The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-01-21
PAWTUXET VALLEY.
Organization Fever is Spreading in
the Valley.
Considerable Damage Done by the Storm.
Some General Notes.


ing In theirooms of the Phenix womsn's
Christian Temperance Union last evening.
There was a good attendance and class
In calisthenics, with. Mrs. Walter Hill as
instructor, was organized.
Captain &. ID. Bowen Camp, Sons OF
Veterans held its annual installation OF
officers in Armory ball st Apponaug last
evening.
1.-THE Pawtuxet Valley, beside being
fertile field for burglars, highwaymen
and crooks of all kinds Is also the favorite
resort of the man who has society to
organize or wild cat stock 10 sell and OF
late a hall has proved to be one OF the
best paying Investments in the valley.
The fever for organization seems To be
spreading and the knights OF Labor nave
no longer the claim of being the only or
gsnized labor society in the valley.
Some time ago the valley BARRIERS formed
q com bination and adopted set OF rules
for tho management OF their shops and
the determination of all knights of the
razor and shears who did not join the
society and the example OF the tonsorial
artists wss soon followed by the physi-
clans who organized a local medical
society for mutual protection against the
professional dead bear who appears to
think that II is wholly unnecessary 10 pay
u DOCTORS bill. Whether these societies
have accom- plished their objects or not Is
not known to the uninitiated but the VAL
ley property owners apparently think that
the plan is at least worth trying and as
the result have organized landlords
union with Charles ii. Young of River
Point as president, and John b. Nolan as
secretary. The union has appointed q
COMMITTEES to make up a list of the tenants
who have been In the habit OF changing
their residence every month and forget
ing to settle their rent bill, ana when the
black list 10 completed some of this class
of tenants will probably find ii better 10
pay their rent than move as hss been
their custom in the past.
The ladies Missionery Society held its
regular meeting and mite box opening at
the residence of Mrs. Il. s. hill at
Anthony yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Frank Bradley OF Thomaston,
Me-, is the guest of friends at Natick.
The storm which struck the Pawtuxet
Valley last night was one OF the most
disagresable OF the season and today it
appears to be at its height for it seems
impossible for il to be any worse. When
it commenced last evening there was
every indication of an old fashioned snow
storm and the vallevites sought their
beds expecting TO find the ground covered
by two feet OF snow in the morning but
during the night the snow turned to rain
and the wind rose with the temperature.
From midnight the wind steadily In
creased in violence and the rain fell in
torIens. Blinds and loose shingles were
torn from their fastenings and small
branches and pieces of bark blown from
the trees. This morning when the viii
layers crawled out OF their warm beds
they found a state Of things which
brought words not to be found in the
decalogue to the lips Of those whose
business obliged them to be out of doors.
The rain had turned the snow to slush
and pedestrians were obliged TO wade
through three inches OF slush and water
In order to reach their places OF business
or the trains. Wheeling was execrable
and drivers could not md words strong
enough to express their disapproostion
of the antics OF the weather. The electric
cars and trains on the railroads made
fairly good time considering the condi-
tion OF the trscks and were well patron
lied.
The public schools held only one ses-
sion and the attendance in most of the
departments was unusually small. The
electric light and telephone wires suffered
| some from the high wind and sleet but
service was not interrupted as badly as
might have beeu expected. Heavy team
| ing between Cowesett md the valley was
entirely suspended nd those who had
| waited until the last .Jment before or
dering their supply ot coal were anything
but happy at the prospect. Along the
Cowesett shore and in Greenwich bay
the full force Of the storm was expert
enced and the ice which formed in the
bay during the cold weather was broken
up by the rain and wind.