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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-03-18

On or about the 18th of April The News will vacate
its present quarters and to its building the
of Washington and Mathewson streets, where it
will have one of the most up.to-date and complete
newspaper plants in New England, the installation of
which will begin in few days.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-03-18

ono one will deny the American
mules right to kick against being
blamed for the Kierksdorp disaster.
The Beers had something 20 do with
it."-Milwaukee Sentinel.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-03-18

THE sordid phrase OF modern sport
is vice. That is a morbid taste
which leads people to so TO a show
OF pedestrians or bicycle riders and
gloat over their self-inflicted miseries.
lauding their endurance or their per-
slstence I'm pursuing a foolish task.
Times.
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NATIONAL MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY.

TO HONOR MEMORY OF MEN OF WAR TIME
AND RAISE STANDARD OF CITIZENSHIP.
Mason City. Iowa. April II (SpeeiaD.-The nrs'
and main building of the National Memorial Uhi
versity being built here solely by cOntr1Dullohs
from the Sons of Veterans of the United states
and allied organizations, has just been cOnpleteu'
The structure erected at a cost OF S0OVr ocou
pies a central position in the 160-acre site on 20
triots HILL In the fall of 1905 the remaining ou
,nps will be completed. and the institution VIII 10
thrown open.
Probably the next building to be erected the pia
for which has been completed, is the Natoh
Civil War Museum. where Ii is expected 70 nat
the greatest collection of relics in the CitI'
States Another building soon TO be built Is Dc.
ton Hall. named In honor of Miss Clara balro"'
the American National Red Cross Society The re-
sponsibility for this building and for the "oni'-
college which will be housed in 1t. has oeen a."
curved bv the National Alliance OF Daughters u
Veterans .,5
The Mans for raising large endowment iu
have advanced so far that the board OF les -,
believes 81 900 900 is conservative es'NiA ,,v
th!, fund.- the principal part will be given as heen
nv Sons of Veterans. A systematic e1loIt - ,-ift
~ IN ca III from a hundred thousand sons % Ivono-
erans TO be paid yearly for ten years. 6,,ndred
en-. Relief Corps Of Iowa. an Ss ,ne have besides
Rtfts held entertainments whose proesssutssd in
The university Agents have been appotntseG, y The
large number of States. 10 personally "'
Sons of Veterans for gifts. ,,-,.I Uni
1.-THE particular mission of the Menu. of
versity said CAPTAIN A. L. So1tor rb memory Of
the ard women of war times 70 perp cJdisr has
principles for which the American . o the WORK
Of Causing a greater appreciation OF Tree ~"
ment and raising the standard of citizenship
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1857 and was elected second lieutenant OF Camp
No. G. In 1892 he became first lieutenant. and the
following year captain. IN 1885 he was appointed
Years V in the Connecticut National Guard During
the Spanish American war he was an acting gun
rer's mate on the United States steamship Mime
sofa.
VIC. REYNOLDS, past captain, OF c. L. Upham
Camp No. 4 entered the camp in 1897. served as
second lieutenant in 1899. first lieutenant In 1900
and captain in 1901 His father Gardiner w
REYNOLDS. entered the volunteer army as a private
May 2, 1861. When he received ms honorapie
discharge in 1866 he was prevent frst lieutenant
JOSEPH DE cANTILLoN was mustered into
c. L. upham Post No Z. Sons OF Veterans. on
March 20 1895 He was elected second lieutenant on
January J. 1900 was elected first lieutenant In 1901.
and captain January 1902 In June lSs S ne en-
is,ed IN the ssn ehi Fec and from there to Porto
Rico He is now corporal In Company "a
York Cavalry Troop D. serving three years. be-
ing discharged the close OF the war. He was 2
member of Merriam Post No. department OK
Connecticut. G. A. r.
HARRY s PARDEw was mustered into c. L.
Upham Camp on March le. 1883 He has hied al
camp stan ofices serving second lieutenant In
1894 and FIRST lieutenant in 1895 and 1875 He was
elected captain in 1897 but resigned IN OCTOBER OF
OF second lieutenant in ls0i and is now serving as
first lieutenant He has been q member OF the
both in the camp and the community at large.
His father. Henry D. Pardew, enlisted IN 1852 IN
promoted to corporal in 1854 and mustered at
the close Of the war. He is member OK Post NO;
frafernai organizations.
tered into c. l. Upham Camp March q 1887 and
since that time has filled nearly every Office in the
gift OF the camp. He was elected captain in 1895.
ana served AZ stan efacer under several division
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MALCOLM D. RUDD. of Hiram Eddy Camp No
8. of the organizers of the camp. and has
served at all the stations. but has never held a
division once His father was William b. Rudd
VINO entered che Union Army sergeant major
OF me sstn New,York Volunteer Infantry. and rose
10 tne rank OF lieutenant. and acted also as adtu-
tant and Quartermaster-
ALBERT a. BURNHAM was born tn 1852 In East
Haddam. He was mustered into the order as a
charter member Of Camp No. 80 in 1885, commits
stoned successfully to the captancy. appointed as
Connecticut delegate to the MINNEAPOLIS conven-
Connecticut divisior in 1885, ana at present he
bears the title OF major; conferred by the state
Austin Burnham. enlisted in the 18th Connecticut
Volunteers and sustained injuries in the Missis-
covered. He died on June n. 1897
G. LESTER WHEELER captain Of Grimm A.
stedman Camp No. 8. at Hartford. Is the son Of
Charles w Wheeler who enlisted in Company A,
18th Connecticut Volunteers. as private. on July
Is 1ss, and was discharged for disability on March
a member Of Camp No In September. 1888. He
served for three years a. color sergeant. and was
chosen captain in December. 1901.
HENRY E GAGE past captain OF Camp No. &
became q member Of that organization in October.
1sss and captain last year. although he
comes from a family. Of soldiers bis ancestors for
served in Company II, sth Massachusetts volun-
the Union Army, one OF whom was killed at An
tet2m-
CHARLES R. REIN, captain OF T. D. Penneld
Camp No & Is the OF John p REIN. who
served In the LIST Regiment Connecticut Heavy
Artillery sergeant. and remained IN the service
of the charter members OF his camp. and has Al
WAYS taken . deep interest in tn anairA
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Camp No g. Of Hartford He was auarternaster
NJ tho division in 1861 senior vice-commander In
1sss and commander in 1859. His father was Colonel
lanes NJ Smith OF the SD Indiana
WILLIS N BARBER, past commander was u
charter member Of Charles L. Upham Camp NO T.
of Meriden He was twice captain OF MS camp
and twice surgeon of the division He became COM
,ander in 1892 He has ser1ed fifteen years In the
Connecticut National Guard and for the last ten
wears has been hospital steward Of the I'd Reg,o
mont He derives his right to membership IN the
order from his father Norman 3. Barber former
" a private in Company A, I'd Connecticut Heavy
Artillery.
is a member of Camp No. 6. He Joined the camp
in 1857 and was elected second lieutenant In lSSs
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In 1880 he became first lieutenant and the following
year captain In 1897 he elected commander
of the division and In 1900 senior vice-commander
in chief OF the order. Past Commander Cox has
had extended military experience, having been a
member of the 1st Company, Governor s Foot
Guard for twelve years. He now holds the posi-
ton of sergeant major in that command. His
father Edwin R. Cox, private in Company ID,
18th New-York.
HERBERT S. THOMPSON senior vice-comman-
der In chief born in Attleboro. Mass. September
p 1870 He received his education In the public
schools. and after graduating from the high school
he removed TO Providence and entered the Rhode
Island Law School, from which he was graduated
in 1901. He joined General A. E Burnside Camp
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commanders. His name will be presented at the
encampment for the office OF junior vice COM
mander of the Connecticut Division He is a sill
versmith His father. Charles r. SPHINX enlist
ed in Company b. Ed Connecticut Nounteers
August 25 1862. and mustered out one year
later on account of disability.
WILLIAM G. STAMP. captain Of Alden Skinner
Camp, enjoys the distinction of being the only one
of his race who has been elected to a similar place
in the State He is the of William Stamp, a
negro barber, who married a white woman cap
tain Stamp is thirty-one years old. railroad con-
ductor a member of the Methodist Church and or
Phoenix Division. Sons. of Temperance. of Which
latter organization he is treasurer. captain
Stamps father served in Vermont regiment near
ly four years.
A. P KIRKHAM is Dast captain Of his camp
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father. Loren Chase enlisted from Caledonia mia
remained in the army three years and eleven
months. He is now the surgeon of Grand Army
of the Republic post at West Barnet. VT.
GEORGE w. FLETCHER. of Oliver C. Case
Camp No A. was born a Canton July 5, 1852
He is charter member. After serving as captain ne
was elected first sergeant. in which capacity ne IS
now serving. At the Division Council at NorsFlch
m 1901 elected member or THAT body
He is also active member of several fraternal
organizations. Captain FletcherS father James w :
Fletcher enlisted in Company H. 18th Connecticut
Volunteers in December 1861 and served until 1864
He captured in June. 1853. at Brashear CITY,
and paroled year later
w. r. SPATCHER is a past captain OF Camp
No 49, Middletown. and is at present member
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Navy when the broke out. and served through
out the four years of the struggle on the snip
Pawnee He was in several important engagements
and wounded twice.
e c. BOOTH, of Franklin Bartlett Camp No. H.
is one of the charter members of that organization
and after serving in many minor offices was twice
elected captain He has been a regular attendant
at the division encampments and at the last one
held in Norwich, he elected member or the
division council. He served three years in Com
pany X, 4th Regiment. c.. n. G., which was Bat
tery b. 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery, In the
Spanish American His father, Cyrus t5ooth
served three years corporal in Company L, 18th
Illinois Infantry.
ETHEL BERT ALDRICH, captain of J. E. Tour
tellotte Camp No. 5. born in Grosvenordale
on July II, 1867. His father. Frederick Aldrich.
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served as private in Company F. 21st Massachu-
sets Volunteers and in Company D. 18th Connect-
cut Volunteers. His grandfather, Joseph Seaver
served in the War of 1872, and his great-grand-
father was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.
F. N BURR of W. 3. Wooster Camp No. g.
Ansonia, served two terms captain and
member of the division council.
WILLIAM q. TARBOX. Of Norwich. born in
Columbia March S. 1862. He studied at the Con-
necticut Literary Institution. and graduated in
the class OF S. After teaching in the public
schools of Rhode Island and Connecticut for three
he took special course of study at Brown
University. For six years he was teacher in the
Of Montyille. and is at present principal of
the Versailles School. He enlisted in Company G..
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which he honorably discharged IN 1894 at the
expiration of his term of service. His father. Cap
tain w. @. Dickinson. enlisted from Bozrah on
April o. 1861. in Company A. 18th Regiment. Con-
necticut Volunteers, and honorably discharged
in 1863. He then reenlisted. and rose to the rank
OF captain.
GEORGE s. HOYT. of Nelson L. White Camp
No. 10, Danbury. has served the commanding
officer OF the camp for three terms.
GEORGE o. BUTLER. Of o. c. Case Camp No
a. Simsbury, served in all the lesser offices OF
the organization. and was elected captain last jan
uary. His father. John T. Butler enlisted in Com
pany /. Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery anu
served three years.
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and has held various minor offices. He Is also a
member of Redshaw Post Grand Army OF the Re-
public. He was color sergeant in the I'd Regiment.
Connecticut Volunteers. and upon his discharge
enlisted in the navy serving two years as mas
He then resigned and re-enisted In
the army, receiving a commission as lieutenant In
the % Connecticut Artillery He was mustered out
September ., 1860. with the rank of captain. Cap
tain Kirkham a member OF the Connecticut
National Guard for nine years. ard Is now pri-
vate in the Governors Foot Guard, of New-HaVen.
held the office OF City Clerk OF Ansonia Tor
six years, and is serving his fourth term. In
recent Democratc-Lahor sweep in Ansonia he
the only Republican elected.
WILLIAM L. PARMEI,IIE is a charter member
OF his camp, and has filled many Offices in his
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No s. Division of Rhode Island March 70, 1889. and
appointed color sergeant June 2 1880. He was
commissioned second lieutenant of Camp No 3 jan
uary s. 1891 and captain the year following. He was
commissioned Junior vice-commander in 1894 on
February r. 1896 he elected commander of the
division He elected to his present office at
the last annual encampnent at Providence. He
derives his right membership In the order from
his father Samuel Perry Thompson who enlisted
at the of twenty-one, June l5 1861, corporal
in Company l. 18th Regiment Massachusetts Volun-
teer Infantry. He wounded at the battle of
Fredericksburg and the Wilderness. He is now
a comrade of Slocum Post. No. 10, G. A. r.. of
Providence
FRED G. BLAKESLEE. past captain son of
Captain Harry E. Blakeslee. of the 18th United
States Colored infantry entered the order April
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list Regiment, Connecticut National Guard, in De-
cember. 1880. In December, 1882 he became MEM
Der Of General silas Casey Camp, Sons of Veterans
Wexford. K. l.. and is past captain Of that
camp. Upon becoming resident of Norwich he
transferred his membership to Sedgwick Camp, of
which he was captain last year. He is at present
a corporal in Company A. Sd Regiment. Connecticut
National Guard secretary and treasurer of the
Norwich Principals Club, and OF the Eastern Con-
neoticut ,, TEACHERS Association. His father,
George II. Tarbox, volunteer In Com
pany E. 18th Connecticut Volunteers, and after
surviving the experiences OF Libby Prison and
Belle Island, and the trials OF Hunters raid died
at the beginnins of his third year Of service His
was a soldier in the Revolutionary War; and
earlier ancestor. Ensign Samuel Tartox. of Massa-
chusetts. served in King Philips war.
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membership. He is a past captain. and was the
delegate OF the Connecticut Division to the National
Encampment at Detroit He is deputy United
States marshal of the District of Connecticut and
a deputy sheriff OF New-Haven County.
ALFRED C. BALDWIN. of Charles L. Russell
Camp No. g. has held all the important Offices In
his camp, and is past adjutant of the Connecticut
division He was born at Beacon Falls Deem
Der 5. 1872. and educated at the Seymour High
and Yale Law schools. After graduation, in 1884, he
studied for a year in the law Office Of Wooster
office in that city. He has been City Prosecuting
Attorney for years and Prosecuting Liquor
Agent for six years He was assistant clerk OF
the Connecticut House OF Representatives last year
and is the present secretary of the Republican City
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Of Camp No g. of Hartford. His father enlisted in
the 1st Regiment Connecticut Heavy Artillery. He
is & member of Mansfield Post No So, OF Middle
town. and q member of its drum corps
WILLIAM II. BECKETT. OF L. D. Penfeld Camp
No 16 was born at Portland December %, 1857
He served IS a private in Company E. LIST Con-
necticut Volunteer Infantry, in the war with Spain
He the first captain of the camp and received
recognition for success in recruiting.
WILLIAM c. DICKINSON. OF Nathan Hale
Camp No /. has been member Of the camp since
October s. 1888 and in 1899 became captain. In the
term ending February, 1900. he division in
spector on the staff of Colonel E s. Bisnop. Cap
tain Dickinson is a graduate of Yale. class Of SO.
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Committee. Mr.. Baidwin's father. Herbert C. Bald
win Beacon Falls, has enriable war record
and enjoys the distinction of having served in the
State legislature Representative from Beacon
Falls for six and of having held every office
within the gift of his townsmen He enlisted as
private and was promoted to brevet first lieutenant
Tor gallant services
LEWIS s. CHAPMAN, of Charles L. Russell
Camp No. e. has held every Office in his camp. and
is past colonel, adJutant and quartermaster COM
mander. He is chairman of the division coun-
Gil He was born at South Glastonbury in 1869 and
has lived in Derby ten years. He has been an
active member of the Sons Of Veterans since 1890
having Joined the organization at Rockville. His
father had served six years in the United States
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H. J. BISsELL has served two years as captain
of Hiram Eddy Camp, Sons OF Veterans. His
father Captain William Bissell, recruited Company
A, 18th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, and
went to the front with that organisation. which
became the I'd Company OF heavy artillery.
He was ffty-four years old when he enlisted and is
still living.
w. A. CHASE. of Abraham Lincoln Camp No. g.
Waterbury, Conn. was mustered into the organiza-
ton in April 1894 and shortly after that time became
quartermaster sergeant. In January 1896, he was
elected captain. He appointed inspector of the
ccmmissary division in March, 1897. He re-
elected captain in 1901. Captain Chase is also a
member OF several fraterna! organizations. His
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-13

While the action of the Senate conferrees at
washington on the War Revenue bill in receG-
ing from their amendment retaining the bucket
shop tax is regarded by the bucketshop men
here as a decided victory. prominent Board or
Trade men assert that the failure OF the COM
mittee to retain the tax will in no way hinder
their crusade against the bucketshOp operators.
The brokers on the Board of Trade are inclined
to think that the war tax levied against the
condemned business was Of little consequences IN
suppressing the evil and they unite IN saying
that a federal law prohibiting bucketshops is
the oniv remedy that will suffice. 10 Is Sald lnAl
the Illinois law against bucketshopS ana tns
efforts of the Board of Trade IN pF:Iisins az
cases TO prosecution have done more thah any
thing else to down the evil In chicago. II Is
asserted that all the notorious places OK ths so'e
have been closed by the action OF the Boaru o.
Trade and the local courts. while the war TAX
has had practically no effect upon the ousiieS'-
What the Municipal Voters League Is DONG
for the Chicago City Council in the way Oh
securing honest representatives the Legislative
Voters League has undertaken to DO Ior '"e
law making bodies of Illinois. The league na'
been making a careful study of the candidates
for nomination to the next legislature, anu ha
issued its first decree in the form OF noIce ~
the Republican party organization or CoVa
County that only good men must De pa@e
nomination. Accompanying this nOtlCe Ss,-o
list of the present members of the leglsla..S
whom the league stamps as unht TOT iu ~. -
service. The list contains the names oA -
Senator and ten Representatives 1ne Coum.'
central committee is warned against the rel,A -.
tnation of any of these men, and IS urseu ~
name candidates whom the league can suppoi~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-13

Chicago is at last beginning to show an appre-
citation of grand opera Previous attempts to
raise the musical public to the grand opera
pitch have not been entirely successful from the
financial point of view. More than once Mr.
cira,, has threatened to desert the city for good
and ALL The opening Of the present season IN
Chicago was not altogether suspicious the at
tendance being anything but encouraging sew
eraI unexpected changes in the programme and
the failure Of singers TO appear on appointed
nights together with prices to which the chi
cago public is unaccustomed. served to make the
success of the two weeks engagement problem
aticaI There has been change for the oetter,
however and now. according TO Mr.. Grau MS
opera company when it leaves Chicago VIII take
away 100000 The receipts for the hrst week
were over $4,000 and Mr. Grau's representative
saws that the box office added $4,000 TO TINS
amount during the closing week The cost Oh
the organization is figured at about s4uWo a
week This will leave balance of about so0Vo
TO the credit of Chicago with Mr.. Grau ana MS
organization