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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-04
The Mosquito In Music.

The wild, untutorod song of the mos.
quito has been set to music. This feat Is
accredited to Mr.. Gustave Kerker, the
musical director of tho New York Casino
and tholcomposer of "Thc Lady Slavey ="
The warble of the pride OF the land OF
New Jersey, says Frederic Edward Nc.
Kay i'm Theatrical Tidings, is simulated
by Charles Dickson, the imporsonator of
tho American millionaire in "Thc Lady
slavey." Mr. Dicksons rendering Is
meeting with tho encouragement Of those
On the audience who vote in New Jersey.
Created with such respectful spirit in the
song that Canary & Lcderor contemplate
announcing n Jersey night" on which
fatcful occasion the mir will DO given with
q sort Of subducd vohemonco.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-04
HANDSOME NEW RESORT.
Something That VIII Add to Westminster
Streets Attractions.

Providence Is moving toward metropoli-
tanism and at last, thanks to the enter
prise OF one OF our prominent cit zens. we
are to have an establishment similar TO
that of Huyler's In Boston, where the
fashionables, women especially, congre-
gate daily during the entire year to drink Iian
tions. The j. III. Roberts Company,
whose name is q family word, has leased
the store at 232 Westminster street, form
erly occupied by A. Rhodes, the milliner,
and transformed IL into "dream" OF
ivory white aud gold reflected In costly
bevelled mirrors. ALI the old partitions
have been removed, making the store as
light as any. and in the front part an
ONYX soda fountain has been placed.
This fountain is a thing Of beauty.
Conservative judges estimate its cost as
something like $1,000. Nothing OF the
sort is to be found elsewhere in New En-
gland. II is 20 feet long and has accom-
mediation for 80 different syrups. There
|, is a handsome canopied top. ornamented
by French plate mirrors and lighted at
night by 23 incandescenis Six clerks
can work at the fountain at one time.
The bar is of various colored marble sup
ported by handsome onyx pillars and is
an attractive part OF the outht.
The store is 80 feet In length and the
rear half Is given over to mahogany re-
freshmeut tables and chairs, with seat
ing capacity for 100 persons at one lime.
Here will be served lunches and ices,
which will be sent up from the model kit
chen in the basement. All noise and odor
is obviated.
The walls and ceiling have been hand
s9mely painted and frescoed, above the
dado Of mirrors, and beautiful sash cur
tains adorn the rear windows. On the
floor is a pretty linolcum carpet.
Tomorrow will be opening day, from 10
a. IN. to IL p. m., and each lady attend
ing will receive q souvenir worth having.
The store will be decorated with plants
and flowers, also.
Mr.. ). K. Tebbetts will have charge Of
the store.
The old store at 240 Westminster street,
only two doors atove, will be vacated
after the first of next month, but the firm
will still retain the store at 105 Westmin-
ster street. Their reputation for selling
the best of all grades OF candies is well
known.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-04

Fell From Freight Train Yesterday Az
ternoon Near Crms Street.

An unknown man. who had in his possession
a mason's trowel. in trying TO ret on extra
as '-eight trai. No. 4l0 at 4:i0 p. M. ycs,er-
day, Just south Of orms street bridge. slipped
and fell between the rear car and the one
noxt TO it, and the " heels Of the rear car
passed over his waist cutting his body into
two parts. Tho first that was known of the
man being near the cars was n groan heard y
brakeman W. f. White. Charles H. Smith
was conductor on the train, and Edward Nc.
Catfroy engineer. The train was stopped and
word mt once sent to the police at tho Second
station. Dr. Palmer was notified, and after
viewing the body he ordered il taken TO tho
mOruue.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-04
DEATH NOTICES.

Carpenter, Thomas J. Robertson, Abby T.
Horton, Martha Il. Young, Martin L.
Leddy, Mary
CARPENTER-In :his city, March /, Thomas
D. Carpenter, in th5 SGth year of his age.
Funeral thursday. March 5, at 2 o'clock
p. m, from his late residences, 7Gg Eddy
street. Relatives ana friends are invited TO
attend without further notice burial
private. Kindly omit flowers.
HoRTON-ln this city, March g. Martha p,
WIDOW OF Comfort Horton, aged "a years.
LEDDY-In Cost Greenwich, March 3, Mary
wife Of Patrick Leddy, aged IL years
RoBERTsoN-In this city. March g. sud.
denly, Mrs. Abby 4. Robertson, widow OF
Daniel W. Robertson, aged 7j years.
YOUNG - In Shaw avenue Edccwood, Of
pneumonia, March 3, Martin Ellsworth
Young, eyed SO years
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-04

engraving of tho inte ior of the church. show.

engraving Of tho inte ior of the church. show
ms tho decorations.
A biographical sketch OF Mr.. Woodbury.. to-
gether with the list OF his written works. Is
another feature Of the memorial volume, the
rest Of which Is devoted to list Of the many
organizations TO which no belonged, tho roso-
iutiops passed by them at bis death, an edi'
torial from the Providence Journal. the
chronological war record of the deceased. and
an account OF the funeral on November 22. at
Concord. N. ii.
The volume comes from tho press OF the
Standard Printing Company.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-04
Court Calendar for Thursday.
fcommon Pleas Division.

23G0. Mary Lindsey VS.. Division No.
u, a. O. III. Attorneys. G.. Quinn for
plaintiff; A. a. McCsug him for defend
ant.
2s9e. Smith Granite Company vs.. Mary
Y. smith.
35l6. star l.. Booth VS.. National India
Rubber Co. Attorneys-Hayes a Hayes
for plaintiff; O. L. Bosworsh for defend
ant.
3iO2. James Lynch VS.. Lizzie T. Lynch.
ezecuuix. Attorneys = ID. ~. Sheshan
for plaintiff; Cooke a Angel for cefend-
ants.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-04
FINANCIAL NEWS
JosEPH's LETTER.

Joseph says: "Buy st. Paul and keep
IL. Do not trade upon 1t. Just lock It
up and don't think of selling 1t this side
OF 90 You Will get these figues for it's
'Ex' the September dividend. Look at
the earnings. Increase fourth week OF
February, 5000 True the company
had one day more, but the returns for
eight days in a winter month were slI, !,
4l5. Buy Louisville d Nashville and hold
it for SO. Cell Baltimore & Ohio on point
rallies. and take quiet profits on the
long side of United States Leather.
New York Stock Quotations.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-04

Heavy shipping hogs, 20 80 17l2.
Cattle, IL 900.
Sheep, II, 600.
May wheat puts, 66l2-Ss; calls, 67asb.
May corn puts, 30as -l2; calls, 3Oi4 -3s.
Curb wheat, 49,.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-04
Plaintiff Lost His Case.

The jury in the case of Mathewosn VS..
Goff and Darling this afternoon, after a
very brief deljberation brought In yer-
dict for the defendants,
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-04

OFFICIAL REPLY.
Text of the University
Ultimatum.
Brown University Students
May Return to Studies.
Something Calculated to Tone Up
the Entire College Body.

1t has been generally understood that
the official reply to the junior resolutions
had been made by President Andrews
but the text OF the reply has not been
made known This afternoon a meeting
OF the junior class was called by President
John ID. Rockefeller, Jr., in order TO give
the response 60 the members of the class.
Mr.. W. S. Learned read the action of the
faculty and President Andrews.
"At the meeting OF the faculty OF
Brown University held on Feb. %, 1895,
i [ was voted: That the junior class be
informed, in response II their petition
addre ssed to the president and faculty,
that since the action of the president in
carrying out the recommendation of the
faculty adopted Feb. 20, 1896. has lain
enirely within the sphere of executive
admin nistration, whicn rightly belongs
wholly to him and not at all TO the fac
ulty it is the opinion OF the faculty that
the petition should be addressed TO the
president alone and cannot properly be
entertained by this body"
r. Il. q. GUILD, Secretary.
The reply from President Andrews is as
follows:
Messrs. j ID. Rockefeller, Jr., and W. $.
Learned, committee,
GENTLEMEN--The vote rassed by the
faculty OF the university on tue 18th in
stant, ieagrding the petition presented
by you devolves on he president the duty
of replying TO that uetition.
The sntlement and temper of the junior
class as revealed IN the petition are alto
getner gratifying and commeDdable.
These vigorous uttefances from men SO
advanced in college life will powerfully
influence the entire college body in favor
OF honor and integrity.
The fault of @ suspended Juniors has
received unexpected publicity. Moreover,
the inclination at first TO regard them
innocent has given way, in many quar-
tiers, to contary judgment which re-
fec on their character in genearl
and censures them much beyond their
deserts. Those gentlemen are thus sui
fering as every penalty which was neith-
er designed nor anticipated. In view of
this unintended addition TO the severity
of their punishment, some abbreviation
of its duration ould seem safe and appro-
pirate.
| stand ready to, consider this question
favorably i'm the case OF anyone of your
suspended classmates who shall write me
pledging himself to absolute honesty in
his written work during the remainder of
his college life and expressing n desire
to resume normal relations with the col
lege.
After the reply was read Messrs. Rookie
feller and Foster were appointed COM
lass ior Everett Colby in his late bereave-
ment, caused by the loss of his father.
Cearles Lewis Colby.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-04
JUNIOR PROMENADE.

The matter of holding junior prone
made was brought before the class for ac-
tion. Mr.. B. :. Watson stated that
meeting of few Juniors wes held yester-
day and S100 was pledged on condition
that s2C0 more be raised among the rest
OF the class. The idea of the class is to
give the promenade on invitation without
charge to outsiders. The entire dance is
to be given as the condiments of the
class. A committee of three, consisting
of j. ID. Rockefeller, Jr., James Tucker,
and Is. :. Watson, was appointed to col
lect the subscriptions and also with DOW
er 10 choose seven more members of the
class, the committee of 10 TO care for all
arrangements.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-04
Howard Fielding.

1t is an account of nexpcabe murder in one of the
lofty scrapers OF New York and interesting study
OF lie among the "clif-dwellers" Of the metropolis.
This will be followed March 10Th and goth by
character sketch by
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-04

High Grade Piano Tuning.
By y. W. bower, l00 wsyerly street.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-04

WAsHISGToS, March 4-For Maine-Fair
and cold tonight: Ihursday fair; high north
erly winds will continue.
New hampshire and Vermont Fair tonight
and Thursday: continued cold weather; high
northwest winds.
Massachusetts, Rhooe Islond and Connecti.
cut-Fair tonight and Thursday: continued
cold: high noribwosterly winds
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-04

what offer readers during the opening weeks Of
Spring
Beginning with the already announced "Flore, by the
young English romancer STANLEY J. WEYMAN. we
shall follow March 9TH and 9th with drawing
comedy by
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-04
Sir Walter BeSant
AND
Walter HerrieS Pollock,

entitled THE WIFE'S CONFESSION" This little play,
recountng the troubles of young wife brought about by
discharged maid servant bright and entertaining in ITSELF
and is we'll suited for amateur theatrcals
On March 10th and nth shall print amusing
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-27

lecture platform. One enterprising fellow
declares she would draw Immensely as
far east as Chicago, and if she will but
consent to tour" 1t under his guidance, ne
will bedeck her in fine linen and SILKS:
incidentally Mrs. Davidson was offered 70
per cent of the net profits.
Mrs. Davidson has already determined
to give one or more lectures at Metropoll-
tan Temple, but the date has not oeen
selected. Should this venture prove sue
cessful she will probably tour the Paclhc
Coast States, the subject of the lecture
being "The moral side of DR.. Brown ana
Martha Ogerman.
The opposition to DR.. Brown IN the
First church seems to be much elated
over the acquittal of Mrs. Davidson
particularly the manner in which 1t was
brought about. Twenty petitions are
being industriously circulated, and when
the 200 mark is reached the trustees Will
be asked to secure another pastor.
If this protest should be put calmly
aside it is the purpose of the opposition to
call council to pass on the case OF Dr.
Brown This means that the First church
must either let the present pastor go or
else become tramp institution.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-27
CASE OF THE FAIR WILL,
The Absence of Judge Slack Will
Postpone the Hear.
ing.
Lawyers for the Principal Heirs Are
Still Undetermined as to Their
Future Action.

The absence of Judge Slack will un-
doubtedly postpone any action in the Fair
will case, which stands on the calendar for
to-day All the attorneys in the case are
absolutely mute as to what steps have
been taken, if any, looking to reassemb-
ling or redistribution of the forces to the
fight.
There was to have been meeting of the
attorneys for the children for the purpose
of deciding upon a course to be taken
whether to join ex-Judge Paterson in his
opposition to the will of the 21st or
whether to join Delmas & Shortridge in
support of the will. The fact that the
counsel for the children presented the Will
of the oath to the court as the real and last
will of James G. Fair and opposed the will
of the 21st and afterward deserted that
will and assented to the probate of the will
of the 21st leaves their next action matter
of reasonable doubt.
What their next move will be, therefore,
is matter of considerable interest to all
concerned. As stated, ex-Judge Paterson
is in hopes they will:join him. but to do so
they will have to fatty repudiate their
previous and recorded position in court.
1t is probable that some other Judge
will call the calendar for Judge Slack to
day, but whether day for the trial may
be fixed cannot be said.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-27
A VETERANS SUICIDE.
John M. Gray Shoots Himself at the
Entrance to the MetropoI-
itan Temple.

John M. Gray, an army veteran, COM
mitted suicide yesterday afternoon by
shooting himself in the right temple. He
had gone into the main entrance to the
Metropolitan Hall on Fifth street and shot
himself at the bottom of the steps, just
behind the door.
The report of the shot attracted the at
tention of a passer-by, who on seeing the
condition of the old man notified the po-
liceman on the beat. The ambulance was
summoned and Gray taken to the Recelv-
ing Hospital, but he died in a few minutes.
His body was removed to the Morgue.
In his pockets was card on which he
had written: ga total wreck financially
and physically. A little left in vest pocket.
Take something and don't make wry faces
at me. Branch, S61 Market street"
He was cripple and had been living at
the Branch House, S61 Market street. He
was 67 years of age and was born in Ken
lucky. During the Mexican War he served
as first sergeant, Company E, Easton's
Battalion, Missouri Infantry, and during
the Civil War he was a member of Com
pany B, Seventh California Infantry.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-27
A LITTLE PET TREE.
Mr.. Craw Of the Horticultural Commis
sion Has a Queer Plant.

Mr.. Craw Of the horticultural Commits
sion Has Queer Plant.
A pretty window ornament is a tiny
alligator pear tree which Alexander Craw
of the State Horticultural Commission
cherishes as the apple of his eve. The
tree is about six months old and is large
for its age, being about three feet high.
No sordid dark -hued earth gives nourish-
ment to its dainty thread-like roots which
float at will within the crystalline depths
of transparent water jar.
Any one, says Mr. Craw, may have one
of these graceful and unique ornaments
The alligator pear is easily procured at
most large fruitstores. One end of the
pear should be cut off and the uncut end
allowed to rest above the neck of wide
mouthed jar of water. the water barely
touching the fruit. Every week or so the
water should be changed, the pear being
handled as little and as tenderly as
possible. The germ within the pear will
soon commence to swell, and in a short
time will rend the fruit assunder, sending
up tiny shoot of green which will grow
with astonishing rapidity. Mr. Craw's S
tree has leaves averaging ten inches in
length by three in width, and is much
admired by all who have seen it.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-27

there were in attendance f. w. Dohr-
mann, Hugo D. Keil and j. Richard
Freud, representing the Merchants Asso-
citation; j. d. Phelan, representing the
Art Association; and II. j. Crocker, who
acted as spokesman for the Chamber of
Commerce, Mr.. Bouvier performing the
same office for the State Development
Committee.
The session was brief, the participants
being all OF one mind on the matter under
consideration. Mr.. Phelan, to whom the
preparing of a memorial to the regents of
the State University had been intrusted,
made a brief report ana submitted a
draft of the proposed memorial which,
with a few additions. was accepted as
fully covering the ground.
This memorial" 4" remarked Mr.. Phelan,
twill be presented to the Board of Re-
gents at their meeting on the 31st of this
month. In brief, it sets forth the many
weighty reasons why the Wilmerdng
School should be placed here, where poor
boys are so plentiful, and where 1t could
do so vast an amount of good. 1t is dis
tinctIy stated that no corporate union be-
tween the two institutions is desired but
at the same time we lay stress upon the
point that much can be gained by having
the two schools near each other, in order
that one may supplement and perfect the
others work, each institution being inde-
pendent, having its own faculty and sep
arate management.
1--WE shall further ask, in accordance
with this view, that the regents permit
the Wilmerding School to be erected on
the Lick property adjoining the James
Lick Technical School, the land for the
building being leased from the regents; or
if this be impracticable then that the Will
merding School be located near the Lick
School, so that the teachers and students
of both may be mutually benefited by the
interchange of courtesies and by working
together for the ends common to both.
cit strikes me" commented Mr.. Phelan,
that this would be peculiarly happy
arrangement. The honored names of two
great philanthropists would thus be asso-
ciated. Each institution. having the other
near it, would be in good company, while
neither would conflict with the other. The
Lick School, as | am informed, deals prin-
cipally with the science of mechanics, the
practical, manual work done being chiefly
in the nature of demonstrations in class.
The Wilmerding School, on the contrary,
will take no account of brains, but rather
occupy itself with the hands of it's alumni.
There the boys will be taught to work, not
particularly to understand, saving as un-
derstanding comes by practical work. This
consideration must make it evident how
admirably the two institutions would work
side by side. In the Lick School the boy
would learn the theory of his chosen trade,
and as soon as he should gain fairly in
telligent knowledge OF it he would be trans
ferred across the way to the Wilm erding
School, where he would be taught to turn
that knowledge 10 practical account"
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-27
ART IN LONDON.
Wilbur A. Reaser's Interesting Lecture
at the First Unitarian
Church.

Church.
The lecture on what I Saw in the Lon
don Studios" delivered in the lecture-room
OF the First Unitarian Church yesterday
afternoon by the rising young artist, Will
bur A. Reaser, was we'll attended, the FEM
mime element predominating.
Mr.. Wilbur has spent many years of his
life in California and returned here a few
months ago, after seven years study in
the celebrated art schools of London, Paris
and Holland.
The principal part of his paper was de-
voted to Watts and Burne.Jones. It also
contained "reminiscences of the pure Ra-
phaelite brotherhood and of Dante Gabriel
Rosetti, their leader. OF them he said :
.Out of the large body of painters of whom
| promised to talk to you two men rise
e-eminent-George Frederick Watts and
Edward Burne-Jones. What sudden and
delightful visions these names recall to
our eyes
II resent much that has been written of
BurneJones. / cannot for. q moment ac-
cept the English verdict that he is the
greatest of living painters. His work, at
best so legendary, SO pre-Raphaelite in
spirit, seems far removed from our day,
and yet it is linked with English ideals,
sentiment and literature.
when / went to see Ford Maddox
Brown, who was in bed nursing the gout.
/ told him that in San Francisco we had
reproductions of most of the pre- -Rapheal-
ite pictures and an art school with a men,
bership of over 100. He fairly gasped in
his astonishment and sent for Sevens, the
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-27
Magnificent Plans for the State
University's Main Build.
ing.
PRESENTED BY ]. w. DUNCAN.
An Auditorium That Would Seat
Five Thousand-To Be Built
of Folsom Granite.

The plan to give the University of Cali
fornia magnificent, permanent main hall
is as old, almost, as the university itself,
but not until very recently has the plan
assumed definite shape and form. At the
last Legislature an appropriation of
$500, 900 was asked for with a view of ex-
pending most of the sum in the COM
mencement of the great structure. But
the appropriation was not allowed and
for the time being the plan OF the main
hall was abandoned.
But now another and far more definite
plan is produced, the architectural draw
ings of which are complete. These plans
are fathered by James w. Duncan of 726
Bush street, this City. They have been
examined and praised by several of the