The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-10-28

The work Of putting the quarters of the
Young Mems Republican club in condition
for occupancy has been completed and
today the club moved ia. The rooms have
been well furnished with facilities for
transacting the business of the club and
have been renovated and repapered.
ON the outside OF the building two large
signs. one across the top part OF the front
and the other on the south end of the
! structure. The signs are black with gold
letters and can be read for a considerable
distance.
This evening a general meeting OF the
district committees will be held in the
new quarters at which plans for the cam
paign will be discussed and any necessary
I business transacted.
sEVENTEENTH ANNIVERSARY.
Fast night Farragut post celebrated the
! 18th anniversary OF the post with all the
ceremony due to the occasion. There were
prominent speakers present who made In
teresting speeches reminiscent OF their
! army life The program was varied with
/ a number OF rec.tations and musical num-
bers which evoked the hearty applause OF
the veterans and their guests. The local
camp OF Sons of Veterans and Bucklin
I Relief corps.
I The program was as follows: Piano. and
violin duet Misses Keene: address De-
partment Commander James Hudson:
reading. Mrs. Jones, OF Providence; ad-
I dress. Senior Vice Department Com
msuder Rev, j =, Woolley OF Pswtucket;
vocal solo NJ r. McGwnn: address Past
\ Department Commander Daniel r. Bal
| lou: vocal solo. Miss Frances Bowen: ad-
dress by Department Inspector Greene:
/ original poem By Comrade James Mallon;
reading. Mrs Jones; address, Colonel T.
! A. Barton; vocal solo. Mr.. McG~inn.
Captain Hubbard presented the post
| With "A gaval made OF piece OF wood
! from the Andersonville prison. In which
( he was a prisoner for a time during the
war After the conclusion Of the pro-
gram an oyster supper was served to
! which tho post aud their guests did fun
| Justice.
consisted of comrades Hawkes.. Perry aud
Bufrington.
THE. NAVAL RESERVES.
Last night the weekly drill meeting of
the Naval Reserves was held in the town
hall After the Meeting number or the
members Of the division put In some
hard work in praeticing for the basket
bail team. which is to be made mp at an
early date.
There Is considerable interest manifested
| IN the team. end quite . number Of candi-
S,tes are practising at every opportunity
| ia hopes of being selected for the team.
GOOD WORK
There are some interesting figures in
| the nnal report ot the standing OF the
' members Of the Fourth division. Of the
Naval Reserves at the state range, Dur
ing the season IS of the men presented
themselves al the range. and Of this
number Il qualified either as experts.
sharpshooters or marksUen.
-Four qualified In the experts class
They were Lieut. Gibson. Ensign Bliss.
Bugier Brown and Mach'ni~t Fish. Three
men. Quartermaster Real. CoXswain
Coyne and seaman Stone qualified as
sharpshooters and - Of the mon qualified
as rrarks1nen.
done in any previous year and places the
division I'm nm even prouder position in
regard to narlssmanship than ever before
TIE FAUCET WAS OPEN.
Last night ono Of the local business
men noticed that the atmosphere was
perneated With strong cdor Of gaso-
inc snd upon investigation discovered
that < er,arated from plumbing es-
tabiishmcrt next dcoT To his place ~
br iness.
Tho proprietor Of the shop was found
and noticed and when ne went into bs
shcp ana 10 ked g1nu~d he found that
= faucet in a barrel ~ raspline oil had
been Inadvertently l.tt open allowing
2 considerable 'lIantiiy ~. the liquid 10
escape.
DID Not SpEAK ENaLIsH
Last night young woman who was
evidently stranger IN town was try
iTg 80 fnd relative. which. In view of
tho fact that she MAS urable 70 speak
A - n Tpe an ,h1 ha
end 81 difficulty IN doing. She finally
attracted the attention of On'ssr Har-
r;gan. who scn; for a portugueie resi-
dent 10 come and hnd out who shc IVES
ard where she wanted to go.
u was fn1iiy learned that the party
for whom shc was searching lived I'm tho
ttcirity Of Fox Point and she wns taken
there by fellow countryman.
Last night the Nevs reporter was
walking upon one of the principal thor
oughfares. when he was attracted by the
gsn'el glow of comfortable warmth 81
one of the businrys establishments ana
entered the place Greetings were ca
changed with those present ana then
the reporter settled comfortably down
upon the cracker box behind tho stove
What's new tcuight7 asked the
solid citizen by the way of starting con-
vehsation
"search me. what do you hear about
poitics7" replied the reporter as he
shifted his l5 cent Havana TO the other :
corner OF his mouth and looked wise
Nothing much. only Judge Bliss is GO
ing 10 get showed way. way under" was
the reply
The Young Democrat came IN Just IN
time to hear this remark and hestencd
TO second tho opinion. Tt was not con
Sisteni with the position of the scribe AZ
an impartial diareninator % accurate
news 60 butt into" the argument. hut
the proprietor 90 the establishment took ,
exceptions 10 the statement so emphati-
callv that The young Democrat showed
hir sporting blood by Wagering y quarters 1