The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-11-27
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.Lst Observation with extensive view'
Burvey mankind from Ohina 70 feru'
Remark each I'm xious toll. each eager strie,
And watch the busy scenes Of crowded lio."
The Observer In panied to learn that the
knick- knack man, who has been wont ior
many years to conduct business every
evening at his little stand in front OF r..
l.. Freeman's stationery store, was stricken
with a fit and has gone to the Hospital.
The knick- -knack man was, the Observer
believes. an old Crinerian soldier and de
was always worth Q column or TWO
Especial" TO every young reporter In
town or any stray space writers that
might happen around.
The Observer Is in receipt Of vol. 1, No.
OF Folkets Rost, Swedish weekly news
paper published in Providence. Folkets
Rost in plain English means the Peoples
Voice and Judging by its column as II Is
going to represent the Observers Swedish
friends very satisfactorily. IL is one OF
the handson.est printed newspapers In
Rhode Island.
The Observer observes that his esteemed
friend, Major Frank ii. Harcourt, is now
required TO sign his name TO his enter
tanning weekly budget in the Boston
often msrvelled that The Globe
should bear tho whole burden
of Major Harcourt's delightful ingenu-
ty-although it is the Msjor's boast that
he Is yet to be charged with writing any
thing of character to create any doubts
as to Its being strictly imaginative.
No, Araminta, no ladies are at present
allowed on the college football teams but
in a few weeks you can do your Christmas
shopping.
The Observer hears q good deal of clap
trap nowadays anent the bakers, but
the facts seem to be that ss the
price OF -four has gone. down the
weight OF the loaf OF bread has
gone mp in the past two or three years.
The item of -four 10, after all, only one OF
many items in the cost OF making loaf
OF bread. Labor, for instance, Is big
feature.
All this assault on the bakers comes,
primarily, from tho crusade being waged
In New York City. Ii 10 borrowed thun-
der, and a good many otherwise intelli-
gent people are taking IL up without
proper understanding of the situation
at least that Is the way the Observer looks
at il.
The situation In New York, however, is
very different from that in Providence, Tor
New York prices and weights are con-
trolled by big Bakers Trust.
In Providence, however, every baker is
independent and they are, IL anything,
disposed TO cut one another's tbroats
in their fierce competition. No
city In the land, accordingly, gets better
bread than Providence, or cheaper. The
competition seeks ever TO secure for GUS
toners better and better bread and more
weighty losves and that competition
guarantees that Providence psopie will
usually get the most bread for the least
money possible.
To call for cheaper bread" in Provi-
dence without a full understand
ing of the local circumstances
of the bread business IL like
calling for cheaper cotton prints because
raw cotton is cheap. The great dry goods
houses, with their competitive enterprise,
take care of the cotton print problem, and
in the same way The Observers esteemed
friends, the bakers, keep their bread
profits down by reason of competition.
That seems like plain, Ineligible sort
of an explanation OF the bread situation.
Old Lsdy-to her grandson in the
eleyen-"Now Teddy be careful and don't
get your clothes dirty"