The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-04-12
UP THE VALLEY.
Cumberland School Com
mittee Met Saturday.
Commissioner StOckweII Finds
Census Report Satisfactory.


The regular monthly meeting of tho
Cumberland School Committee was held
Saturday afternoon, all the members being
present except Mr.. Babbitt.
Bills amounting to $l9S.31 were ap-
proved and ordered paid. The report If
Superintendent of Schools Barbour was
read and ordered on file. He presented the
result of the retaking Of the school census,
the figures of which had been found salts
factory by State Commissioner Stockwell.
The whole number of boys attending
public school is 629 and of girls 59i, total
of 1923. The number OF boys attending
Catholic schools is 10l and of girls 100,
total of 384. The number of children not
attending any school is 1919, being 81 boys
and 102 girls. But of this number only 4S
are OF school age.
Statement from Weaver.
Editor Erening Tribune:
While the writer does not wish for any
notoriety whatever, but wishes to make
public few points regarding accidents
which occur frequently in the Ann and
Hope Mill, and the unfeeling inhumanity
OF the overseer in the room where those
accidents occur, deem it but proper to
make public, If possible, the inhumanity
exercised in the case OF the weaver Katie
Bradley, who was struck by n shuttle
flying out OF her loom and striking her in
the eye, which will no doubt cause her
to lose that member. After she was struck
she was kept for about two hours i'm the
mill without medical attendance, or any
exertion made on the part of the overseer,
MIR. Spofford to procure it for her, and
when the poor girl could manage to walk
to doctor, not even the black Maria was
procured to assist her in her journey to
reach the doctor. She was obliged to go
in an exhausted, fainting condition, as
sisted by another weaver to hunt up
doctor for herself. Ii she had had medical
attendance the minute it occurred she
would not be BILE to lose the sight of her
eye.
1t is about high time that some one in
vestigated the cause of the frequency of
such accidents which are making the Ann
and Hope mill notorious. The fault gen
orally lies with the overseer in not pro-
curing loomfxers who understand their
work. This accident was caused by the
shuttle box not being properly fitted to
suit new pair of shuttles and the care
lessness of loomfixers in not being COM
petent or being reckless and not caring.
A similar accident occurred little while
ago to another weaver, who had her eye
knocked out, and If the frequency of such
accidents occur much longer the Ann and
Hope will get for itself name in history.
Any old farmer from Maine, who comes
here, will get chance loom fixing, so
what are the consequences? The unfeel-
ing, inhuman treatment of injured opera
tives in the Ann and Hope mill has no
parallel. The overseer, we presume, is
afraid to lose his work, even TO be a man,
and have the common feelings accorded
TO man, in procuring the aid which opera
tives have a right to get when hurt or in
jured in the employ OF any company.
ANN AND HOPE WEAVER.
Lonsdale, April 10.
New Bell to Come.
Contractor John 3. Morin commenced
today the task OF removing the bell from
the tower of the town house, as il has not
given satisfaction. The Cincinnati firm
from whom the bell was obtained have re-
quested that it be returned at once, and
and another one which it is hoped will
meet the requirements, will be sent on as
Soon as possible.
Notes of the valley Villages.
The funeral of Robert Fowler will take
placs tomorrow afternoon.
The public schools resumed studies this
morning after two weeks vacation.
Walter F. Brown of Valley Falls has re-
turned home from an extended Southern
trip.
Joseph Quamby of Lonsdale returned
home Saturday from business trip to
New Bedford, Mass.
Yesterday, according to custom, palm
was distributed i'm all the Roman Catholic
churches in the Blackstone valley.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Grady OF Clinton,
Mass, who have been at the residence of
Joseph F. Lowell of Ashton, returned
home Saturday.
Miss Carrie Currier, daughter OF Presi-
dent Currier of the Cumberland Town
Council, returned home today from Brook
In, where she has been pursuing an
academic course. During the summer she
will visit Europe with a number OF friends.
Beginning Saturday next the half-h holi-
day schedule will go into effect at the
works of the Rhode Island Perkins Horse
Shoe Company, Valley Falls, and continue
until about the middle of September.
There is no actual loss i'm running time,
for the difference is made up by slightly
lengthening the other working days of the
week.
rheumatism Cured In Day.
"Mystic Cure" for rheumatism and Neural