The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-09

According to the directory there were
in this city in June last more than 300
doctors of all schools or no schools at all,
the latter class predominating. 1t follows,
then that II 1S2 is the total that can
comply with the new law, the people
have been rid Of considerably more than
a hundred doubtful, IL not dangerous,
practitioners. This is something to give
pleasure to all save the undertakers, who
may experience a shrinkage in business
owing TO the closing OF such n large
mum ter of medical mills What will he
come of that hundred and more doctors
thus deprived Of means of making
livelihood some one asks. Who cares, so
long as they don't attempt to prescribe
pills and powders for the duped and de-
luded. III they haven't laid up enough to
keep them comfortably, let them work
saw wood, shovel coal, black boots or
do anything that Is honest and sccords
with the meagre measure of their men
tality. Even IL they have to pinch, it is
only just retribution. Let them remem-
ber how many dollars they took from the
needy poor and in return gave nothing
but a decoction which oftentimes came
nearer killing the patient than curing his
disease. No. there should be no regrets
at the passing of the pretender. The
State is well rid of him and may it ever
remain so.
The new woman, as embodied in the
praCticing physician, cuts something of a
figure in Providence. Eleven OF them
nave their shingles out and are presuma-
bly, doing their share OF pill prescribing.
According 10 their registration papers
five are graduates from allopathic colleges
and four from homeopathic institutions.
There is one botanical doctor while one
womans' practices on the dual lines OF the
botanical and electrical.
As prescriber for ali human ailments,
-AeAre+eF n ell woman " Ae-hss- never
seen college and who knows as much
of a clinic as she does OF calculus, il away
and beyond the new woman. No law can
drive her out nor statute suppress her
remedies. She il superior TO all regula-
tion and restraint and would no more
think OF surrendering her right to dose the
rising generation than OF sending for a
doctor when the mumps appeared among
her offspring.
Those hustling, bustling merchants. the
newsboys, form quite an important part OF
the business community. In num-
bers they can claim equality with the
most favored OF maturer years, while i'm
progressivoness and push, in enterprise
auI energy, they can give their elders
points. Just how many boys are en-
Gagged in news vending 1t Is impossib ible
- ascertain; but the large mum ber Of iS1
is accounted for. as that number holr
licenses and are entitled TO the dignity
of wearing badge. This aggregate
seems large 10 one who imagines that
the new shoy is confined 10 the central
part OF the city. As a matter OF fact, he
Is spread, or rather epresds himself all
over a.. No section mas monopoly of
nor is any neglected ny him.
The whole municipality is his field
and he covers il completely and success.
fully.
With the bootblack the case Is differ.
ent There Is little demand for his ser
vice. beyond the business centre so he
is seldom to be found very FAR from It..
In the city today there are 80 wio!ders Ot
the dauber aud brush, and whio thsir
profits cannot be muoidcept they are
evidently sufficient 20 keep them con.
tented and happy There has been
complete change in nationality.
Formerly the business vas attended o
by BOYS born In Providence. Today IL is
monopolized oy Italians and Russian
Jews
IN no other way is the marvellous growth
OF the city during the past hall century
more sigpally illustrated than by the cx.
pansion OF the coal trade. There arrived
in the haI Dor yesterday barge which
brought 300 tons OF coal. an unpre-
cedentcd qusntity even in these days of
four aud tve-masted schooners ana big
stream colliers The hrst cargo OF coal
10 come 60 Providence wss brought here
10y Mr.. Hopkins, the founder Of the firm
ot Hopkins q Pomroy, which was sue
ceed by the present Pomroy Coal Com
psny.
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