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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-12-14
PROVIDENCE OPERA HOUSE.

one or the most distinguished actors
that England has produced I'm recent
years Is r.. s Willard. who will be seen
at the Providence Opera House all next
week, with matinee Saturday only. lie
has placed himself particularly high in
the hopes of the people by his close iden-
tity with the new development in the dra-
ma.
In the matter OF stage production his
achievements have been I'm the line and
on the same high elevation of Henry
Irving. but he has the special merit OF
playing only those plays-and they were
specially written for him-that concern
the life and aspirations OF these times.
In other words. Willard Is one OF the vital
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-12-14
NARRAGANsETT ELECTRIC co.

NARhAGANSEII ELECTRIC CO.
Before closing this subject let us ex.
anime one moment the present sta.
tus OF the Narragansett Electric Lighting
company. The vast majority OF the cti
zens of Providence believe that the com
pany has an exclusive franchise both as
to street and commercial lighting which
runs 10 1912. but such Is not the case.
BY the terms OF an act passed in 1892
the company was given an exclusive
franchise for 20 years as far as CONNER
cial lighting is concerned but IL was es-
pecially provided that, IL at any time the
city OF Providence should desire TO light
its own streets and highways II might do
so, provided a majority OF both branches
OF the city council should favor IL. the
mayor should approve and thereafter a
majority OF the voters should also favor
II at the next city election held within not
less than four months from such approx
al In case the city so decides II is 10
buy the plant and equipment of the COM
pany AT valuation to- be fixed by an arbi-
tration board OF three persons. one select
ed by the city, one by the company, and
the third by the other two. There are
other provisions which are somewhat
favorable TO the city.
Providence then is not entirely at the
mercy OF the Narragansett company and
IL remains for us citizens 10 watch legisla-
tion closely, 10 see that the act OF 1892 Is
not further modified i'm behalf OF the com
nanrr while at -the-Sanle- e-tlrne- -we-study
into and sgitate the plan for lighting our
own streets.
We have thus seen from facts and fig
ures gathered from an impartial and per-
fectly reliable source and which cannot
be disputed. how strong are the argu-
ments in favor OF the municipal owner
ship OF electric plants. Before leaving
this subject. however, the truth should
be insisted upon that systems and meth
DDS are not the most important thing. and
that OF themselves they will not effect
successful results, The awakening OF
public sentiment and the cultivation Of a
high public spirit are the first essentials.
AS has been well said: I'm the final
analysis the whole matter of good city
service depends on the people who select
or by staying away from the polls, fail
10 select their public servants
The man who stands ready to,
secure personal advantages or pro-
fit 10 the detriment OF those whom he has
chosen TO serve. will not be at all par
ticular whether he does this through pub
lie or private ownership OF municipal
monopolies."
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-12-14
SHERIFF'S SALE.

BY virtue OF an execution. No % l76 IS
sued from a District Court OF the Sixth
Judicial District holden at Providence. IN
the County Of Providence. within and for
said District. dated December dh 1891
and rcturnable TO said Court March 5h
1902. wherein Myer Bronson Of. the City
and County 81 Providence, in the state of
Rhode Island. is plaintiff and B Nam
shell. alias John Doe OF said CITY. County
and state. is defendant. will be sold al
Public Auction. on Thursday the 18TH day
Of December 1901. az 1900 o'clock noon
az number t2 North Main street IN said
proXidcuCe all Tho right. title and inter
est the said Nansheli. alias John Doe
had a the time Of the attachment on the
original writ en- the suit IN which said
execution was obtained. 10 Wit. on the
18th day of September. 1901 az 2 O'Clock
and 81 minutes D. m. In and 10 the fol-
lowing described personal property. via.
one small safe
Levied on this eth day Of December,
1911. AZ 10 o'clock. in the forenoon and
will be- sold TO satisfy said execution n
sufficient. ANDREW MCKENZIE.
d9-ls pepaG SAegll.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-12-14

about the only member from Providence
who attended the hearing. lie, together
with the city solicitor. spoke against the
measure and endeavored 10 arouse oppo-
siion, but the judiciary committee rec
oTmended the measure by unanimous
vote the next morning. which was the last
day OF the season. and IL went through
with rush. Just before the vote was
taken IN senate, the ErTr1vuTdu who
acts as Boss OF the Republican party
walked down the alsies saying, in an au-
lucrative manner: This is a measure
that I am interested in, and | want IL to
go through"
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-03-07

and publications and with the adj
ditional assurance that all the legal
blank printing would not be sent out
of Forsyth but would be done by For
syth workmen. The enticing discount S
of the Times, coupled with the bland
assurance that their Liliputian print
shop would be supplemented by new
presses and type su fficent to do the
work won the favorable consideration
of the board and the contract was
awarded to the Times.
S. K. Mcdowell, of Helena, an ex-
pert county record man, and an aspir
ant for the contract of transcribing the
records of Custer county to the rev
boo p esented by himself and
on his claim that the matter should be
disposed of as soon as possible, the
board promised to take itup Saturday.
The Jail question was talked over
and for the present it was decided
they would take no action. Mr.. Neil,
a Jail contractor from Helena, had
plans ready for the inspection the
board but failed to close a contract for
it's construction. He was given an
order for two steel vault doors which
he will put into the new vault and will
return later to confer with the board
about the Jail.
The board is still In session and will
remain at their post of duty until the
preliminary work is completed,
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-03-07
Grazing Permitted on Reserves

An amendment to the sundry civil
bitl has been adopted by the U. S.
senate which permits grazing on forest
reserves in Colorado, Montana and
Wyoming.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-03-07

A couple of the laborers at the
in a fight Tuesday and as result
one of them suffered fractured leg.
DR.. Wilson, the company surgeon,
was called and reduced the fracture
and peace was restored in little Italy.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21
ITS OUTLET Is MORE
THAN CSC FEET
HIGH.

from the hill upon which the chimney
is built, thereby reducing to rational
amount the cost OF the construction,
the outlet of the said chimney being
800 feet above the adjoining plane
Notwithstanding this great saving by
the construction of the flue and utiliz-
ing nature for the additional height,
the chimney alone cost over thirty-one
thousand dollars; the construction of
the 1,640 feet of fiue s25, 900, hence the
total cost is about fifty-six thousand
dollars, including excavations, founda-
tions and the necessary iron rings; the
two latter items cost 81, $50. But even
this tremendous cost has been a good
investment so far. as the company has
not been compelled to pay any dam
ages to the surrounding property hold
ers since the erection of this big Chin
ney; whereas before divers claims had
to be satisfied to the extent of 40 per
cent, according to governmental de-
cisions. The chimney was erected ac-
cordlng to the design of Master Me-
chanic o. Huppner, in Freiburg, in
Saxony, by the largest and most prom
inent firm of German chimney build
ers, H. r. Heinecke, and was begun
upon Sept. 25, 1888, and completed on
Oct %, 1889. The system employed
was the perforated radial brick, in the
same method as was pursued in the
erection of the two chinneys at the
works of Adam Weber Sons, at Weber,
N. j., on the Raritan river, which sys-
TEN this firm is now introducing in
America. Judging by results and the
general demands in this line it will not
be long before America will surpass
this big construction with still taller
oh he fo1J OF
of interest, showing the immensely Of
this construction: The base of the
chimney lies 80 feet under the level,
and is 10 feet inches square, cover
ing an area of 1.550 square feet. The
following quantity of material was
used viz: Thirteen thousand eight
hundred and eighty-three cubic feet for
foundation work; 17,736 cubic feet for
pedestal, SO, 666 cubic feet for the col
umn, giving total of 95,2S5 cubic feet
of mason work. The mason work had
a special weight of 124.S pounds per
cubic foot; the entire lot then to be
carried was 5,30SA gross tons, and the
weight to be sustained by the founda-
lions, at dead calm, was 3.45 tons per
square foot. In consideration of the
normal wind pressure of 1852 pounds
per square foot, which is officially ac-
cepted in Germany as statical calm
for chimneys, the weight to be sus-
tanned by the foundations is increased
to Az tons per square foot. There Is
no doubt that this chimney with all its
details and peculiarities, is one of the
greatest works ever erected in this
particular line, and is accepted to-day
By the official organs of Germany as
standard of chimney construction
Power
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21
WILL NOT SUCCEED.

The free trade agitators who are
anxious to precipitate tariff contest
at the next session of congress are
trying to make 1t appear that the wool
manufacturers will urge reduction in
the tariff on wool. regardless of the eff
feet of such action upon the wool
growers of this country
That, however, is denied by an east
ern commercial newspaper, which
claims to know the sentiment of the
wool manufacturers. 1t says that the
attitude Of the manufacturers toward
the wool growers is the same today
that 1t has been during the past sew
enty-five years While it is true that
the tariff on wool has operated against
the manufacturers of woolens. because
it has shut them out of the world s
market to a certain extent and de-
prived them OF the chance to make
greater profits by purchasing cheaper
raw materials. yet the manufacturers
have always been willing that the
sheep industry should be protected, be-
cause they know that without the COM
petition afforded by American wool
they would be Mt the mercy of the for
eixn wool growers and would have to
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21
THE AMERICAN FLAG.

When Freedom from her mountain
hight
Unfurled her standard to the air,
She tore the azure robe of night,
And set the stars Of glory therei
She mingled with its gorgeous dyes
The milky baldric of the skies,
And striped its pure celestial white
With streakings of the morning light.
Then from his mansion in the sun,
She called her eagle-bearer down,
And gave into his mighty hand
The symbol of her chosen landi
Majestic monarch of the cloud!
Who rear'st aIoft thy regal form,
To hear the tempest .--umpings loud,
And see the lightning lances driven,
When strive the warriors of the
storm,
And rolls the thunder-drum of heav-
Child of the SUM- to thee is given
To guard the banner of the free,
To hover in the sulphur smoke,
To ward away the battle stroke,
And bid its blending shine afar,
Like rainDows on the cloud of war,
The harbingers of victory.-Selected
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21
TALLEST ~
~ CHIMNEY

Experience has shown that the
height of factory chimneys is not alone
dependent on how much smoke or
other special poisonous gases" have
to be removed by it On the contrary
it is essential that a chimney, especial
II when it has to remove poisonous
and other detritus products of COM
bustion containing dangerous and un-
healthy poison, not alone for human
beings, but for plants as well, is to be
constructed to such a height that the
escaping gases produce no harm, es-
pecially at chemical factories and gas
works, where, in most cases, the pol
sonous and dangerous products of
combustion escape before they enter
the fue, thus demanding frequently
and costly construction, which is Of
ten found impossible to carry out.
After the experience of today, an out
let height of about 800 feet above the
level is considered sufficient to pre-
vent harmful action to plant life, as
well as the interference with the health
of people living in the vicinity of the
chimney. Should this territory be sur
rounded with wooded heights, it is
well to increase in the same ratio the
height of the chimney. In rolling or
billy country the outlet of the chin
ney must be placed at least 800 feet
above the highest point of the sur
rounding hills; chimney in the val
ley would, in consequence of this great
height, cost so much that it is cheaper
to build the f1ue of the chimney on this
highest point, and erect the chimney
proper on the already existing higher
plane supplied by nature. On account
of this aforesaid condition the Royal
Saxon Smelling works at Halsbrucke,
in Freiberg, were compelled to build a
high chimney, which can safely be con-
sidered to be the highest and most
prominent chimney of this century
This chimney has a height above the
surrounding plane of 459 feet. The
height of the chimney itself is 429 feet
6 inches, and at the square base it is
20 feet inches, and, therefore, at the
time of its completion, in 1889, was the
highest chimney in the world. The top
internal diameter is over feet. This
enormous height did not suffice to sup
ply sufficient security for the surround
ing neighborhood against the outgo-
ing gases, and, therefore, this chimney
was erected upon one of the adjoining
highest hills, which is 1877 feet higher
than the smelling works, situated in
the valley. In consequence of this po-
S1t1On the chimney obtains an addi-
tional height, an increased efficiency
equivalent to a height of over $50 feet.
AS this chimney could not be placed
next to the factory but was built as
before mentioned, upon the highest
hill, f1ue of over 1,64O feet was con-
structed, which runs part OF the dis
lance over a bridge, especially built to
hold the construction over the River
Nude, which separates the factory
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21
HOW IL WOULD WORK.

Inc Ohio Democrats have declared
for tariff reform and for placing all
trust products on the free list. Right
on the heels of this declaration comes
sweeping reduction by the American
wooden trust of prices of wooden cloths,
and the large number of wooden man.
ufacturers outside the trust are con-
siderably agitated at this procedure
1t thus appears that trust may reduce
prices as well as advance prices. But
it still remains a trust for all that,
and. according to the Babcock plan
and the Ohio Democratic plan and the
plan of the tariff revisionaries gener-
ally, the tariff must be repealed on all
imports competing with domestic trust
products An application of this won
derful theory in the case of the Wooden
trust would doubtless work some hard
ship on that corporation, for the tariff
on wool would still stand, as nobody
claims that wool growing is monopo-
liked by trust, and the cloth makers
of England who use low priced free
wool would take immediate possession
of the big American market.
Such would be the result unless, as
might easily happen, the domestic
Wooden trust, finding that the repeal
of the tariff had swept every non-trust
wooden mill out Of existence, and find
ing the domestic field thus cleared of
all troublesome competition, should do
as the salt companies of the United
States and Europe are doing-form an
international trust that would control
production, prices and wages. OF
course, we should see half a million
people now working in nontrust wooden
mills thrown out of employment and
ho1 hi 81 ifo1 tod IN
buildings and machinery rendered val
ueless. But the domestic free trader
and trust smasher wouldn't let that
worry him. What he wants is to kill
the tariff, no matter who or what els
is killed
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21
Tarin Reform Bosh.

Tariff reform was never more Ut
gently needed than now, when the pro-
duction of the country so far exceeds
its power of consumption that foreign
markets are a prime condition of its
continued prosperity" This is the Ian
guage of the Ohio Democratic plat
form, and it is calculated to make one
smile. We have just closed the books
of fiscal year, and they show that
we have sold more of our commodities
in foreign markets than in any other
year in our whole national existence
Then, where is the suggestion based
upon wisdom, that we should reform
the tariff in order to increase our for
eign trade? 1t is more satisfactory
than it eves has been; therefore, whsa
is wrong?-Kaoxvil1e CTenn-) Tribune
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21

forefathefs gives ( man certain spir-
it, stamina and courage which the yeo-
man and the shopmen lack; that the
thoroughbred man, like the thorough
bred horse, is superior to the common
mustang or cart horse. 1t is true that
the traditions of a noble family have a
certain influence on the scions there
of and keep them up to certain Ideals,
especially in the matter of phys cal
courage Moreover, wealth, education
and generous habits of living with
which most men of good blood are IA
miliar from birth, have a tendency to
create keen sense of honor and per-
sonal pride that have a strong influ-
ence upon conduct Yet examples prove
that blood has little advantages over
the base-born, either in the matter OF
intellectual or physical qualities. The
greatest men have been the offspring
of lOwly people. The most rugged in
tellects seem to have come from the
tillers of the soil and to have derived
therefrom a certain natural strength
that men born in castles and manor
houses do not inherit. Of all kings
and rulers the strongest were the
founders of dynasties. The first hold
er of a hereditary title nearly always
is the greatest. This fact was known
to the French wit who said: 1--WE can
not all be mobiles, Some of us must be
ancestors" In literature and all de-
partments of learning the majority OF
the masters were plebeians. Shakes
peare was the son of a wool comber,
Johnson of a bookseller, Horace of a
freedman, Socrates of midwife-but
would 10
completed here. On the point of phys
ical courage the cadet of the Oldest
family in Europe and the commonest
kind of plebeian are equal The
well-born puppies fought bravely at
Waterloo, but no more bravely than
the common soldiers, the sons of ten
ants on the puppies estates AS
reckless and daring a body of men as
ever faced blazing gunpowder was a
regiment in the civil war recruited in
the lowest slums of the Bowery. The
STRIPPING rough in the cities of the
United States is one of the finest fight
ing animals on two legs After all
physical courage is very common
and not very lofty attribute. When
the six Hundred" made that charge
at Balaklava the horses went where
the men rode them and six more
horses than men were killed, but the
horses are not celebrated. Yet phys
ical courage will be admired until the
end of time and nine philosophers out
of ten would rather have their morals
impugned than their courage, and
nineteen philosophers out of twenty
would rather be the grandsons of great
men than be the famous founders OF
families.-San Francisco Bulletin.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21
pay whatever prfc. might be d.mana-

ed 1t has been proved by frequent
trials that sheep raising is not profit
able in this country without the help
of protective tariff, and for that rea-
SON the manufacturers have refrained
from serving their own immediate in
terests by advocating reduction in
the tariff on the raw material
The free traders are exerting every
effort to array the protected industries
against one another, but they will not
succeed in their attempt to induce the
wool manufacturers to antagonize the
sheep misunderstanding Leader.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21
TARIFF AND THE STEEL TRUST.

Discussion of Hon. j. w. Babcock's
idea of removing the tariff from all
products of the steel trust has brought
out some interesting facts about the
steel trade. 1t has been shown that big
as the big trust is, it by no means
controls the steel trade in this coun-
try, there being many establishments,
some of them employing large num-
Der of men, which have no connection
with the trust 1t seems to be gener-
ally admitted that the removal of the
tariff on steel products would not in
jure the big trust to any marked ex-
tent, but it is claimed that it would
necessitate an immediate reduction of
wages in all steel establishments not
in the trust. This claim, which is be-
ing made by those who ought to know
whereof they speak, is causing many
who were at first inclined to favor Mr.
Babcock's idea to entertain doubts of
its wisdom, and if it be substantiated
by unprejudiced investigation, which a
number of members of the house are
quietly making. the bill for the repeal
of the tariff on steel products will not
be supported by a corporaPs guard of
Republicans in either branch of con-
gress at the coming session. Desirable
as many consider it to curb the power
of the big trusts, the Republican ma
jority in congress is not going to be
stampeded into the support of any
thing of that sort without carefully
considering it from every point of
view, and they will certainly not allow
any legislation to get through that
will reduce the wages of American
workingmen.-Barab (Wis.) Repub-
lie.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-21
A Bank for One Building.

A new bank has been chartered and
will presently open for business in the
arcade OF the. Empire Building, at
Broadway and Rector street, New
York city, which will innovate by hav-
ing its hours from a. M to 6 d. m.
continuously. This industry has an
other peculiarity-the banking will be
for the tenants of that one building,
who, from top to bottom, are big steel
and iron companies, of recent forma-
ton, with billions of capital and no
permanent connection with banks.