The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-06-06
THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

THINGS WORTH KNOWING.
maply you'll get many cordial God speeds.
AS your tortuous pathway you wend.
| Meet early one whom you deem should wear
| The glorified title of friend.
| IL such is your fortune presume not too far.
| Lest his friendship he'll lay on the shelf;
When IL comes 10 an issue between him and
| you.
| Depend he'll look out for himself.
| (fifth and last next timeD
Here is straight pointer for the man
| who insists on taking his hat on IN the
elevator. When young lady gets into an
elevator in an office building keep
your hat ON. Don't take il off because
the young lady will pity you, and
the men who are in the elevator while
they will spare you from any bodily harm
will wonder where you obtain your knowl-
edge of etiquette. You may as we'll take
your hat of in horse car or in the lobby
of the postoflice as in public elevator.
Should man take his hat off in a hotel
elevator in the presence of a lady? Ger
tainly. hotel elevator Is nearer allied to
the home or abiding place, and, besides, 1t
is out of the field of business. BY all
means lift your hat to the gentier sex, but
let little common sense be mixed in
with your politeness.
Once in a while get to thinking about
some of the Older of my acquaintagces
and note with pleasure those who have
made successes. For example take Charlie
Haskins, the bill-poster. How has he put
dent in the top rounds OF the ladder
which enables man to get on Easy street?
| by attending to business and having
persistency of purpose to work out un-
aided his own success. There is no man
in New England better known through
out the theatrical, circus and newspaper
! profession, than this same Charlie Has
| kins. L have known the gentleman for
] twenty-five years, and in demeanor and
! disposition he is the same today as he was
| then. Although success has crowned his
| Efforts he wears the same size hat, and
| does not forget the old circus days before
| wagons and rough roads were succeeded
| by palace cars and railroad tracks. After
| leaving the road he established bill
| posting and distributing business in this
city. When / first got acquainted with
Mr. Haskins he was located in the old
| Harrington Opera House building. Later
he had an entire building especially con-
structed for his office purpose on leased
| land on the northeast corner OF Eddy and
! Washington streets.
1t was on the ground floor and kindred
| and congenial spirits gathered there from
| time TO time. 1t mattered not how large
the crowd, there was always one vacant
chair: The innocent stranger was invari-
ably invited to take q seat. Then some
willing hand would reach behind parti-
! tion and pull the string The responsive
needle in the bottom of the chair in which
said stranger was seated would cause a
! sudden rising. and the verbal explosion of
eXpletives which followed would be
drowned in laughter.
Commodore Packard would remark be-
fore taking any seat in the Office. "Hold
! on! Hold o-n!n while "Pop" Rice
would laugh until he cried. But that was
! long ago. For many years Mr.. Haskins
has been at his present location, go West
minister street, where in finely furnished
| quarters he conducts his extensive business
monopolizing with his bill board facili-
! ties the maj ior portion of the work of this
class Rlr. Frank Page, who has been
| with Mr.. Haskins 20 years, is the foreman,
whose long experience has made him a
valuable aid, and thus we find living ex-
ample of the outcome of giving ones
whole attention to business for which
he has adapted himself.
The following portraits are among those
wh.ss. adorn the walls OF Mr.. Haskins'
office: Booth, Mccullough, Dan Bryant,
| Parepa Rosa, Barnum, Scott-Siddons, Joe
| Murphy, Gus Williams, Tony Pastor,
Prescott.
1t is always the darkest just before you
| strike a match.
The weigh of the world-Fairb banks
| scales.
When you lend money you lose pos
| sible friend.
they will do you.
1t is hard work for 5000 horse not to
win 1915 purse.
1t only adds TO your burdens to fret. To
work hard is very well, but to work hard
and worry TOO is more than human nature
can bear.
Providence could be more metropolitan
than il is IL il would abolish the old time
custom of ringing the bell at II o'clock
noon and 8 O'Clock in the evening, the
doing away of the general fire alarm, and
having the policemen go about without a
club in sight. All hese things will como
about in good time, however.
There are two corners in this city oppo-
site two other corners, as the real estate
men have it, situate at Mathewson and
Westminster streets. At the time to
which refer there was grocery store on
one corner, shoe store on another, Grace
Church on the third and Tillinghast the
dentist on the fourth. i had a notion
that Dentist Tillinghast was among those
whom / referred to in former article
as being on Westminster street i'm busi-
ness 20 years ago. To make sure | called
on the Doctor, and found / was mistaken
by about three years. Jimmineddy, how
time goes! I found that the expert ex-
tractor of teeth had been in his present
quarters for seventeen years. Think of il!
How many aching teeth or rather dis
tracing nerves connected Herewith has