The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-12-18
OLNEYvILLE.
Business Mems Association
Met Last Night.
Supper and Lot OF Business Dis.
posed. Of In Good Order.
Tnr NRws BUREAU,
Irons BLOCK. ROOM No. 8.

lnOHs BLOCK. hoom NO o.
Last evening was the regular monthly
meeting of the Business Mems Associa-
tion OF Olneyvilie, and In order TO do
something to get out . full attendance
and rejuvenate as far az possible the asso-
citation so as to make IL of practical
value to the community, supper
was provided for by the committee and
notices were forthwith sont TO all the
mem bers TO that effect. The supper was
served by Caterer Banspach and was called
for eight o'clock. But there was one little
fact which the COMMITTEES, thorough as
had been the work IN every other respect,
had overlooked. This was the fact that
the stores on the square Is
very brisk. and as they
keep open Till nine O'clock IL was next TO
an impossi sibility for the members OF the
organization TO bs on hand. Accord
any, ingIy h,n at eight 80. O'clock, when aea
tables were groaning under the overload of
turkeys, sauce, fruits, salads, and various
other attractive edibles upon which II
had been expected that host OF hum
cry business men would fall more
or less after the fashion OF starving wolves
on tender bit OF spring lamb, there was
slim, very slim. gathering assembled
10 make merry round the festive
board. The committee tried to look
at the matter "a a huge joke, but that was
next 10 impossible. council oil war was
held and the genial clerk OF the Eighth
District Cours was dispatc he'd to So bpoena
whatever men he could discover. lie was
successful in swelling the ranks by two or
three and then the Johnston chief OF
police was sent TO supplement his efforts by
arresting any delinquent members
and conveying them bodily TO the hall
whether they would or no. Every effort
having been put forth and the Scripturai
injunction of calling In the lame,
the halt, and the blind having
been scrupulously attended to, the
company sat down and did full justice to
an excellent meal. AS the stores began
TO close the meeting began 30 I'LL up, till
by the time supper was over and
the tables were cleared there. was an
enthusiastic gathering of the business
men, prepared to consider any business
which might come before them. A teie-
gram gran was was read from w; L. Whipple,
his inability to be present. Communica-
tions were received from the Union for
Practical Progress of Providence anS the
Manufacturers' Union of Columbus,
Ohio, requesting that delegates be ap-
pointed from the association. The
communications were laid on the table.
Bills to the amount OF s45 were allowed.
The treasurer's report showed thirty nine
members in good standing. Mr.. Beane
was presented gavel, IN recognition
OF his former term OF Office as president.
The chairman of the committee on sewers
reported progress.
Then the meeting got after the Union
Railroad Company. A lively discussion
ensued concerning the desirability OF
better transit acc )mmodations for John
ston. All were agreed on the necessity OF
1n,, matter and wa. the bGp'h0' Of tns the
OF committee of three, W. b. Harris,
George +. Besne and Robert Melvin, in
the order named, to confer with the au-
thorities OF the railroad company,
with the idea OF accomplishing the
continuation OF the Thornton line to
cross town line, from Smiths Hill, across
Mt. Pleasant, through the square over to
Crnnsion street. A few wild schemes
were talked over In connection with
this, but perhaps Mr. Harris hit the nail
as nearly on The head as anyone,
population there was west OF the
square, the more business Olneyville
merchants would get, and that theref tore
the way 10 improve the Olneyvillo busi-
ness was not so much to consider schemes
TO prevent people from going down town
TO trade as TO increase their facilities
for getting there, which would boom
the population OF Johnston on account of
the cheapness OF rents and other consid-
erations, and eventually lead to increased
prosperity OF the merchants doing business
IN that vicinity.
The town of Cumberland in a recent
election retused TO exempt a largo manu-
featuring firm from, taxation and the de-
STABILITY OF exempting this firm, should
IL move It's plant 10 Johnston, was left for
consideration TO he board of directors.
The committee on the annual banquet
reported that 1t would be held about jan
uary 10.
The meeting broke up about midnight,
and the talk on all sides was that the as
soclation, now given new lease of life,
must be kept booming.