The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-07-10
PAWTUXET VALLEY.
Several Large MANUFACTURES Shut
Down for Week.
River Point Fire District Meetiag
Promises to be Interesting.

Deputy State Councillor 8. ID Arnold
of Providence will make an official vista
tion to Warwick Council, o. u. A. NJ,
this evening and degree work is expected.
The funeral of Miss Bertha Riley was
solemnized from the Methodist Church. at
Hope, yesterday afternoon, Rev. Mr..
Hammond officiating. The interment
was in the Knotty Oak cemetery at Wash
ington.
Six carloads OF crushed stone have been
received at Centerville for use on Allen
street.
The Phenix woman's Christian Temper
ance Union met at its rooms on River
street yesterday afternoon and made ar
rsngewents for a union meeting at the
Phenix Methodist Church Sunday even
ing.
Rev. r. II. Adams OF the River Point
congregational Church will deliver an
address on Armenia, its people and GUS
toms.
A French Republican campaign club
week.
Warrington Lodge, 10. o. f., met in
Odd Fellows Hall last evening.
All OF Il. Il. n X. Knights Mills, and
the Crompton Mills shut down last night
for the remainder of the week. The
Phenix mill will shut down tomorrow
noon for one week. There is no prospect
company have orders which IL will take
several months to I'll and the Colvin ma
chine shop has more than six months
work ahead. The repairs at the Clyde
print works are.being pushed as rapidly
rs possible and the works will start up
sgain rs soon as they are completed. The
Hope and Rockland mills Will shut down
N A WaRk tnn1nrrnyy tho pom nj ar
Mill. which has been stopped during the
week, VIII not start up again until the
18th OF the month. At Quidnick no
orders have been received to make any
change in the running time, and business
Is unusually good at the Kent Woolen
Company's mills at Centerville.
The meeting of the River Point fire
district which will occur Monday evening
promises TO be an interesting one, and it
In expected that some radical changes Will
be made. AT the last annual meeting IL
was decided to take the control of the
electrician from the board of engineers,
and bids were called for for the work.
Walker, who has had charge OF
the fire alarm system during the past
year. The working of the system
has not been satisfactory and sew
eral times OF late II has been found
impossible to ring in an alarm on ac-
count OF some difficulty with the boxes.
One OF these, the fire at the Clyde print
works, threatened TO be q serious one, and
much comment was caused at the time
by the failure OF tho box at the works
TO work. Under the present arrangement
the electrician.i is sponsibie only to the
district and the board OF engineers are
powerless to order the system placed in
proper condition. IL is probable that at
the meeting the engineers Will again be
given supervision OF the system. Some Of
the taxpayers are also inqulring by
what right the hand engine company
used and burst the hose of the fire district
and who Is 10 pay for the ruined hose.
A motion will also be made to compen-
safe the firemen for their labor at fires.
and as this is as strenuously objected 10
by some as ii is advocated by Others,
there is every prospect of an interesting
meeting. For the past few weeks the
valley seems to have been a fertile field
for swindlers OF all descriptions, one
fiim-fam game following another in
quick succession. Yesterday afternoon a
man selling silver polish called at the
residence of Mrs. Mason al Natick and
Induced her 10 purchase q box Of bis pow
der. She rendered him a s2 DILL in pay
ment, and as he did not have enough
change he stepped over to the store to
get II. AS he did not return. Mrs. Ma
son became suspicious, and upon investi-
CATION found that the man had gone out
the back door of the store and disappear
ed. The silver polish turned out to be
only powdered fire clay ana worth about
a quarter of a cent.