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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-10
ADVANCE CLUE ELECTION.
ID. VI. Thompson Reelected President FOR
1872

The Advance Club has elected these Of
ficers for the year; President, David NJ
Thompson; vice presidents Hirman How
ard, Charles Fletcher. William Corliss
aud Charles w. Wilson; treasurer,
Joseph {. Johnson: trustees, Charles ~
George, Augustine Jones, Joseph A. Mil
Ter, j. Clifford Ladd aud Henry =. Lippitt;
members of executive committee Jerome
Kennedy, Joseph \. Miller aud Joseph C.
Johnson. also David NJ. Thompson. vii
liam Corliss and Charles \. Wilson c-
elected members of the same committee.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-10
Constitution Making.

Amasa NJ. Eaton read a paper on "The
Present State of the Constitution Making,
MS Illustrated by the New Constitutions
of Mississippi Kentucky, Wyoming and
Idaho, at the meeting of the Rhode ISL
and Historical Society last evening. Judge
Rogers presided
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-10
The -chonI Aitendnncr.

The new Branch avenue school has from
thirty-live TO fifty pupils IN each room.
The dedication exercises on Friday. at 4
r. VI. will be interesting several of the
schools are crowded and all began the term
with good attendance.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-10
PLUMBERS AT NEW HAVEN.
Masters Association Net There in Annual
Convention.

NEW HAVEN, CONN, Feb. 10. - The
Master Plumbers Association of Connec-
ticut, in annual convention yesterday,
elected the following officers for the en-
suing year: President, l.. FL. Mills Of
Bridgeport; first vice president, 5. r..
dent, James Ahern of Hartford; secretary,
c. S. Eames of Bridgeport; treasurer,
Thomas ID. Barlow, Waterbury. 1t was
voted to hold the next convention in
New Britain.
The chief business was discussing the
methods to form local lodges in all the
towns of the state.
After adjournment banquet was ten
dered by the New Haven lodge.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-10
Tronble al Port Alegrc.

RIO GRANDE Brazil, Feb. 10-Great dis
content exists at Port Allegro. The soldiers
are taking away firearms from the citizens
The higher civil officials are abandoning
their posts. Gov. MARITIME is meeting with
strong oppositiou
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-10
9EX-dividend.
Market Notes.

The rate Of stcrltng crchdnge are L.s6.7 The
rate Of demand sterling bals at ,ciiich gold can
De exported % London tritho,d loss is L.SS3E for
bars and lS9i4 for coin, and The rate az lChtch Il
can De imported lCith0id loss SASS 5-I.
The rates of sterling exchange have in
creased TO - So 6a4 SSiS
ALBANY-Statemen New York and
Pennsylvania for quarter ending Dee. 81
1891, net increase after fixed charges of
Sl54,I55 against STA. .629 in 1890.
CHICAGO Newspaper reports quote
President Ashley of Wabash as saying at
Detroit that Canadian Pacific will build
line from New York TO Niagara.
NEW YoRR-The coal deal still is the
all absorbing topic of conversation. 1t is
known that the Vanderbilt interests are
represented in the Reading affairs because
OF their desire to control Poughkeepsie
bridge.
NEW YoRK-Statement OF New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad for
quarter ending Dec. 81, as submitted to
n. .-t, sI,sr. afr,.,,
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short Paragraphs.

Alex -. Allan of Glasgow, Scotland,
is staying at the NarraVansett hotel
The Rev. DR. Moore lectures this even
ing at the Central Congregational church
on alpine scenery
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-10
The Republican state Convention.

ALBANY. Feb 10.-lt is believed that
.he Executive Committee Of the Republi-
,an State Committee ~ the meeting in
New York On sunday will recommend
MAY IL as the date Of the Republican
state Convention
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-10
GIadstone's Health.

NICE. Feb. l0.-Mr aud Mrs. Gladstone
arrived this afternoon and were received.
at the station by the mayor They are
staying at the Hotel de Rome for several
days The veteran statesman is in excel
lent health
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-10
Holman Is Ill.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.--Judge Holman
been confined 10 his room for the past two
days with serious attack Of sore throat.
IL is of such nature as 20 make his
breathing extremely painful and labored.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-10

Henley A sulnyan's February sale of broken lots
of " Ms shocs. what is let of the mark downs OF
French Caf iiand-Sowcd s5oo, sd.oo and s5.OO
Mems shoes We reduce to-day 10 a. 30 close
uENfry a SULLIVAN.
A. Mestmlnst.r .trcct
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-10
THE LEAGUE CONVENTION.

senator Dixon aud the Hon. Charles A.
Russell WIN speak.
\ great deal Of enthusiasm is expected
in the convention of the state Republican
leagues 10 be held at Blackstone Hall next
Friday at p NJ President Tiepkc has
promises of Senator Dixon aud the Hon
Charles \. Russell 90 be present and ad-
dress the people. The Hon. Bellamy
Storcr of Ohio was expected but cannot
be present
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-10
THE SOUTH BAPTIST cuuRou.
About Si,5oO Collected Towards Paying
the Debt.

The dedication services i'm the new audi
torium of the South Baptist Church yes.
tcrday afternoon were participated in by
the pastor, the Rev. Thomas f. Bartlett
the ReVs VI. Martin, A. :. Coats Of Paw
tuckct. Edwin Bromley Of the Stewart
Street Baptist Church. the Rev DR.. II. Vi.
King, who preached che dedicatory SER
mon. and the Rev Mr. Mills. About
81 300 was collected towards paying the
debt
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-10
The PLAY Suits Them.

The following letter, received at the
office Of Manager g. +. Lothrop, concern
ing the drama Guilty Without Crime.
wuich is being produced at Lothrops
Providence Museum this week, will un-
doubtedly prove of interest:
BoSToN. Mass, Feb. >, ls.,.
~ PcTcH NCidDn, general dirccfoF LOihTOp'S
SfOcL Companies:
Dear Slr-Permit me 20 extend the hcariicst
congratulations of Miss Austin and myself to
Your company for The more than excellent
performance .hey have given Of our play, not
forgetting the decided credit duo yourself for
your very admirable direction, sincerely
yours. DORE DAVIDsON.
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Earthaunkes in New Zealand.

WELLINGTON, y. T.. Feb. l0 o. North Is
land has been shaken by severe earth
uuakes. which are supposed 90 bc con.
NigasuhOe.
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To Investigate the Pension Omce,

WASHINGTON, Feb 10-Enloe,s S lresoln-
tion for investigating the Pension Office
was reported favorably To the House to-
day. Enloe took the floor in its ,explana
tion and advocacy
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-10
Chicago Grain Notcs.

LONDON-WheaJ market steady, not
much doing; prices quoiably unchanged.
Liverpool, quiet. spot prices quotabiy
unchanged; futures al lower.
Bradstrects visible Wheat rast of the
Rockies, increase. 63,0OO Pacific coast, de
crease. 80. 600
Corn Increase. HlS 600
Oats increase. ...... - .. n53uun
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-10

NEW GORK-The Oregon Improvement
dfrcci ~ have declared dividend of 315
per on the preferred stock, payable
March 1.
NEW YoRK-Sale of stocks to noon
Hlh - shnrns
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Are YOU in want of icip9 Try i0-ccnt
Advertisement I'm the News"
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NEW YORK Gables, weaker
Last evening ~ loads OF wheat taken. to-
daN H. -4a4lalsrg,l4a wa outports last even
ing IS loads TO Great Britain Corn last
evening 8 loads to-day loads and via out
ports last evening. i3 loads
Total ciearauces poris yesterday:
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'hilip Bruins has suspended.
RAILROAD rARNINGs

The decrease in NJ. X. a T. is owing to
"a strike on the Arkansas Pass Road seop-
ping exchanges with that line and 10 tenn
porary suspension Of coal mining in In
dian Territory owing to the McAllaster
disaster.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-12

house and lie down d,hing the day. The
pair Of them could earn 10 shillings or IL
shillings per week, by working IA To -
hours day. From this they had to find
breeze. shop rent and tools, which would
run up TO . shillings or shillings pence
n week. Thus for dog chains OF, say, A.
feet long, made Of IS-inch iron and con.
sisting Of 30 twisted links, he paid III.
each A very skillful woman could 90 IL
dozen in week IL she worked II or IL
hours per day. Her rent, tools and fire
would possibly run to shillings for the
week"
Cradley Heath is Mt the other end of
the BLACK Country from Wigan, and
/ went there after leaving Manchester.
That Is where women by the hundreds
are TO be found working rs blacksmiths.
Let me give you a little picture OF one
"smithy." IL was low brick building,
separated from "a dwelling house by not
more than three feet In the house lived
Mrs. Il. FOsbrook, who, though married
and mother, was but 81 years e4a-iSitc
was making chain In the smithy when |
looked Ia, aud at the forges about her
were five other women, all tOiling away
from In the morning until . at night
n stretch OF ~ hours-for which each was
paid 90 cents. IL was most pitiful sight
indeed.
Next to Mrs Fosbr1ok's blacksmith
shop was Mrs Polly Foxes. who was work
ing away at the anvil rs 1 passed by, sur
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-12

making 2i5-inch one-headed-nails, for
which the price was q shilling pence per
hundred weight. IL took 1876 of these
nails TO the hundred weight, and he would
make two hundred weight in a week (3.12).
With bis wife to help him he might .mak'
n little more. From this he had to allow
for fire, rent of shop and tools, which
would be about / shilling and q pence per
week. Across the end of his hearth
Wilks had a rough seat and bench erect
ed, on which sat two or three OF his
younger children. He said he would never
have married il he had known he had to
be n mailer all his life.
"They lived mostly on tea and bread
and bacon. On Sunday they might be
able TO get morsel of meat, or beef
cheek (ox cheek to boil and make broth
with. Questioned as to the family budget
for the week. the wife enumerated as the
chief items OF expenditure two quarters
of tea at u pence a quarter; 4 pounds of
sugar AT pence per pound bread, 3 shil-
lings 10 3 shillings 6 pence l shilling 10
pence for coal, shiliings for house rent.
aud shilling pence for bacon Is shil
lings pence in all for living out of l3
shillings for a weeks work, leaving but
shillings pence for clothing and all
other expenses.) Beyond this she could
not go, and she was much better Informed
or more willing to give information than
most of the women / questioned.
"At another fire Joseph Walters and
his wife were employed on dog-head
spiles. The man was thin anu worn,
though his wife was stout. They had "a
family Of eight young children, and it was
evident from Mrs. Walters appearance
that this number would soon be in
creased; indeed, she was complaining of
feeling very shaky, and had TO go into the
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-12
WARREN.

The ladies Of the Methodist church held
n social last evening in the vestry of the
church.
Nathaniel Smith has returned home
MIR. and Mrs. Charles III. Penno have
for their guests at their home on South
Main street, Miss Ruth X Sarle Of
PROVIDENCE, aud her sister Miss Florence
Sarle OF California.
A large party from PROVIDENCE, sup
ped mt Coles Hotel last night.
Henry Thayer who has recently come
from the West to assist his father. who
is proprietor OF the Fessenden House, was
was taken suddenly i'll Monday night.
DAYS in New York, enjoying the sights of
the great city for the first time.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Wheaton Allen are So
iourning i'm New York.
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rounded by four women and boy, all
making chains. They got 80 cents n day
apiece. so they told me. Mrs. Foxes two
daughters were at work, too, and one of
them, Miss Polly Foxes, made me piece
of twisted chain two feet long i'm thirteen
minutes and another piece OF plain chain
two feet long In ten minutes. / have
DO h chains in my Office in New York
City. Polly Foxes blows the bellows her
self and handles the tongs as a man
would piece of meat on "a fork. Annie
Foxes, her sister. who was 10 years old,
earns 30 cents day but after paying the
blower boy and for coal she has only
Sl20 left each week for her work. A
Mrs. Frances, who was making what is
called No / chain, and is married aud A.
years old, earns 80 cents a day. Her
daughter works by her side aud gets the
same pay The blower boy is paid "a
cents day. He told me he was Is years
old.
Further down the yard In another
blacksmith's shop, Mrs. Henrietta Parry,
30 years DID, told me she had worked
thirty-four years at the forge making
chain, and never getting more than 80
cents per day!
Is it To be wondered that these people
often give way under the terrible strain
of such daily burdens and prefer the
poorhouse or an early grave 10 such
slave life mt tho forgeg
In another section of the city called
Dudley Woods, the property OF Lord
Dudley, / found Mr.. and Mrs Benjamin
Dillingham; both making chains. Her
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-12

husband said he made g. 0s a week. when
he worked from five in the morning until
seven at night. His two daughters
worked IN the same shop with him. as
well as his wife.
Returning TO Manchester | stopped at
Birmingham. Ths barmaids at the
station told me they worked l6 hours u
day for 500 year.
From Manchester / went TO London and
visited the London docks. Stevedores
there receive IL cents per hour for unload
ing barges aud ships. They get 30 cents
an hour in America. went into res
taurant on Thames street where the
laborlng men go by the score for their
meals, and had breakfast with them. A
cup Of coffee costs 3 cents. bread and but
cents. aud for myself and another paid
cents in all for breakfast. Usually the
men have fish called a bloater, for
which they pay 2cents. When they can
atfUrd IL they get u meat pie for I cents,
potatoes, 2 cents; bacon, 4 cents, or beans,
2 cents. These dock men, though paid II
cents an hour, average much less, as
thousands of them are idle at time and
very few get more than five or six hours u
day throughout the year.
A mason in London gets IS cents an
hour, and IA bricklayer 10 cents an hour.
The policeman on the dock Informed me
that he received from 500 to $7.35 per
week, according to grade In the Bank
Of England there are % men on guard. OF
these private gets ~ cents a day aud n
corporal 30. working from sunrise Il sun
set. lauorer in the streets gets from 96
cents TO $l20 per day. An omnibus driver,
working - hours a day, is paid S1.92 He
begins mt $50 a. M. and runs until mid
night, driving three horses at a time and
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-12

using mp 10 horses during the 10 hours in
which he isempoyed.
We'll may Ireland say that she is taxed
70 death when we see that she pays the
BRUSH Government $2l, 245, $40 each year.
or about $3.50 for each person. This is in
ADDITION To the solary of the Lord Lieu
tenant tslOO,OJ0) and his twenty-four asso-
ciates, with salaries aggregating 100000
more. Figures that got in London swow
that 3.4Od, ,493 of Ireland's whole popula-
ton to-day is only three-quarters of a
million more
have returned to this country with
these facts amply established aud sub
stantiated by other evidence than my
mere say so, in the hope that tney will
impress those workingmen OF America
VINO may still be deluded by the cry OF
cheap goods. As Gov Mckinley has said,
cheap goods mean cheap men, and in
England the craze for cheapness has made
human lie the cheapest thing 90 be had
IN the industrial markets ot England.
The American workiugman- is the most
Intelligent aud best paid in the world.
Ihe question that il before him In the
pending national contest is whether he
will vote to maintain himself aud his as
sociates In this proud supremacy or
whether he Will place himself and his
products in competition with and there
fore on the same plane with the pauper-
paid, poorlv-fed aud clad aud usually ig-
norant working classes OF Free Trade
England. NATHANIEL MCKAY.
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WORK And PAY ABROAD.
Nathaniel Mckay Tells More About
English Laborers and Their Wages.
WOMEN WORKERS AT WIGAN,
Facts About the Industrial Condition of
the People In the Great Manufacturing
Centres of Free Trade England. To lie

From Wigan i went TO Manchester,
reaching there on August %. aud from
James Cattan, editor OF the Sunday
Chronicle, secured considerable in
formation about the strike of the nail
makers against reduced wages.
Perhaps the best insight into the con
dition OF these nail and chain makers or
South Staffordshire can best be portrayed
by extracts from an official report TO the
British House of Commons by Henry G..
Caicraft, labor correspondent OF the
Board OF Trade. Mr.. Calcraft described
his Investigations as follows:
Joseph Wilks, man of 40, / found
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-12
A chnllengs To Host,Iitie..

He was not tramp, but he drifted to
the end of the bar where there was q big
dish of crackers as soon as he entered the
saloon. Moreover, he helped himself
plentifully to the crackers and paid no at
tention to the bartender who waited to
take his order.
He put few crackers in his pocket and
seemed absorbed in thought when the
bartender looked at him inquiringly.
He had been there fifteen or twenty
minutes making steady inroads on the
stock OF crackers, when he finally
Strengthened up with the apparent inten-
tion of leaving. Then the bartender
leaned over towards him and asked:
" Polly have drink now?"
OF course, there was a fight, and glass;
ware was broken, but he's more careful
how he eats crackers now.-Chicago Tri-
bupe.
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BRISTOL.

A pretty wedding took place at the res
idence of Col. Clark III. Straight on Tues
day evening, the contracting parties be-
ing Lieut.. Andrew H. Miggs and Miss
Sadie Il. Straight. The marriage cere-
mony " as performed by the Rev Henry
- Stevens. pastor OF toe Congregational
Church. Fred Macauiey was the best
:-san and Miss Ida NJ. Straight brides
maid. After the nuptial knot had been
tied hacks were in waiting To take them
TO their future home, wnere a grand re-
ception took place. Their residence is
beautifully located upon Hope street and
the house very claborately furnished.
Their presents were costly and numer-
Gus. The following were among the in
vited guests: Col. and Mrs. Clark III.
Straight, parents OF the bride, Mr.. and
Mrs. John III. Petty, Mr. aud Mrs. Joseph
Hart, Mrs William Munyc of PRovI-
pENcE, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Tilley,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles II. Straight, G.
Nelson and Miss Lilly Dodge of PRovI-
DENcE. Miss Kelly aud Miss Rose OF
PROVIDENCE, Charles Manchester aud
Miss llillian Manchester of Portsmouth,
X. j., Mrs. Abbey Meiggs and daughters,
Mr.. Willie, Misses Katie. Mamie aud
Maggie Hamill, Misses May and Lydia
Blade, Misses Polly aud i3eccie Davis.
Miss Lizzie Mofitt, Lilly Peckhan and
Miss Allie Whittemore. Mr.. and Mrs
Nillism Morey, MIR. and Mrs. Thomas
Meiggs, Mrs. William Cole aud daugh-
ters. Charles Wilson and lady, Mr.. aud
Mrs. Henry Meiggs, Frederick waldron
and lady, Thomas Easterbrook's and
Miss Lille Siegel, Otto Siegel aud
lady, Mrs. Mary Cornell. Mr..
and Mrs. Edward Meiggs. Mr..
lieury Darling and lady. Fred Maculey
snd lady: Miss Lizzie Orman, Miss l. Jtta
kump, Mr.. and Mrs. Amasa Willistoa
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PORTSMOUTH.

The marriage of Mrs. Elijah Sherman
to Mr.. Sac&ett, town clerk of Andover,
Coun., took place on Saturday night
Robert Clifford. the Friend minister of
PROVIDENCE. assisted by the Rev. Henry
McCrone of the Christian Church, con-
Quoted the funeral services of William
Hathaway on Monday. The bearers
by his own request were Joseph q. Den
mis-, Albert Walker, William Brown and
Warren Sherman. The Harrison and
Reid flag, in which he was deeply inter
ested, was kept at hali-mast through the
day.
Miss Della Rees will begin series of
meetings at the Broadway Mission in
Newport on next Sunday.
Mrs. Abner Potter is seriously i'll.
Strangers in town on Monday were
DR.. Henry Turner of Newport, also Mr..
aud Mrs. Robinson Barker and Mr.. and
Mrs. Kaull, Mr.. and Mrs. Elijah Anthony
of jamestown, Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew
Manchester OF Tiverton and Joseph An
tbony of Midd,etown.
Miss Carrie Day, "A graduate nurse from
Waltham Hospital, Massachusetts,. is at
Mrs lac Newconber's caring for
Mrs. Cushman, wno has been conhed to
her bed since July.
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EAST PROVIDENCE.

The first fire alarm was rung in last
night since the new system was put i'm.
The occasion was the burning of a barn
on the Pierce estate near South Broad
way The building belonged to the
Pierce estate, but the contents belonged
TO Mr.. Wood. 1t was well-iilled with
hay, and there We're some farming tools
which were partially covered by insur-
ance. The fire was undoubtedly OF in-
cendiary origin, as some OF the neighbors
smel ed smoke like that OF hay burning
for an hour or more before the fire was
discovered.
As soon as il was discovered an alarm
was rung By MIR. Dexter who boards at
Mr.. lngraham's. The firemen very quick
ly responded. The fire being outside the
fire district, the firemen had TO return to
the engine house and get more hose, as
they had TO run out |, 100 feet in order TO
reach the fire. IL is n pity that the fire bug
could not be caught, as this is the third
fire set within "a few weeks.
Buckln Post, G.. A. r., No. 90, held
their regular meeting last evening. One
candidate was mustered in and one ap-
plication received. There was considera-
hle iii scusSion about the arrangement of
the details to be sent To the different
schools, but no definite action was taken.
as the department commander has not
given out the general orders for that oc-
casion.
Rellance LOuge, L. ". -. l., met in their
hall last evening. One application was
received. Matters were discussed relative
TO the fair which they are going 10 have
this fall.
There has been considerable petty thiev-
ing going on of late by some very small
boys. A few days ago "A bicycle pump,
wrench, oiler aud cuauIos, which were
stolen from Miles II. Ray, were recovered
10y Chief Adams from u small boy about
8 years old.
". n. Hcaly has sold his grocery bust
ness corner Warren avenue and Second
street 20 j. l.. Lewis.
The East Providence Coral Union will
meet this evening for rehearsal.
Let every one interested in its success
make 1t manifest by being present to-
night.