New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-07-27
SATISFIED WITH THE CENSUS.
PROVIDENCE DISPLAYING EVIDENCE OF ri
INVARIABLY RAPID GROWTH.

PROVIDENCE DISPLAYING EVIDENCE OF RI
INVARIABLY RAPID GROWTH.
Providence H. t. July 90 tSpccan.-Thc results
Of the census. officially reported this week, are
quito generally satisfactory. although there arr
some hlcicr,' here elsewhere. OF something
more than one hundred complaints received BY the
Supervisor from people who claimed to have been
omitted. all were Investigated, and not com
paint WAS founded on fact. All Inc complain
ants were certainly sincere In supposng that they
had been omitted, but the Information had been
obtained by the enumcrators from others. Tn"
census disclosed the fact that Rhode Island con
fans rcO remarkably large tOwrs-Warwick. with
1916 Inhabitants. and Lincoln. with 2o3jO. War
wick IS composed Of several scattered mill Villages.
and viii probably never be city. Lincoln IA
50 close 10 Pawtuclet that union Of the two VIII
sometime take place The two now would make
4 respectable city Of $4,000 people
The state has another public Institution investi-
cation its Stands. The Evening Telegram,
which makes a speciality Of attack, on public insti
tutions. is turning rs attention 10 the sochan
Ossct school This is the polite name for the Re
form school. which J., conducted the open sys
TEN. The investigation grew out Of the news
paper claim that superintendent Nibeckcr kept one
Charles Mccarthy for tlirty-two days in darl,
room on bread and water and on another occasion
for ten days. The Is in the hands of a special
committee Of the Hoad OF State Charities and Cor
rcctions, consisting Of +. II. WILSON, Charles II.
rcckham. and T.. o. Littlcneh and public exam
nation !, likely to follow. NibeclIcr /, generally
considered to be a model superintendent. but there
are plenty Of people ready TO make trouble for
officials II his clas, If they hear Of the Inmates
icing treated differently from Sundavschoo schOl
arr. Mr. Nibccker says that Mccarthy was re
bcllious and could have got ont at any time II
he had weakened.
The hearing of the petition from the Union Rail
f.p Ia Iliah ia.
trolley system Of electric railways in This city
completed this week. The Union Company made
out strong favorable 10 the trolley system.
Rapid transit /, greatly desired The objection,
% it twofold; first. from the citizens who Oh
jcct 10 the erection Of the poles and wire, and
fear the danger from the falling broken wire,
and second, from the Providence Telephone Com
pany, who insist that If the system i, employ ed
at all. it shall be the double trolley plan rather
than the single, which, it Is claimed, will destroy
their telephone service rs present constituted.
The result IS prOblcmatical
During Counsellor Rockers plea In behalf Of
the Union Company some notable facts In regard
10 the growth Of Providence and cnvirons were
brought 10 light. Providence has grown - per
cent In ten years, the percentage Of her growth al
most cqualllng that OF Chicago without her new
cccdins that Of io,fon and Cincinrati
In ten years clearing, have Increased 90 per cent.
saving, bank deposits 81 per cent and the assessors
valuation Of the city 81 per cent. East Providence
has Increased In population SO per cent. Johnston
90 per cent, PaWtu"hct - per cent.
The riverside MILE, Omcyvillc. will In the future
he conducted by new corporation. known Il, the
Riverside wor,tcd Mlls which Ia, been organized at
Augusta. Nc. with T. p. Chaplin, Of this city. a.
treasurer. The capital stock IS ~ 100000.
All kinds Of berrie, and fruit are abnormaly high
which had lasted more than a month previous to
Thursday night.