The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1905-12-08
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new IOTh woman VINO was In fSoS-
ton on business recently in the inter-
est OF a metropolitan advertising
agency said that the elevated rush"
excels even the o'clock stampede on
the Brooklyn bridge. This morning
she says, Il was knocked about at the
Northampton street station in a way
that would put Bowo-y buns efforts
to shame | have heard about your
Park street jams, but let not Boston
elate herself on confining her crowds
al this point. When the cars are full
there is boisterousness and confusion
Of high degree everywhere"
Pickpockets reaped a rich harvest
from the great gathering of football
enthusiasts who came TO Boston for
the Harvard-Yale game. The police
blotter told of long list of larcenies
from the person. The "light-fingered
gentry" succeeded in getting away
with hauls amounting to about $500.
In cash between $500 and $500 was eX-
tracted from the pockets Of about a
dozen different persons. In diamonds.
sons are minus watches as result of
pickpockets' endeavor.
1t was very gratifying to the board
to learn that the united efforts of the
Boston merchants association and the
Boston chamber Of commerce to in
duce merchants TO enter their i'm
pOrtations through this port instead Of
New York, and the reorganization of
the appraisers department at the Bos-
ton custom house, have had the desired
effect in turning back into the Bos-
ton customs channel imports which
belong here by reason Of final destina-
tion, but were diverted because of dis
satisfaction with the local customs
service and shipping facilities.
Merchants who abandoned this port
as a port of entry for their foreign
goods have returned TO the patronage
Of the local service, and those who
have not yet taken that step are ex-
pected to follow the example as they
become familiar with the new order
of things at the home port.
Boston increased "a percent during the
fiscal year of 1905 as compared with
New York's increase of about l3 per.
cent and Philadelphias of about J..
percent.
Thanksgiving day the Jews of Am
erica celebrated the 250th anniversary
% hot, ;,,t 20. Il
was a very natural and significant
demonstration, for in the United States
they have reached a degree of prosper
ity which they have not elsewhere en-
joyed in the Christian era.
This country today has a Jewish
population which is exceeded by only
two other countries in the world. and
from one of these, Russia, four-ffths
of the Jews in America have come in
the past 20 years. Undoubtedly this
Russian exodus will continue while
conditions discriminating against the
Jews exist.
Russia has lost, and America has
gained, these representatives of so
virile and resourceful a race because
of the conditions prevailing in both
countries To the Jew Russia has
been the house of bondage, and for
him America fairly may be described
as the land of promise.
The announcement is made for Gov
elect Guild that he will accept no im-
vitations 10 appear at public functions
unless they are events at which the
Commonwealth should be officially
represented by the governor. This
resolution is in line with the plan
that was followed by Ex-Gov. Crane
and Gov. Douglas, and the attitude of
the governor elect will be heartily in
dorsed. 1t was once thought necessary
for the preservation of his popularity,
that the governor of Massachusetts,
should employ great part Of his
time in attendance on all sorts of pub
lie functions, and il is only within the
past five or six years that the rule was
adopted of declining a great mass of
invitations that formerly had been &c
cepted.
What the effect has been on the
health of our governors who have
followed the dining-out plan, is re
vealed in the fact that Massachusetts
has only four living eX-governors.
while three Of our most popular chief
executives have been carried off in
their prime within the past 10 years.
Or. Hartwell Of the municipal sta
tistics department mas in his last bul-
letin brought out number of highly
interesting statistical ,)mparisons be-
tween Boston, its metropolitan dis
trict and other port.sns Of the stale.
BY this it appear hat in a large de-
gree the debts OF he cities and towns
in and around soston represent per-
mar ent inye u, "a, such as highways.