The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-11-30
Town Council Held an Interesting Sos
sion Saturday Afternoon.
vocanl Fire District Office TO Be Filled
Tonight-Other Items.
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Telephone 1922 Providence.

! After the signing of the license which
had been granted the council adjourned
THAT STRUGGLE.
Affairs In the race for the office Of the
! Watchemoket fired lstrict have now
pretty nearly reached climax and IN
View OF the vigorous activity of every
Individual In the big bunch OF candidates
IL is pretty hard to pick the winner.
Oscar Coombs. George Bum, Johr
| Burns. and eight or ten others are putting
| In their best licks 10 win votes enough tc
| land them In the desired positions. The
| interest Is therefore intense and when the
meeting at which the melting opns at ,
o'clock tonight Il is expected that there
| will be a bigger number of voters I'm at
tendance tonight than has attended any
| previous district meeting In many moons
Some of the candidates have sent on,
printed ballots bearing their names FOL
| the use OF the voters at the polls and the
| district has been flooded with circulars,
| telling why number OF candidates should
| be elected to the position.
Their qualifications are set forth In full
| and their records In regard TO the pro-
| ject to sell out the district some years
ago There is considerable feeling over
tthis latter matter and the expression has
been freely heard that none OF the men
who I'm 1896 advocated the disposition Of
the district would stand a ghost OF a show
for the office.
Some Of them are quite strong political
ly though, and II Is possible that they
will poll II larger vote than Is expected.
The Feeling In regard to the matter Is
thought to be strong enough To make II
practically an issue and II the fight IL car
ried on on this line 1t would seem as
though several OF the candidates would
be Handicapped from the start and the
votes that are cast for them will probably
only serve TO MAKE the struggle more
close between those VINO are on the poplar
side of the Issue.
II one of the members OF the present
administrative board is elected 10 the Of
fee II IL probable that there will be an
other struggle for the place thus made
vacant as there are those who are In
favor of radical change In the manage
ment of the district and they will spare
no effort at any time to get one or more
men who share their own views upon
the board.
HORSE SLIPPED.
Saturday night horse belonging TO
Samuel Billingsdopp of Providence slipped
and fell while being driven up to the
horse fountain on Watchemoket square.
One OF the shafts of tho wagon was
broken but no further damage was APP
parent.
NEW HOCKEY TEAM.
A new hockey team is being formed
among the players of the Capital football
team There are quite a number OF
promising players trying out. including
Carpenter. French. Orrnsbee. Hayes. Wall
and Griswold all OF whom have done good
work in the football line.
ADVERTISED LETTERS.
The following letters are advertised at
the East Providence postoffice Nov. Is,
1909:
I.adies-Miss Birtie Bryson. Mrs. Mar
tha A. Blskely. Miss Agnes Bailey. Mrs.
Baker. Miss Hodge. Miss +. NJ. Patterson,
Mrs. Regan. Miss Abby Sherman. Ruth A.
White. Mrs. Frank Joseph Consoles,
Gentlemen--Caranto Angelo. John j.
Bradley. John Il. Brennan. Frank p. Bar
stow. Mr.. Cunningham. James Hennessey.
Mr.. Fred Leavitt Chas. c. T. Parsons,
Mr.. Francis M vorcd. Manuel J. Farecia.
Joao Antonio da silva, Mr. VIM. r. Sher-
man, Mr.. Geo. Venden.
SUNDAY COURT.
There were four cases before Judge
Bliss In the Seventh district court yester-
day morning Con Sheehan was arraigned
on a charge OF revcling He acknowl-
edged his guilt and was fined $40 and
costs
Two men 1unlltttu tndi tntN ntu petn
indecently intoxicated and were fined -
and costs Another man who had been
more demonstratlve while under the in
uence OF stimulants was assessed 50 and
costs
IN EFFECT TOMORROW.
The law requiring that peddlers shall
take out n license goes into effecs tomor-
row. A few have been granted licenses by
tho town council although many OF the
out OF town peddlers have not applied for
them. Those who have thus far made APP
plication are well known local vendors OF
fruit and produce. t
The law 81 is thought. will prove n ben
eft 60 local pedlers, as II will deter some
peddlers from coming here from Provi-
dence and Il viii benefit the people OF the
town by preventing city peddlers from
bringing here the remainder OF their loads
after customers I'm the city have picked
all the more desirable part OF their stock.
GOOD WORK.
The friends OF officer Samuel A. Hun
ter. who has the Phillipsdale beat are
him on good piece OF po-
lice work Saturday night he was at the
line and broke up fight
among n dozen OF men who had just come
out of n saloon across the line He order |
ed the men 20 disperse and told them |
met II they were there when he returned /
there would be something doing
he then went 20 the other end OF his /
bvat and when he got back the mon were /
stlll there. They had got together again |
and were scraping as though there was |
no sucn an article OF n wideaw wake cop in /
tho town. Mr. Hunter ''butted In and |
took one OF the men into custody lie put /
me prisoner on car and then. looking 1
back he saw that the others were stiil az /
u. He left his prisoner and returning TO /
the fray succeeded In capturing three |