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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
Exclusion Laws Wiping Out Chinatown

town, says many of the Cinnamon are
going back to China because of the
liberal policy" of the new government
there. He also ascribes the exodus to
the rigid enforcement OF the exclusio5
law and to the business depression.
Rich Cinnamon go home," Tom
Lee says, land no come back. No 9TH
err Cinnamon allowed to come to take
places"
Years ago Chinatown was one of the
sights Of the city. But now it is large
ly memory No more does the clink
of the ivory chips or the smell of
burning opium greet the curious,
sightseeing excursionist.
When a Chinaman decides to quit
he does so without much ado. No
moving vans are required to move his
goods. He simply packs his grip and
vamooses. What household utensils
he may own he divides among the
members of his clan whom he leaves
behind, as souvenirs, or else he leaves
them in the room he has occupied-an
unWelcome present to the landlord.
According to Tom Lee, the exclu-
sion law is not only depopulating
Chinatown, but is slowly closing all
the Chinese laundries throughout the
country. Owners of these laundries
can obtain no help, and no purchasers
when they want to retire and go back
to China. Consequently, the laundries
arc closed
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
1rs. Sage Grows a Noble Family Tree

of Salisbury, with the prOgenitor Of
those families, Drogo de Monte, who
fought, under Robert, earl of Moreton,
during the Norman conquest
In the first pages of the book is
outlined the career of Russell Sage as
statesman, financier and merchant.
Mr.. Sage descended from the found
ers of the old Connecticut Colony
1t is through the wife of one of these
Connecticut ancestors, Amos Sage, that
the financier was descended from the
Montagus> and a noble line Battle Alb
hey was the home of direct ancestor
of Mrs. Amos Sage
One of the most singular and s1rifk-
ing facts Of the entire record is that
the descendancy of Mr.. Sage has been
traced to the old family of Josselyn,
which in turn formed the ancestry of
Mrs. Sage. Josselyn dc Bee built the
beautiful castle of the same name, the
remains of which are standing to this
day. Battle Abbey is now occupied by
Michael P. Grace of this city, and is
owned by Sir Augustus Webster
Through Alexander Standish, son of
Miles. who married the daughter of
John Alden, Mrs. Sage is descendant
of the doughty Capt. Miles Standish,
who in turn was the direct ancestor of
Olivin Standish Josselyn, who was the
wife of William SlOcum.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
Place for Inaugural Dance Is in Doubt

Pension Commissioner Warner says
that the pay of employees during that
period, within which they would be
in enforced idleness, aggregates $685.
474, and it would mean just that much
cost to the government:
He says that the work of the Office
will be put back, and that damage
that cannot be estimated invariably
follows every occupancy of the pen
sion Office for the inaugural ball.
There is already on foot, however,
movement to utilize the building az
in the past for the ball and the house
committee on the District of Columbia
after the holidays will bring in a
resolution to that end. Unless the
temper of congress has undergone a
radical change in the last four years,
the resolution will meet with defeat
The only other building in the city
where the ball could be held is the
new national museum, now nearing
completion, but this structure, because
of the absence of court such as the
pension building has, would lessen
the brilliancy of the function by con-
fining the guests to the corridors.
The receipts from the inaugural
ball in the past have gone toward pay
ing the expenses of the Inauguration.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08

r HE announcement of the engage
/ ment Of Bernard Arthur William
Patrick Hastings Forbes, eighth earl of
Granard, and Miss Beatrice Mills, the
daughter of Ogden Mills and grand
daughter of D. o. Mills, which was
cabfed from London recently, has been
confirmed by members of the Mills
family.
The news was somewhat surprising,
though it had been discussed as early
as September, when the earl came
over with Mrs. Ogden Mills and her
daughter from Europe and was their
guest at Newport and again at Stats
burg at the Livingston mansion, the
home of the maternal ancestors of the
future countess.
The earl has received the congratu-
lations of the king and queen of Eng
land upon his engagement: He is a
favcrite of both and bears the title of
royst master of the horse. AS the
wife of the master of the horse, the
future countess of Granard will have
the privilege of riding in the royal
carriages, but under a recent order
only the members of her own family
may accompany her on these oc-
casions.
It is expected that the marriage
will take place in this city in the near
future. It probably will be a home
affair, as there is a difference Of re-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
The Enterprise.
w. e! HANNAFORD, Pub:
VIRGINIA., :, MINNESOTA.
Torpedoes That Carry Guns.

, Torpedoes That Carry Guns.
Through the invention of the armor-
piercing torpedo gun, Lieut.. Comman-
der Cleland Davis has created so ter.
rible' a menace to the navies of the
world that revolutionary changes must
follow fast on the trail of it's adoption
by this nation. 1t will no doubt force
the world a step nearer to armed neu-
trality or 4 universal peace, for it rem
ders battleships so much more vulner-
able below the water line than hitherto
that nations will be less inclined to
take the risk Of war. To Offset the de-
structive effect which experts claim
this new device is capable of, ship de-.
signers must revise plans and shelve
precedents by placing in the water
ships radically different from any now
af1oat. Thousands of tons of addi-
tional armor will alone give a maxi
mum protection to the great floating
forts of the world when the United
States has been equipped with a tor
pedo that drives a shell loaded with
deadly "Dunnite" deep into the in
terror Of another ship and, by a time
fuse, causes it to burst in the vital Sec
ton of the quarry. Therein lies the
power of this new implement, says
Technical World Magazine, and there
also is the radical difference between
the Whitehead, or gun-cotton, and the
Davis torpedo. Terrible as is the for
mer, it may be called harmless toy
by comparison. 1t rushes through the
water Is feet below the surface at the
rate Of 40 miles an hour; strikes the
object of attack and explodes the 200
pound charge of gun-cotton in it's war
head against the side of the ship.
Before the days of water-tight COM
partments and steel containing bulk.
heads that crashing defamation would
have been a sounding requiem over
the graves of the crew, for the ship
would have filled and sunk.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08

The postmaster of Cleveland has
been so impressed with the number of
mistakes in addressing mail that he
has compiled primer giving instruc-
ton on the subject and has circulated
it in the public and parochial schools.
1t would seem that every person with
intelligence enough to write a letter
would know how to address it, but that
this is not the case is shown by the
records Of the dead letter office, which
gave a total for last year of over TO-
100000 domestic letters received there
and over 100000 foreign letters. OF
course these letters did not all fail of
delivery because the writer did not
know how to address them, but a large
proportion were of this class Great
numbers were without any address,
which means sheer carelessness on the
part of the writer, others were without
postage, many were misdirected, a
large number were hotel letters. So
many, however, showed mistakes of ig.
norance that a primer of instructions
is not without it's uses.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
WHERE shall the inaugural ball be

WHERE shall the inaugural ball be
W held?
This is the question which is agitat-
ing the minds of the inaugural COM
mittee and society folks here. For
many years this has been the crown
ing feature of the installation into
office of new president, but four
years ago congress reluctantly gave
its consent to the use of the pension
office building and followed this action
up by adopting resolution that the
building should not again be put in
disorder for such purpose.
Properly to prepare the structure
for the ball means the removal from
the great court of millions of valuable
records besides the almost complete
cessation of the government business
for no less than 20 days by the army
of clerks who daily pass upon pension
cases.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
Editor Wanted-Apply to Uncle Sam

1T was real funny when got to the
postoftice. I was escorted to one Of
the rooms by three or four attend
ants. Half dozen more men spent
Is or 20 minutes slipping bars and
bolts and raising windows. Another
bunch rushed at me with stock of
papers. Then the whole mob got to-
gether and decided it wouldn't pay to
hold the exam. for one candidate"
What do you suppose kept the 9TH
er editors away" he was asked
Il can't figure that out" was the re-
ply. Its fabulous amount of mon
ey for the modest requirements of
the job, and think of the honor of
singing ink for the government. All
it requires is perfect knowledge of
entomology, economic zoology and vet
Urinary science, together with work
ing assortment of French, German,
Irish, Hindustani, African, English and
Italian
"Of course, you are expected to
qualify on the reading, writing and
'rithmetic and letter writing. You've
got to be ready letter writer to work
for the government these days. Ami
NAL husbandry and dairy philosophy
are some of the minor subjects in
cluded in the examination"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
Gossip il :. of Washington
! What Is GOING On at the
] National CAPITAL
Recalled by Death

shattered. Mrs. Davis went to Kansas
to live and legal separation was fol-
lowed by a divorce. A year later, Mrs.
Evans became Mrs. Davis No. 2.
Mrs. William r. Merriam, wife of
a rising politician, was the social lead
er in st. Paul at the time. She was
devoted friend of the first Mrs. Davis,
and her decree that Mrs. Anna Agnew
Davis must not be recognized socially
was obeyed implicitly.
1t was not long before William R.
Merriam was elected governor of Min
nesota, and his wife assumed her po-
sition as mistress of the executive
great social function of st. Paul, and
when Mrs. Merriam sent out her in
vitations the former governor and his
wife were excluded.
Gov. Davis was elected to the Unit
ed States senate in 1887. Soon after
the expiration of Gov. Merriam's term
he was appointed director Of the Gen.
sus, coming with his wife to this city,
and transferring the scene of hostil-
tiles.
Senator Davis died on November q,
1900, from blood poisoning. While
campaigning in Maine he suffered a
slight abrasion of the foot. The dye
J from his silk hose infected the wound
and septicemia resulted. Mrs. Davis
was married to Hunter Doll on July
20. 1903,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08

IT TAKES a million dollars day to
/ satisfy Uncle Sans sweet tooth, be-
cause the average citizen in the Unit
weight in sugar every year.
These and other interesting facts
are given in statement issued by the
bureau of statistics, which reads more
like fairy tale for children than q
government report.
The total consumption in the
United States in 1907, the latest year
for which the figures are obtainable,
was 7,0S9, 667,975 pounds.
"Calculating this enormous total at
the average retail price of 5k cents
per pound" the report states, I'VE get
total of $372,000,000 as it's cost to
the consumer, or more than a million
dollars for each of 365 days of the
year."
The statement shows that 21.3 per
cent. or 1,511,000,0O0 pounds, of the
sugar consumption of the country was
of home production, IT. per cent, or
1854 900 900 pounds, was brought from
our insular possessions and the re-
naming 81 per cent, or 4,367 200, 900
pounds, came from foreign countries
Forty-three million pounds was the
aggregate of the expectation of sugar
from this country.
The United States sugar record fol-
1907 was unique in that the quantity
of that product Imported from foreign
countries was larger than ever be-
fore, the quantity brought from our is
land possessions was larger than in
any previous year. the quantity pro
duced at home exceeded that of any
other year, the quantity exported was
larger than in any year of the past
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
Women DispIacinq Men.

Woman is putting on her good
clothes and coming downtown. Which
is one of the epoch-1haking events in
her industrial history. For, while
women are not gaining on men notice
ably in factories, they are gaining on
them every day, noticeably, strikingly
overwhelmingly, in salesrooms, CORE
spondence rooms, auditing rooms, and
all the other places conveniently sum
married as stores and Offices" Never
theless, while it is true in the factory
trades as whole that men and WON
en- seem to have reached, temporarily
at least, an equilibrium of relative
numbers, it is also true that here and
there, occasionally, in the constant
give and take between the sexes, men
are being displaced by women. When
this happens, says William Hard, in
Everybody's, it is worth watching, be-
cause the industrial character of WON
an Is then revealed in action.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08

A n INTERESTING genealogical rec.
"A ord Of the ancestors of Mrs Rus
sell Sage has been published and with
in few days will be distributed
among Mrs. Sage's friends 1t is the
work of William H. Wittemore. an ex-
pert genealogist, whose compilation
and studv of the Sage family tree has
occupied more than a year.
It has been found that Mrs. Sage,
whose family name is Slocum, is de-
scended from an illustrious house of
Montagu, famous in English his
torical annals; that one Of her ances-
tors fought with William the Con.
queror, and that the lineage of her
late husband was also very high and
dates back to about the same period
as her own.
OF further qualification to Mrs Sage
is the fact that it was discovered that
she is connected, through the dukes
of Manchester and Sandwich, Lady
Mary WOrtley Montague and the earl
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
Bitter Social Feud

w ASHINGTON.-T recent death
W of Mrs. William Hunter Doll, for
merly the widow of Senator Cushman
K. Davis of Minnesota and we'll known
in capital society, recalls bitter So
cial feud in which she was one of the
leading characters.
Mrs. Dolls maiden name was Anna
Malcolm Agnew, and she was not
quite 16 years of age when she mar
ried Senator Davis, who was q years
her senior.
Anna Agnew described herself as a
great-grandchild of Margaret Malcolm,
a distinguished Scotch woman, and a
great-grandniece of Admiral Poultney
Malcolm, who guarded the island of
st. Helena while Napoleon was a
prisoner there. She became the child
wife Of printer named Evans, but
she divorced him in 1873, and, to sup.
port herself, entered the household of
Gov. Cushman K. Davis of Minnesota
as a seamstress
Within few months the harmony
between Gov. Davis and his wife was
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08

Uncle SAM is worried over the fail
- ure of the United States civil
service commission to get him an ed
itor. The chair in the sanctum of the
Experiment Station Record, red hot
monthly devoted to cattle society and
oleomargarine endurance contests, is
vacant. The job pays $1,000 year.
An examination was held in the
Brooklyn postofice recently, but only
one applicant appeared. He promised
to raise the standard of the Record
and to swell the circulation by ma
king cow-to-cow canvass for new
subscribers.
They looked me over" said this
editor, land decided to give the other
editors of the country second
chance to try for the job. They re.
fused to believe that there was only
one editor who wanted to work for
the government
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08

NEW YORK.-Miss Marjorie Gould,
~ daughter of George Gould, and
granddaughter Of Jay Gould, made her
public debut in the social world the
other evening when she appeared at
the opening performance of the season
at the Metropolitan opera house.
Miss Marjorie Gould, first of this
third generation of Goulds to be
brought out, is Is years DID, She need
ed not the magic of her fathers mil
lions; her beauty alone would have
gained her entrance anywhere, for she
is one Of the handsomest girls that
have ever catered the portals of New
Yorks innermost circle. .
She is more than society chatter.
box. She can talk about things that
mean much. She has her own ideas
not somebody else's, but her own. She
has read, and read we'll. There are
those who declare that she has inherit
ed the masterful mind of her GRANDPA
Their. She is little different from the
average debutante, despite her handi-
cap of money and good looks
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
Bill for Sugar Is 100000 a Day

decade, and the per capita consump.
ton was the largest ever recorded, ap
average of S2.6 pounds for each man,
woman and child in the country.
An equally interesting feature of
this record year of 1907 was the fact
that the production of beet sugar for
the first time exceeded the produc.
ton of cane sugar, the product of the
year being, cane sugar, $4,000, 900
pounds, while the production of beet
sugar amounted to 967,000,000 pounds.
The worlds production has prac.
tical1y doubled in the past 20 years,
having grown from 1900, O00, 600
pounds in 1887 to $4,000, 600, 0oo
pounds in 1907.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08

The Importance of trade schools, an
article about which was lately printed
in the Youths Companion, gains new
emphasis from the decision of the ex-
pert superintendent of the. public
schools of Chicago to lay before the
board Of education a plan to establish
three technical or vocational high
schools for girls, to correspond with
those already established for boys. 1t
Is planned in these schools to fit girls
not only for domestic life, but for many
of such callings-as typewriting and
stenography, dressmaking and mill.
nery-to which women are moving in
greater and greater Rumbers, The sue.
cess Of the few schools where such
practical training is provided has
shown that they meet distinct need
of the times.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08

n HINATOWN, the home of the tongs,
~ whose bitter feuds in years gone
by kept the criminal courts and the
hospitals busy, is going out of bust
ness. 1t is being deserted by the
Chinese, and in a few months, if the
present rate of exodus keeps up, there
will be but very few Mongolians left
within its precincts.
Many reasons are ascribed for the
general moving of the celestials from
the famous old bailiwick. The mer-
chants and leaders say the exclusion
law is responsible. Others say that
the business depression has scared the
Cinnamon who have made money, and
they are going back to China to live
In luxury and ease.
The public officials say their activi.
ty in suppressing the gambling dens in
the district is responsible for the de-
parture of many of it's old habitues,
who lived on the money they extracted
from their countrymen through games
of chance.
Old Tom Lee, the mayor of China
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08


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station and executive officer the Wyoming which
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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
Beatrice Mills to Wed a British Earl

ligious faith between the bride and
bridegroom-e!ect =.
The earl of Granard is the eighth of
his line. He sits as Baron Granard in
the house of lords. He is in his thir-
} ty-fourth year and one of the youngest
peers. In politics he is a liberal. In
religion he is a Roman Catholic and
has been the first peer of that faith to
receive a court appointment in 20
years.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08

We are pleased to note that the
judge in trying the case of the girl
who came into his court asking for
$4,000 damages for kiss did not lean
over the desk and ask for sample to
see If it was worth the money. The
dignity of our courts must be main.
tanned at whatever sacrifice.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08

Rear Admiral William Hemsey Emory, U.
S. H. who was retired the other day on account
of the age limit, began his long and honorable
naval career when he entered the Naval acade-
my in 1862, and ended it when as admiral of
the blue he lowered his flag last November at
Hongkong commander of the second squad
ron of the Atlantic battleship fleet and left his
flagship the Louisiana, to return home
In these 46 years Rear Admiral Emory had
II commands, nine of separate vessels, the FIRST
being the Palos, when he was 26 years old one
division of four battleships in the Atlantic fleet
in 1906, and the last squadron of eight, which
he has Just left
Rear Admiral Emory was born in Washing
fOa hon
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08

From all accounts, the funeral of the
Chinese emperor, with all its barbaric
splendor, numerous animals and tre-
mendous crowds, must be looked on
there ais something in the light of a
tremendous national circus parade.
Probably it is the only enjoyment
which the ropulace get out Of the i'm
perial functions.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
A Hard.Workinu Man,

Eyes, jedge, Use a hard wo'kin'.
man, l is
What do you do?" inquired the
Judge.
We'll, yo' see, jedge, my wife does
washin' at home an turns de wringer
TO- her, an OATS powerful hard work,
dat is."-Detroit Free Press.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
Matter Of Statement,

Mrs. Crimsonbeak-An old Greek
law provided that II a man divorced
his wife he could not marry younger
woman than the discarded partner.
Mr.. Crimsonbeak-Oh, we'll, of
course, no woman would be younger
than the divorced one claim ed she
was.-Yonkers Statesman. 4
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
A Certain Fraud.

Bobbie-Mamma, this shilling you
gave me this morning must be coun-
terfeit.
Mamma-Why do you think So.
dear?
Bobbie-Well, I hear papa say that
money talks, and I've had this money
whole day and it hasn't said a word,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08

Gilbert H. Gary's dinner in New York
to the steel magnates of the continent
brought together an aggregate of
wealth that would have made Croeeus
feel like a piker.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
Coal Gas,

Coal Gas.
It was in the early part OF the
eighteenth century that coal gas was
accidentally discovered by Rev. John
Clayton, then dean of Kildare Neither
Mr.. Clayton nor any of his conte1n-
poraries seems to have thought Of
making use of the new gas for lighting
purposes, and it was not until the year
1892 that it was first so employed
Chicago American.