The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-07-30
Timid Residents Complain
Of Night Prowlers.
The Police Unable 20 Find any Cause
OF Alarm.
Extension OF the Artesian Wells al
silver Spring BIeachery.

fhere are some nervous people on
Smiths Hill who Just now are taxing
extra precautions in locking up theH
homes at night, owing To the strange
stories which have been set atioat. lhere
seems, according to the police recoras, 70
be very little cause for this alarm. Among
the tales which have been reciteu py
people. who seek to make their recitals as
lurid as possible, is one OF Durglarles
committed at several houses where the
evildoers might find much 10 rewaru tne
risk and trouble taken TO enter dWellInss;
There is said TO have been some talk oi
the formation of citizens protective
league on the hill, owing TO alleged IN
adequate police protection, but certainty
the residents of this quarter named do not
seem to be people unacquainted with the
necessity of reporting any wrongdoing 10
the police.
The officers OF the second station claim
that the only case of this kind reported
from Smiths Hill was where woman
thought she saw mans face at the screen
in one OF the windows one night over
week ago. She raised an alarm anu
man who made search OF the premises
could find no one around. Then again
some one informed the police that some
unknown person was In an unoccupieu
tenement ON Doylo avenue and the ON
GERS went TO investigate, but they could
find no sigus OF any one having enterSu
the premises, nor did a search oil the
house reveal an intruder.
OF course, some OF the local ofncers
have rather long beats TO travel, ana a
few additional men might not make the
force too large a one, but ii does seem as
If all the cases reported OF alleged burg
laries had been Investigated, and oil course
IL they have not been reported the police
cannot be held in any way TO blame iof
the alleged trouble that some people are
borrowing
A young man who was playing ball
near the square last evening fell into the
hands of q policeman, and managed 70
fall out OF them again without spending
the night in the lookup.
Ben simmons the champion bowler ol
wanskuck, is on a visit TO Cottage CITY.
An Individual who had recently had .
tooth pulled and had fortified himself
previous TO the operation with some
strong stimulants, fioated into drul
.store, and white asking the druggist foi
something TO alleviate the pain was re
minded OF the law requiring doctors tS
be registered and hustled out OF the store
In lively style.
A good-sized gang of men is ut present
EMPLOYED on the lot TO the northwest o
the Silver Spring Bleachery on Charle
street connecting the ten artesian we'll
with the pumps. This will require grea
deal of piping, and the men doing tn
work will be kept busy probably over tw'
months, the time required To finish
being somewhat dependent on tn
weather. This is but one of the man,
improvements that the company, VIII
appears now TO be doing about as muc
business as II can handIe, Is ABOUT Z
make, as a large addition to its main plan
will be soon built.
One of the chief features of the Irvings
outing on Thursday next will be the bal
game between the benedicks and bachelor
OF the club.
Local merchants report that they ar
experiencing the usual midsummer dull
ness in trade.
Sparks from passing locomotive Sc
fire to a shed belonging to the Fletche
Manufacturing Company about p. m
yesterday. Hose No. extinguished tn
blaze in few minutes without the ring
ing-in OF general alarm. The damage Z
the shed was very small