The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-12-18

The Municipal League OF Providence
will hold its annual meeting at Palestine
hall. 40 Westminster street, next Monday
evcning at 80 O'Clock. Reports will he
mad, and officers elected.
At o'clock last evening rally ana
mass meeting was held in Champlin hall.
Weybosset street by thesGrand Assembly
Of Rhode Island, Royal Society OF Good
Fellows. Premier j. IL. McGregor John
Mulligan. w. q. Weaver and August
+. Howell made addresses and an on or
tainment was given which proved mUst
pleasing to the 800 persons present.
Ihe special committee 'on train sheds
appointed under the resolution adopted
by the City Council at its meeting Thurs
day afternoon has organized. The members
met for that purpose In the executive
,ham ber in the city hall late yesterday
afternoon and elected Mayor McGuinness
chairman. Ii was arranged that during
the illness of the Mayor, Councilman
Howard o. Sturges should preside at the
meetings.
The Providonce Art Club held mem.
bers' night last evening at which there
was good attendance. Prof. Hans
Schneider. pianist. Albert Il. Foster
violinist and Mr.. David j. White gave
an excsllent musical entertainment of
which the following Is the program:
Funeral March, Chonin, Mr. Schneider;
1.-The Happy Land " Jude, Mr. White;
first concerto, DE Beriot, Messrs. Foster
and Schneider; LET All Obey" Leach,
Mr.. White; Firth Sonata, Beetho, EN-.
Messrs. Foster and Schneider.
Three score men in gymnasium attiro
gave very Interesting exhibition of
athletic exercises at the Y. NJ. q. A.
gymnasium. IL was ladies' night and
ne large number present filled every ch
OF space available for the public. Eel
lowing the regular work came special
work on tho parallel and horizontal bars,
the. horses. the flying rings and the mats
by individual teams, which held the at
tention Of tho audience. and showed n
considerable degree of skill on the part of
the men participating.
In the neigh borhood business districts
ell over town and out in the suburbs.
the sign public market has become
exceedingly popular since the establish
ment OF the first enterprise to assume
that title. Little neigh borhood markets
stick out the sign "public market" or
grand public market" or something OF
that Sort evidently believing that il Is "a
good advertising nane. 1he name has
been adopted as freely as tho title "Bos-
ton Store, Z" which ornaments the signs
Of number of little dry goods shops In
neighborhoods remote from down street.
Almost everyone has heard OF the
Hutchinson family, that band OF sweet
voiced singers that travelled all over the
country giving tteir inimitable concerts.
but few now living recall their actual
perform ances. And yet one member of
the noted family is sti. in the land of the
living aud was in this town last evening
md may he yet for that matter. He Is
John w. Hutchinson, and he sang several
of the old time songs, "Hannah's Mt the
Window Binding Shoes 1.-The Old
Granite state, ETC., with remarkable |
power for one so advanced i'm years. in
the mission hall on Lonsdale street last
evening. Moreover he gave some personal |
which proved very interest |
Ing 10 those who heard them.
The house flag is every day becom-
ing new feature OF the sky line in the 1
retail business section. Flags nuiter
from poles on the roofs of many of the /
down street business blocks as they do |
from city hall ana tho Federal building.
On Westminster street the Barnabv com.
pany Was one OF the earliest 10 fly its
pennant from a tall pole. Today. when
the weather is pleasant, look upware
suggests two lines Of tag-surmounted
forts and castles, so numerously are the
banners Of trade flung TO the breeze-tho
LauderdsIe and Francis buildings, the
Paris House. the Conrad building and
lalf dozen others Hall a Lyon. in
the corner Of the Boston store building.
ny hag, but the main rart Of the lofty
pls Is as yet unsurmounted 10y pole.
The Teachers Fair was undoubtedly
tremendous succPss financially, but no
feature Of IL seems to have been more re-
markably successful than the program
issued I'm the style OF n magazine. Ad.
vertisers usually hesitate to spend money
In the program medium. but naturally
they treated the teachers dummy" with
cordiality and as a matter of ta,t they
were justified In business sense in so
doing. The teachers fund reaps all the
profit from tie program which n commit
tee handled instead OF letting IL out to an
advertising solicitor for so much cash
down, the solicitor 90 reaD oil TIE rroHt
he could get, as IL often done I'm such
eases. IN the nrst place. the paper was
or ho7rrTr mn CONSTITUTIONS TT0TncfIOn 7
desi sned to be- entertaining and insirnc.
tive and 90 command sale on itsntrts.
IT. scheme oi contributions from old
sci'"oi I'ys ard giil- was a happy ono
nnd 10 worked with surprising success.
lOr real readaheness few local nternry