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The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-07
cOLoREl THOMAS APPOINTED
The Presiden. Selects Successor TO Late
Postmaster at Boston.

Washington, May T.--President No
Einley acted with unusual promptness
in sending to the senate yesterday the
nomination OF Colonel Henry A. Thomas
10 be postmaster Of Boston. which Sena-
tor Lodge recommended to him Wehnes-
day. Senator Lodge will see that II IL
confirmed es promptly AZ possible.
Henry Andrews Thomas was born st
Weymouth Al years ago. He entered
the postal service as q messenger at
$50 a month at the age OF IL. He was
appointed superintendent Of mails April
%. 1889. retiring under the Cleveland
administration In 1893. In the ante
convention proceedings in the famous
Greenhalge campaign. Colonel Thomas
was a most active Greenhalge man.
When Greenhalge was elected he mado
Colonel Thomas his private secretary.
He served as private secretary to the
governor until the beginning of the
present year. Colonel Thomas was the
unanimous choice Of his party for post
master.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-07
Omc~rs OF Grand Comma,d.yv,

Portland. Me-, May The grand COM
nandery Of Knights Templar for Maine
met yesterday. Albro r. Chase OF Pc RI :
land, grand commander, presiding. The
report on returns showed 10 commander
les. 1883 members. ia knights and 81
deaths. The Following grand officers
were elected: Grand commander, Fritz
II. Twitcheil. Bath; deputy grand COM
mander. Frank i. Sleeper, sabattus:
grand generalissimo, Herbert Harris.
East Machias; grand captain general.
Albert M. Spear. Gardiner: grand pre-
late. Il. Howard Vose. Calais: grand
senior warden, Clayton J. Harrington.
Portland: grand junior warden. Gilman
y. Lombard. Belfast; grand treasurer.
Leandcr w. Forbes. Portland; grand re-
cordcr. Stephen Berry, Portland.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-07
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

Editorial Views OF Our contemporaries on
Matters of Interest.
North Attleboro Chronicle: The Paw
tucket TRIBUNE is very much disturbed
about that militia scrap story, but it
should not give way to its feelings. 1t is
a bundle of palpable fabrications to give
1t the least credit. Does not the TRIBUNE
know how abhorrent an idea OF pugnacious
nature is to the modern militiamen?
Think it over.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-07

Frank 8. Black, a farmers boy from
Maine, has now signed his name under
the massive charter of the so-called
Greater New York. This is one of the
important acts OF the century, and Gov
~rnor Black Is the privileged instrument
of manifest destiny. At the same time he
has written his own title to lasting fame,
and has written into existence the second
city in the world as it is today, and the
srst city in the world OF a not remote
future.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-07

There are apparently some extenuating
feitures in the case OF exPaymaster Cor
wine, but the same features convey the
very evident moral that, when in doubt,
one tboald do the openly honest thing.
1t does not pay to embezzle money to pre-
vent explaining an unpleasant situation.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-07
Cumberland Council Met in
Regular Session Yesterday
Action Taken on Liquor Cases
Continued From Last Week.
Treasurer Taft Presented His Annual Flnan
clal Statement.


| session yesterday afternoon and trans
| acted large amount of business. Presi-
| dent Currier was absent and Councilman
Carpenter was elected president pro tenn.
The first business taken up was the pro-
bate docket, and several estates were acted
upon.
The Council considered the liquor appli
cations which were considered FROM the
last meeting.
The application of Richard Bowker was
called, and Francis McGirr placed before
the Council plat of the building and the
surrounding property, showing that prop
erty owners OF 9,SS9 feet were in favor OF
granting the license and owners of 27,527
feet were against it.
Councilman Barnes said that he was not
in favor of reducing the mber Of licenses,
for that would, in his opinion, strengthen
the liquor traffic, and as long as a major
ity Of the owners of nearby property were
in favor of this place having license he
moved that the application be granted. 1t
was so voted.
Edward Hogan and Robert McCarten
were given leave to Withdraw.
Andrea Christian & Co., and John Nc
Guigan were granted licenses.
The liquor bonds Of Thomas Reilly and
BARLEY Sullivan not being satisfactory
their applications were continued until
the next meeting.
Mr.. Dexter appeared before the Council
and asked that he be allowed $50 to replace
the planking in front of his property. The
matter was referred to the Committee on
Claims, with power to act.
Wedding Mt Cbrist Church.
The wedding of Miss Margaret Greene
and Charles Bardsley took place at $3.50
o'clock yesterday afternoon at Christ
Church, Lonsdale, Rev. James V. Chalmers
officiating. The bride and groom were at
tended by Miss Lizzie Greene and William
Bardsley. Alter the ceremony the happy
couple adjourned to their newly furnished
home in Lonsdale, new village, where re-
ception was held. Mr.. and Mrs. Bardsley
were the recipients of many beautiful and
useful presents.
Bicycle Accident on Dexter Street.
Martin Reynolds, while cycling on
Dexter street, near Lonsdale avenue last
evening, caught his foot in the chain and
sprocket, and was violently thrown to the
ground. He was rendered unconscious,
and for time ii seemed as IL there was
going to be repitition Of the Welch
fatality. He was taken TO his home on
Summer avenue in passing team, and
attended by DR.. Kennedy. An exanina-
tion showed that he was badly bruised,
but not seriously injured.
VIII Receive a Chalice.
Saturday evening last, Rev. FIR. Beland,
pastor OF the Notre Dame Church, arrived
home from an extended European trip,
much refreshed by his vacation. In recog-
milton of their esteem and appreciation OF
him his parishioners will assemble after
the services next Sunday, and present him
with a chalice. The affair will be a for
NAL one, and one which will be interesting
TO pastor and people alike.
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union will be entertained this evsning by
Miss u. M. Earle
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-07

RcEe-n Pssha rays the Turks won at
Pharso!os Wednesday. Prince Constan-
tine says the Greeks won. A count of the
corpres sems TO be in favor OF the latter's
n Az ..l.rlf
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-07
Concord, F.rc Lnnu,.s Quit.

Concord, Mass. May 7.--Concord Is
without u fire department. the entire
force having resigned. This action was
brought about by the action of the Sc
lectmen at recent meeting In deposinr
chief Frank w. Holden and appointing
n new board OF engineers. Last night
was the annual meeting for organiza-
uon, and after the men had received
thelr pay they refused 10 sign
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-07

The ssd end OF William ID. Rowland is
even an honorable man may go. Prob
ably Rowland had no idea of wrecking
the mills when he assumed his duties with
them, but the declivity was steep when
once the downward course began. Open
accounts pay best.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-07

Boston. May THE railroad stock
purchase bill. affecting leased roads. was
defeated yesterday by n narrow margin
OH q rollcall. hearing was given by
the ways and means committee on the
bill TO provide compensation for tho
commissioners who investigated the
Massachusetts Benefit association. and
then voted that the bill ought not to pass.
The pardon committee OF the executive
council gave n hearing on the petition for
the pardon OF w. II. Hathaway. the Fall
River cotton broker. who is serving a
seven years sentence for Duplicating
bills Of iading. The senate enacted the
Cove street extension bill, and agreed 10
the dropping OF it's amendments 10 the
bicycle theft bill.
Educate Your bowels with Cascsrets
Candy catinrtic, cure constipation forever.
10, e5c. IL &. q. g. fall. druggists refund monoy.
---
A..
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-07

Whom they are rot having bank rob-
bsry n Providence they have little
pleasantry in the Italian quarter. In the
latter case the frnmakers get into Jail, in
the former they don't. That is the main
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-07

To- uerry-go-ronnd will continue to
rotre q. Roger Williams Park, just the
same A. u the Sunday crusade had never
seu srd from.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-07

Six thousand dead Turks is a good
rsoord Tor one days fighting by the
Gree. Bot even that slaughter did not
sShis he victory OF the war.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-07

fhe ape Powers have smelled powder
sAd want TO 90 little fighting OF their
srn. var is getting TO be quite a COM
n,n rsrrue
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-07
Archbishop Williams Departure.

Boston, May His grace. Archbishor
"hnans, who contemplates two
months visit TO Pope Leo XIII at Rome,
ieit mere Tor New York yesterday after
noon The Incident wss made the oc-
oasion OF an interesting ceremony at the
Cathedral OF the Holy Cross. The arch
bishop VIII sail from New York for
Europe tomorrow.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-07

Woonsocket is already beginning to
asitsts be fair question. 1t is early in the
wear, bat lots OF advertising hurts nobody.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-07
TOURABOUTTOWN

The new electric cancellation machine
for cancelling stamps is in excellent work.
ing order and letters from this postoffice
are being stamped much cleaner and
neater than in the past.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-07

Butcher Weyler is killing few hundred
Cobans, just to prove that they are peaci-
ned
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-07

Tor latest style furniture at low prices, 70
10 D. =. Leahy's,. just oyer.the bridge.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-07
To the
Man Who
Wears Hats

Why don't you come to a
store where they fit hats
to the style of the man.
What looks we'll on some
people may not look we'll
on you If you don't get
becoming hat here, it is
because you won't have
it, for we've got the sty e
that will suit you. Our
$3.50 self-conforming hat,
in both stiff and soft, con-
tain more value than you
ever saw for the money
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-07

The Consolidated railroad is reducin
its clerical force in the general offices a
New Haven because OF decreased business
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-07

A drummer who travels in Maine is not
greatly impressed with the rapidity of the
telegraph service in that state. Recently
he was in the upper part OF county and
wanted to reach another town that night.
He telegraphed the hotel keeper in the
latter place carly in the day to send team
to the station for him. When he reached
the station at night no team was there, so
he started to walk to the village, which
was quite little distance of. No sooner
had he started than the station agent said
to him, "Arc you going to the village?"
"Yes." "Then / wish you would take a
dispatch up TO The hotel" IL was the
dispatch ordering the team.
TIE TOv,RIsT
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-07

Fall River authorities are after the
scorchers. The patrolmen at all of the
stations in the city have been notified that
they must devote more of their time and
attention to bicycle riders than has been
their custom in the past, and that they
must arrest persons who ride through the
public streets faster than 10 miles an hour.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-07
DRESS GOODS

For Tomorrow's Selling-Spun Silk
and wool, all wool and mohair
and wool novelties 40-inches wide
all new and desirable patterns,
have been sold by us at 19c and
6Sc per yd, to close at...........
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-07

The wheelman who knocks down a Pc
destrian, who has the right of way, and
instead of stopping to see what damage il
done, wheels away, is nothing short of {
coward and should be treated as the mean.
est man on earth.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-07

The Womens Christian Temperance
Union will be entertained this evening by
Miss =. M. Earle.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-07

Advertise your wants In the TRiBusK.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-07

amusement. a
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-05-09
Fatuous Politics.

Since the formation of the Bryan move
ment, which, In spite of its responsiveness
and revolution, received a vastly greater
vote at the last Presidential election than
the Democratic vote of four years before,
the work done by its actual or pretended
opponents to confirm and strengthen it has
been incredible.
First, we had from the Mugwump Ad-
ministration Of President CLEVELAND a
scheme for an arbitration treaty with Eng
land, in principle a~ntagonistic to the nat
ural destiny of the United States, in its de-
tails disadvantageous and unconstitutional,
and offensive to every patriotic Amer.
lean impulse. The Republican leaders
of the Senate understood it sufficient
ly to amend out of It its direct folly,
but the clamoring of their constituent
cies, as they saw it, was too much for them,
and they voted with the Cuckoo Democrats
for the treaty, leaving the brilliant honor
Of championing the hereditary sentiment
and the manifest interests of the United
States to a group of Senators almost solidly
Bryanite, and with but three exceptions
friends of free silver.
Another act of the same natur and of the
Stiuc SolO " lllucllC was uOlc ny tnt lltJle
band of Mugwumps and Cuckoos who have
posed as unqualified upholders of the gold
standard, with pretension to the highest
civic virtues generally. These gentlemen
made a banquet ofthe Reform Club their first
manifestation since BRYAN's defeat, and
they then forced to the front, out of all nat
ural order, a politician whose dastardly am
bition last year for a nomination for a third
Presidential term drove the Democratic
party into the control of the Bryan-Alt-
geld element, and, by his temperance
now, confers fresh prestige Upon the follow
ing plank in the Bryanite platform:
ave declare It to be the unwritten law OF this re-
public, established by custom and usage of one hun
dred years. and sanctioned by the examples OF the
greatest and wisest OF those who foundcd and have
maintained our Government, that no man should be
eligible for q third term Of the Pr. sdcntial ONCE"
What next must be expected from the
sober side of American politics for the re-
enforcement and cxaltation Of the spirit Of
the Chicago PLATFORM
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-05-09

land and Portugal that would seriously
affect the value Of their holdings. Follow
ing closely upon the issue Of this circular
came the despatch Of the ultimatum by
Lord SALISBURY TO Lisbon, supported by
the appearance of a powerful British
squadron in the Tagus, calling on the
Portuguese Government to withdraw from
the arrangements understood to DO made
or in progress with Germany and the Trans
vaal, by which Portugal became virtually
a member of a triple alliance rem
dering the Transvaal commercially and
financially independent Of England.
Portugal yielded to the display Of
force, and the British squadron now
in Delagoa Bay is there to consummate the
final act of the policy that has been pursued
steadily and tenaciously since then. 1t is
anticipated that the next step will be the
despatch of a demand to President Kitten
calling on his Government to cease its
ornaments and to dismantle the fortihca.
tions In the Transvaal.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-05-09
THE DEFEAT OF THE TREATY.
L. Is a Good work and Was Well Done.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Sfr: In assigning duo
thanks for the splendid work done by the various
agencies OF public opinion throughout the country
which resulted in the defeat In the Senate of the
treaty OF arbitration with Great Britain In which the
Mugwumps were primarily interested. first and above
all should THE Sun be thanked.
There Is after all a national sentiment in the United
States. strong and virile. of which the hackers OF this
treaty seem to be wholly unaw are, and which only
needs a courageous exponent, such as THE Sun has
proved Itself to be, to exercise q dominating influence
on our national policy.
1t makes every American whose heart Is in the
right place. native and naturalized alike. throb with
enthusiasm In witnessing the steady. persistent. and
unhinching manner in which you have exposed this
scheme OF Great Britain and OF Great Britain's agents
In this country to make the United States virtually a
silent partner In the Infamous doings in which Eng.
land is at present playing q leading part in Southeast
ern Europe, and which she Is preparing TO play in
South Africa, II the Emperor OF Germany will let her.
Thank God, there is at least one newspaper In
America which We can all quote. while we are at
home as well as whenever we happen to go abroad, as
representing what ia most intellectual, most vigorous,
and most patriotic In Our national life; which cares
not for party where tho national honor is involved,
and which in the face sometimes OF an imposing
array OF college professors. many Of whom have wan
faces and very thin blood. Is not afraid to respond to
the toast. "our country. right or wrong-but our
country always"
or the twenty-six who said "Nay" upon the ANAL
vote. Senator Morgan OF Alabama deserves TO be
especially thanked. Believing ss l do that the glory
OF the nag and the honor OF the nation are always safer
in Republican hands than Democratic. would not
stop to think what the politics OF a man like Senator
Morgan might be 30 long a. he showed the sturdy
American spirit which he has shown In lighting this
shameful treaty. Why shouldn't It be with Us in all
matters Of great national concern as II Is in England.
for instance, and as 1t was with us when confronted
with the Venezuelan trouble, that there were nc
Democrats or Republicans, but Americans7 To that
extent / should always be willing to be classified as a
non'partiSan IN politics. ]. N. WALL
MAY 7, 1897,
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At Queen Victoria's Jubilee.

Secretary LONG could not have chosen a
better vessel than the Brooklyn to represent
us at the naval ceremonies belonging to
Queen VICToRIA's sixtieth anniversary.
OF our four ships at the Kiel festival the
New York, we think, most impressed
foreign observers. The Columbia, with her
length, lines, and known speed, certainly
attracted much attention, but the New
York, with a trial record Of 81 knots, had,
on only about one-tenth more displace-
ment, armored sides and ~turrets, while the
Columbia was unarmored; and the New
York had al enormously superior battery.
In the Brooklyn we shall exhibit an Inn
proved New York, 1,O71 tons heavier, with
four barbette turrets instead of two, eight
s-inch guns instead Of six, and twelve 5-inch
guns instead of twelve 4-inch. To that
superiority is added a trial speed of 21.e1
knots, or nearly . knot more than the New
York's, and less than a knot below the Co
lumbia's. In q word, she will not only be
the finest all-around vessel we nave ever sent
to European waters, but will probably be
recognized as ono Of the foremost armored
cruisers of the world.
We shall send, too, an American crew
In her. A report from Capt. Cook to the
Navy Department. shows that when she
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-05-09

platform and candidates. Both Of them
will welcome all Democrats to union with
Tammany Hall for the capture Of the con-
troll Of the Greater New York, but they
must come to 1t, not It go to them.
They discern, as do all intelligent o ID
servers Of the existing political situation,
that the one dominating issue in every
election, Municipal, State, OF Federal, from
this time forth until the question is finally
settled, is tho issue made at Chicago last
year. Every election IL only q skirmish
preparatory to the great and general en-
gagement In which that issue is to be
fought out. And the issue, in Its essence,
Is the preservation Of the existing social
order and of civilization: of property, law,
and national honor and integrity. Those
who do not see that unmistakable and now
interchangeable political situation, whether
they be Democrats or Republicans, are blind
indeed. Senator JONES, Mr.. GRADY, and
the astute politicians of Tammany Hall are
not deceived as to 1t.
Tammany Hall, therefore, makes no vain
attempt to divert the attention Of the people
from the sole issue In which their interest
is concentrated with an intensity that In
creases as time goes on; but 1t expects,
and apparently with good reason, that the
defenders of the citadel Of social order and
of property will be caught mapping, while
Its assailants are wide awake and cease
lessly alert.
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The Pleasantest and Most Profitable
~ Place.

At the dinner Of the graduates Of the
University Law School the Hon. sHBEL
p. FITCH spoke these true, sensible, and
patriotic words:
$50 far a. the population which We shall have
Joined to Us. I have no apprehension whatever. A
atty which has taken into Its population people Of
every race and tongue can get along safely when IL
takes In it, next door n~eishbors. The reason why the
city has grown to its present great dimensions has
been that Il was not what is critics have said II was.
hut the pleasantest and the most profitable place 70
live in on the American Continent"
A very large proportion of the persons
who have been making such q wall and
pother about the consolidation Of a number
Of the populations which naturally and
commercially belong to the city OF New
York, have been the constant deriders and
defamers of the town In which they live
and to which most Of them owe whatever
prosperity they have attained. They are
always Safeguarding New York; and yet
they are glad to live there. Most Of them
have come from other parts of the country
to enjoy the ample and varied opportunities
Of New York. And yet for years almost
nothing about New York has seemed to
ind favor in their eyes. They have
snarled at 1t persistently. When thor.
oughly homogeneous parts were to be added
to It, when 1t was to be enlarged by some,
though far from all, of Its own natural
krowths, they set up shrieks of peculiar
misery. The greater, the worse, seems to
be their idea of cities.
The majority of folks in these regions are
mighty we'll satisfied TO live here. They
would not live anywhere else IL they could.
In fact, the municipal pessimists and char
ter.scorners themselves couldn't be induced
to emigrate, although, as in the case Of
some of the more violent of them, public
subscriptions could be easily raised for the
purpose of promoting such emigration.
New York is q great town to make money
In, and to spend and enjoy It in. Every year
II attracts more and more residents, tenn
porary or permanent, who do not COM to
better themselves In pocket, but to live in
an agreeable and amusing capital, big
enough to mind its own business, and hos
pitable to all. The very spectacle and
show Of life here Is so vast, diversified,
and diverting that it is a perpetual free
theatre to strangers and natives. In view
of the strong attachment Of almost all New
Workers for New York, an attachment not
disguised but emphasized by their absolute
indifference to the local prejudices and su-
perstitions Of the inhabitants of other cities,
the eternal lamentations of the municipal
pessimists, themselves unconscious devo-
tees of New York, over its attributed sins
and shortcomings, are more than foolish;
they are tedious. I'
"The ~pleasantest and most profitable
place to live in on the American Cont.
nent." Mr.. FITCH has given an exact descrip-
tion Of the town.