The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-09-05
ron PRESIDENT.
BENJAMIN HARRISON
OF INDIANA.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
WHITELAW REID
N OF NEW YORK.
The Advantages Of Providence.

4. Providence is one of the capitals
Of Rhode Island.
q Providence is the second city fn
population In Neto ERglond
8. Providence contained $4,000
fnhdbitants in 1890 and Is gro,ring veg'U
Tapfdiu The population Is opeyTo,otng
ne city limits In eUery direction, so that
the suburbs are grogfng faster than the
ctty tseU.
4. Providence is the centre of com
pact mass of population, occupying an
area about eleven miles long by four
broad. This continuously built comnu-
nifty, Of identical interests and adUon-
fdgcs, achfch forms the real, though not
the politically defined PRovIDEEcE, Is the
ninth largest city in the United States.
b. Providence had totthfn ten miles
Of It's city Hall In 1865, SI,2|s Inhabitants.
In 1870 Is5, ,0Is;, an 1850, 16e, ,2e5; in 1885
there Wcre sI/,6es; tn 1890 about $500
and the population Is RoU believed TO be
at least e75.0Qp, Increasing at the rate OF
neqrly per cent. a year.
o. Providence is grotDfng faster than
ann other otty ta the East, and much
faster than II erer did before.
Z. Providence has more people ,oith-
tR 100 miles than Chicago, So. Louis NctU
Orleans, Baltimore or Cincinnati.
3. Providence leads all the cities In
the sC0rld In the jeiCctry manufacture.
It Is the centre. mart and port Of the cot
ton and poolen industry Of the United
States. All the largest cotton mills of.
America are tgjthin eighty or NINETY
miles radius of Fyovtdence This Is due
to certain climatic Gdpantages recognized
by cotton manufacturers. H has icihtn
tts field the biggest and finest stationary
engine rorks, rubber factories, fertile
mttls. ale ToTks and tool and machinery
worhs and the largest manutactory of
stlper U0re IN me scorld.
o. Providence is at the head of
h0rbor so mtles long, containing 5000
acrss of anchorage ground so feet deep
md 500, ,oc0 acres IS feet deep.
10. Providence is nearer the mar
kets Of Europe Than Neao York by $50
mites. and 10 about as near the Western
cities. IT Is more than 100 miles nearer
southern Gnd Sostth American ports than
1ostQp. There Is far more FREIGHT In
tfurstt sHat could be cheaper shipped pfa
Providc~ce 1cn rfo BOSTON.
11. Pfovfdcnce Ss In direct commu-
Ntcdtton trtth all points, north, south.
cast and scest. 1t u the natural port of
the fruit trade for all Ne,c England. II
y tks natural port for all Ne,S Enoiand
fDr cotton, bttaiminous coal, Southern
W0her, pig tron. The country surround
tng Pv0ptdence Is supposed to be the
richest territory .tn the aporld and he
most thtcksy settIed In America.
4 ~. Providence is happp In ia
Odturol conformation for trade No cif,
oaa eper hGvc a better system of delfpcyy
eu4 yjntsyoh0nee Of cars than the one no,D
b3tSs Grromced. Erery foot of harbor
froN< 70 reached by raft; epery rnansfac
te&r meg be sonventeRt to trocks. What
!, Ck%cogo has expended 81, 5,0o0, 0,C0o to ac-
coMpslsh. ana only at nc cost Of beauty
ond dsatkty = o'rsddy here.
hsst SvStcm Of tnterurban transportation
- Ayhertcu. and bU far the finest linton
tutlvood depot.
IL. Providence will soon haze the
Ahest park IN America scfth the addition
10 H61cv Wttttams Park. Araonq me
n0bwr6l features Is a lakc WtGh circuit
Of eevsn and on e-half miles.
: 10. Providence 10 being beauttned
bv7sss bpwIevard&
-. Providence has by far the finest
ss>eN stores IN he East, bar Boston and
ktw York
~. Providence is safe city. There
ere no r3ctous classes; there are nerer
&6ts: there are feip crimes There ,ciu
eooA be no grade crossings of railroads
10 dangerous d rap bridges.
10. Providence has more qreot pub-
10 improvements actively under trau
0on olsnoq any other city In ADlsrfca.
y y ocohentng to conception Of dts
powtv.
40. Providence and oil ITS suburbs
had far more building In 1850 Than anu
previous year In ffs history. 1t had naors
IN 1880 than IN 1889, more net IN 1891 and
1syS scth much c1ceed last pears record
80. Provid enoe has unlimited on.
poffnntttes tor expansion east. ,cest
north and south. If ts bounded bu no
fotur0l barrier. It's harbor is lono and
00ryoss. attending 20 the heart Of the cftu
and aisous NE greatest possible tohdrfaoc
Grse wffh the least expenditure OF room.
~ main streets, fts street car tines radt-
o<< from the centre IKE The spokes OF a
ub<eL Its railroads come 20 a common
point ~ easily brtdped natural polleps
bbctofing all grade crossings
~. Providence does not depend for
~ welfare upon the success Of dnv one
1adustrp. Hs interests are diversified.
"A Providence has much larger
Gusoxnf OF banking capital than aau cify
of 0s s(<c fn inc ,oorld.
30. Providence has an ossssseJ poL
walton on ib property OF SIB,
1he state U0luof<on Of Providence ar
eecds fE6. 100000.
"a Prssidenes u city Of bsoutf.