The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-04-14
PAWTUXET VALLEY.
Peculiar Position of the App0naug
Fire District.
William Johnson Appointed Postmaster
at Fiske Vill:--NCt,s.

! The position Of the Apponaug fire dis
trict at present Is to say the least Pc
culiar. At the last meeting OF the voters
OF the fire district IL was decided that 1t
was not advisable 10 make another con-
tract with the East Greenwich Water
Company for service and as the result
some OF the residents thought that they
were TO be without protection. This
caused considerable talk and uneasiness
among some of the residents, who have
been congfatulating themselves on being
we'll protected against fire, but as the hy-
drants are all connected with the main
pipes which supply the house service, IL
Is impossible TO cut the water of from
the hydrants without also stopping the
supply of the private consumers AS
there Is well organized and equipped
lire company In the village, tho probabil-
titles are that in case Of fire the hose would
Inc connected with the hydrants and the
water used, and the question Of the right
OF the fircmen To use the water would DO
settled later in the courts.
Contractor Mcmahon has commenced
the work of removing the two houses
which will connect Main and Clyde
streets near the Clyde print works.
The Rev. Frank Ready of Washington,
ID. c., Is the guest Of his mother, at Lip
pitt.
Road Commissioner Sprague has large
force OF men repairing the main street at
Arctic Centre and covering the surface
with the broken stone which was pur-
chased for the purpose last year
William johnson has been appointed
postmaster at Fiskeville 10 succeed the
late 9. i. Fiske and the postoflioe will be
removed TO the johnson building near the
hotel.
The need Of night police has been long
felt in the valley but although ut times
the business men have contributed 90 the
pay Of special officer who patroled in
front OF the stores in the moro thickly
populated portion Of the valley there has
been no regular patrol in the valley. The
electric light company have two men who
patrol the lines until ii 80 p. m, but
neither of them are police officers The
scheme which has recently been broached
10 secure police protection is To have the
patrolmcn appointed officers and the dis
tricts pay half of their expenses, the men
TO patrol the streets all night. Mr. Joslin,
of tho electric light company is ready to
do this as the small extra expense incurred
by having the patrolmen out all night
would be more than equaled by the saw
ing made by having the company lines
under constant supervision.
The two factions of the knights of
Pythias In the valley are still at war and
IuNc an du-
vertisement in one Of the local papers in
which they say that they are The victims
of "a grand chancellor's prejudice and
benighted usurpation and use of au-
thority." While the two factions have
been quarreling as TO which was the real
and only lodge, the Phenix bank, in
which the funds Of the lodge were depos-
tied, has failed and some of the members
think that before the war Is over there
VIII be no money To draw out
Caleb Bates Of Fiskeville captured seven
young foxes on Burnt Hill Sunday and
pocketed 81 in the way of bounty.
Conductor Jerome Bates OF the u. V.
Railroad who has been i'll at his home in
Hope Is convalescent