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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-03-27

This action OF the committee is regarded
rs taking long step toward the early
accomplishment OF results OF a practical
nature, and Is generally accepted by all
interested as a very wise move In the
right direction.
In the long delay that has followed the
inception OF this Improvement innumera-
BILE schemes have been devised and no end
OF suggestions discussed. but no practical,
results have followed. and the action OF
the committee appears. therefore. TO be
received with unbounded satisfaction as
indicative OF an intention 10 push the Inn
provement with all possible expedition.
Alderman Cooke today said, as chair
man OF the committee: I'VE have select
ed a competent engineer and will rely up
on his judgment Whatever he thinks Is
best that we should recommend 10 the
city council that we will doubtless sub
init"
The committee adopted a resolution that
Mr.. Francis shall take under considera-
tion all the plans and all the propositions
left with the committee, and present
report on what. in his judgment may be
the best there was In them for the de-
sired approach 10 the east side.
At the same time he Is TO submit 10 the
committee any plan which he may evolve
from his own ideas after looking over the
ground.
no une limit IL mentioned, rs the COM
mittee wished that Mr.. Francis should be
eptirely untrammelled in his study OF the
xIrnhlem--
Mr.. Francis is 10 have such assistance
rs he may desire from the city engineers
department. such as drawings, making OF
plats and sketch work. II is understood
that he has thought Of two district
schemes for an easy APPROACH. neither one
or which has been touched upon by the
several gentlemen who have submitted
plans for the consideration of the commit
tee
George Blinn Francis was born at West
Hartford. Conn, Jan. 81, 1857. his parents
being Blinn Francis and Lucy (HarD
Francis. He came to Providence April.6.
1874. as student In the engineering depart
nent OF the Providence water works for
three years, after this serving I'm the city
engineers department. until November,
1881.
From that date until May, 1887. he he
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-03-27
Mr. Oven Seaman

London, March 27.-Associations which
have long made the position Of prestige
and Importance add interest 10 the selec-
ton OF Mr.. owen seamen as the editor OF
Punch
He succeeds In that position Sir +. c.
Burnand. Mr.. Seamen's selection has been
favorably commented on in England. and
nobody has been found to cavii, not even
the nine hundred and ninety-nine English
men In a thousand who are said TO believe
that they should have the right TO direct
the Times. write plays or run Great Brit
aims comic papers.
Signed 20. S. the writings OF Mr.. Sea-
men have long been familiar TO lovers OF
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-03-27
SULTAN BARS TURKS WHO
ARE NATURALIZING AMERICANS

Washington. March N.--1t is now prac-
tically impossible for former Turkish sub
jects TO regain entrance into Turkey. ac-
cording to a dispatch from the American
minister at Constantinople made public
by the state department yesterday
Since the attempt on the life OF the
sultan last summer. Minister Leishman
says in his ditpatch. the severity OF the
enforcement OF the order against the re-
admission OF former Turkish subjects has
steadily Increased, as Turkish officials be-
lieve Armenian revolutionists and their
sympathizers were responsible for the
attempted assassination
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-03-27
MASTER CARPENTERS REFUSE
TO PAY So AS MINIMUM WAGE

Taunton. Mass. March E-The Taunton
master builders will not grant the increase
In wages demanded by the union OF car
penters and joiners. and which was TO
have gone into effect next Monday. The
proposed scale was So per day as a mini
mum, and was adopted as a district rate
at a convention OF delegates OF the unions
from Plymouth and Bristol counties In
December last
The masters at meeting discussed the
matter and are 10 make no Immediate
change In their scale, which Is from 2.25
to $3.50 as a minimum. IL Is not yet
known whether the union will take steps
to enforce the demand
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-03-27

humor and light verse. Like Sir Francis
Mr. Sanmen Is a Cambridge man.
His flrst appearance In the pages that
have been opened TO so many brilliant
artists and men OF letters was on January
l3 1894, when he contributed parody OF
Kipling's Rhyme OF the Kipperling :"
As parodist. in deed. he is best known,
but had has done also. and is doing, ad-
mirable verse on political events.
He was thirtysix when he Joined Mr..
Punchs regular stan I'm 1897 and he has
been assistant editor OF the paper he now
directs for the last three or four years.
His published verses include "a Harvest
OF Chaf." "ln Cap and Bells" "the Bat
tie OF the Bays" and Borrowed Plumes "
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-03-27
PAWTUXET

Thomas Wiley, an old fisherman OF this
village. died last evening al o'clock at
his home on Main street He has been
ailing for about a year Mr.. Wiley will
be much missed in the village as he was
a hard worker and always endeavored TO
render help to those In need.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-03-27

Commander William c. Bliss of the
Rhode Island Naval Battalion. in a gen
eral order, has announced the appointment
on the chief petty staff OF the battalion
OF Frederick 8. Cutting as chief electri-
clan. and has directed his transfer from
the first division at Bristol TO the head
quarters OF the battalion at Providence.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-03-27
NEWSLETS

Watin' foh de summer,
Waitin' foh de song
Mis- June she wrote a letter;
She'll come visitin' foh long.
She dipped her pen in sunshine
An she wrote II on de sky
Miss June. well all be mighty glad
To see you, by and by.
De breeze done brought de message
Dat has made us all so gay.
or winter tried 10 stop IL,
But we got II anyway.
De journeys long befo' her.
But we's startin' TO prepare
An de trees begins 10 whisper
Bout de clothes dey's gwinter wear.
Washington Star.
street. was robbed af some
choice coins some time last night.
Mr.. William Clegg of this city has ac-
,epted a position in the wireless" SER
vice on the Fall River line steamers.
Treasurer EUGENE F. Wendelschaefer
,f the Providence Opera house is likely
10 be seen in his familiar place in the
.icket Office at Melrose park this season.
Richard Lynch, 414l Washington street
Boston, reported TO the Central station
police that while on Washington stree,
ast night at 11:30 his $50 watch was
by "A large colored man who
made off wit hit.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-03-27
MkGIC HAIR STAIN.

For brown or black, prepared by
GEORGE ORMsBY, Wig Maker and
iIairworksr, i@ fremont street, Bostoa.
u ~ simple, safe ana easily applied con.
tains no lead polsoDs use u once and you
viii never use any other Bl.ANDINo A
blsAkDiNo, u Weyb0sset street
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-03-27

HANLEY'S PEERLESS ALE is bottled
AT the brewery bott1ing works under saDf-
tary conditions, and with the greatest care,
Tor home, hotel and club use. Tho brewery
bottiing Is guaranteed pure and wholesome.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-03-27
HEAD
Of EAST SIDE
IMPROVEMENT

e@a~ae :ss-aa
Francis formerly
. approach
expected that visit this
3 s " ~ WIN w ~ anu ~ ~ !
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-04
Kentucky in statuarv Hall.

Kentucky has never made her contribu-
lions TO Statuary Hall in the Capitol here,
and discussion of the subject Is now In
progress In the state. She has some excel
lent material to choose from. and very
properly. opinion favors the selection OF
statesmen.
Col. Jack Chinn. member of the present
state senate. proposes Henry Clay and
William Gcebel. but. to the credit of the
commonwealth the suggestion finds no
echo. Mr.. Goebers friends revere his mem
DRY. and they are not few, but it takes
q queer judgment TO associate him for such
IN honor with hierophant like Clay.
Clay and Crittenden find much favor In
fact It may be said that they are the best
known Kentuckians in our national political
history. MIR. Crttendens fate has been
something like that of Mr. Everett and Mr.
Choate in Massachusetts They were use
ful and accomplished men, but languished
somewhat in the shade of MIR. Webster. So
did Mr.. Crittenden languish In the shade of
MIR. Clay. and afterwards in the shade of
his memory, But he possessed some very
strong and striking qualities, and did the
state and the country some important serv-
fee.
Mr.. Watterson suggests Henry Clay and
John c. Breckenridge, and there is much to
support the selection. General Breckenridge
was man OF great force himself. and rep
resented moreover family of the highest
distinction In the state. The Breckinrldges
were among the first comers helped TO
shape things held the most important Of
fees. and stamped their character and abi-
flies on the new Institutions. This scion
OF the stock made rapid progress in public
lie and after Mr. Clay's death was prob
ably the most influential man in the state.
He was greatly admired by the young men,
and led a large number of them into the
confederate army.
one could wish to see General Breckin-
ridge accompany Mr. Clay here for the ad-
dAional reason that IN the hands of COM
petent sculptor he should make up admir-
ably and impressibly In marble. He was
one OF the handsomest men Of his day, and.
whether afoot or on horseback, carried him
self superbly. His figure IN Statuary Hall
would easily be among the most striking
displayed there
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-04
Wonan,s Way.

Woman is making such rapid progress
that 1t taxes the chronicler to record 1t,
even though he be shorthand chrontcler.
that an automobile cannot pass her.
In poetry and music woman has long held
proud place. In sculpture and painting
particularly painting) she has done great
deal. OF course, painting being such gem
eral accomplishment among the ladies It
were astounding If some artists did not re-
suit. Many women have become such adopts
in the thinning art that they can paint
away wrinkles and make age resemble
(more or less) rosy youth.
But the following dispatch reveals how
woman is invading the manly arts and
sciences and how heroically she has passed
the stage of fainting in the presence of a
mouse:
Griffin, Ind-Mrs. Louis Whiffon was ar
of having attempted to shoot the sheriff OF
Hamilton county, Ill. She was placed in
the local caboose to await the arrival of
officers. Little attention was paid to the
woman after the arrest and she was left
practically to herself About 5 o'clock.
when the marshal went into the room to
take the prisoner supper he found the door
standing open and Mrs. Whiffon gone. She
had escaped by heating the poker of the
stove and then burning holes in the door
around the lock till she could wrench 1t OF
freight train within five squares of the
JAIL A telegram was sent to the stations
ahead and Mrs Whiffon was arrested at
Carmi, Ill"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-04
ciai principles. II the boz ONCE shows q
dAf1cife them he has ce11n Hrf1u1.

ciai principles. II the boz ONCE shows q
deficit. then he has gone wrong.
It all depends upon the public. after all.
If a man goes into the seciusion of his lab
oratory and compounds mixture which he
can persuade the people to believe Is a sure
cure for certain Ills. he can charge for that
connection Just as much as the demand for
it will stand. II a Snowman finds monkey
that can talk he has an attraction that
Will probably draw big crowds and he can
put up the tarin accordingly. He can az
ford to pay an enormous price for the
speaking simian. In matters OF art, how
ever, there Is q different element. This
singer has for long time been held aioof
by circumstances from the hoi polIoi. The
patrons OF grand opera and those of the
vaudeville are not. as broad rule. identi-
cal. There are many thousands who would
eagerly pay fifty cents for ten minutes or
singing by this artistic and would yet ss0rn
to pay $50 for a chance to hear her sing
ten times as long in an opera. There again
are the laws of economics twisted into
snarl. 49,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-04
The New Regime in Russia.

The managing editor of the St. Petersburg
Daily Mail smiled and said TO himself, after
reading Br.ski's latest notes from Wash
ington, that his correspondents was grow
ing philosophical:
II am convinced that we must not take
these Americans too seriously. for both
their orators and their newspapers easily
fall into superiatives and Congregations
There are TWO words. much in use, that
describe the national weakness. One is
'buncombe' and the other is 'guff. The
former Is the older. and now enjoys the
stamp OF the dictionary. The other. how
ever. is growing in responsibility, and in
another decade viii probably be In the
primmest mouths. Great words both, and
Il free Institutions do for our people what
they have done and still are doing for these
people. We shall need their equivalents in
our business. II you don't mind I'll ad-
dress myself to the manufacture of such
words and phrases as will briefly and
breezily describe the things that can now
foresee are to grow out of our new con-
ditions and opportunities. AS the Ameri-
cans say, we must keep up with the process
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-04
JOHN CHIEAMAE.

From the Cleveland Leader
In few days noise like that of break
ing China may be heard from across the
Pacific.
From the ST. Joseph Gazette.
China Is awakening. The next thing she
will do Is to get up and let the devil run
through the whole empire.
From the Sioux City Tribune.
Our old friend WI Ting introduced the
genuine Irish boycott into China, but they
don't know how to use 1t and trouble Is
the result. The Chinese should take their
cue elsewhere.
From the Newark Evening Times.
When China starts IN to uplifting herself
she begins with modern guns and boycott,
which may or may not show that the
"heathen Chinee Is peculiar"
From the ST. Louis Globe Democrat.
Admitting it to be true that China is
awake Empress An ought to be willing to
thank Uncle Sam for pinching her.
From the Birmingham News.
China presents fine example of a nation
which has armed itself with a searchiight
and gone out In quest of trouble.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-04
The Speakers Gloves.

Speaker Cannon receives his South Carolina
home made gloves at the wrong time, though
of course the present is much appreciated
But the day is approaching when he must
handle things without gloves. The Senate
is beginning to pick House bills to pieces.
ana when the conferees meet and report
the House viii need to be firm for its own
Mr.. Cannon does not lack for experience OF
this kind. and he usually expects a scrap
with the Senate. Well clad will he be for
such an engagement In his jeans suit, his
wool hat, and old-style galluses. but he
would do well to leave the gloves at home
and go for the opposition bare-handed. He
fights In the open and according to the old
rules and too many togs would interfere
with his freedom of movement. In both at
tack and defense he needs to be very much
alive In meeting such antagonist as the
Senate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-04
Ozark Air and Missouri Graft.

Curiosity and skepticism are not exciu-
sively traits of Missourians. Indeed. now
that the good people of Aurora, of that
state. have proclaimed themselves as cam
didates for the honor of furnishing an Ideal
capital site for the United States, on the
score of possessing the finest climate In the
world virtually the whole country is asking
some rather pertinent questions. 1t re-
puires no stretch of memory to recall certain
developments In Missouri a few years ago
savoring strongly of that which the Au-
rorans call graft There are even now in
Jail sunory eminent citizens of the COM
snonwealth who have been branded by the
law as bribers and bride takers. The court
calendars are congested with accusations
against others. The other day a citizen of
st. Louis died and Immediately the word
was passed that a certain gentleman. now
soJourning in Europe would probably re-
turn to his former home in Missouri. be-
cause the dead man could tell no tales to
send him to the penitentiary. The present
governor of Missouri is the very man who
caused all this moral upheaval. and he
game from the graft-ridden city of st.
Louis.
What the people of the country. beyond
Missouri, want to know is whether this
moral awakening in that state was caused
by the sweet airs of the Ozarks. The cap
.atal of the commonwealth remains at JEFF
ferson City, situated in the very center of
the state on the banks OF the muddy Mis-
souri,. Its fame has never been spread
abroad an especially saiubrious place.
Query: Did all the graft and bribery and
pther fraud arise from the malarial inhu-
ences that surround Jefferson City? An
other query: Why have not the people of
Aurora with all their natural advantages,
managed to secure the removal of the state
Mouse and the executive offices from Jeffer-
.son City down into the Ozarks. years ago?
Would Missouri have been spared the
shame and suffering she has endured these
past few years If that had been done?
Charity begins at home. and the good
Ghousekeeper usually attends scrupulously to
her own cleaning and busting before she
criticises the methods of her neIghbors. So
now unless Missouri Is really purified of all
the graft bacilli that spring from the murky
atmosphere of Jefferson City and St Louis
3t would seem far more to the point for the
Aurorans to concentrate their efforts upon
"a domestic consumption of the benefcent
efficiency of the Ozark air be demonstrated
Bat home and then perhaps the nation will
consider the question of moving the federal
capital our there TO get the moral benefit of
Abe unspeakably perfect climate. For IL
Ozark air, working upon the souls of the
Missouri legislators. can bring that state
up from the mire in which IT has been wal
lowing, then it can work other wonders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-04
The King of Subpoena Dodgers.

While 1t has its funny side. the search
for John d. Rockefeller by the subpoena
servers OF New York has also its serious
aspect. which must be considered by those
who are surveying the tendencies of the
times. Here is one of the best-known men
In the world successfully lodging the repre-
sentatives of the courts for weeks and thus
preventing the enforcement of the laws.
The spectacle is highly dishonorable to him
as a business man and as a citizen, but
when he Is finally caught and hailed to
court he will not suffer in the least degree
for his deliberate evasion of service. He
will perhaps assert that he did not know
he was wanted He can possibly claim that
1t has not been his fault that the process
servers have Numbered his cold trail.
1t is even possible that Mr.. Rockefeller,
with his hand on his heart, may declare
that if he had known that his presence in
court was desired he would gladly have
saved his pursuers all the trouble that has
been taken.
Have matters come to the pass that
man with sufficient means to pay the shot
can perpetually escape his legal response
bilities? 1t is shameful that 1t cost the
United States several years of hard work
to get Greene and Gaynor out OF Canada
for trial. But it is even more shameful
that 1t has been impossible for the courts
to-secure service on a man right within the
borders of not only this. country but those
of the state of his legal residence.
In the old days the robber baron, when
run to earth by the rude lawmen of the
period, barricaded himself in his rocky fast
ness and stood siege with a cheerful spirit
The game then was won by the side with
the most arrows and men and the biggest
store of provender and the most nerve. The
robber baron often won out. and again he
was often captured and hanged from the
highest turret of his moated castle.
Methods are gentler now than they were
in those good old days of the strong right
arm and the sharpened lance, and conse-
quently the man of resource is the better
able to escape punishment. He interposes
his lawyers between him and the besiegers
of the courts. The arm of the law is long
but sometimes his legs are longer yet.
What will be the result of such demon
STATIONS of immunity that which the
agile subpoena dodger Is now giving? He
is assuredly not modifying the public re-
sentiment against the trusts. He is not
making the big syndicates popular. The
poor man who Is quickly nabbed whenever
he is wanted" or who. in flight, is speedily
overtaken by Geographic orders of arrest,
is not likely TO feel less resentful of the
differences which millions make. H. Fl.
Rogers aroused vast amount OF public in
dignation when he coolly sat back in the
witness chair and refused to answer ques-
lions put to him by the attorney general of
Missouri. This spectacle of Rockefeller's
evasion of the processes of the courts has
the more sinister significance in view of
the defiant attitude of the whole coterie of
Standard Oil magnates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-04
REVISED FOOT BALL RULES FOR 1906.

Rule /.
The ..forwards'' must handouts to prevent
chance OF lighting,
The Kalfbacks must be muzzled to restrain them
The a Quarter rte must be chlorofored before each
play exciting
Rule II.
Each player must be guarded by & trainer. two
Two n R6s ss policeman and eleven politicians
A chaplain, too. must soothe him during frequent
intermssions.
Rule III.
Don't use rough language. Tempers must be
Tn. s4S 9Hea s' not proper place to wrange or
If you uoi must use profanity please In Greek
Latin.
Rule ".
To bar ont all professionals favor, this appli-
Each student is disqualified, despite his fierce
Who has not gained his Phi D. in calculus
science.
Rule V.
If some one takes the ball from you. cont try by
stand stil and thunder. ..HaIt,'' three times. aud
Can np ta's constable at once and have the copper
cop him.
Rule VI
tries 10 kick Il
Must take it the referee and get credit ticket
Each coupons good for seven yards tyou must Dot
bend or nick IT.
Rule VII
IN running ends each player "a precantionai pro-
Must wave colored lantern as guard against
Disputes must he referred to the supreme Court
fer decision.
snaee Irwin. In the New York Globe.