The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-07-15

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"Grosvenor Palace and workmen will
soon begin to tear IL down. Some OF
the tenants have secured places 10 move
TO, and some have only temporary places
TO abide. Tillinghast's restaurant will
keep open a few days longer. j. nj.
Anthony remarked Saturday that he felt
as he did when he was leaving home
when boy to vacate the old stand.
But progress must progress. The old
must make way for the new. What
story the old buildings could tell II they
could speak. The recollectiCIs suggest
thoughts, thoughts get you to musing,
and while musing thus you infiict jingle
A MEMORIAL ODE.
dedicated to the Crosv6-1r1Hor Palace on
the occasion of its demolition, July A.
ID. 1S95).
There was time when Providence was
young,
Before the war-the war of Dorr,
| That wood was good enough to use
| In building inns for man and beast,
| And on the site now TO be cleared
| To mark the steady mach of progress
| stood Washington Hotel, and other
buildings, too,
| Which in their time did yeoman service
| do.
AS time wore on as time is apt to do.
| A game where hearts were trumps began,
And here il ended, so tits said,
| Much came to the living that belonged
| TO the dead.
| BY avenues of trade this was increased
| Until at last, but not too late
The block became "the Grosvenor Es-
| tate"
This was years ago before the age was fly,
Before electric lights were burned all
night.
Before from Boston small to big New
| York,
BY telephonic wire you could laugh and
| talk,
Before on wheels of rubber bulged out
with wind
Young men and maidens took spin,
| Before electric cars, before white posts,
Before the Misflt Clothing Parlors boas. 5
The civil war had come and gone
The city grew as cities will.
| Butler Exchange a wonder was
| But Grosvenor Palace remained there still.
Block after block was reared on high,
The City Hall of granite grew;
Up went the buildings, modern, new.
At last the people weary grew,
And muttered each time the firebe II rang
"Oh, II it could only be true
That Grosvenor Palace had gone up the
fluen
But while it was scorched it never
burned through
And was always "repaired" when the rent
was due.
II the tenants sputtered and threatened
1t was a very sure sign, that they never
would.
Upward and onward the city grew
improvements were noticed on every side
Streets were widened, parks laid out
And everything old began to fade
Except "Grosvenor's Palace" and tn,
Arcade,
They both remained as in days of yore
And the former was called "an old eye
sore"
And thus things remained until one fine
day
Some Boston men came down this way,
They had cash in their pockets--a gooC
business eye
| ana were iOOkliB lOi SoHSiHllls
A real estate rudder in Herrick the,
found.
And were steered right away on pros
porous ground.
A big pile of bills, a scratch OF a pen
And the Grosvenor estate was decided {,
them.
Then a wall went up which rent the mir,
''NIust we move? II so please tell US where
There's not another place in all the tow
That we like so we'll as we do this ground
The buildings all right, IS gorgeous an,
grand,
1t beats the Industrial, please do let
stand.
BY iove; we'll not move, old Brennan
Wen fee
And only obey just judges decree"
Today Is the day the tenants get out
And 90 wherever they can,
Without any law, without any jaw
Like peace-ioving citizens they are
And when they are gone, and the build
ing's tore down,
And a new sky-scraper adore,
They will grin with every man in tn
And say, "why didn't it happen before.
OLD VET.
Three Thousand tn Go Out.
1 BrILAtpF, o., July l5.--Three thousan,