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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-02-03
CITY LOSES BY FIRE.
KAlingly 81. Primary School Gutted
by Fire Last Night.


The hiliingly street primary school
in the annexed Oneyville district, was
guttea by fire last night. defective
hue causiSg the blaze. The building
was formerly used for the town of
Johnston high school. The loss is So
600, which falls upon the city. The
structure was OF brick. Some $50 pupils
viii be witout accommodation for some
time 20 come.
For an hour or. more IL seemed as II
the building would be practically de-
stroyed. The fire hidden in partitions
and spreading under the slate-covered
roof appeared To be cutting the iute-
rior. But the fircmen fought the flames
at close range, carrying their hose into
the building and breaking holes In the
burning partitions. until finally the
flames were undera Ontrol. The interior
of the projecting part i'm which the
flames already had full sway, when the
iiremen had arrived. was gutted from
the first roof 10 the gable. The roof
beams and covering under the slate
were practically destroyed. The vol
ume of water poured into the building
10 accomplish what was done TO hold
the fire confined t. the area in which
IL held sway when discovered. ruined
the plastering OF walls and ceiling on
all three floors The furniture, piano,
school books and apparatus I'm build
ing were covered with tarpaulins be-
fore much water was thrown into the
part where these things were, and
much loss was thereby saved.
The building was insured for $4,000
when il was town property, and that
insurance was placed about four years
ago to run for period OF five years.
steps will he taken at once 20 put the
building In condition for use, as there is
great need Of room for the children Of
that district.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-02-03

Noblcsse Obiige;
HOW paltry Is the ethics OF the law
the medical, or any other profession
by the side Of the noblcsse oblige Of the
army and navy. for instance They
don't bother much with professional
ethics in our army and navy They do
lay much store by noblesse oblige. An
army or navy officer is taught TO fear
nothing save dishonor And in dishon-
orable transaction his brother officers
viii be the first 10 condemn rather
than 10 protect. The act of the one is
more quickly assumed 10 bring disgrace
upon the whole body in the army or the
navy than in any other profession.
There is no system Of ethics to defend
the shameless act against the criticism
Of the outside world ON the contrary,
the principle or noblesse oblige often
tmpels the united service 10 deal more
harshly with the offender than any
criminal court IN the whole land would
10
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-02-03

1T cannot be gainsaid that debts
should be paid. But If there is not ma
chinery enough at present provided by
law for their collection after judg-
ment any new devices ought to stop
short of making Indebtedness "a Grim
inal offence. The new bill is pernicious
and unnecessary. 1t is safe TO say that
If the people OF the state comprehend
its provisions there would De an upris-
ing against it's passage that would
make the Assembly feel like going out
of the business of law making alto
gether in shame at being tempted 60
consider for an instant a proposition
like this. 1t takes us back To the days
OF Little Dorri." and the Marshalsea
debtors prison. The whole object OF
the bin is 20 provide new and particu-
larly outrageous kind OF club for the
lawyer and the collection agent to
WELD.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-02-03

NOW was not that observation Of the
veteran soldier Merritt fine and in
spring thought? So also In the case Of
Lieut.. Hourigan. of the Navy, who was
convicted of drunkenness on duty.
Hourigan admitted his guilt but be-
cause Of galantry in the Spanish war
the court recommended clemency in
the matter OF It's sentence Which was
punishment by reduction OF five num-
bers in rank. The recommendation for
clemency failed to be approved by the
Navy Department because the sentence
fense that not even a good previous
record could be taken to condone the
offense.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-02-03

IN a word the project Is being al
vanced hind S!le foremost. The activi-
ties OF the Board OF Trade should be
directed at Washington TO secure an
appropriation for deepening the chan
nel Make the channel what IL oug n to
be. and the docks will follow and thai.
ehe ships. For II Is well unders.oid
that the mariner had much rather come
into Providence harbor than TO wcathe r.
the Cape and sc, into Boston and hc
would land goods here an less rate per
ton than there. But ne cannot get I'M
owing TO the insufficient depth OF water
and new docks won't help him. The
present CITATION concerning these
shore properties shows a far greater de-
sire 10 get rid OF fhe property than a
regard FOR the commercial prosperity
of The city In the instances cited Of
cities which have entered into such en-
terpr.s,s the channels were first made
OF sunic nt depth and then the docks
followed they would undoubtedly do
in our own case.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-02-03

Legal Blackmail:
THE Incident OF the bill to lmprison
for debt I'm Rhode Island in this clos
ing year OF the nineteenth century will
doubtless remind many observers the
law already provides the lawyer with
means OF legal biackmail that not all
OF them are above using. We have in
mind a recent instance OF a pretended
suit brought for the collection " "A debt
of five dollars that was nothing under
the canopy but a device TO frighten the
debtor into paying. The writ was served
with no intention OF proceeding with
the case. but with the single motive of
scarIne the debtor with the petty ter
rors of the law as worked up BY the
man whose position at the bar entitled
him 10 the use OF the legal machinery.
II appears further that when the in
tended victim OF this bit OF blackmail
proposed to seek redress against the
attorney who had served writ in a
suit that he never intended TO proceed
with. not a lawyer could be found who
would take the case against his brother
LAWYER. although IL was surely action
able. and would have been accepted
greedny n the blackmail had been un-
dcrtakcn by citizen not a member Of
tho bar-as instance the recent case OF
Rev. Norman Plass
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-02-03
NINETY-1WO YEARS OLD.
Mrs. Katharine Cornell Knowles
Celebrates Her Birthday.
Retains Her Faculties 10 Q Remarkable
Degree Once a Teacher.

Mrs Katharine Cornell Knowles yes
terday celebrated the s2d anniversary
OF her birth at the sidence of her
nephew. No. SO Cypress street. The
aged lady still possesses many Of her
faculties. and her memory is as reten-
tive as It was % years ago. Mrs.
Knowles is wonderfully well preserved.
and she takes great deal OF interest
In everyday matters.
She comes from an old Rhode Island
quaker family. Thomas Cornell, one
of her great ancestors, having settled
i'm Rhode Island in l6is. Her great
grandfather. Richard Cornell, settled IN
East Greenwich in l749, and it was
there her grandfather. Joseph, her
father. Richard and in fact, all OF the
family were born. Mrs. knowles re-
ceived her early education at East
Greenwich, and finished her course OF
training al the Friends school Of this
city. She then began teaching, and IN
1897 assumed principalship Of the
Yearly Meeting school or Guilforb
county, y. G. There she remained four
years. and then returned to Rhode ISL
and 10 resume teaching.
Her husband died I'm 1890. and in
1894 Mrs. Knowles came 20 live with
her nephew I'm Providence. having un-
til that time kept hca own house.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-02-03
LMg gnHLOnLnE

Boston. Eco. ga nsh combine has
been formed hy forty uf the Vh lesale
houses " Boston and-oiher noinls on
The New England coast Tho little is
The Boston Flfn Company" and %
has been DrBdnizol under The laws OF
Delaware. The authorized capital ia
5000 0n0 0f Which sin0l. 1lO b. paid in.
That Odirfrs pf hc company aro 4. d.
Hnkcr. pres dent } hn RI. Noa' vice.
~ sldent. y ID. Freeman. secretary
and n l.. Mayo treasurer. The uglu-
izatlon began February !.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-02-03

RHODE Island already imprisons for
debt, and under an archaic piece OF
legislation that is "A sufficient disgrace
TO the state torsarry. But the creditor
has 10 pay the debtors board. The bill
now proposed viii relieve the creditor
from meeting the board bin and the
honorable courts of the state will be
available TO prosecute the ordinary
business OF a collection agency, II has
been a long time since 50 outrageous
a proposition has been advanced in the
General Assembly. II ought not to
take two seconds 10 confine the bill to
the dusty archives where lie the inded-
mite postponements.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-02-03

"The nag symbolizes our purposes
and our aspir uons; II represents what
We believe and what we mean to main
fIag OF the free. the hope OF .Ae oppress
et and herever II Is assailed. at any
sacrifice IL will be carried to a triumph
ant peace. ."--President Mckinley. Aug
l2, 1899.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-02-03
Kill this Bill,-

Kill this Bill
THE statute book of Rhode Island
is already sufficiently fun OF busy body
legislation without permitting to get
in between the covers the bill now in
tied IAN act relative TO equitable pro-
cess after judgment in certain cases" a"
Briefly. this bill provides that "A debtor
may be imprisoned by the court for
fourteen DAYS for refusing Ia make az
rangements to pay the claims Of his
creditors.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-02-03


THE acquisition by the city of the
west shore of Providence river for the
purpose OF building thereon municipal
docks TO rer is a fine thing to talk
about ami the dreams OF the Mayor
and the Board of Trade about com
merce that is waiting TO come up here
to be discharge at those docks and
the revenues which the cry is 10 de-
rive from their rental Is at present like
the cracking of thorns under a pot"
The News is as earnestly in favor OF
harbor improvements as the N1yor. the
Board IF Trade or even the private
parties, who have unproductlve mud
flats To sell. can possibly be. In its en-
thusiasm. indeed. the News confesses
10 having been carried off it's feet once
or twice in favor of the project But
the wisdom OF a further inquiry into
the matter is become too clear for press
or public to fail to acknowledge.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-02-03

professional Ethics.
SUCH a sentiment a. between broth
or lawyers of course explainabi' on
fhc ground ~ profe ess.onal ethics. E'h-
se, IL a word 10 conjure by In the legal
the medical and 90 a less extent in oven
rhc newspaper profession The ethics
calls Tor restraint in dealing with a
broiher In behalf OF an outside party
But there s surely q fner influence that
lawyers and az ~ pc might invokf
with prof 60 their profession and %
ihc increasing respect ~ the outside
world. That y called. noblesse oblige. a
htile move of that and less of the
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-02-03
"THE OUTCOME OF TRUSTS"
DISCUSSED AT BELL ST. CHAPEL

Or. L, =. q. Garvin and Mr. Charles
Knoll discussed The Outcome OF
Trascg." az the Bell street chapel last
evening. Mr.. Knoll claimed that trusts
arc the natural consequence of our in
duatrial system. To stinc them. no
maintained. would engender retrogres-
sion: 20 allow them 20 continue as at
present means enTchment He deduced
as his CONCLUSION that collection owner
shin of trusts. or Socialism. is the only
fclief from the present evils VI the
trus
~ Ga~Vln regarded the sociallstis
idea a. impracticab'e. and advocated
tho abolition ~ the tariN. the mother
90 nll trusts. and direct taxation. or
take SON according 20 the actual rental
vlluc o. land as remedies For the solu-
lion Of the trust problem.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-02-03
SOP the Pain bu, Destroy the stomach.

SOP the Pain but Destroy the Stomach.
This Is sadly too often the case, So
many nauseous nostrums purporting 10
cure. because they are so loaded with
injurious drugs ana narcotics, in the
end do the patient immencely more
harm than good and In many cases so
destroy the digestive organs that n
cure IS impossible. Dr.. Won STAINS Pine
apple Tablets are a purely vegetable
pepsin preparation. as harmless as
milk. one after eating prevents any
disorder OF the digestive organs. is
in box. 10 cents.--15.
Sold by Banding & Blanding, IWey-
bosset street: Geo. l.. Claflln. go to q :.
Main street. and Hall & Lyon
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-02-03

Hrsrt skepfics are co7Vlrced In 10
nlrutas pr Agnews Cure for the
Hclrt gives relief in 80 minutes I'm most
acute cases of Heart Dis ase. One hose
is an that II needed TO convince the
most sFeptiral Thonsands OF lives
nave been saved through its timely use.
III is one OF The wonders Of modern
medical science. -s6.
sold by Handing a. Handing 81 wey-
boss.t street. Geo. T.. Claiiin. 81 20 - g.
Main street. and Hall a Lyon.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-02-03

Subscribers failing 90 receive their
paper regularly either from the carrier
or newsdealer will confer favor by
prompt notification.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-02-03

ethics c,ap.rap would make the world
better.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-02-03

Large hat Of purple velvet with a
soft crown trimmed with white ostrich
plumes and a large strasse buckle.
Model by Louvin.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-02-03
B. H. Gladding & Co.
Low Prices for February.

1t is nvariable rule mark down the whole stock
that the spring openings will present attractive offerings
in every department This called the dulest month in
the year and stimulate trade hold special sales of many
new things Bought expressly for this month
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-02-03

any person desiring The News left at
his residence in any part OF the city.
can send his order to this ofiice.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-02-03
E0ashable Summer Fabrics

DAVID & JOHN ANDERSONS inghams in
checks stripes and pads also all the desirable shades in
Plain Chambrays; also FINE PRINTED PERCALES, full
yard wide in new patterns
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-02-03
THE NEWS
rsiIY EUROPEAN RiNv.

(secured for exclusive publication In
The News by arrangement with Felix.
Rouff. Doucet. LaFerriere. Paquin and
other famous Partisan costume max
ers.)
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-02-03
Our printed cheney's
FouIQrds and JQtinS
Our Sale Of
Cotton Underwear

for Ladies, Misses, and Children will be continued
You can save time labor and money by getting your
SuDDlieS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-08-05

English. There will be an enlarged orchestra ana
the full chorus OF sixty voices. The proxramp.
for this week follows:
Monday. Thursday and Saturday evenings a,A
Wednesday matinee, III TravatOre." by Gilsepn.
Verdi. with Adelaide Norwood. Eleanor Broadfoos
Cby permission Of the Maurice Grau Opera Com,
pany) Louise Cyiva. Joseph +. Sheehan Villas,
Pruette J F. Boyle, A. Barbara and A. Horty
Tuesday. Wednesday and Friday evenings ana
Saturday matinee. Martha" by Franz Won FIotov
with Grace Cameron. Lillian MauIe Berri Resinaf@
Roberts. William Pruette. Homer Lind J.
Boyle and Frank Rauney.
Next week Faust and the Bohemian GirF' via
be presented
For evenings and Saturday matinee the regular
prices will rule but the Wednesday matinee limits
will be q and 80 cents.
Pain has added several new features TO the fire.
works display. which have met popular favor ana
are likely 10 be fixtures. among them being the zsf
ting apart OF Monday night 10 the pleasure Of the
little folks
The warm weather has made the bathing pavilion
one OF the most popular OF the many attractions
at the beach. and FanciIH and his band are fur
nishing music TO suit all tastes and In plentiful
supply.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-08-05
TIE PRINT CLOTH MARKET.

FAN River. Mass, Aug (SpeciaD.-The Selling
Committee reports having disposed or about ons
hundred thousand pieces OF wide goods and syn
dictate narrows during the week. The price paid
was that asked by the committee. and this is taken
as an indication of possible revival OF the market
There has been inquiry in addition 70 the
sales The fact that few pieces OF regulars
were sold ac rs cents indicates that the outside
supply is about exhausted. and that buyers are be-
ing forced to come into the local market Upon
the whole. the business is said TO be in somewhat
more satisfactory condition than it was a week
ago. Not that ii is recovering rapidly from the
recent depression, but that there is a gIimrsr OF
hope which may materialize into results before
many more weeks pass. Next week the mills OF
nfteen corporations Will shut down. as follows:
Bernard, Davol Granite. Durfee, Mechanics. Msr-
chants, NarraSanSett, Richard Borden, Troy.
Robson, SeaCOnneJ. Slade. Tecuuseh. WampanOag
and Weetamoe These mills employ ten thousand
operatives. who will be idle next week at q loss ot
wages amounting TO about 500 600. The American
Linen, Fall River Mandatory, MetaComet and
PocasSet, which have been shut down this week.
Will start up on Monday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-08-05
NOTES OF THE STAGE.

Practically new programme will be presented
this week at Hammerstein's Venetian Terrace Roof
Garden. The only two acts which remain from
last week are the Johnson Brothers. who do bicycle
feats and Hayes and Healy. the burlesque ballet
dancers. The three Yoscarys head the list OF new
acts in their Juggling and acrobatic feats. others
are Miss Marzella, the bird trainer Miss Josie DE
Witt the violinist and singer; Ollie Young and
brother hoop throwers: PetruchiO. magician; Ele-
Falk and her chorus and dancers; BarteL ana
Morris, eccentric musicians, and lie Moyne
Brothers. acrobats with their baseball playing dog
Sorrats.
The bill at Pastors this week includes Sager
Midgeley and Miss Gerte Carlisle. in After
School,: Ben" Harvey. Miss Edyth Murray and
the coored boy Strap Hill, in ragtime songs; Miss
Belle Gordon. bag punching act: Morrell and Evans.
Lizzie Mulvey and Pearl Inman. Melville and Con-
way, clown and soubrette; Ford and Dot West,
fredo and Forrest. EngstrOm sisters, William Co
gan and Rose Bacon, in "A Tramps visit. and
Miss Nan Lewald Joe Trotter and Louis Frohon
in twenty minute comedy, entitled "A Friendly
Interview
The programme at the Cherry Blossom Grove,
New-York Theatre. for this week is headed by the
Russell Brothers. In their skit THE Irish Servant
Girls" Others Nat Wills. the comedian: the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-08-05

Oberammergau, and 1t would be unsuitable
for any other play The play has conventions
peculiar to itself though they not difficult
to grasp and to accept For instance the middle
part Of the stage. at the back, is fitted much
like the stage Of an ordinary theatre with cur
tains and movable scenery. The front of II re-
sembes the front Of a Greek temple. Various
scenes supposed to pass in Jerusalem or in the
of the stage in front of this, with it's curtains
closed. Then the audience is expected to forget
that the Greek temple is there. The front OF
the stage and the sides of It at the back have
permanent settings and these in turn must he
disregarded when the curtains of the Greek
temple are opened and scene is acted within
1t. In justice 10 the arrangement IL should
be said that the audience does not have 70
make any voluntary effort to make these dis
'inctions. They enforce themselves quite natur-
ally and unobtrusively. On each side of the
front of the Greek temple is an archwav
through which street Is seen. Next TO the
archway again, on each side of the stage is n
house, with flight of steps and a balcony
one is the house of PLATE, the other the house
OF Annas. Adjoining each of these again is
short colonnade. reaching toward the front of
the stage and bounding II on it's two sides
From these last places at s o'clock In the
morning. at the sound of cannon from a neigh
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-08-05
two about politics, and has a good outfit of ma
tive Yankee shrewdness

two about politics. and has a good outfit of ma
tive Yankee shrewdness.
The proceedings TO release the playwright,
Charles H. Hoyt from the Hartford Retreat
for the Insane attracted a great deal OF atten-
ton in this city. and the general impression of
the people seemed TO be that unfair advantage
had been taken OF Mr.. Hoyt in his being brought
here. No doubts that he is insane and the
outcome of the affair, which leaves him to the
care of his friends in New-Hampshre is salts
factory TO all in this city. The attitude of the
authorities of the Retreat of absolute
Indifference and effort made to retain
Mr.. Hoyt against the wishes of his friends. No
better compliment could have been given Mr..
Hoyt than the presence at the hearing in the
Probate Court of twenty-five of the leading
citizens of Charlestown N H.. his home.
Clergymen. physicians. merchants and personal
friends all came down to give him helping
hand at their own expense. George H. Dickin-
son. of Atlanta. a schoolmate, led the move
ment for his friends release Mr.. Hoyt is in
a pitiable state but has hours when he appears
like himself He appears like a thoroughly
broken-down man
The tobacco crop of the Connecticut Valley,
1t stands to-day, is the best grown and the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-08-05

the finest and tenderest scenes of the play
the descent from the cross II would be hard
to look unmoved upon the reverence and the
affection with which Nicodemus and Joseph OF
Armat thea take the body from the cross and
lay 1t with the head in the lap of Mary. There
are gentleness and sweetness in IL all that
are a welcome relief from the scene of the cru
ciflxion. And after 1t is over the scenes of the
resurrection and the ascension are an anti
climax. But they acted and then with a
glad hymn from the chorus the play is done.
This hasty outline tells little of what is
done, but 1t cannot tell how il Is done The
spirit of the play is not in its text 1t is in the
earnestness. the sincerity. the depth of feeling
the single heartedness of the performance.
These have often been described. but never 1t
would seem, convincingly for every newcomer
to the Passion Play is as much amazed by them
If the whole affair a new discovery of
his own.
Oberammergau and the Passion Play have
suffered great loss. Johann Lang, the bor-
oughmaster of the village and the director OF
the play for many years died less than a month
ago, on June II. Those who saw him as Gaia
phas ten years ago can never forget the dignity
and the force with which he played the part
His successor as boroughmaster has not yet
been chosen, but II is said that Josef Mayr will
have the place. If he will take II.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-08-05
MORE MUSIC AT MANHATTAN.

There is strong probability that the next two
weeks viii make a record at the Manhattan
Beach Theatre. Jimmy Powers and the Gesha
girls waved their farewells from the stage last
evening, and tomorrow evening the wellknown
Castle Square Opera Company Will begin season
of a fortnight, with matinees Wednesday and
Saturday afternoons presenting grand opera in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-08-05
TO ADVANCE PRICE OF CANNED SALMON.

to aUF nv IE TNIJE OF OHN-NID 'o-ILII Wv
Seattle, Wash, Aug. 4.-Prices of canned salmon
will be advanced at least % per cent when the
schedules fixed August 10 The known
shortage in the supply has already been dis
counted by the dealers. and prices have been adj
vancing. The fishing has now reached a
stage where il be asserted by the Gamers that
the pack will certainly fall short one-half of what
ii was last year, and probably more.