The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-05-17
AS I WAS SAYING.

The 6-year old son of Providence man
gazed long and curiously last evening at
the picture of Mr.. Lester in last nights
edition of "How They Used to Look"
Finally he said, pointing his chubby
thumb at it, " Papa, that's George WASH
ington, isn't it q"
An interesting parsonage is that of Edi-
tor b. w. Pearce of the Newport Enter
prise. whose counterfeit presentment ap-
pears to-day In the same gallery. The
picture was taken 43 years ago, when Mr..
Pearce was the foreman or an office in
Pawtucket. Mr.. Pearce was long the
correspondent OF the Press and on that
papers demise, although G7 years
of age, he pluckily started the New
port Enterprise, about the smallest
weekly In the State, and has ever since
been publisher, proprietor, editor, fore
man. compositor, pressman Washington
hand press, mailing clerk. soliciting
agent, business manager, Office boy and
''all hands" of that paper. He has also
done some book publishing, doing the
composing. type-setting aud presswork
himself. One work was Recollections
of a Long and Busy Life" the edition Of
pleted Part IL of Matters aud Men in
Newport, as l Have Known Them" Not
a word of the book was ever written. 1t
was set up in type directly "from his
head"
Country weeklies are often set up in
this way without being first written, but
rarely books OF such dimensions.
BY the way. Mr.. Pearce is a much hand
somer man now than he was forty-three
years ago. This is true Of almost all our
victims, as previously explained.
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Yesterday was clambake day in the
NEWS office. Away down In the press
room dere's a big fiat steam bed, what dey
bakes der forms OH. Seey-as the Bowen
boy would say-and old Rhode Islanders
that along about noon most delicious
odor permeated the entire establishment,
until pretty much the entire writing
force shifted thrice iu unison, yelled
"clamsv' in chorus and dove for the
elevator. Then there was bag Of crack
ers, and lot OF rolls OF paper to sit on
and--oh, what's the use. They's gone
now. The pressman has cottage down
the bay now.
In referring to the heat In the South in
summer the colored waiter at the hotel
said the other day that he had known
the woods to eaten fire in the Summer and
nobody know'd how come it," implying
that the heat did the igniting.
That same waiter is quite humorous
fellow in his way. L was very late at
breakfast one Sunday morning, and con-
sidering the trouble 1 gave him quietly
handed him a 25-cent piece. lie said
''Dat's all right, sab. You jes be late
next Sunday"
Pedestrians on High street have taken
n great deal Of interest in the paving In
front of the Cathedral. IL Is indeed an
admirable piece of work. Didn't you
ever notice how much IL improves a street
to pave il smoothlyS 1t makes the build
ings look much better. l really believe
that IL all the old, round cobble-stones
were out of Providence streets and neat
granite blocks In their places-or Maca-
dam on residence streets--the city would
surprise people with its changed appear
ance. But then there's the granite lock-
out and we would better make up our
minds to wait awhile.
If you had seen the jam OF wagons in
the narrow approach TO the Continental
steamboat wharf the other afternoon you
would have thought the traffic that way
was getting rather heavy. All kinds of
goods were in the wagons. including coal,
and the teamsters backed and turned and
yes. they swore. and Supt. Buffum
walked about among the horses aud
showed each man how he could get into
hIs proper sphere. | was wondering IL
anyone could cell the amount of freight
conveyed from Rhode lslond and between