The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-04-09

ioxpected 10 write again and again. The public
press has made most creditablc mention Of
our brother, and the funeral hour has pass.
Cd ana yet we are here today TO lingor Just
little longer and to add fow moro words
touching him that we loved and whose mem.
DRY we shall cherish as the years go by. It
was a long life and one cannot compass Il In
brief space of time. His years were not
only many, but lie really lived in thom as IL
quito early in lifo he had taben for his motto:
To breathe, and wake. aud sleep.
| 10 smile, 10 sigh 10 grievc.
| 40 move IN idleness through earth
| rms This, Is not TO live.
In Mr. Aowland's death Providence loses 1
think, the last Of the very old anti-slavcry
men who biayed public sentiment with Al.
phonso Il. Jones, George j.. Clark, Thomas
Davis and some few others. and sided with an
| oppressed and dospised race when it required
moral courage TO which many very good men
| were not equal.
AS 70 the temperance movement, II was
something into which he grew, and his good
wife has always claimed that at the time Of
thelr marriage, more than W years ago, she
was in advance of her husband touching the
desirability OF wholly abstaining from the
use Of liquors. save when advised by ply.
given TO Mr.. How lands connection with tho
Reform School when it was located in this
city No man could have given TO il the
time thar he did only from loving sense OF n
desire TO serve his day and generation. He
believed the influence oxerted upon children
was farreaching in its consequences STAMP
a letter." said Theodore Parker, 'upon
Chaldean clay, and though Ninevah shall
perish and Babylon become heap of ruins,
yet that clay shall keep its mark" / must
Keep In mind no. TO tire you by going too
minutely into all tho good causes i'm which
be was interested. His hand touched many
OF our reforms and ii wrought we'll A
friend speaking 10 me but few dsys since
OF Mr.. Howland's calls upon his father, who
was house ridden for many years, said: II
hardly knew which di father the most good
the doctor or Mr.. Howand-for he looked
forward tn the calls OF the latter with an in.
terest and pleasure which did not abate until
con iciousnes3 was lost Ho went about 90.
ing good. This association was organized
March l5. 1883. AT the first meeting, which |
was called by Governor Elisha Dyer the |
names Of some of those wno were present |
were taken down, but all were not obtained. |
60 not lind Mr.. Howland's name OIL record |
until October II OF the same year, when he. |
with goodly number Of others WHO had |
been admitted to the association ''by viva 1
voce vote" instead OF by ballot, "were
regularly voted for and admitted rs mem
hers of the association"
Mr. Rowland gave. on October TO- 1857, one
of his most valuable papers before the asso-
ciation, which then met in Franklin Ly.
eeHm Hall, his thome being "a Talk of
Providence Seventy-seven Years Ago and
later" The paper dwelt very largely ON
some OF the changes which had come TO Provi-
dence since the speaker was born in 1905.
Fortunately, The Journal OF our city printed
a very extended report of the paper, which
IL placed Ia its appropriate place among the
associations records. We can most truthfully
say that he loved our people, and TO be abb
sent from one of our meetings was, as he ex-
pressed it, "a day lost " Some few years
ngo, when we were accustom ed TO meet In
Blackstone ball. he left his home ON the af.
iernoon OF tho day of our meeting quite
early, intending to visit the screw factory
md then turn his steps toward the place
where he should meet his old and long tried
rienas.
The improvements that had been made i'm
he machinery used 10 manufacture screws
we're so great that he was soon so far lost as
lot TO think at all of the real object for
which he had left his home until II was long
,ast the time OF our meeting. | met him the
ext day ana his demonstrations If grief at
fhat he re. arded as very great hlunder
'ere both amusing and pathetic. He seemed
0 really think that some punishment ought
D be inflicted upon man who would do
uch an exceedingly wicked and foolish ,
hing. / am sure it viii be long time before
'e shalt gather here or elsewhere and not
Mss Horny A. Rowland and while in the
'ss OF friends we are apt to console our |
'lves that others will soon fill the places
'adc vacant, we may well ask. "Who shall
IL Mr.. Howland's place. Who shall stand
ere with his more than folr score and ten
ears AMI with his attainments speak TO Us 7
} he did9 Who shall send his memory back
} four score OF years and give us of his i
eanings in that remote period Of his lifeg' =
our last meeting ali Of US noticed with !
mewhat of painful interest our friends alb. !,
nee. l folt fearful that all was not we'll ~
Id so called the next day, when he was not Il
gardcG as being very in. Ho expressed ri
oasantly some surprise that had not stop n
Il While oa my way home the day before,
emed to think should have known that :.
IrGly onything save sickness would keop | >,
~ from a Rholc Island Veteran Citizens !,
siorical Association meeting As l babe II
IN good.day l said, I'VE shall al think of !,
~, Mr. Rowland" whcrcuIon ho gave me :,
look, as ! thought, Of more than usual ~
RI business and replied, Il hope msy DO
lught worthy OF being thought or" saw
N several times after this before loving