The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-12-28
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The Peoples Hudson river line be-
tween New York and Albany is 10 have
another mammoth steamer, the con-
tract for The building Of which has
Just been awarded. and she will be
ready for the summer business Of 1903.
The hull Of the new craft will be or
steel and she will be over A40 feet in
length. She will have over 500 state
rooms many OF them in bathroom
suites, and sleeping capacity for about
300 passengers. The new vessel viii
be somewhat similar 10 the very sue
cessful steamer &. w. Morse of the
same line, though she will have every
unique and modern feature that may
present itself 70 her builders during
me period Of construction.
The recent exhibition OF autos calls
attention to the garage system now
So prevalent in this city. George G..
Boidt has just sold garage for $780,
| 0JO-a large sum Tor mere auto
warehouse, but there are others OF
even greater cost. Very few auto
! owners have room for storage and
| hence the garage has become neccs-
/ sity. The tayorite locality is middle
! Broadway, and the garage business has
expelled the carriage manufacturers
and other traffic simply because II
! Yields better rents, and no wonder, as
/ the charge is from $50 to $40 month
/ tor every auto. There is now storage
| space in the above locality for 5000
autos and a heavy aggregate must be
The result.
! Every year, about Christmas time,
the newspapers devote more or less
space 20 the figures and comment rel
ative to the money which is sent back
To- the old countries by men and wom-
Tn who have worked and saved here
in the United States Just now atten-
tion is specially called 10 the fact that
one OF the big liners sailing from New
York recently took out 1893 sacks or
mail-said 10 be the largest number
ever carried by a single vessel-and
this body of mail included money or
ders for S905 900 These money orders
were going to the families and friends
of immigrants living abroad, and il has
been ascertained that of the SS05, 600
carried by this single ship. $219,600
was consigned TO Great Britain, Sl43,-
$40 to Italy. S8S.0O0 to Sweden, SS2,-
coo to Austria, $S0, 900 to Hungary, and
so on. IL is estimated that what i'm
migrants send home each year in
money-order gifts for their families or
the creation of a home fund amounts
to many million dollars.
One hundred Of the best known men
in the country have consented to the
use of their names as members of a
committee to further the movement for
national department of health launch
ed by Prof. j. Pease Norton OF Yale
at the meetings of the American as
sociation for the advancement OF
science, in Ithaca, last summer. PreSi-
dent Roosevelt had been consulted re-
garding the movement and told its pro-
moterS that the best method TO follow
was to secure popular Endorsement by
agitation.
This Prof. Norton purposes 10 do.
The committee is not pledged to sup
port any particular plan and is free TO
recommend the establishment OF a de-
partment with a representative In the
cabinet, or bureau under one OF the
existing departments. either as a new
bureau or the enlargement of one of
the existing organizations, like the
marine hospital service.
"To equip human machinery of eV-
ceptional man organized and kept in
action to make headway against death,
morbidity. cancer and tuberculosis IS
the gist of Prof Norton's recommends
tions, and he thinks that at least $780,
100000 should be appropriated annual
ly for the purpose. Thousands have
been expended by the government for
stamping out cholera among swine, but
not one dollar was ever voted for Grad
icating pneumonia among human be-
ings. he declares.
The new Hall OF Records in this city.
Is the finest building Of the kind in
the world, but the removal Of the books
10 heir new home made a serious de-
lay among searchers. as it required
several days. This nsW Office is not
able, being the first building erected in
this city for such purpose, as the
former registry Office had been the
debtors Jail and previously the records
had been stored in the city hall. Now.
| however, they have grand home,
where they may remain for many a CEN
tury The volumes OF deeds and mort
cages number about 10000 and as their
aggregate weight is several tons.
the removal was heavy task.
The building has required eight years