The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-09

ten saddles, made its second appearance
in public.
The vaudeville show began As usual at
IL o'clock in the forenoon and ran CON
tinuously. To days features were:
TIE Four Nelson Sisters, South Ameri-
can Lady Acrobats; Harmon and Tustin,
Sensational High Divers and Water
Trapeze Artists; Webb and Hasson, Head
to Head Ballancers and Acrobats; Gotham
Citv Quartet. Vocal ComediaBs Col.
Magnus Schult's Troupe of ~ Great Dane
Dogs Billy. May and Daisy Golden,
Comedy Sketch Artists; Zazelle and
Vernon, Comic Horizontal Bar Act;
The California Trio. The Dutch Soldier,
Irish Policeman and Chinaman; A. III.
Knoll and Maria McNiell. Cornet Duet
fists; Fsrnum Bros, Acrobats; Master
Harry Ronooe, Trick Bicyclist; Nellie
Leonard, Flying Irapeze Artist
The CADETS FROM SOCKANOSSET
Fair week is a gala occasion for the
boys at the state reform school. To
the youngsters from Sockanosset it is
what the June graduation season Is for
the boys of the public schools.
They have a chance to SEQ people, and,
what is fully as important. the public has
got splendid opportunity To SEQ them
and fad out what they are doing through
out the year at the big institution where
they become better and wiser.
Ii is not holiday show of few Of the
brightest or best boys doing special work.
That would be what Is vulgarly known
as playing to the grand.stand. and
Superintendent Eastman would have
none of It, All the boys are there before
the fair closes, some one day, and others
the next, and they do the regular school
work.
Tie benefit and pleasure of a change is
secured for the boys, without interfering
nf "a sphOOl
Today all the boys are at the Park-that
is, the full battalion of Sockanosset
Cadets. A bout 250 answered TO roll call
this morning and they marched from the
school TO the fair grounds, distance OF
three miles, led by the Sockanosset Cadet
band.
THE DRESS PARADE.
This afternoon the battalion. in five
companies. gave dress parade on the
track in front of the grand stand, and
were reviewed by His Excellency Gov.
Dyer and his staff.
Company a had the right of the line
and Company & had the colurs.
1t was a splendid demonstration of
military discipline. The marching order,
even of the finest cadets, was very near
perfection, and the boys went through
their manual with the faultless precision
of veterans One of the best features of
this drill was the bayonet drill recently
adopted at the school by Military In
structor Stroud.
But it is in their temporary workshop
under the grand stand that tho visitor
gets the best idea of what the street
urchin OF few years ago. or perhaps OF
only few months or weeks ago, Is
learning to do He is getting u trade ana
learning to be industrious. thrifty and
honest. Ihat is the main thing. 10
develop the manhood in him is the pur-
pose Of the school. The particular trade
which he may choose is incidental.
There Is much to prove that the purDose
of the school is accompli lishec-many of
the most capable and most respectable
wage earners in New England got started
on the right traJk at the Sockanosset
school. There is no notion more mistaken
than the one too generally held that tnis
institution is solely for detention and
punishment. Ii is a reform school in fact
as we'll as in name.
THE PAROLE SYSTEM.
The spirit which underles the manage
ment of the institution Is Indicated
the parole system which was explained to
a newspaper reporter at the fair year
ago
Each boy upon entering the school is
given 10 understand that he owes the in
stitution Si00, ami that his work will be
accepted in payment ut the rate of s. per
week OF course, no money Is actually
used hut it has h3en found more salts
factory in every way to measure the value
of the boys services in tho term that will
be familiar 90 him in after life, and the
idea Of saving dollars appeals more TO his
sonse Of economy and thrift than would IA
systom OF credits or marks. II any
oifense, OF omission or commission, occurs,
tho oulprit is fined according to its quail
ity and that means so much more on his
debt TO tho school On the Oth1r hand,
those who deserve IL may get extras on
their credit side nnd when the 500 is
paid, the boys are allowed 10 go on parole
For two years les must send back to the
school quarterly reports of mis- occupation
whereabouts and good behavior and after
eight good reports he Is relieved of all
further obligation 10 the institution.