The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-10-17

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Life in London"
| WESTMINSTER THEATKR--A Reeves and His
Big show.
CRYSTAL MAzE-Iis Westminster street.
According to the city hall records
We're w. Black has attached Mary e.
Doherty.
Committee meetings scheduled for
today: Lamps, 2:30 p. M; education,
7:15 p. m.; city property, 7:45 p. m.
Colonel Isaac l.. Goff will entertain, in
formally, at dinner at the Narragansett,
this evening, Mr.. Sol Smith Russell and
his fatber-in-law, William I. Adams,
("Oliver Optic').
The King Philip Athletic Society will
give an entertainment this evening. when
Billy Hill and Andy Watson and Phil
Smith and Dave Sullivan Will spar.
The first OF series of Shakespearean
recitals by John f. Howard OF Boston
will occur tomorrow evening in Sayles
Hall, when "Hamlet" will be given.
The railroad gang began to tear up the
old counterweight on College Hill this
morning. In comparatively short space
OF time both tracks will be ready for use.
The Players Club will produce "sec-
ond Floor Spoopendyke' in Talma Thea
ter tonight. Dancing will follow. II 10
needless to say it will be complete sue
cess.
moving team owned by Antonio st.
German, Of Phenix, broke do.n ON Gran
ston street late yesterday afternoon, and
delayed travel on the eleotrics for four
hours.
John Tetlow, ID. Sc, master OF the
Girls High and Latin School OF Boston,
will lecture in Ssyles Hall at 4 p m,
Saturday, on "Tho Education of Women
for the Professions" f" Mr.. Tetlow is q
capable speaker.
Captain Arthur Crowley, who has been
In the schooner Mount Hope, will in the
future be in command of the large four
masted schooner Sycamore, now in this
port, and replaces his brother John, who
is having q four-msstcr built.
Officer Arthur p. Butts OF the Central
Police Station deserted the bachelors'
ranks last evening, and left behind him
box OF cigars, which were distributed
among the officers of the station. His
comrades retaliated by sending to his
new home on Elmwood avenue q hand.
some easy chair.
The Municipal Government Section of
the Union for Practical Progress will
meet in the Y. M. q. A. building at 8
p. M, Friday, October IS, to form plan
OF work for the winter. The New York
Good Government Club, and the possibil-
ity OF forming a similar club here, will be
discussed. All interested are cordially
invited.
The regular meeting OF the Rhode Is
land Horticultural Society was held last
evening. aud "Ways and Means to In
crease the Usefulness of the Society," was
discussed. s. III. Manchester spoke In fa-
vor of small exhibits at each meeting,
and two or three large ones each year. j.
s. Kellogg, G. ii. Bunce and Sarah ID.
Coleman were elected mem bers.
Walter b. Frost, Stephen Congdon, J.
b. Baker. George e. Tillinghast and B.
Taylor Bruce, have issued a call for q spe-
cial meeting to be held in Odd Fellows
Hall, corner Eddy street and Vermont
avenue, tomorrow evening, to consider
how best TO dedicate new fire station Is, |
and express views as to representation in
the City Council. All dues are abolished, |
and past dues remitted, so none can have |
an excuse for remaining away.
The magnificent play of "Hamlet" was
recited last evening at Lasell Seminary
by John +. Howard. Having committed
the entire play, he is left untrammelsd
70 devote himself wholly to the charac-
erization. Perhaps there could be no
better proof OF his success than the fact
hat $50 students sat, as IL spell bound,
Turing the recital, without the least evil
ience of fatigue or restlessness. So
writes the principal, Charles G. BraRdon.