The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-12-28
OLNEYVILLE.
The Town Council Holds Another
Secret Meeting.
Town S rgeant Ordered 10 Driv. Out
Gamblers Other Matt rs.

The members Of the Town Council Of John
ston held a secret session last night, when
persons engaged in gambling, selling liquor
on Sunday, selling liquor without "A license
and a member OF the Johnston Enforcement
of the Law League were handled without
gloves The session WAS called 10 order at
30 o'clock by the president, A. Waterman
Smith, and the town clock struck ~ long be-
fore tho session closed A member of the
league was apparently the cause of the meet
ing for the greater part Of the evening was
spent in discussing the why's and whcrefores
Of his case Tho member in question manages
an estate so near 10 the Olneyville postCffice
that boy years old could hit IL with
stone. The place is commonly called by tho
residents of Johnston the beer garden and
Town Sergeant Holbrook wns particularly i'm
siructed 10 sec that this place ceased 10 be "A
revenue getter TO the owners, unless put TO
legitimate uses. This member OF the league
has been one OF its foremost workers, and the
members Of the Council last evening proposed
10 make him show his hand III the great move
for Kidding the town Of gambling and vice Of
all sorts.
Along with these instructions, incidentally,
lhe town sergeant was ordered To close all
gambling dens stop all sunday liquor selling
and shut up drug stores where liquor was
sold Sunday.
All places where liquor is sold without
.icense come under the ban, and the town SER
gesnt was ordered 10 notify the owners of
buildings where vice exists that they must
get rid Of their tenants. The officei was given
20 understand that every member of the Town
Council stood ready 20 assist him at any time.
This stand was brought about from the fact
that a few evenings sgo the president of the
Tswn Council accompanied by other mem
bers of that body, called at the pool room on
Stokes street and ordered il closed, but the
next day the room was open FOR business, and
the report was current that one Of the men
connected with the establishment said that
the mugs of the Town Council of Johnston
did not know what they were running mp
against" This report lost for them what few
supporters they had in the Council The sem
timent OF the meeting was that the gamblers
must go, and go at once, FOR they have not
only defied the citizens, but the Council.
A well known liquor saloonkeeper also came
in for share of condemnation, which may
ultimately lead to the revocation of his Ii
cense.
There is 10 be hot time in Johnston in the
future, and no one will bo greater losers than
the sports OF Boston, for while there is pool
room in Natick, Mass, of the same character
rs the one on Stokes street the sports know
shat If there As raid made thsre that they
are toted or to the station and are fined with
the managers Of the place. They prefer olney-
vile therefore, 10 Natick.
AT the close Of the meeting all OF the coun-
cilmen were as dumb as oysters as to what
took place during the session, but the above
facts leaked out.
Ii was also voted TO ask the town of Gran
ston 20 pay one-half of the cost of three lights
at Thornton, from the fact that the residents
OF that town received half Of the benefit. IL
was also voted to set hydrant on Holden
street. E6
GENERAL MENTION.
Thomas Gleason, one of the illustrators OF
Munsey's Magazine, returned 10 New York
this evening, having spent Christmas with his
parents in this place.
All of the civil cases called in the Eighth
District Court yesterday mcrning were con-