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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-02-07
Gleani11es of Gotham
Interesting Bits Of News from the
Great Metropolis
Woman Jail Bird Dupes Old New York

prime mover and originator of half a
dozen corporations and quick-rich
schemes.
The photograph of Ada Jean Mickey
lis in the Boston rogues' gallery, and
her Bertillon measurements are care
fully noted in the Boston police
records. She was arrested August 20,
1904, under the name of Mrs. C. NJ.
Palmer in Chicago for obtaining
money under false pretenses. She has
served years sentence in the house
of correction at East Cambridge, Mass.
The Washington police have wanted
her for years.
At l Madison avenue three large
Office rooms are still booked in the
name of Ada Jean Mickey. On each of
three doors, blazoned in gilt letters,
appears the name of corporation, of
which Mrs. Mickey is the genesis, the
manager and general manipulation.
One of these is the Bungalow Park
Land Company; another, American
Touring association, and third, the
International Progress Club and the
Golden Age Company.
Ada Jean Mickey was born so years
ago in Minneapolis. She was married
and had a son. Her criminal record,
as far as known at present, began in
Washington seven or eight years ago,
when she worked a $25 swindle on w.
J. Bryan, Speaker Henderson, Con-
gresham Sulzer and even on the late
President Mckinley. Washington
tradesmen mourned her to the tune of
$1,000 when she disappeared
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-02-07

ID EAR ADMIRAL EVANS probably
N has more relatives in and near
Washington than any other officer in
the navy, and, therefore, the progress
of the fleet under his command is
watched here with peculiar interest.
Many of these relatives have never
forgiven him entirely for remaining
in the United States navy when his
only brother, Sam, his uncles, and
practically every other male able to
shoulder gun in the neighborhood
of Fairfax, Va. his home town, went
with the south. So angry was his
mother that when she heard of the
death of one of her brothers, caused
by union bullet, she wrote out res
lgnation for Robley and mailed it to
President Lincoln.
In due time he received notice that
it had been accepted and he was i'm
mediately relieved from duty. Evans
had tasted fire" and Uncle Sam had
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-02-07

4 MOTHER chapter in the hayward
IA and romantic life of Mrs. Jack G..
Wilmerding, great-granddaughter of
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt and
cousin of Gladys Vanderbilt, was added
to the sensational episodes which have
made her so conspicuous when it be-
came known the other day that the
man with whom she contracted a
bigamous marriage In 1906 was a Va
let instead of the gentleman of indie
pendent means" he represented him.
self to be.
In Mr.. Wilmerding's suit for abso-
lutte divorce, he charges that Mrs. Will
merding contracted a bigamous mar.
rage with James Coates. a former
valet of New York clubman.
Mr.. Wilmerding's attorneys in Lon
don have advised his counsel here that
the woman's acquaintance with the
valet was made aboard the Cunarder
Campania while en- route from Liver
pool. 1t 10 said that she became vio-
lently infatuated with the young Eng
lish servant and that before the trip
had ended they had agreed to return
to England together. They were mar.
ried In the registrars Office in Lou
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-02-07

That art is long is again illustrated
by the delay in the completion of the
equestrian statue of Lafayette in
Paris, for which 100000 were sub.
scribed, chiefly by American school
children, nine or ten years ago. A
bronzed model of the statue was un-
yelled with elaborate ceremonies dur.
ing the last Paris exposition in 1900.
The sculptor, Paul Wayland Bartlett,
was not satisfied with this model, and
he has been at work on the figure
ever since. The latest reports from
him iadicate that he has finally pro-
duced statue which commends it.
self to his judgment, and he will soon
be ready to have it cast in bronze. In
the meantime the model that was un-
yelled in 1900 has fallen to pieces and
its ruins have been removed from the
pedestal. Americans in Paris are
wondering when the completed figure
will be set up. The reputation of Mr.
Bartlett, the sculptor, is such that
one may safely look for a fine work
OF art when he says that he has done
his best with it.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-02-07

NEW YORK.-Mrs. Ada Jean Mickey
~ has come to the center of New
York's sensational stage. The pricking
of her financial bubble by the police
brought to full light the story of dap
per, blue-eyed elderly woman, who had
swooped down on New York and bum
koed Father Knickerbocker. Ada is
small edition of Cassie Chadwick
and Nine. Humbert rolled in one, with
police record as a check worker,
forger and swindler in no less than
three cities.
During three years residence in New
York Ada Jean Mickey has not only
been moving in literary, bohemian
and financial circles, but she has
broken into fashionable society and
club life and has been scattering bad
checks from the battery to the Bronx.
She has been living at fashionable
hotels, dined with society women at
the Waldorf, assisted in receiving
guests at reception rendered Sir Cas-
par Purdon Clarke at the Hotel Man.
haitian, has numbered senators and
congressman, soldiers and statesmen
among her acquaintances, has had bad
accounts at leading Broadway and
Fifth avenue stores and has been the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-02-07
Story of Admiral Evans Earlv Dav,

no more enthusiastic defender. So he
fastened to Washington to see what it
all meant. Here he was shown the res.
ignation. Recognizing the handwrit.
ing. he choked up for a moment and
then feelingly how it happened.
One of his relatives told of the in.
cident the other day and said that
when the war was over he returned, a
cripple, to his home in Fairfax. Few
of the natives deigned to recognize
him, but his mother met him with
open arms and tears of JOY. That
evening she decreed that the brothers
who had fought on opposite sides
should sleep together
On going to their room Bob took
from his trunk steel apparatus which
a surgeon ordered should be worn at
night in order to prevent a shortening
of the leg. For two hours they
snapped experiences, and occasionally
sectional feeling came dangerously
near to putting harmony on the run.
Finally Sam slapped his brother on
the back and said:
We'll. Bob. it's time for me to
screw up that d Yankee leg CT
yours, and from now on we'll pass up
the war;
That's co.
And thew did
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-02-07
Sources of Our Unskilled Labor Supply

the United States, however, they do
not seek employment in agriculture,
partly because of the difficulties in the
way of obtaining it, but mainly be-
cause Of the higher rates of wages in
other industries. In transportation,
manufacturing. mining and in building
the demand for common labor has
been very great.
The Italian immigrant shows a
struction, tunnel building, grading,
ditching, building excavations and
work in factory industries where the
pay is somewhat higher and the work
somewhat heavier-where strong men
are required, as in the blast furnaces,
iron and steel works, iron ore ham
ding and coal mining. The railroads
still obtain their supply Of unskilled
labor through Italian agents.
An examination of the records of
three railroad systems in New York,
Pennsylvania and New Jersey for 1905
and 1905 gives accurate record of the
earnings and the total cost of living OF
large numbers of Italian laborcrs en-
ployed on these railroads and living
under the usual commissary system
The average earnings per month for q
representative month in 1906 for 50
gangs, numbering 1880 men, were
$3707. The cost Of all food was $3.50,
and the total rent of shanty and sun
dries $1.4o, or total Of 1919, leaving
a S1rn1uS ~ &20 %
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YOUNG women have been called into
service as manicurists at the
Ansonia, where there has arisen war
fare in which the line of battle forms
with the right wing in Fred Mockel's
barber shop, in the basement, and
reaches to Miss Jeanette Wilson s
manicuring establishment on the office
floor.
Business associates once, but rivals
now, Mockel and Miss Wilson have
each set about engaging manicurists
of beauty as we'll as of exceptional ar
tistic excellence in an effort to get
the larger share Of the trade.
Until few days ago Miss Wilson,
who was in charge of all the manicur-
lists in the building, paid part of the
rent of the barber shop, in which her
employees piled the file and the orange
wood, the chamois and the scissors.
Then she leased an apartment on
the Office floor and there installed lit.
tie glass-topped manicuring tables,
silver-mounted match boxes, ash re-
ceivers, furniture and pictures. A
hairdresser was also part of the new
establishment.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-02-07
CUBS FOOD
They Thrive on Grape.Nuts.

Healthy babies don't cry and tho
well-nourished baby that is fed on
Grape-Nuts is never a crying baby.
Many babies who cannot take any
other food relish the perfect food,
Grape-Nuts, and get well.
my little baby was given up by
three doctors who said that the con-
densed milk on which l fed her had
ruined the childs stomach. One OF
the doctors told me that the only
thing to do would be to try Grape
Nuts, so got some and prepared It az
follows. I soaked ~ tablespoonful
In one pint of cold water for half an
hour, then strained OF the liquid and
mixed IL teaspoonfuls OF this strained
Grape-Nuts juice with six teaspoonfuls
OF rich milk, put in a pinch Of salt
and little sugar, warmed it and gave
1t to baby every two, hours.
I'm this simple, easy way I saved
baby's life and have built her up to q
strong healthy child, rosy and laugh
Ing. The food must certainly be per-
feet to have such a wonderful effect as
this. can truthfully say I think it
is the best food in the world to raise
delicate babies on, and is also deli
cious healthful food for grown-ups az
We have discovered in our family
Grape-Nuts is equally valuable to
the strong, healthy man or woman. It
stands for the true theory. Of heath.
There's q Reason. Read 'The Road
70 We)lvfIle." In pkgs.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-02-07
Oiamondjferous Ground

A South African diamond mine or
pipe" is the crater of an extinct
volcano, and the diamondiferous
ground forms the filing of that era.
ter. 1t is generally conceded by geolo.
gists that the diamond ground has
been forced up from unknown DEPTHS
IN the form of liquid mud, that is to
say it was volcano that threw ont
boiling mud instead of molten igneous
rock. In some respects, therefore. it
would more closely resemble a geyser
than a volcano. Where the diamond
ground is found within so or 100 feet
OF the surface it is greenish yellow in
color, crumbles to the touch, and is
known as yellow ground" At depths
below atmospheric influences it
changes to greenish blue color. be.
comes much harder and is known az
blue ground" or merely "blue."-
Mines and Minerals.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-02-07

ENOUGH persons to equal New York
Ia city's population pass through Her.
aid square each four days. There is no
large permanent population there, and
there are other points in the city
where in a comparatively short space
Of time there are more persons, but
there Is no place where there are
more moving individuals throughout
the "a hours of the day.
This Herald square, where during any
four days in the week there can be
counted about 4,27S,O0O persons, is
the center of swirl made I'D of the
eddies from the conflicting human
streams that flow both ways and
across Broadway, Sixth avenue, Thir-
ty-third and Thirty-fourth streets, in
the roadways, on the walks, in the
cars on the surface and on the ele-
waited structure.
The record kept for one ordinary day
shows that LOGS, 100 persons composed
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-02-07
Wealthy Missouri Farmers.

No better illustration of the pros.
perity of the Missouri farmer can be
found than a social event which took
place just across the river from Leav.
enworth. Edward Olvis, a wealthy
wheatgrower, who owns nearly 1000
acres of bottom land, gave a barn
dance in a new barn, just completed,
and which covers almost half an acre
of ground. All the society people of
Leavenworth and Fort Leavenworth
and almost all the residents of Platte
county were invited, and the atten.
dance was large. An illustration of
the expenditures Of the host was the
fact that steam-heating plant was in.
stalled for use on this special oc-
casion. Dozens of autos belonging to
the farmers and others were lined up
outside of the barn-Kansas City
Journal.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-02-07
ROUND THE CAPITAL
81 y - Information and Gossip Picked Up Here
and There in WASHINGTON.
Landowner" in Government Service

him again in his own private ONCE in
the role of a doctor, where he prac.
tees his profession till bedtime or he
stays up all night if the case requires.
The doctor of medicine is not tho
only "sundowner" in Washington. The
departments are full of him. or, for
that matter, her." too, for there are
"sundown dressmakers," ''sundown
boarding house keepers" shutdown
restaurateurs'' and shutdown every
thing else.
Some one has said that if all the
professional men and women were re-.
moved from Office there would be no
not very far from true, if we be-
lieve that every person we hear called
doctor is real doctor. But the medi.
cal fraternity is not the only profess
sion that contributes to the vast army
of landowners" The colleges are
mostly of the shutdown variety and Of
fer wonderful opportunity to the gov
eminent clerks to secure an education
in the learned professions as well as
most every other line Of study.
Many good men have been "sun-
downers," and many good ones are still.
No less parsonage than Justice Har-
Ian of the supreme court of the
United States is numbered among
them, for he holds, and has held for
years, professorship in shutdown
college," Presidents of the United
States have been in their day sun
downers," and the members of con-
gress who have studied and graduated
at shutdown colleges" during their
terms of congress are too numerous to
mention
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-02-07

The funeral Of Prof. Seymour of
Yale, where the family wore no
mourning and the rites were of the
simplest, was presumably just as he
wished it. Many man would prefer
that no emblems of mourning be worn
for him, even by his widow, but it is
seldom that such wishes are re-
spected. Women do not necessarily
prefer to don the gloomy garb, but
seldom feel equal to defying the con-
ventionalities to the extent of reject.
ing it.
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there while scores of people watched
her from either bank.
Climb down the ladder into the
boat said a passing waterman, land
I'll row you ashore"
Never. never, never will go
down that ladder!" was the EN-.
phatic response. IT'S a rickety old
ladder and the boat keeps moving
aud. besides--well, l just won't do
it."
Even when the men tied hand.
kerchiefs over their eyes and Of.
fered their services she refused to
desert the draw. Kind-faced, father.
~ old fellows told her she would
catch her death of cold in the I'm.
protected place.
u don't care what l catch, but
l won't be caught on that ladder" was
the spirited answer
Then they gave it up. Some of
the men offered to share their
lunches with her, but were informed
that she wasn't hungry. 1t was
dark before the bridge was re.
paired sufficiently to allow the ten.
der to close it. Then Miss Neeley
sped homeward while the crowd
cheered
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MoOESTY MlROONS GIRL
nc 0AY ON BRIO6E.
SPENDS TWELVE HOURS oh}oPEN
DRAW RATHER THAN RISK :.
SHOWING ANKLES. - Il.

Bridgeport, Conn. -. Firmly con.
vinced that a score of horrid, horrid
men, who offered to rescue her from
her embarrassing position, were only
anxious to get a peek at her trim fav-
ender encased ankles. Miss Annie
Medley, a corset model of this city,
stood for IL hours in a biting wind on
the open drawbridge over the Pequon.
mock river.
; Miss Medley was marooned when
the draw was opened to permit the
iron workers to make repairs. The
bridge tender found it impossible to
close the bridge al nd she had to stay
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-02-07
Veteran Poet's Last Years.

Hiram L. Spencer, one of the vet.
eran poets of the country, is spending
the sunset of his life in a quiet coun.
try home at White Head, New Bruns-
wick. He was born in Vermont in
1929. His best-known poem, "A Hun.
dred Years to Come" was writes
when he was at school.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-02-07
DROPS ROLE OF MAN TO WE'D
Woman Masquerades in Male Attire
Over Year, Then Becomes Bride.

Sacramento, Cal.-After masQuerad.
ing for over a year in coat, vest and
trousers, Miss Anna Mary Egger, a
clerk in delicatessen store in this
city, otherwise known as Frank"
Egger, was regarded by her acquaint.
ances as rather mild-mannered
youth, but no one, except the woman
who gave her the first suit of mems
clothes, knew of her disguise, or even
suspected that the beardless clerk was
woman.
She became engaged two years ago
in this city to Ernest F. Drummer while
she was working in local hotel. She
was then every whit woman, but
when her fiance went away to Truckee
Mrs. M. Diepenbrock of this city
whom she had nursed during a long
illness, suggested that for her better
protection and convenience she don
male attire.
Miss Egger succeeded in keeping her
fiance in ignorance of the change she
had made in her appearance. When
he saw her the other day for the first
time in two years, clad for all the
world like man, he was at first
angry, but was pacified when she
promised to again put cn the dress of
her sex.
ITS great to be man." the bride
said. Il do not think men are half as
wicked as women. I've actually had
two women propose to me, and had
the hardest time in the world shaking
them. l am nearly IS years old and
I knew my husband when we were
both children in Switzerland. I
dressed like a man because l could
get better wages as man aud be-.
cause l felt that l was better pro-
tected in trousers than in skirts"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-02-07
To Erect Statue Of John Witherspoon

To Erect Statue Of John Witherspoon.
A committee has been appointed in
Washington to select site and erect
a statue of John Witherspoon, Z
signer Of the Declaration of 1ndepend.
ence, upon some government land in
Washington other than the grounds Of
the capitol or the library of congress.
the statue to be provided by tho
Wttherspoon Memorial association.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-02-07
Neatly Put.

Homer Folks, the secretary Of the
State Charity Aid society Of New
York, referred in a recent address to
the awkwardness that charity work
ers feel in making public appeals for
funds
And few charity workers." Mr..
Folks added. "can carry off that awk-
wardness with the neatness of the COL
ored preacher who reminded his con-
gregation that:
'BTudren, All KANT preach hyah
an board in heb'n.'"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-02-07
Telephone a Necessity in London.

Telephone Necessity in London.
French business interests in the ives.
tern Soudan have grown until the tele-
phone has become q necessity. Hun.
dreds Of natives are now engaged in
stringing telephone wire to the Niger
and down that river to Timbuktu.
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Had Done His Best.

Uncle Hosea did not feel able to
contribute more than Is cents to the
missionary cause, and was not particu-
larly enthusiastic about giving even
that.
You ought to give as the Lord mas
prospered you," said Deacon Iron
side.
II don't think the Lord'n ever &C.
cuse me Of bein' ungrateful," an
swered Uncle Hosea six of my
boys is preachers"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-02-07
Aids Users Of the cano>r.

The telephoto attachment has
proved a splendid addition to the use
OF a camera. It was designed to en-.
able the photographer to obtain man.
nffied pictures of scenery and build.
1ngs at considerable distarca
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Time for Other Attractions.

The original mistake that many
women make as they feel their youth
going is to fail to bring out the mex!
set of attractions. Mere youth il
pleasing, and because Of it much is
overlooked, condoned pr ignored. "Sha
is pretty girl some one says, and
forgives the evidence of bad temper.
But they will admire more a woman
of middle age who haa learned to con.
troll her temper and to show sweet.
ness and self-contrcl when youth
would fly into rage.
A middle-aged woman who has
learned from life as she has gone on
is infinitely more attractive than q
girl. The former has gained sweet.
ness and strength in trial.-Exchange.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-02-07

SPANS new $So,o00,O00 navy will
be completed in 1910. 1t il now just
about ten years since the Spaniards
have managed to get along without
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-02-07

Referring to the proposed plan to
replace defective organs of the body
with others in which the mechanism
10 In better working order, there are
q number Of persons who can stand
new and improved brains.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-02-07
Rural Mail Carrier May Hug in Public

The department took the same view
of it and dismissed the charges
against Belleman. However, Belleman
was notified to confine his hugging to
his own sweetheart and to be certain
that she was willing.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-02-07
Wilmerding Finds Wife Wed to Valet

don. in 1906, Mrs. Wilmerding descrih.
ing herself as widow.
The present abode of Mrs. Wilmerd-
ing. or Mrs. Coates" as she calls
herself, is a mystery.