The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-05-12
TRANSIT IS MOVING
Sc methiDs Being Done to Relieve BoS-
tons COnseSted Streets.
PLENTY OF CAPITAL READY.
Massachusetts, Has Nailed Dow h
CONN OF the Endowment orders-An
Illustration OF How a Trust Works.
The Owls Peculiar Parental Metho dis

Rapid transit Is moving. That Is to say,
The scheme to get people out of Boston by
some quick and approved method is getting
along with every prospect of success some
time within the next 10 years. The legis-
lature moves very slowly. but 1t makes
progress when there is such an evident
sentiment that 1t is not easy Of resistance.
That something should be done to relieve
the contested condition of Boston's streets
all who have not some personal or cor.
porate interest to serve will admit and
that it should come quickly is equally APP
parent TO the unprecedented. How to do it
Is another and different question and one
that the legislative committee seeks to
solve. Popular sentiment declares that
there should be adopted some elevated
system and il you have carefully inspected
the streets ! think you will become a
populist so far as that question is con-
cerned. You cannot run fast trains
through crowded t~horoughfares; to secure
speed you must go above or below the
crowd. Tunnels are unpopular and very
costly and in fact out of the question so
far AZ much of the territory Is concerned.
TIL elevated road is the only feasible re-
lief In sight and attainable.
What makes Il even more desirable from
an every day view is the fact that there
are men ready TO put In the capital for its
con struction, and hat means that when
the work is once started 1t will be pushed
to an early completion. A man who in
vests money in a railroad enterprise wants
TO see the thing In operation during his
lifetime, and he will live no longer han
the ordinary fellow who now stands up
and clings 10 a strap for miles during the
snail like progress Of an electric car in the
business portion of the city.
1t is true that the Legislative committee
reported two bills, one for an elevated
road and the other for a subway, hut the
latter was only introduced as a gay Of re-
treat In case the other and popular report
failed of a passage. IL you are interested
in the most approved methods of prevent
ing wise Legislation just keep your eyes on
the doings of the legislature for the next
few weeks. You will find the bill of the
committee assaulted in all the ways
human ingeDuAy can devise md all kinds
Of arguments made against its passage.
You may ask why this will be so, and I'll
explain in a word: The West End railway
Is perfectly willing things should remain
as they are. That corporation Is just rs
ready to m~onopolize Boston's streets for
next Is years as 1t has been In the past.
As l suggested in my last Massachusetts
has closed the coffin Of the endowment or
ders and now she has nailed down the lid
by the adoption of the law-keeping the
companies in other states from crossing
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bill on Friday and now the home product
and that of foreign growth stand on a
level. However much you may doubt the
policy of protection when applied to the
tariff you can all join in a general shout
for the legal protection this Legislation
gives the people from land sharks who sail
under false colors, the better to plumber
their victims.
There il a law known as the Geary la W
upon the statute books of the United
States, which says that all Cinnamon who
are not registered in accordance with it's
provisions on the fifth day of May, 1893,
must get out of the country. Quite a num-
Der of days have passed since that date,
but the Cinnamon are still here and about
1900 of them In number. They not only
do not move, but they give 10 indication
OF so doing. In company with a friend
who had a card from q prominent New
York Celestial as an introduction, I Wis
tied Chinatown, as a section of Harrison
avenue is called, a few nights ago. The
card gave us access, but it hardly secured
secured a cordial welcome. john just
now is a trife suspicious Of Americans.
Before we entered a room we could hear
sounds of mirth and hilarity, but when
we were ushered in everyone was ms silent
as the grave and as impressive as craven
images.
We were treated at all times with cold
politeness, but never with cordiality. The
smile that greeted us was something like
that upon the face of a man who expects a
blow the mex moment. Such a people
will not be easily dislodged. There are
some Of them rich, all comfortably we'll
off, Joined together by oaths and ties
masonic In character and owing first allie
glance to the dictates of the six powerful
Chinese companies who have headquarters
in the City of the Golden Gate. 1t is a
far different thing to move them thar
what 1t Is to yell 1.-THE Chinese must CO."
An illustration Of how a trust works is
given just now IN this city by the prices
asked for ice by the different companies.
When Ice was scarce and almost a famine
existed, OF course prices went up, and
about that time the companies got
together. Tbs good, generous souls
thought IL was too bad to have a shifting
scale of prices and so decided that they
would fix a rate for all time. Perhaps
it was a fair price then, but 1t is an extrav-
agant one this year when the crop was
plenty and very easily obtained. A kick
does no good, however, for say these pub
lie serving dealers, 1--WE nave fixed the
price for years to come. When ice is
plenty we get the benefit, but when it is
,carce you will reap your reward" How
comforting the assurance.
But the trust In in absolute control. The
companies have an association which not