The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-02-22
NORTH END NEWS.
Two Small Fires in Tenement Houses
Last Evening.
THE NEWS BUREAU,
NORTH END, 42S BRANCH AVENUE
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At $3.50 O'Clock last evening Sergeant
Morse of the Second Station rang in an
alarm from box 167, at the corner Of Ash
burton street and Webster Court. The
fire was on the roof of a tenement house,
10 Webster court, owned by Joseph Hal
ford and was started by spark from a
locomotive that passed on the railroad
tracks situated but short distance away.
There was no damage of any account
caused by the sparks.
Hose Co. IL, in response to a still alarm,
put out a chimney fire in house owned
by Patrick Dorsey at Polk street, about
o'clock last evening.
The following transfers of police officers
have taken pace. William III. Conlon,
from the Second to the Third; Fred A.
Daniels, from the Second to the Fourth;
Lewis III. Bartlett from the Second to the
Fourth; Joseph McGroaty, from the
Third to the Second.
Newly appointed officer Charles M.
Kirby reported for duty at the Second
Station last night.
There is one resident of the North End
who, according to his own story, is very
desirous of keeping within the bounds of
the law of the land. Some people might
say he would make an excellent 5000
Gooist." At any rate the yarn he tells is
that at a recent fire in the block in which
he resides he took burning lounge in
his arms and carried 1t out to the
street, thus saving the building from be-
ing destroyed and the furniture in the
tenement from receiving not very Highly
recommended polish of smoke and water.
After the excitement had vanished a
woman told this hero that he had done
wrong in removing the burning lounge
and the conscience stricken man went, he
says, to the Second Station to have Captain
Baker pass judgment on his act. The de-
- T.. A.
TO the hero and the next time there is a
blaze in any of the surrounding blocks
he will probably rush in and carry out a
red-hot stove.
Two horses belonging to John Bryant
slipped and fell while going down Chalk
stone avenue last evening, but they fort
unately escaped injury.
The No-Name Club had "pipe-talk"
last evening.
Officer p. J. McElroy of the Second
police station has been admiring the
'beauties" of nature at Davis Park the
present week.
Brother Lucius Cluff, the boy preacher
from Ponagansett, X. J., will speak at
the afternoon service, at $3.50, and also in
the evening at 1880 p. IN. at the Randall
Square Gospel Mission, 81 Gladstone
avenue. He has been at the mission twice
before, and has always drawn large aud
fences to hear him. The public is most
lnNlUeu 10 ali Oh Ine seTNlceS al
the mission every evening in the week,
commencing at 7:45.
Miss Lizzie Noonan, former resident
of Smiths Hill, sailed today from New
York for France, where she is to make
her profession as member of the order
of the Ladies of the Sacred Heart at the
mother house of the order.
Though the work of widening Cha rles
street is TO begin within few months
there seems TO be quite demand for
stores on the east side of that thorough
fare.ssA number of merchants have opened
emporiums for the sale of slightly worn
more or less, royal raiment.
There have been many delays in car
travel during the past few days owing to
the repairs made on the trolley wires
along Charles street and the square.
Travellers on an Admiral street car had
q narrow escape from death the other af-
ternoon though possibly many of them
were not aware of the fact. A heavy team
ras being driven down the steep hill at
South Court street TO North Main and the
driver could not control his horses and a
couple of North Enders, after signalling
the driver and seeing that all his efforts
TO stop his horses were vain, turned aside
their heads so as not TO see what seemed
to be an unavoidable and terrible COLI
sion. Fortunately, however, the team,
as it slowed around at the foot of the
hill, cleared the car. though there were
not many inches to spare.