The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-17
OUR letter FROM BOSTON
Spring Feeling Of Unrest and Moving
Day.
DESIRE FOR CHANGE is NATURAL
Rapid Transit Needed for Boston's Flu
ture = Two Newspaper Changes : The
News and Traveller I'm New Hands
Theatrical Matters.


rest I'm humanity,-a breaking out Of the
gypsey in our natu>e-that is never wholly
suppressed WIh opening buds and the
putting on Of q dress of green by dame ma
ture, mep and women get uneasy. Things
do not look just right TO them, and they
desire change They wish to go some
where, and to mingle in new scenes. Thus
Il happens that on any pleasant day, at
this season of the year you will see on any
residence street in the city, furniture
drays, loading or unloading household
effects A moves into the house that B
vacates; b goes to live in C's old abiding
place, and often G takes the place A de-
serted. No one of the three is better Off,
but they have moved, and that satisfies
them all.
There is one class that does benefit by
the spring fever. Those who leave the
compact part of the city and seek the
suburbs, go from shadow to sunlight, from
dust and smoke to good air and pleasant
surroundings. They gain not only in
health and strength but in purse as well.
This is every year becoming better under
stood and appreciated, and all that is now
needed is rapid transit to increase the tide
that il moving toward better existence.
The future of Boston's prosperity and
growth lies in the proper encouragement
of home building in the outlying towns
and districts.
The rich live out of town now, but the
times demand that the poor and middle
classes shall do the same. The mechanics
oh "A IRON, Of in inn hav
would become useful members of society,
and to enable them to do 80 there must be
provided quick and cheap facilities for
travel for the father There is more in the
rapid transit question than scent fares
and dividend paying stocks-it includes
the health and growth Of the future men
and women of the municipality.
Speaking of changes reminds me that
two OF the newspapers of the city have gone
into new hands and will make fresh bids
for public favor. OF Ssurse the two prop
critics were nonrdividend paying for the
other class seldom are in the market. The
Boston News never was self-supporting
and The Traveller has not enjoyed that
distinctinction for some time A few
weeks ago there was a scheme ON foot to
unite the two under one management and
thus to reduce expenses, but it fell
through, and now both Of them have gone
into new hands
1t has always seemed to me that the
reasons for The Travellers lack of popu-
larity were apparent on the surface. Its
extreme views upon the question of the
sale of liquor and its intense anti Catholic |
stand drove from it patronage it could i'll
ofr, - 1roo rrI .ko
management prevented it from gaining a |
strong hold even in is chosen rather mar
row field. 1t got out of the current and |
into the eddy, and there 1t has moved |
round and round practically helpless, so far |
as progress was concerned. Some of the |
crew were inflrm, the commander was er- |
ratio and there were barnacles that pre- |
vented progress all over the newspaper |
craft
But these defects can be remedied, and |
Che new management declares they shall |
be. The Traveller has good news service |
and other facilities for making winning |
fight. and II the men now in control can |
get II out Of the whirlpool and convince |
the public that they have done so it should |
win public favor. There is field enough |
even though there is no long felt want"
The News with It's meteoric history,
deserves also further word of mention. |
Although baby, yet it has eaten up in the |
vicinity of 10000 I'm cash. 1t was started. |
according to its founder. upon "cheek" for |
the irrepressible TORY X. Wardner tells me |
he hadn't . dollar when the first number
came out and had to borrow the cash to |
meet his first weekly payment of salaries.
toI l,v tlo ,,..aI
to certain extent, was kept out of the
Horel and Railroad News company and |
generally frowned upon by its city con-
tempories, but it thrived upon opposition
and grew in favor aud patronage. AL
though radically Republican it was then
independent, and, to use an old express
sion, hit head whenever one stuck up"
From morning paper 1t grew to one of |
nine editions daily and the public appeared |
90 believe in its success.
Then came transformation. Money to
keep the wheels in motion had been fur
nished by ]. Edward Addicks of gas stock
fame. He came to the front and assumed |
control OF the paper, placing mt the busi-
ness end OF the property clerk In his EN-.
ploy who was without experience and |
knew no more about the newspaper busi-
ness than the ordinary fellow knows of the
great hereafter. Then came a cut down in
salaries and a general attempt at hori- |
xontal reduction of expenses. The esprit |
de corps Of the working force was de-
stroyed, the public lost interest in the pa
per when 1t became recognized simply as
personal organ and the end was simply a
question of time. Even the return of Mr.. |
Wardner, who has scheme for every day
of the year, failed to stop the downward
course. Now the plucky founder is out,
the journalistic career of treasurer j. |
Natherson is at an end and Addicks no
longer has an organ.
Now The News, so il is announced, Is In
the hands Of the company that for several
months has been agitatlng the founding Of
new Republican paper in this city. The
purchase of The News is only incidental TO
the purpose Of giving New England live
journal every day In the week. That there
Is necd Of Republican Sunday news
paper all will agree and IL Mr.. Towle and
his associates furnish II they should be re
paid by general and generous patronage