chandler declared that he would never
again ESSAY the role of Deacemaker,
but he then had cause to feel that his
pacif1catory efforts had taken too
broad sweep to be effective, and so
he has ceased to brood modify over
the most notable failure of his career
as a peacemaker between great men.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15

There are some oddities in Chill
connected with the sphere Of woman
that deserve mention, says National
Magazine. One is that women act as
conductors on the street cars. Every
where the passenger meets the wo-
man conductor armed with her bag
and, as Mark Twain had it, "the blue
"trip slip for a five-cent fare" collect
ing the coins fully as we'll as her mas
culine competitor and much more po-
litely. In the shoe stores all the
statesmen are girls and women, and
in the telegraph Offices in city and
country young women are invariably
found as operators. And they do their
work we'll, too. But to Offset this, in
Chilean hotel or boarding house,
and in many residences, men do the
work of the chambermaid. American
ladies are always shocked to find that
a man servant takes care of the
sleeping rooms in the hotels of Chill.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15
THE ENTERPRISE.
w. E. HANNAFoRD, Publisher
VIRGINIA. MINNESOTA
Energy and En- ioyment.

A marked feature of mans progress
is indicated by our broadening view
of the value of healthful enjoyment
And it is, indeed, recreation to relax
and give ourselves up to simple
amusements that bring to the active
brain and tired body fresh energy.
Men count it as much a duty to give
simple entertainment to their families
as they do to provide them with nee
essary food and clothing, and year
by year We are coming nearer to in!s
idea of the value of relaxation. With
a wise and proper education in
thought, this matter Of entertainment
becomes more and more simple, and
gives greater degree of satisfaction.
In the crowds upon our streets and in
the busy centers of all material activ-
ity, one may read in the faces of the
people the story of ambition and
alertness. And, as during the closing
years of good mans life, when his
work has been successful and he can
look back with pride to days of busy
effort, he allows himself restful
ease-so we, with all our rush and
hurry that have won us success, will
begin to take to ourselves the quiet
and restful enjoyment of perfected
life,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15
NEW YORK A FRUITFUL
FIELD FOR LAWYERS
EIGHTEEN thousand lawyers are

EIGHTEEN thousand lawyers are
Il living more or less luxuriously be-
cause of the controversies of indi-
viduals and the results of crime in
the metropolis. Ninety-two others,
candidates from the law schools, were
admitted to the New York bar a few
days ago, and there is scarcely a
week in which locally prominent
legal light from some other part of
the country, seeking wider field and
higher fees, is not added to the stead
lily increasing number. New York has
a population of approximately 4,500,-
900, and this means that there is one
lawyer to every $50 individuals; not
a very large number from which to
draw a clientele, it would seem, when
the lawyers themselves and those
who cannot afford the luxury of law
are subtracted. Yet most of them
have an opulent look that speaks elo-
quently of prosperity and suggests
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15
Senators Much Alike.

.Jenator Simmons, of North Carolina,
and Senator Taliaferro. of Florida, look
enough alike to be twin brothers.
They are about the same size and
build; each has heavy crop Of hair,
which is kept closely trimmed, and
their short, stubby mustaches are
much alike. Both have dark eyes
and there is probably not two pounds
difference in their respective weights.
If it were not for the fact that the
Florida senator has few more. gray
hairs in his head than his North, Caro-
lima colleague it would be almost i'm
possible for the senate employees to
tell them apart.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15
Inducement to Undertakers.

lnducement to Undertakers.
The following advertisement ap-
peared in paper of a small town in
Colorado:
For Sale-An old established, well
paying undertaker's establishment.
The city is in a very unhealthy loca-
ton, where the mortality is very
great. There is only one doctor in the
whole town. The deaths from fever
alone pay the expenses, and the rest
10 clear profit. There is no competi-
uon."-Jpdge.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15

Mrs. Mast, the widow of Thomas
Mast, has presented to the New York
Historical society several mementoes
of the famous cartoonist. They in
clude bust of Mr.. Mast, a quaint jug,
a proof of the first cartoon in which
the now famous conception of the
Tammany tiger was used, and a big
artists pencil. The bust of reddish
clay was modelled by D'Amore. It
was presented to the cartoonist about
the time he finished his work with
Tweed and Tammany. The cartoon
was drawn on lockwood by Mr.. Mast,
and was afterward cut out by an en-.
graver. This cartoon was the last
used by Harper's Weekly before the
fall election of 1871.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15
Iona Sermons,

Mark Twain tells this story, the
moral Of which you may supply your
self: II went to church one time and
was so impressed by what the preach
er told me about the poor heather
that was ready to give up hundred
dollars Of my own money and even 60
out and borrow more to send to tho
heather. But the minister preached
too long, and my enthusiasm began to
drop about SIS a drop till there was
nothing left for the poor heather, and
by the time he was through and the
collection was taken up 1 stole ten
cents OF the plate. Southwestern
h001x
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15
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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15

Great Britain also has It's revenue
frauds. The latest device was marked
oy supreme audacity and oxtraordin-
airy ingenuity. 1t had been employed
by dlstillers engaged in a gigantic
scheme to cheat the government.
These distillers actually uued a sys-
tenn of underground pipes by which
whisky was conveyed to the ware,
houses for duty-pald liquor and from
which the whisky was distributed to
dealers, and in this manner were en-
abled to avoid paying the tax Of SETS
per gallon and to reap a correspond
ing profit. The plan was as daring
and reprehensible as the tricks of
American "moonshiners."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15
Hardly likely.

Andraw Carnegie tells a, story to
illustrate that Celt is always Celt
in Scotland as well as in Ireland. In
Z sermon preached in a small church
in Glasgow the pastor, after inveigh.
ing against slothfulness. said, by way
Of climax, do you think that Adam
and Eve went about the garden of
Eden with their hands in their pock-
Afa9S
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15

Now it is reported that Castro is
dead. But he is not the kind that, un-
der the circumstances, is likely tc
stay dead.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15

Out in Iowa there is a man with ~
children and AZ grandchildren who
has just married woman of o.. What
his children and grandchildren has
done to him is not stated.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-03-15

He'll is full of people who use
tobacco. says New Jersey preacher,
which will be comforting to some of
us who occasionally run a little short
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-11-14
WEYBRIDGE.

T'c Rev. Peter Heller, pastor Of the
Methodist Church. Is very grateful for the
sympathy extended and the gifts given
him since his unfortunate experience at
the Middle ebury railroad station October
10. when horse he had driven there was
killed. Mr. Heller went to Bridport Mon
day to assist IN revival services Mrs
James Cole Of Brandon is In town for n
few days.-Mrs. II l.. Thompson will
give report of the EpTorth League
convention mt the Methodist Church sun
day cvcning.-.Miss stella Dodge who
died after a short Illness at her home
In New York city Sunday evening, was
born IN this town and passed her child
hood and carly youth here and in Middle
bury. She was teacher of domestic
science In New York The remains were
brought here and inferred Tucsday after
noon in the family lot at Weybridge
cemetery.-Miss Noble Klmblc of North
Ferrishurgh is t.e guest OF her daugh-
ter Mrs. w. II IialE-A son was horn
to Mr., and Mrs benjamin Wales last
week.-W. H. Hall and Lyman Whit
man sold their Easolene launches and de-
livered them at st Albans BAY last
week
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-11-14
JURY FAILED TO AGREE.
I tndcrstood 10 to for Binnchi's Ac-
qulttal-Out 40 Hours.

Montrcior Nov. t3.--After beiur
out 80 hours and coming in twice. once
to have testimony and part Of tho
charR" Of the court read. and once To
report q disagreement. the jury In tho
case ~ state vs Joseph Bianchi OF
Barre. Indicted for assault with in
tent 10 kin and murder, this evening
again reported n hopeless Disagree
ment and were discharged from
further consideration Of the case. II
IS understood tnat nearly from the
first they stood 10 to 2 for acuuitta'
Hanch lis out on hail and tho case
viii probably be again tried next
March.
Following the civil cas- o. rambcr-
tom VS. May, now on trial. the adultery
caeos OF state vs.. Co'uru Congo aud
state ". Agnes Nevcrett are next /,
order for trial. States Attorney Gatc1
has filed an information agalns. 3D.
ward Dcforge OF Rarre for resisting ar
officer, hut +, Is probable ono or both
Of the adultery cases will be- .ue lass
state cases tried this term.