The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-04-18
OIneyviIIe Strikers Will Not
Get Increased Wages.
Will Probably Not Be Considered al
All by The Management.
Fate OF the Annexation Scheme and a
Greater Providence.
TIM NEWS BUREAU. oLNEyvrLLE,
No J. Hartford Avenue.


The impression grows firmer each day
that the Atlantic Mill management viii
not make any offer OF advance in wages
with the present condition OF trade.
Superintendent Lougee declares that the
profits of the past year were under
per cent. Further than this
he decliness to discuss the situation.
from the sources that are considered re-
liable II is learned that shipments OF
''serges in the gray" which are the cloths
referred to in THE NEWS of yesterday, will
require nothing but coloring and finish
ing to put on she market and will be re-
ceived as soon as IL is thought that there
is no hope of the weavers returning to
their looms.
In quantities OF 100000 pieces these
goods have been offered at 1Sh cents
yard, duty paid.
The mill managers are disturbed over
so many of their old hands being hired
by rival factories in New England who
have been sending agents here 10 hire the
best help and Offering to move them with
out cost to their villages end insur-
ing them from 80 To s11 per week.
Still they decline 10 prevent their going
by offering prices in advance OF what they
have been paying, which only strength
ems the belief that the "gray cloth" will
DO imported, which procedure would do
away with the weavers and spinners who
are the direct cause OF the present
trouble.
The 1900 other operatives would hail
the coming of these importations, as 1t
would break the dictation Of the weavers
and Union help, who now while number
ing only a small percentage of the opera
tives, are able to dictate to the larger
number and force them into idleness,
much to their discomfort and loss.
No Annexation.
The proposition to annex a portion OF
the town OF Johnson to the city OF Provi-
dence was virtually rejected by the city
committee at n conference OF the two
committees at the City Hall last evening.
The terms of annexation as proposed by
the town committee included PROPOSE
tion for the city to assume the indebted
ness OF the portion to be annexed,
amounting to something like 1885,, 900. 1t
was this enormous debt that staggered
the city committee and influenced them
to decline to favorab bly, consider the ques-
tion OF ofannexation.
The city committee figured that the
debt of Johnston was 91l per cent Of the
valuation against per cent. in the city,
which includes the,water work from which
an income is annually received. IL was
estimated that it would cost $4,000
to pay the running expenses OF the
annexed portion which would exceed the
amount that could be raised by taxation
at the city rate of SLIGO. This sum would
include an increase for the support OF the
schools, police and suitable fire depart
ment, which 1t was claimed would cost
at least $4,000 year TO maintain.
While no formal vote was taken
by the city committee II was the general
understanding that the cost TO maintain
and the burden OF Indebtedness that the
new territory would bring would more
than Offset the glory TO be achieved by
acquiring portion OF Johnston and max
ing greater Providence"
number OF the town committee were
jeen this morning and while they ex-
pressed themselves as disappointed at the
turn OF affairs. they say that they only
favored annexation providing it would be
beneficial to the town, and, as the terms
they proposed to annex on would be
decidedly so, they should decline TO con-
slider any proposition from the city that
would not include all they had asked for.
Weavers viii Dance.
AT the meeting OF the Atlantic
weavers in Textile Hall this morning the
reports OF various committees appointed
to procure aid from outs ide were received,
all giving encouraging reports from the
different sections visited.
The cigarmakers' union OF Pawtucket
sent communication Offering assistance,
and number of local musicians offered
their services, which were accepted and
hereafter as long as the strike continues
the weavers propose to dance in Textile
Hall each morning from $3.50 10 IL
O'Clock. This was the most
important matter transacted this morn
ing. For the mills are closed, there are
no propositions TO go to work made by
the owners and nothing remains for them
10 do but dance as long as they have music |
provided.
Enlargirg Their Factory.
The British Hosiery Mill at Thornton il |
10 be enlarged by brick addition 50xi2, |
three stories. Workmen began operations
yesterday and will push the work as rap |
idly as possible to completion. Orders |
appear to be plenty and work is brisk. at |
these works at present.
Young Mems Fair.
A fair under the auspices OF the Y. M.
u. and >. C., to be continued 10 nights
was opened in Irons Hall last evening, |
preceded by short street parade OF the |
members, accompanied by the Rhode |
Island Brass Band, with the Sheridan
Guards as escorts. The hall is very pret- |
tily trimmed.
Death of a Prominent Citizen.
Louis w. Pierce, a manufacturing Jew
eler, doing business at 1iS Richmond /
street, Providence, who has fosided in
Johnston for the past six years, died at
his home on Dyer avenue last night. after
an illness OF several weeks.
Mr. Pierce was 56 years OF age, and
leaves wife and two adult daughters TO
mourn his loss. His elder daughter is tho
wife OF Henry w. Heston, NJ. ID.
Gilbert X Parker is confined to his
no me by reason OF sickness.