The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-04-22
Business Men Resent he Appearance
Of a Polio. man Driving a Coal Cart
Fire in a TWo-tsnemsnt House on Put
nam St. Proves 10 b. Pretty Costly.
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There In some talk OF the business men
and others OF this place holding an In
dignation meeting on the account OF a
fully uniformed member OF the police de-
parfment. driving a coal team.
The patrolman. who is said TO be a
member OF the Plain street station may
have had good reasons for doing tho act.
as IL IL n well known fact that all OF the
patrolmen have been overworked and this
one may have been tired and footsore
from doing so much extra work. and in
stead OF walking back 10 the coal yard,
the driver of one of the teams invited the
patrolman to take his team and as the
seats on these wagons have room for but
one, the drivers was obliged 10 stand up
In the body OF the cart
There was more comment over the incl
dent than anything that has happened
during the strike and some of the tax
payers. who do not feel any too kindly
towards the coal companies do not like
the idea OF the city paying a man ~ per
day 10 drive a coal team for some one
else, when all that the strikers ask for Is
g. Ss~
There was another incident that also at
tracted much attention for at o'clock
seven coal teams were lined up against
the curbstone in the square and It was
learned that the halt was made to allow
one of the teamers to get a shoe nailed
onto one of his horses and there liz con-
siderable doubt as to which blacksmith
did the job. some claiming that IL was
done by a man on Stokes street, but such
Is not a fact. Others say that II was done
by Plainfield street man. but he did 1t
quite innocently for the driver was
"Foxey' for he unhitched his horse some
distance down the street and led 1t to the
blacksmith shop and asked to have the
shoe nailed on and the smith not for a
moment thinking that anything was
wrong began the work, but 1t was not
many seconds before he was Informed
that he was helping non union man,
but the work had been so far advanced,
that he completed the Job.
While he is non committal believes In
doing what Is right by all. and is ready to
assist union men as far as practical
A COSTLY BLAZE.
At o'clock this morning an alarm was
sent in from box 495 at the corner or
Appleton and Putnam streets by Mounted
Patrolman Keefe for a fire in a two-tene-
ment house at SO Putnam street, owned
by John Mcnamara
Just before s o'clock Mrs. Winnefred
Greeley, who occupies the lower tene-
ment, heard a cracking noise. and a few
moments lster Mrs. Cornelius Crowley,
who lives upstairs, discovered smoke is
suing from stovepipe hole In the wall
and she et once sent to the street for
help and Patrolmsn Keefe rushed to the
fire station on Putnam street, and when
the apparatus arrived on the scene found
that they had more than they could
handle, 90 an alarm was sent In.
The probabilities are that the fire
started from an overhead stovepipe IN
Mrs. Greeley's tenement. and II had
worked its way through the partitions
before the fire was discovered. so much SC
that the interior OF the house was pretty
we'll torn out by the firemen before they
could reach the seat of the fire.
The furniture In both tenements was
badly damaged by water. for while the
insurance wagon made excellent time II
reaching the fire. was necessarily lat,
in getting to work.
Mr.. McManus could not give any esti
mate as to his loss but IL fully insured
The loss 20 Mr.. Crowley and Mrs Greeley
will be considerable for they must vacat'
4, the tenement, and much OF their house
hold effects have been rendered worth