The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-29
FoR PRESIDENT.
BENJAMIN HARRISON
OF INDIANA.
roR VICE PRESIDENT.
WHITELAW REID
OF NEW YORK.
The Advantages Of Providence.

xuU huIuutuOVu Va AiviAu0AVV'
4. Providence is one of the capitals
Of Rhode Island.
2. Providence is the second city in
Dopuldtfon In Neto England.
8 Providence contained $4,000
<nhabttdnts In 1890 and Is grotCtng very
raptt5Iv. TIE population Is oUerfoactng
tAS c1tv limits In cvery direction, so that
ne suburbs are 0roacfn9 faster than the
CITY stselt.
4. Providence is the centre of a COM
p0ct mass Of population, occupying an
orea about elepen miles long by four
brodd. THIS continuously built commtt-
aStp, Of identical Interests and ddpon-
ta0ts, phtch forms the real, though not
dIe politically defined PROVIDENCE, 10 the
Nlnth largest city In the United States.
B. Providence had Ufthtn ten miles
Of Sts City Hdu In 1865. s1,24S fnhdbttdnts.
IN Is70 u5,0Is: In 1850, e,se5; In 1885
hsrc aocre elA52s; s.. 1890 about 100000,
and the population Is now believed TO DC
at least s76, 900, decreasing at the rate Of
nearby 8 per cent. year.
q. Providence IL groaring faster than
anu other city In the East, and much
foster than H evcr dtd before.
1s
n 100 miles thon Chicago, 81. Louis, Ncao
Orleans, Bdlttmore or Cincinnati.
3. Providence leads all the cities In
ne woSld IN the 'jctoelTy manufacture.
H.ls re centre, mart and port OF the cot
ton and acooIen Industry of the United
States. AL the largest cotton mills of.
Ameyjca are sOtthtn eighty or ninety
miles radius Of Providence. This Is due
70 cortain climatic advantages recognized
~ COTTON snGnsIf fGctaircrs. 1t has wfttin
its Dsld IN. Biggest and finest stationary
engine tporks, rubber factories, fertile
ml1s, Mo tcorks and tool and machinery
w0rks and the turpest mdnuf0ctory of
y5lVw wdvc In the sDorld.
.. Providence u at the head of
h0rb0r 30 miles long, containing 1900
acyes OF 0nch0rd9e ground so feet deep
ND 800 900 acres l6 feet deep.
-. Providence fs nearer the mar
~ Of Europe than New Yorl by $50
hu(16s, and Is about as near the Western
Coee0. ts mors than 100 miles nearer
D5utAsvA and South n mertcdn ports than
IostoHv There u far more freight In
oNAss>f mot could De cheaper shipped via
Proutdrnrs thrn vfu Boston.
n. Ef0videhce as In direct coun,,l.
Nicatlon W$th all points, north, south.
east as>d vcst. 1t u the natural port of
ne }Fset tvods for oil Ncso England 10
= tNs 10tprol port for all Nc,o Enqlond
fov cotton, bstumtnous coal, Southern
5uus1es, PIE tron. The country surround
tnQ Proptdence Is supposed to be the
r16ASst tsvvttoru In the toorld ana the
usest GAfclly settled IN America.
- Providence 10 hoppy In tts
Nq1upa1 conf formation for trode. No citu
- Ao&S
6A1btc7chdnge Of oars than the one ,,o,D
lp)ne Asvd~gsd Every foot of harbor
fsoNk y rGnched by roR; ecery nanufac
cU6cooo h0s expended $l5, 1000, 600 TO oc-
odDAnalSA, and only at ne cost Of beauty
ond oo1u1v, q dlreddv here.
IA Yfox1d6nce will soon haze the
bes9 exsttsm Of fnteruybdn Transportation
~ AMsrtco, and by far the finest linton
re()rood depot
~. Providence will soon haze the
leoQt pdsk ~ America Wtth the addition
- Roger Wtlhams Purk. Among the
nGtcsVe features fs q lake tCtth a circuit
" ooUen and on e-half miles.
10. Providence is being beoutfJfed
bv5lne boSle cards.
10. Prov fdence has by far the finest
es6an stores In the East, bar Boston and
Esg York.
~, Providence is a safe cttu There
IRE no utctoaIs classes; there are neper
~1ots: there arc feio crimes. There ioill
sooN be no grade crossings Of railroads.
no dangerous drdto bridges.
-. Providence has more great pub
us improvements actively under ,rau
Q(0n almeVt any other city In America.
u = 01cokentng TO conception of It's
power.
40. Providence and all ITS suburbs
had far more building In 1889 than ann
pFer4ous year ta It's history. IL had more
N 1880 Haon In 1859, more yet in 1891. and
1922 sctu much cIceed last vcor's record
20. Providence has unlimited op-
portunfttcs Jor expansion east. tcesf
north and south. It Is bounded bu no
natural barrier. It's hdrbor IL Iona and
norro,c, extending TO the heart Of the citu,
and allosss the greatest possible tcharfooe
oreG Ntth Ghe least expenditure OF room.
Ifs main sfrects, tts street car tines radi.
80 from me centre Ike the spokes of a
pheel ffs railroads come 90 a common
p0tnt bv easily brfdGed natural udlleys.
obU5afinQ oH grade crossings.
~. Providence docs not depcnd for
6&s scclforc upon the success Of ann one
industry. It's Interests are diversified.
a Providence has a much larger
omounf OF banking capital than any city
~ lfs siSe fn the ioortd.
- Providence has an assessed raj
u0ffon on fts property of $Jz6. oof.sLo
ne Stofs valuation Of Providence er-
cecds ff7o.0oo. 900.
a Prssiaencs y city Of tsauh.