The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-01-14
NEWS OF OLNEYYILLE.
The Business Mems Association Met
Last Evening.
MANY NOTABLES PRESENT.
Responses by Gov. Ladd, the Hon Rath-
bone Gardner, President Andrews and
Others-The Firemen Respond To an
AIarm-Pawcasset Ice Houses Burned.


nual banquet of the Olneyville Business
Mems Association, was the banner festi-
val of that organization since its forma-
tion about five years ago. and the review
of its past and the outlook for its future
prosperity augurs well for many years of
usefulness towards the advancement of
the interests of Providence's largest
suburb
At little before o'clock the members
of the society and invited guests, includ-
ing His Excellency Gov. Ladd, and Others,
sat down to a supper that would suit the
most epicurean tastes. DIR. L. &. Lawton,
who is about to retire from Office as presi-
dent of the association, presided over the
feast.
No sooner had the after-dinner speeches
begun than an alarm for fire sounded, and
Immediately many of those who had but
moment ago settled TO enjoy TO the fullest
extent the whole affair, started out OF
their chairs and darted through the doors,
leaving nothing but wonder 10 those who
live over the city line and were unaccus-
toned to such scene. Bnt Johnston
volunteer tiremen never get left.
After the excitement of the moment
wore off President Lawton made few
brief remarks, principally OF welcome, to
the distinguished guests, and introduced
as toastmaster, William l.. Whippie, who
accepted in short and pointed speech, in
which he defined the boundaries of Olney-
Vile, as the wales nesting between the
growing heights of Neutakonkanet, Sky
High, Federal and Christian Hills, refer
ring to its $1,000 people, its thrift, intelli-
gence and prosperity.
"The State OF Rhode Island' was the
first toast, to which His Excellency Gov.
Ladd was called upon to respond. lie
thought that the Business Mems Associa-
,a,. .s.,It ha 70 hafr nah
ments and that they might also be salts
fled with the remarkable progress they
had made. He complimented the organ
ization on its money resources.
Business Mems Associations" was re-
sponded to by United States District At
torney Rathbone Gardner, who said:
"These associations stand out, a living
protest against individual selfishness,
which has retarded the best interests OF this
city and other communities Each mem
ber shows by his being member of such
a club his willingness TO forego personal
the wise policy of this particular associa-
tion in first arousing the enthusiasm of
the people with regard to any improve
ment before asking for it's completion. He
warned them against ascribiHg bad mo-
tives to anyone, no matter what his views
may be. In conclusion he referred to the
fact that Olneyville should have some
place where its working class could go in
the evening, some less formal place than
the library, where they could smoke their
pipes, play cards and feel that they were
at home This would take the place of
the much -frequented and far too numer-
Gus saloons which he noticed in Olney-
vile.
President Andrews of Brown was next
introduced to reply to "Olneyville's
Future" Many might be surprised to
hear he said, that he had been identified
vii 1la for far
back AS 1865, he had taught a little Sunday
school class then, and that same class is
to-day the most fiourishing in the state,
and many of its former members have
gone out to fill positions in the various
paths of life. He considered himself safe
In predicting in thirty years hence, in
stead of Market square being the centre
of population in Providence, Olneyville
square would be the pivotal point of the
city's increased census.
To "Olpeyville's Business Mems Asso-
cition" DR. r. A. Twitchell was called
upon to reply, and he did so by reviewing
briefly the work of the organization since
first came in existence. 1t was started in
1887 with a membership of fifteen, he out
ini ng the different improvements, such
as the bank, telegraph Office, increased
freight accommodations, passenger facili-
ties, Valley street sewer, the extension of
Kingsley avenue from Olenyville to the
city for heavy trucking, and large in
ducements offered for corporations to To-
cate. push" he said was the Olneyville
motto 1t was like the Tammany tiger,
which reaches out for everything in sight,
and a great many things out of sight. He
said that belt line was necessary, and
also rapid transit, and that freight depot
was one of the near possibilities OF the
future in this district.
THE Advance Club was answered by
u. NJ. Thompson, and the Educational
Int ctc' a. A al
in the most appropriate manner, after
which the meeting was adjourned.
Pocasset Ice Co.'S. Houses Burned.
Last night about 9.l5 an alarm from
box 45 in Johnston was rung in, and in re-
sponse to its call, the Rough and Ready
fire department FASTENED to a fire in the
ice houses of the Pocasset Ice Co, near
Silver lake. They were four in number,
and were, when the company arrived at
the scene, one mass of flames The houses
cover n large tract, and as there was no
ice i'm them, there was little use of trying
to save them, as they were beyond control
in short time. In less than two hours
the four buildings were pile of smould-
ering ashes. One man, Wellington Lewis
fell distance of twenty feet, and his skin
and scalp were rent asunder from the
nose to the back of the neck, rendering
him unconscious, he being conveyed in
Farrells Office, and his injuries dressed
There is about ~, 900 loss on the build
ings, of which $4,000 is insured. Incen-
diarism Is considered the course of the
fire, AZ their is no possible way for ac-
counting for IL otherwise.
A House Broken Into.
Tuesday afternoon the house OF Will
lam Tabor, a spinner in Fletcher's mills,
2l9 Valley street, was broken into and
ransacked by n party of four young men,
who stole suit of clothes and other
articles OF value. They were seen in one
of the rooms looking about, when one of
them pulled down the curtains. They
could find no money i'm the building The
place was locked up, as there is nobody
there during the day, both Tabor and his
wife being employed at the mills i'm the
vicinity. The police were notified and are
now on the trail.
Briefs.
Delaine street was last evening sand
bagged.
Agnes Daily, 6s Apple street, last even
ing celebrated her fifth birthday, by ex-
tending 20 her little playmates an ami
versary party There were about dozen
uirla t,reeept