The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-10-14
WARREN HUNTERS.
Bad Luck and Bad Weather--One
Buck Formed Their Trophy.
The Towns Dllapidated Railroad Station
Is Being Repaired.

Three mem bers OF the Warren Hunting
Club, viz: Charles II. Sparks, Henry
Walter Eddy and Irving W. Bliss, who
have been in search of game in the woods
of Maine for the past several weeks
arrived home yesterday noon The other
Nom bers OF the club, Messrs. K. Dana,
and his son Roland, DR.. Nelson t. Hall,
Louis Fisher and A. Gladding are ex-
pected to arrive here today or tomorrow.
Bad weather and tad luck seem to have
been the fortune OF the members OF the
club, with the exception of Councilman
Sparks, who,. on Friday last, shot and
killed fine buck deer, weighing 175
pounds, the major portion of which
arrived here this morning, and Is being
distributed among his friends. Mr.. ii.
Walter Eddy, cashier OF the National
Hope Bank, also shot and disa bled one,
but failed to secure him. They report
having killed small game in abuni-
ance, had good time and feasted on
broiled partridge and moose sirloins dur.
ing their stay.
Mr.. Daniel X. Dana and wife expect
to leave here shortly for their winter
home in Florida.
The management OF the Warren Driv-
ing Park Association is arranging for q
two days meeting to take place on
October 2s ana 20, when $1,000 will be
offered for purses to be equally divided
for the two days. For the first day there
is scheduled card for thrse events,
2:50, 2:2g, and free for all race; for the
second day o;35, 2:2s and 2:26 card.
Special officer Charles Clark Is doing
molly, who is on vacation.
Mrs. James b. Barrus is visiting her
son, Walter Chase In New York city.
The sloop yacht Falcon, owned by Il.
G. Luther of Providence, which has
cen anchored in Mathewsop's bend for
the past l3 weeks, in charge of Captain
William Willis, will probably be hauled
out for the winter at Captain Hart's on
the Darlington shore.
The matter of accepting and paying
for the newly reconstructed building on
Water street, which was contracted for
by the French Lafayette Society, which
the building committee refuses to accept,
will probably have to be settled by the
courts, the committee claiming that it
has not been constructed according to
specifications.
Notwithstanding the northeast winds
which have prevailed for several days
past, the tides have been very high, and
those who earn their living by digging
CLANS have been inconvenienced.
Extensive repairs are being made to
the estate on Main street owned by Rev.
Sydney Dean, OF Roxbury, Mass, Which,
when completed, will be occupied by
Treasurer g. z. ChaIpell of the Warren
Foundry, and family.
The electric lights in the mills of the
Warren Manufacturing Company were
set in operation for the first time last
evening and worked very satisfactorily.
The engine Is being run daily and the
machines that are In readiness are bein z
operated.
The dilapidated railroad station build
ing which was constructen' over 40 years
ago IL receiving some repairs.
The remains of John Mccormick, who
died at the state slmshouse Monday OF
consumption, are expected to arrive here
today to be inferred in st. Mary's Gene
terry. Mccormick worked the past six
months as carpenter, but being i'll and
in INDECENT circumstances was taken to the
slmshou about a fortnight ago by order
| OF the authorities.