The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-03

thing. Anyway, / don't expect to see
him. / tell you,n he went on, "we
ought to have more than this little bit
of land. Why, Hoyle owned all the property
from the Hoyls tavern away down below
the Round Top church and he gave the
land for that. Yes, sir, we ought to have
more than this little Bit, and We would
have too, ii the papers hadn't been lost +"
And then Atwood gathered up a paint
pot and started off to neig b boring store.
At one time Atwood was driver for the
Union Railroad Company and those who
knew him then say he was one of the
best in the compauy's employ. But one
day be made a slip which cost him his
position. He was always fond of the
beautiful, especially when he found 1t
exemplified in womankino, and il was
tnis that led to his downfall as well as
that of certain property of the Union
Railroad Company. He was going up
Westminster street on his car one day
when pretty lace attracted his atten
tion. Absor bed in contemplating il he
failed to note the approach of dummy
engiDs along Torrance street. He kept
on.gazing and the dummy kept on com
ing. In a moment there was a crash.
The horse car was smashed and the dunn
my derailed. Atwood's connection with
the railroad company ceased then and
there.
Not long afterward ne turned up as a
hack driver and subsequently was en-
ployed as a driver in the fire department.
His methods as builder are unique, to
say the least. When he started TO erect he
building which has brought him into no.
toriety. he simply threw down some joists
on the uneven ground 10 which he nailed a
few uprights or studs. Then he boarded
mn In h.yt ffnw hay ffaev dom n DO
occurred to him that possibly he might
want TO get inside some day, so he pro-
ceeded to saw out an opening. When he
came TO fit the door to the opening there
was decided discrepancy between them.
The opening was too big ana the door
too small. This didn Z daunt him at all,
for after hanging the door he devoted his
energies TO boarding up the surplus void.
This done. he sawed cut a space for a
window which he filled with a single light
of glass. Next he devoted himself to
raising rafters and having got about ten
OF them in place he boarded them in and
began shingling. il didn't take long to
do the shin9ling OF the section, for il was
small; but no sooner had this work been
completed than he cut through the roof,
shingles, boarding and all in order to
make hole through which to run a
stovepipe. And so he has gone on in a
haphazard, catch-as-catch-can sort of
skyle unit tue structure TeaCneu ltS pres
ent grotesque proportions There is a
good deal OF work yet 10 be done and at
his usual rate of progress Atwood may get
his glass roof on about the time of the
next presidential Inauguration. When
lie is likely TO finish the inside work
such as the floor, ETC., no mortal can tell.
Although Atwood claims there ars hut
two heirs, there are in all probability many
times that number. Rinaldo Hoyle OF
Warwick, who died some time ago, was
an heir, and he left several descendants
in whom his claim would vest.
Whether Atwood's 8 title is good or bad
he has made very shrewd move or
there is none to dispossess him. III can
hold and use the property free fiom rent
and taxation indefinitely. There is row
held in the Office OF the city treasurer
against this property sewer tax bill CT
something more than S100. which has not
been paid. As the tax assessors cannot
find the owners IL will be impossible to
give notice OF this defaulted bill, and
without giving notice the property can
not be sold TO pay the tax.
What the ultimate outcome OF the mat
ter will be IL Is impossible to do more
than conjecture. The only thing certain
is that for the present Atwood is master
OF the field and can treat with superior
scorn the scoffers al his work as archi-
tect and builder.