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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26
WOMEN! TAKE TO
PIPE At STAG.
INDULGE IN SMOKE AT A CLUB
ENTERTAINMENT
FIND NO PLEASURE IN WEED
Fresh Air Greatly in Demand After
the Experience - Unique Smoker
at Which Members of Fair
Sex Are Guests.

Chicago.-Dainty women, clad in
silk and satin and lace, sat upon the
softest of divans in the luxuriously
furnished parlors of a fashionable club
of this city the other evening and
gently drew at long-stemmed pipes.
And their expressions changed even
as the smoke filtered through the deep
bowls and the long stems of reed.
The look of expectancy fell before that
of realization. The color flew from
their cheeks. The luster Of their eyes
was dimmed. And fresh air was de-
manded as faintness seized them.
"Oh,. how was it?" exclaimed those
who had not been brave.
ooh, shock shock %shockingly
misunderstanding" exclaimed those
who had bravery.
And the next number on the pro-
gramme was called.
The members of the club gave a
smoker on the evening in question. 1t
was a unique smoker. In fact, it was
the most novel entertainment ever Of
fered in Chicago. 1t was termed an
equal rights" smoker and it was SO
In every sense of the word. The mem
bers were permitted to bring their
wives and their sweethearts and the
men promised that no part of the pro-
gramme should be omitted because OF
the presence of women.
A banquet "a first. The women
had come prepared to be shocked, but
they couldn't see anything exciting
about the spread. True, the men
smoked, but they usually did. It was
nearing midnight when the chair.
man of the entertainment committee
arose.
Ladies', you have ever had a curl
osity about the entertainments OF
men," he began.
"True! True!' came from the
women.
"Well we've invited you here thai
you may know from experience
Nothing has been added for your ben.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26

eft and nothing has peer omitted.
Come on, Lester"
And J.. Lester Habercorn came on.
He is a baritone singer. He sang a
song and then an encore. Then came
Clark and Turner. They were fol-
lowed by Grace Wilson, song and
dance artist. But the women hadn't
been shocked.
"A bit disappointing" remarked one
woman to her neighbor.
Rather. was the answer.
And then they sat up and stared.
for two men were upon the stage.
Gloves covered their hands and shoes
their feet. But the remainder of their
clothing might be described as the alb
breviation of an abbreviated costume.
They were prize fighters and in a mo-
ment their arms were flying like
piston rods.
20, how exciting" exclaimed one of
the women.
"A prize fight" came from another.
But it wasn't. 1t was just a bur-
lesque and the force of the blows
would hardly have torn paper, but the
women thought it a real fight and they
rose and cheered and clapped their
hands in their excitement.
"The smoker will now begin" an
nounced the chairman. He took sew
eral large pipes from a box. He
opened a tin car and took out a hand
full of sweetest tobacco: He: stepped
to the side of one of the women.
"Have a smoker" he queried, and
there was a challenge in the voice.
"Oh, thanks" and the pipe was
grasped between dainty fingers.
"Will you be bluffed?' queried the
chairman, and Mrs. D. said she
would not.
"And, Mrs. B., how about Won ?'
And Mrs. B said she would try.
And you, of course, will trust to
the wisdom Of your husband" And
he offered a pipe to Mrs. c.
He attempted to induce others to
smoke, but his efforts were of no
avail. Lighted tapers were passed
about.
"NoW, all together exclaimed the
chairman, and the pipes were lighted,
And II puff was sufficient. When a
proper amount of fresh air had en-.
tered the programme. was. continued.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26
FOR THE MUSIC.

lined with soft silk of the same color.
Three small brass buttons fasten it up.
and the handle was made with a piece
of the cord with which the case is
edged. The serge should be cut two
inches longer than a full size sheet of
music and 81 inches deep, one end be-
ing turned up to form a pocket to slip
the music in; this pocket is then fold
ed over and the end buttoned over it.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26
PRACTICAL U S A
The One Here illustrated Is Made of
Green Art Serge and Is Quite
Attractive.

This little case was made out of one
piece of green art serge entirely edged
with cord of green and gold silk. The
word Music" was worked in gold silk
on the front of the case, which was
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26
1.-THE Cold and Cruel Winter"
YER there are con

Ter there are con-
trasts in the big
centers of popu-
lation, ever I sup
pose there we're
1.-The poor We have
always B t
in winter the sto-
ries are so pitt
full, the realities
so hard to bear.
Each of u.s.. unless
we shut our ears
with h~ard-hearted
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26
Breathes Hour After Death.

St. Louis.-For an hour after Miss
Rosie Fischer had been pronounced dead
Of carbolic acid poisoning at the city dis
pensary and her heart had ceased to
beat she continued breathing spasmod-
ically. DR.. w. S. Lawrence said the
breathing was due to reflex spiral action.
and though breathing after death is very
rare, it is not unknown to medical sci
ence. He refused to allow the removal
of the body to the morgue until the
breathing had ceased.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26
The B1ue-Coated Missionaries.

lHE HdrLZ case
l was not called
on to wonder
"how poor people
can be so dirty"
but to marvel
that they could
be so clean amid
S II c h surround
/ n g S w h e n
streets are meyer
S prin k e d or
swept, when there
is a hior hnnoh 0f
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26
Sleep-Talk Reveals Bigamv.

San Be%rnardino, Cal.-Mrs. Jennie
Vinson, while talking in her sleep.
revealed to her husband, William VIM
son, the fact that she was a bigamist.
He awoke her, and she confessed thai
she had another husband living, ane
now Vinson has sued for divorce. Mr..
and Mrs. Vinson were married five,
years ago and have been prominent in
church work and society here.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26
hE|GHB0RH00D CLUB.
WAYS IN WHICH NEIGHBORIN0
IS BENEFICIAL.

Cards, Chess n Music May Furnish
the Occasion for a Neighhorheod
Cuba study-class Is Enjoyable
and Prodtabls-Young and Old
Alike Should Be Allowed Member
ship-A Dozen People the IDEAL
Number Tho Provincial Made
Cosmopolitan.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26
AS Merry as a Marriage Bell.

in childhood
and girlhood days
ever we looked
forward to weeks
succeeding Christ.
mas as gayest of
the gay, the time
for r0ut and ball,
for indoor and out.
door winter carni.
val. And the festi.
val season remains
the same we arc
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26
Where Comfort Reigns,

other Sunday
l walked from the
Midway north to
Fortieth, keeping
near the lake all
the way. 1t was
quite three miles,
and a walk I en-
joyed to the full;
for nowhere was
there hint of pow
erty or ugliness
or grinding labor.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26
CHICAGO IN WINTER.
CONTRASTS THAT ARE NOW
SEEN ON THE STREETS.
THE TWO WINTER GIRLS
The Great Prosperity Has Passed
Some By-one Sadly Typical In
stance-A Long Street Of
Beauty and Elegance.

HICAGO. To-day
l saw such a
pretty winter pic
ture, a W ell
groomed, pink
checked girl snug
ly clad in broad
cloth and furs,
warm and trim,
aglow with life.
The winds might
blow as they list
ed around the Ma
n Temple, the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26

The Midway itself is so clean-swept
and beautiful, it's lawns and tree
spaces tended as carefully as an Eng
lish park; and the street along which
I trudged, showed one great: honsa
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26
KATHERINE POPE.
To the Bitter End

First Old Sport-They tell me little
Styler is lying at Deaths door.
Second Old Sport-Well, you know,
thew saw the real liar never gives in.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26
Cnlnchilla in Vogue,

The popularity of gray, so marked
in every sort of costume, has held
chinchilla-which threatened to go out
FIRMLY in favor, -f:-,.. =
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26
Shady Past.

Some men reach for fame with
Ooiled hands,. RS
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-06-05
LINCOLN
School Committee Discusses
Congest0d Conditions Of the
Schools

The school committee held its regu-
lar monthly meeting last evening and
the principal business was a discus
sion OF the congested condition OF the
schools at Albion.
Two architects submitted plans for
a four-room building.
A resolution was passed recommend
ing that at the coming town meeting
an appropriation OF 800 be made for
the purchase OF the land on which the
Albion school is located. III this is
done IL will be possible TO give quit
claim deed for this land IL II is de-
sired TO sell II. IL was also voted
that price OF $1,000 be placed on this
land
A committee was chosen TO confer
with the Valley Falls company In re-
lation to a site for a new school build
ing at Albion. 1t was also voted
Go recommend the appropriation or
$4,000 for the erection OF the pro-
posed school building.
Several reports were received and
,he designations of thrce teachers were
accepted
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-06-05
CUMBERLAND
DEMOCRATS WILL
WIN TOMORROW

Tomorrow is to occur the annual town
meeting and the voters will gather and
elect a new set OF officers TO conduct the
year.
Unless all signs fail the straight Demo-
cratic ticket for the town council and
school committee will be elected. There
are some OF the adherents OF the Repub-
lican machine who profess TO believe that
their party will elect a part OF the town
council but there is every indication that
the Republican candidates will be classed
among the "also rams"
There is no question that the Republi-
can party Is thoroughly discouraged this
year. The council elected a year ago had
a majority Of that party, but its conduct
OF affairs for the past II months has not
been such as to make votes. 1t was no
wonder therefore that some Of them de-
clined to run for another term.
The Democratic ticket this year is a
strong one. 1t is so recognized by every
voter and while some of the Republican
candidates might under other circum-
stances run fairly well, their chances OF
winning tomorrow are mighty slim.
The party bosses dictated the nominal
tions in the caucus, but the people who
compose the electorate will choose other
men at the poles.
ENTERED THE POSTOFFICE.
The police were notified yesterday that
sometime Sunday robbers entered the VAL
ley Falls postoffice and having gained en-
trance 10 the building proceeded to use
dynamite or some other explosive In an
attempt 10 get into the safe.
In this. however. they were unsuccess-
/ full, as all they accomplished was the
breaking off OF the safe knob. II is pos
sible the robbers were heightened away
before they completed the job.
DISCUSSING WAGE QUESTION
1t is evident the employees in the cotton
mills hereabouts are a long way from be-
ing satisfied with the present conditions
and while there is no probability OF any
labor troubles in the near future the sew
eral unions are discussing the situation
and on Sunday last President Golden of
the United Textile Workers of America
talked to the members OF the Mulespin-
ners union and referred to the agitation
now going on throughout the east In ia
vor OF higher wages.
TOWN COUNCIL
The town council will hold meeting at
the town hall tomorrow and complete the
business OF the year. When this board
meets again II will be to count the votes,
but by that time IL will be pretty gener-
ally known what the result is.
SLIGHT FIRE.
The Valley Falls f1re department
was called out shortly before o'clock
yesterday afternoon for a slight blaze
in the cellar of a house at the corner
OF Broad and Elm streets. The fire
was in a pile OF old papers and there
was no damage.
CANDIDATES. WERE THERE.
At meeting of the Democratic town
comnittee held last evening practically
all of the candidates OF that party TO
be voted for tomorrow were present
and there was a feeling of the utmost
confidence in the result OF the election.
A number OF speeches were made and
the feeling was general that the party
would surely elect Its entire ticket
from one end to the other.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-06-05
PAWTUCKET OFFICE,
THE NEWS-DEMOCRAT
No. Kinyon Block.
Tel. 279-L.
CAS- FRANCHISE
BILL SIGNED BY
MAYOR HIGGINS

Mayor Higgins sent to the city clerk
this afternoon, with his signature, the
resolution Recently passed by the city
council granting an exclusive franchise
for a term OF Is year to the Pawtucket
Gas company.
With the resolution there was also n
communication. addressed TO the city
council. I'm which he set forth his reasons
for signing It,
He calls attention TO the fact that the
agitation for lower rates has been going
on for about four years. The first propo-
sition presented by the gas company pro-
vides for a 25-year exclusive franchise
and this was turned down. Then came
request for n 20-year franchise. which met
the same fate. The latest proposition
calle for a l5-year-exclusive franchise, the
rate 60 be 81 10 per thousand for the first
fve years; s106 for the second Ave years
adm 500 for the last five.
The mayor states that while he is
opposed on principal to tho granting OF
exclusive franchises still having I'm mind
that this company now doing business
has. by the nature OF circumstances, prac-
tically an exclusive right In the city. ne
boHeves n unwice that he should stand
In the way OF the people securing bene-
fits OF ceaper gas. and he therefore affixes
his signature TO the resolution.
The present gas rate in Pawtucket Is
81 80 per thousand
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-06-05

bringing about him large force OF as
sistants who are also accomplishing their
work
on Thursday evening plans have been
made for another registration rally This
one will be held I'm Temperance hail. on
Pawtucket avenue and good list of
speakers will be engaged for that evening.
The rally will be held under the auspices
OF the Democratic Registration and
Naturalization club OF which Thomas +.
Corcoran Is president
VETERANS MET.
The members OF Tower post. No. II, G..
A. r., met I'm Grand Army hall on Ex
change street last evening and listened TO
a number OF reports relating TO Memorial
day. The usiness was entirely OF a rou-
tine character.
AUTOMOBILE TRIP.
Charles o. Read, accompanied by Mrs
Read and their son Albert. started yester-
day afternoon on an automobile trip.
which will take them through the eastern
part OF Massachusetts, and southern New
Hampshire They will attend the class
day exercises at st. Paul's school in Con-
cord where their son Frederick attends.
CITY HALL RECORDS.
The following transactions have been
placed on record at the city hail. during
the past "a hours:
Monday June 4, 1906
Real estate conveyances-James Kelett
and wife to John J. Link and wife. two
lots OF land with improvements on Ken
yon avenue; consideration $40.
Mortgage Deed OF Real Estate--John j.
Link and wife 10 the Pawtucket fnstltu-
tion for Savings, on two lots OF land with
improvements on Kenyon avenue; amount
$500
Discharge of Mortgage Deed OF Real
Estate-James Kellett and wife by Elijah
Kent, on two lots OF land with improve
ments on Kenyon avenue; amount 1920
Transfer of Mortgage Deed OF Real Es-
tate--walter r. Cook TO Elijah Kent:
consideration 81.
Lease-Caroline b. Nye to Bernard and
Anna Cabsus, land. buildings and i'm
provements on East avenue from June l.
1906. to June /. 1912; rental, 5000 per an
mum.
Intentions OF Marriage-ArciSill Edward
Martin and Mary Eta Lucitt, Henry T.
Morris and Aurora Marie Tetreauft ali of
this city: Michael Dwire OF Nasonville.
Conn, and Elizabeth Veronica German OF
this city.
CHILDREN STRAYED AWAY.
Judging from the reports being turned
into the police there is an epidemic OF
lost children just now. Most OF those
iNPpiNON litii' younkHltTs WHO nave
probably wandered few blocks away
from their own door and have been taken
care OF by kind-hearted neighbors. who
Will soon restore them to their own
parents.
FIRE UNDERWRITERS.
There was a meeting OF the Pawtucket
board OF fire underwriters held yesterday
afternoon, but the business transacted
was entirely OF a routine nature. II had
been expected that there would be a com
munication from the New England board
In relation TO the proposed raise In in
surance rates. but this was not forth
coming.
TROLLEY VICTIM BURIED
Arthur j. Bennett, one OF the victoms OF
the terrible fatality at Moores Corners.
was buried In Moshansrck cemetery this
afternoon.
The funeral was held from the resi-
dence. % Amy street. and Rev. Mr.. Wilks
offclated at services held in the Church
or the Good Shepard
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-06-05
OF
DOCTORS MEET
IN CONVENTION

Boston. June 5.-With clinics arranged
for every department OF medicine and
surgery and with daily sessions OF dozen
different departments or sections, the an
nual convention of the American Medical
association was opened here today with
several thousand physicians and surgeons
in attendance from this country and many
from abroad.
For extensiveness of preparation and
care and elaborateness OF detail for the
four days OF its sessions. no such assem-
blage has been held in Boston for many
years. The incoming delegates, a great
many of whom were accompanied py
members OF their families. taxed the ca
pacity OF the hotels and nlled many pri-
vate lodging houses.
The work OF the convention Is divided
among the house OF delegates. which
opened It's deliberations yesterday and
which transacts the business for the as
ISOLATION: three general meetings or the
association arranged for today and tomor-
row and the daily sessions OF various de-
partments at which will be read some
400 papers on subjects OF medical and sur
gical interest.
The daily departmental readings includ-
Il
prcaitce OF medicine, opthalmology,
larynxology, laryngolgy and otology, sur
gerry and anatomy, diseases OF children,
stomatology. pathology and physiology,
hygiene and sanitary science, nervous
and mental diseases and cutaneous medi-
cine and surgery.
The opening general meeting OF the as
ISOLATION was called TO order by President
Lewis 8. McMudtrey, Louisville. KY,
after which prayer was given by Rev.
Edward Everett Hale.
The addresses of welcome included
speeches by President Charles w. Eliot
OF Harvard university; President A. T.
Cabot OF the Massachusetts Medical So
ciety; Governor Curtis Guild, Jr., and
Mayor John +. Fitzgerald.
This was followed by the installation
into office OF the president-elect. Dr. Will
liam j. Mayo of Rochester, Mimi. who
delivered an address to the convention.
The papers read before the various Sec
ton meetings were almost entirely OF a
technical nature, although the discus
sions before the department of hygiene
and sanitary science constituted an ex-
ception.
Following the address OF the chaim-
man, DIR. Densow Lewis OF Chicago. on
The New Hygiene" DIR. Louis Faugeres
Bishop OF New York city spoke upon the
general question OF health inspection as
applied to the individual. DR.. Bishop
thought that each individual should pos
sess a record OF his own physiological Pc
culiarities. To his mind every person
suffering from a chronic disease or a ten
dency TO such should be examined at
regular intervals. In this way unneces-
sary suffering and therapeutic expert
ments would be avoided.
In considering the subject THE Plague
in American Cities" DR.. n. X. Foster OF
Sacramento. Cal, pointed out that there
was a constant and increasing danger of
plague in American seaports
The speakers today at the continued
meeting OF the American Castro Entero-
logical association included Or. c. w. Nc
Caskey OF Fort Wayne. Ind, Dr. Morris
Manages OF New York. DIR. Julius Frieden-
wald OF Baltimore, DR.. y ID. Spivak OF
Denver and DR.. w. b. Cannon of Bos-
ton.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-06-05
QUICKLY WIPED OUT EVIDENCE
Continued from page one.


regard the sweeping up OF rags, smooth
ing up the road and covering with sand
the spots that showed bloodstains as any
thing to be at all ashamed Of 1t was
done, as we have always done IL, purely
as a plain duty we owe to the public and
TO ourselves"
When Captain Alonzo r. Williams,
whose early presence at the scene OF the
accident was commented on. was seen to-
day at his office in the Rhode Island COM
panys suite on the seventh floor OF the
Union Trust building, he said:
II was invited to run over in Mr.. Briggs
special car and went along. l had moth
ing TO do with having the wreckage re-
moved, but l don't see wherein / could
be blamed lf l had assisted in its re-
moval.
"The fact is, though, that the wreckers
were there ahead OF me. II Is common
thing all over the country TO clear up
wreckage just as fast as 1t can be done.
II is not a question OF whether a fatality
accompanied the wreck, or 1t was plain
case OF accident involving only the de-
struction OF property"
Another attorney. who spoke with con-
siderable feeling, said; THE employees or
the Rhode Island company act at times
as IL they think they have no RESPONSE
bility TO the public. Only few years ago
a motorman whose car killed the husband
of client OF mine actually laughed at
me on the witness stand when damage
suit against the company was being tried;
and I had TO call him TO order in the
presence of the dead mans widow. The
jury gave the woman n good sum; but
the higher court set the verdict aside, and
she got nothing
I'm my opinion. every motorman whose
car kills person should be detained by
the authorities until IL is determined
whether or not II was n case of criminal
negligence. Any other course would nat
urally have a tendency TO encourage ir-
responsibility I'm motormen and to increase
the danger TO the general public"
Chief OF Police Adams OF East Proyi-
dence was asked this afternoon what the
practice Is I'm that town In cases OF fatali-
ties on the public roads. and said:
well, we have to use our discretion.
In this particular case, i could not as
sumo that the motorrnan was criminally
negligent, as his car left the track at
time when he was I'm as much danger ss
anybody else.
ut was a different case from n collision
OF two cars on a single track or n COLI
sion between n car and some other vehi-
Gle. or between two vehicles Of any kind.
Generally, I'm such cases, some one Is TO
blaane on the face of things, but not so.
"I did not arrest the motorman for this
reason. Moreover. an officer OF the com
pany who was present assured me that
the man would be produced whenever he
might be needed. Lecheur. the motor
man. was deeply affected by the accident.
friends, and he could hardly talk without
crying"
Chief Adams has several summonses TO
be served on witnesses at the inquest. but
none had been served up TO this after
noon.