The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-07-12

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There is a Chinese laundryman who
has shop not far from my residence.
and, in the little have seen of him In
the past. I had formed the opinion that
he was a pretty intelligent fellow. who
spoke fairly good English. This morn
ing. I thought I would ask Sing Sam
what he thought OF the present troubles
In China. broaohed the question. and
sam stared at me blankly. Again ! re-
peated the query with greater empha-
sis. but still Sam looked as dead as a
brick wall and did not speak word.
tried once more. when the Mongolian
walked over to his ironing board. pick
deigning 10 look at me. Truly Bret
Harte has said "the heather chinee is
peculiar"
understand that Bowen r. Church
is covering himself with glory at Roger
Williams park, and the attendance at
the band concerts increases almost
nightly. Conductor Church seems to be
giving the people just the sort Of music
that they want.
/ ran across a young man who has
been acting as a United States census
enumerator i'm an adjoining town, and
he said to me: Say, do you know any
thing about working for the govern
ment?" / told him that I had some ex-
perience in that direction. Then" he
said, II want 70 know why. when a
man has ended his work he does not get
his money right away. and worse still
fore he receives It," endeavored to ex-
plain 10 him how business was con-
Quoted by the department OF the in
terror, to which the census bureau is
subordinate, but he would not have IL.
II sign no receipt" he said. until
receive my money" IL he adheres to
this resolution. / think / can see where
the young man will wait for many
day for his check.
.
My friend Charlie" George, the ex-
postmaster. than whom there is no more
entertaining companion. told me last
night that II there were an election to-
morrow Mckinley would win, but
well" said he, -four months Is long
time and many things can happen during
that time
Mr.. George says he intends to vote for
Bryan.
find, upon inquiry, that there Is to be
no collation. at Quonset Point this year.
upon the occasion of Gov. Gregory's visit
to the camp OF the Rhode Island militia.
The members of the general assembly are
therefore not going to attend the review.
and only about from Is to 20 persons will
accompany Gov. Gregory and the men,
bers of his staff from this city to the
camp, as the governor is simply going to
Quonsct Point on business.
There Is fear and trepidation among
some OF the denizens OF Federal Hill and
IL is all caused by the desire of Chief OF
Police Baker to initiate crusade against
piano organs and other itineraht musi-
clans, after certain hours in the evening.
Bartolomeo Guattrino. who manipulates
the crank of a street piano, and who
picks up many shekels on the east side,
said to me last evening: "Providenza no
more gooda. Italians have no more helpa
to maka the mon. Me go backa to Brook.
line there grinda organo all time"
Ny respected friend Jim Foster. who,
by the way. is a clever newspaper man, is
making his mark as an officer of Light
Battery A, at Qvonset Point this week.
"Jim" is very popular with the men OF his
command, and yet he is just the man
that will stand no monkey business"
summers at Oakland Beach. to me this
morning, that the cars OF the Suburban
Railroad company cannot be run on
something near schedule time? II takes us
about one hour and quarter to run
from Providence to Oakland Beach,
whereas the old steam trains did II easily
I'm As minutes. and made all the stops"
AS / could not answer the question sat-
isfactorily,. j referred him to General
Manager Potter.
I met Mayor Fitzgerald Of Pawtucket
this morning. looking as well as could be
expected after his trip 80 Kansas CITY,
where he was delegate TO the Demo-
cratic National Convention. Noticing
that johnnie" was little husky, I asked
him where he lost his voice. He FASTENED
IN inform me that tha happened before