The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-02-22

interests SO vital to the material welfare
OF the city and the public.
The revival Of the anti-compulsory vac
cination controversy Is assured by the
public hearing before the House COM
mittee on education in the chamber next
Saturday at ~ o'clock. The disputants
represent the defenders OF modern medical
science arraycd against the herb-copcoct-
ing contingent in suburban districts.
After Congressmen Breckenridge and
Hall have sized up the protected indus
tries in this repre- sentative manufacturing
sect ion, they viii return 10 Washing ton
with precious light material TO hack up
their position on the tariff reform quss-
tion. 4" Charley Page would have made
an interesting pilot down in South
county.
The scene in front OF the Union Railroad
Company's station on Market square ut
noon today was uncommonly animated.
Club men were beaming over with jollity
in anticipation OF a gala day at their head
quarters down the river. Some OF them
carried fac-smiles OF q. WIS cherry-trce
hatchet.
IL DIR. Garvin is responsible for seeking
TO force the passage Of his pet labor bin
in the House contrary to the diction Of
the advisory committee, and breaking up
the caucus program, he should be sup
piled with curb bit or stout gag. II
should be remembered that he bankers
after reelection badly.
Having perfected the nine hour bill so
as to satisfy the mill operatives and shop
girls, the committee on special legislati ion
will still further pass as humanitarians by
tackling the factory inspector bill Satur-
day afternoon. They can justly lay claim
TO their legislative stipend II hours OF la
Dor count as an equivalent.
Substitute Hoseman George Capron who
has been on duty at the house OF Hose
No. ii during the illness OF Driver
Edmund +. Curtis, who has been
off duty for the past three months, severed
his connection with this company this
morning. He rendered the members Of
the company a complimentary supper last
evening.
Captain w. n. Rounds, of Steamer
Company No. II, has been taken to the
Rhode Island Hospital. His leg
was injured while the captain
was getting of the steamer at a fire some
time ago, and the injury Is thought to be
serious. George A. Capron has been
placed as substitute captain temporarily.
John Nicholas Taylor, who was the Off
cial mail carrier for Kingston village for
As years, died at his home in that village
yesterday. His stage route and his hospit-
| able tavern next to the old courthouse are
familiar to the travelling public through
out the State. Mr.. Taylor was a staunch
Republican although he never held any
political Office.
William A. Mowry, superintendent OF
the public schools at Salem, Mass, will
deliver an address at the Nor
NAL school, Saturday, at M 80
Jays Diplomacy" Mr.. Mowry was
| formerly principal OF one OF the public
schools in this city.
The Young Peoples Society OF the Math-
ewson NJ. T.. Church opened the "Carni-
val of Authors" last evening, which will
be continued tonight and Friday. Pic
turesquc booths, prettily dressed charac-
ters, delightful music and dainty lunches
form most pleasing combination. The
patronage promises to make the venture a
pronounced success.
This is the season OF the year when the
calculating rural politician treads closely
on the heels of the Doodle dispenser,
mindful OF the planting season and the
cost of seeds and fertilizers. He is led
| into rash promises of unselfish investment
| for the party's supremacy, but how few
there be who honestly subordinate per-
sonal profit to the common veal.
The indictment of Democratic Warden
Thompson for tampering with ballots at
the fail election should be prosecuted with
all diligence as warning to other incum-
bents against like trickery in the spring.
That party is on record for demanding a
free vote and honest count" and they
should render unto Caesar the things that
are C@sar's by way OF consistency.
There is no more striking figure in the
streets OF Providence today than that OF
Rev. Father Huntington, the Episcopal
missionary, who Is conducting the special
services at st. Stephens and
Grace churches. The strange black habit of
the order Is conspicuous wherever he goes,
and few of the people who turn to look at
him second time know that he is one of
the comparatively few clergymen of the
Episcopal church who have taken the
three ordination vows.
The acceptance of the invitation to visit
the Soldiers Home next May by the DEM
! ocarts yesterday carried with IT possibly
an involuntary admission that
the management had not re-
in presenting the battle-scarrcd veterans
from voting the party ticket few short
years ago. That partisan investigation
proved TO be dismal failure, and their
recreant oldicr-statesman" is the latest
target for violent censurc.
In Elmer Il. Vance's magnificent new
production, "Patcnt Applied For, is used
for the first time in the history OF the
drama a special stage, designed to be car
ried from city to city and to be used at
every performance. 1t is an in
genious, interlocking, sectional stage
| $50 by 3t fcet) of Mr.. Vance's
invention, on which he has secured a
patent. Two tons of countcrweight arc
required to balance and c.cvate it when i'm
operation, the whole weighing over four
tons. With this cumbersome affair il is
promised that startling effects arc to be
introduced. "Patent Applied For" will
be at the Providence Opera House all next