The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-01-07
Bon
Ami
WILL NOT scRATcH
nut rs COARSE ENOUGH 70 CLEAN.
All Grocers-
PAWTUXET VALLEY.
The Reduc ion In the Cotton Mills-Me T.
ings of SCci ties.

The coming reduction in the wages of the
| operatives in the mills Is the principal sab
ject OF discussion in the valley just AT pres
ent, and some of the storekeepsrs are taking
a gloomy view Of future business prospects
while others do not seem TO think that bust
ness generally In the valley will be greatly
affected by the cut down, as IL is as yet by no
means certain that wages will DO reduced In
all Of the mills, and even IN those where
notices have been posted IL is not certain that
the reduction will be as great as reported.
The Warwick mills at Centreyille are at pres
ent making an entirely different and much
finer grade OF goods than the mills of the
Knights or the L.onsdale Company, and are
running overtime in order 70 fll orders. No
notices Of a reduction in wages have as yet
been posted by this company, ana although
Mr.. Harold Lawton, the agent and manager of
the mill, is non-commfStal as to the course
which the Arm will pursue it Is not thought
by the mill and business men that the wages
OF the operatives Will be reduced. The lap
ham mill at Centrevile is also not running
on prints or sheetings. but IL manufactur-
ing hollands, and as these, together with
the woollen mills at Crompton and Centre
Vile and the print works at ArKwright and
Clyde, pay the highest wages on an average
of any manufacturing concerns in the val
ley. many of the business men are inclined TO
take more philosophical and cheerful view
OF the situation than at first and do not look
for any great decrease in business during the
winter months. The Livingstone mills at
Washington are almost ready 10 start NJ,
and will probably be i'm operation by the
middle Of the month, which will certainly
add considerably TO the business of that viii
lago, and, after ALL the outlook in the valley
Is not nearly as bad as the calamity howlers
would have one think.
Mrs. Mary Potter of Hope left today for
Florida, where she will spend the remainder
of the winter
Court Warwick, +. of A., held its annual IN
stallation Of officers in Eorosters hall at Clyde
last evening and Deputy Grand Chief f. NJ.
Bailey installed the following officers Chief
ranger, Frank Carroll sub.chief ranger,
Noise Meunier; treasurer, Charles Quinn;
financial secretary, Daniel Quinlan: record
ing secretary, Louis Brindamour; senior
woodward, James p. McNeiis; junior wood
ward. Apton Smith; senior beadle Joseph
Crepeau junior beadle, John Coogan; iani-
tor Il. NJ. Bailey trustee. James Markey,
Thomas Brennan ana P.:: II. Quinn.
Washington Lodge, ]. o. O. f., also held its
regular meeting and Adrian Dana was i'm
stalled noble grand; Charles fl. Ksyle,
vice grand; Cly mer A. Reynolds, recording
secretary L. Il. Payson, permanent secre.
tary; Byron Walker, treasurer, and Joseph
Wood, Thomas NJ Holden and W. Il. Z,
Whitman as trustees.
The No.Name Whist Club held very en-,
joyable meeting at the residence of Superin-
tendeni A. +. Brackets at Arctic last even
ing.
Warwick Lodge, A. +. and A. NJ, held a
well attended meeting in Masonic hall at
Phenix last evening. and worked the sec.
ond degree one candidate.
A lively blaze was caused by the overturu.
ing OF n kerosene lamp in the tenement occu-
pied by Eustachc Chanon on Main street at
Natick last evening, and had it not been for
the presence of mind OF Benjamin Maynard
and Alexander Barry the two small children
of Mr. Chanon would have been badly
burned. The children were playing about the
supper table when OF them pulled the
cloth and overturned the lighted lamp on the
floor, where il exploded. Maynard and Barry
heard Mrs. Chanon's screams and rushed into
the house and succeeded i'm cxtinguishing the
flames before any serious damage was done.
The children fortunately escaped injury.
although their clothes caught fire when the
lamp exploded.
Officer George Lewis arrested Frank
Straight of hillsgrove at Natick yesterday
on the charge of drunkenness and took him be.
fore Judge Tilley at East Greenwich, who
fined him 81 and costs.