The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-12-29
TENN AND PHILADELPHIA.

When william Penn came TO fhiia-
delphia for the second time eNao"S
two hundred years ago, II was not 81
much as a founder as reformer' i"e
ci4y which he had planned seventeen
vaars before dn 1882 had passco
through period of prosperity ana
growth which travellers looked upon
with wonder. Taxes were light, trade
active. the cost of diving cheap ana
the laws easy. while the ten thousaho
people I'm Philadelphia and IT'S vicinity
were for the most part SUBSTANTIALLY
and comfortably housed 1el NV ~
else in the colonies was there inoie u.a .,,
! position than in the infant cFty 90 lilu
( fault ana 10 criticise the rulers. Fo
4 h. love OF God" he was once moved 10
exclaim 10 the grumblers, con DC 50
/ governnentish. SO noisy ana open III
J your dissa atisfaction.'
Profanity. horse racing. dFuhNehhess
debauchery, negro turbulence on the
i Sabbath. official favoritism ano IN,
| connivance OF pubic officers Wltn ihiclt
I trade were matters of frequent com
/ plaint snys a writer I'm Lippincout >.
! Time and again. too, ft was rutnored
that Captain Kidd and other pirates
were sailing off the capes or the Dela-
ware. and that the government was 100
weak 10 suppress the ferocious puCcan-
GERS Tipsy aud sColdng housewiNes'nu-
merous drinking houses. men masduer-
aiding i'm Womens clothes or women IN
mems clothes an attempt TO nght a
duol with swords and q husband Win
: two wives were some ri the examples
OF depravity which excited ndlsnauou
among the friends OF law and order
When William Penn arrived iu Phila-
/ I'D % have
gone 40 the house which he occupied al
the time of his first visit-the htil
/ "Lctitia House
ln company with the wise and faith
ful James Logan, then a young lrisi
scholar who had just entered ,his ser
vice as a secretary, he was lodged TO
= month in the home OF Edward snip
ppn. on Second street, above Spruce
Rut a month later Penn with his wifi
, and daughter. took up his abode in th
, .SIato Roof House on the same stree
= between Walnut and Chestnut His frs
wife. Gulielma Springett had dle
about six years before. and I'm the In
tcrvai hc' had been an ardent Wooer o
Hannah Carowhul, 10 whose hear. u
had laid sicgc in c1mpaign OF ~ iit
tie epistolary warmth. They had bee
! married for three years, and ha
brought out with them Letitia. th
daughter of the first marriage. the
twenty y-siX years old ana a spirited an
obably shoWy girl. and often refer
d rel 10 by her father as Tlsh." Mr.
! Penn had been In the Slate Roc
Hons. less than q month when sh
, gave birth 90 n son or the fourtee
children OF whom Penn was father
seven hy cnch Of his wives-this wa
the only one boiu on this side ~ ~
- Atlantic. and hence 81 was that ne can
e 90 be known as JOAN th" American
pa It was said that hr waa comel> b2p
vwh his fathers 'gra'. aud aIr. at
II one of the traditions oi lsursluryl ''l
= how ir the next summer Naa seen 'il
Is | dciirate and protty niUtlDrs sHtting
'Ffha side VI the cradle uf hor 'niln.
'E I Che dii uOt care however to ltN'
=, the colony. nor did htr siepd dlucl;c
he and DE fact that WllaB Penn dii l
or ! become permanent resi- lent = lnt
a delphia was due largely TO their impo
- tuuities to- him TO ru.urn % tnslat
notwithstauding his wish tndt 20
would staN.