The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-03
NeighbOrhOOd Notes.

The cottage on the corner OF Pine and
Linden streets has just been rented.
MIR. j. Il. Moore of 81 Westminster street
has retired after 80 years OF business NE.
Mrs. Edgar Bowen has bought a Hart
ford wheel.
Mr.. Vincent Bowen has had bay win
dow and "a piazza put on one OF his houses,
"a Linden street
The Bicycle Club Of the Manual Train
ing school took their first ride Saturday
morning.
Mr.. X. b. Davis is having improvements
made on his lawn.
MIR. George Parker Winship, librarian of
the John Carter Brown library III this clty,
has written very interesting book
called the Coronado Exposition, l5iO-loi2
The book was published by the Bureau
of Ethnology. 1t is an account OF the
earliest Spanish expedition from the city
of Mexico through the country now New
Mexico and the great plains to Kansas
and Nebraska. This book was written
while Mr. Winship was assistant In the
history department of Harvard University.
Prof. j. Irving Manatt of Brown Uni
yersity has returned from "a visit TO New
York city. While there no spoke before
the Brown University Club OF that city
ON the Grecian question.
About sixty of the Brown University
girls composed "a theater party at helth
to see the Brown opera.
1t is a noticeable fact at the ball games
on Lincoln field at Brown, that nearly
all the men who leave before the game Is
over. run ms soon as they get outside
the gate. Probably they have become too
Interested and stay too late:
Mr.. William White of Ford street has
gone down the river to spend the summer.
Mr.. Charles Seabrook of Natick Is max
ing a visit to Mr.. Remington of West,
minister street.
William w. Harvey, who lives in Dor
chester, Mass. but who, for the past
three or four years has been spending his
summers i'm this city rs Instructor and
general manager oil the Boys Nature
Club. has been studying medicine in
Boston. and has lately been pronounced a
"full -nedged doctor" Ii is likely that
no will practice medicine in some of the
Boston hospitals instead of coming TO
Providence as has been his custom. The
Boys Nature Club was formed 5y Mr.. w.
W. Harvey about four years aSJ OF boys
between the ages of IL and IL, and IL was
the object of this club to study nature
The members met once every week and
made trips either out into the country or
down toesome point along the Providence
river, and upon arriving ut their place OF
destination proceeded To work, some
making sketches of houses, boats or
trees, while others painted some sketch
had not been finished. Mr.. Harvey acted
as their instructor and also as general
manager. Last year the club did not
make many trips ms the members were
most of them working but held meetings
ON Ridge street and had numerous excit-
ing debates upon current questions. At
the last meeting of the club committee
was appointed To tlnd some suitable tes-
timonial to present Mr. Harvey on the
day before his departure and after few
hours OF hard work they selected n doc
tors medicine case as being the most
suitable present To give him, and the
committee met and presented IL To him
ON the following day, "a little while before
he was To leave the city.
At recent meeting OF the Class OF w
in the A. II. Hoyt grammar school, East
Providence. the president Franz Healy,
presided. IL was voted To make Laurence
RYAN chairman of the committee o. tho
class pins. The others were Celia Ryan,
Grace Barney and Bessie Crist. The com
mittce on the motto were Grace Dyer,
Edward Richardson, and Alice Monroe.
Mr. sanford Bates of Anthony Is now
n resident of this city.
MIR j. II. Floyd, formerly assistant
surerintendcnt Of the Metropolitan lnsur-
anco Co. has accepted position of super
intcndcDt of the provident branch OF the