The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-05-29

| City Clerk Rowe will visit the ware
room in the Prospect street fire station
people living In that section OF the city
an opportunity TO register. This Is on'
OF the strongholds OF the Dem9cratl'
party and II is expected that the Demo
Gratis viii make a great showing tonight
PLANS FOR TOMORROW.
There will be meeting OF the members
| OF the Working Girls club IN the rooms
| I'm the Slater Trust building this evening
| at which time plans will be made for the
part the club Will take in the Memorial
| Day exercises.
MEMORIAL DAY.
| II the weather is pleasant tomorrow the
usual program for the decoration or sol
| diers graves and the accompanying exer-
, IL has been some years since the Grand
Army veterans In this city abandoned the
plan OF marching to the different ceme,
years and the cemeteries are widely sep
arated. and IL was found that this solemn
duty ;. placing floral tributes upon the
mounds could be better done by delega-
tions from the post So OF late years this
plan has been In vogue IL Will be carried
out tomorrow az usual. no matter what
the weather Is II II should rain the
Men Who Wore the Blue" Will be a little
more careful Of themselves but they will
brave the elements just the same, and
grave in this city where rests comrade
will have at its head an American nag
and a few flowers as a token that the
sleeper has not been forgotten.
This duty will be performed In the
morning. The members OF Balou post
will gather at the post hall on Exchange
street about 10 O'Clock and when the sew
eral delegations start out with their bur-
dens OF flowers they will be accompanied
by other delegations from Amasa M.
Eaton. Jr., camp. Spanish American War
Veterans. who Will go 10 lay the floral
garlands on the graves OF their dead COM
rades.
At noon there will be the usual dinner
in the hall which will be provided by the
ladies' OF the Womens Relief corps. and
att o'clock the exercises OF the afternoon
will begin with a short street parade
with the first stopping place at Park Place
church. where at the handsome soldiers
monument which adorns the park there
will be interesting exercises consisting
OF prayer, addresses and singing by school
children,
A short distance away is Mineral Spring
cemetery. where stands the monument
erected a few years ago by the Women's
Relief corps in honor OF the unknown
dead. Here there will be other interest
ing exercises in which a number OF chill
dren will take part This will close the
formal and official program Of the day
and IL will be carried out fully Il the
weather will permit. II, however. 1t
should be stormy. the proba billties are
that the out doors program will be
omitted.
SPEEDING AUTOMOBILES.
II is just about time that some definite
action was taken on the part OF the city
authorities TO put stop TO the speeding
OF automobiles through the thickly settled
parts OF this community. Not a day
passes without narrow escapes from
accidents and unless the collisions really
occur the officers OF the law can only
look on because there are no ordinances
which apply TO the conditions
Every day there are scores OF machines
seen In the city which do not belong
here and TO n very great extent the
drivers OF these foreign cars are the ones
most to blame. Lying as Pawtucket does
between Providence and the thickly set
tied portion of lower Massa chusetts its
highways are much used by people tour
ing between the two principal cities OF
New England. Then wise city govern
ment has provided n good many well
paved streets. Broadway. Cottage street
and Central avenue are the natural outlets
on the north. Two OF these have recently
been macadamized and Cottage street is
laid with bitulithic pavement and the
speeding auto driver could ask for no
more perfect roadbed. So when he strikes
these streets he pulls the lever way over
and the car makes the best time Il Is
capable Of
Leading into these three big centers are
numerous side streets and at these tunc-
tions escapes are daily growing numerous.
Then there are many school children who
use these streets. and this makes the
situation doubly dangerous
IL seems high time that the city authori-
ties took steps to provide a speed fegula-
tiOn and IN have fhfe
: CARELESS FIREMEN.
A wel-known citizen calls the atten-
tion OF the representative of the News.
Democrat to an incident he witnessed on
Broadway a few days ago. which II true
deserves the sharpest censure from the
chief OF the fire department and steps
should be taken Immediately TO see that
AZ does not occur again. He states thai
a fire alarm had been rung I'm. calling out
~the apparatus at the Broadway fire sta
tion. The box rung was located to the
south OF the station and few seconds
later two large pieces OF apparatus start
ed down Broadway one on either side OF
that thoroughfave deliberately racing
their horses
People who happened 10 be In the stree,
scattered right and left and drivers OF
vehicles scarcely knew what TO do. II
was according TO thhs gentleman. a wild
NNthfs lnt ItAtF WIS nfth ana neck Tor n
short time and then gradually the big
gray pair pulled out ahead The man
who told of the occurrence likes to see a
good race as we'll as anyone, and ne de-
clarss that this was about the most hair
raising one he ever witnessed. but he be-
lcves that now that II Is settled beyond
doubt which r. the better team. the fire
men should be inetructed to do no more
racing on their way 10 fires.
Experiences of this kind were common
enough in the old volunteer department
days and IL Is said that every city could
tell OF races and pugilistic contests be-
tween fire companies whose members
thought more OF winning out against some
rival organization than they did about
extingulshing the fire. Such conditions
however. are supposed % have vanished
-aaith the installation Of the paid DEPART
ment. and chief Butler would do well 20
see that the thing does not occur again.
INSTALLED OFFICERS.
Deputy Charles w. Davis Installed the
following officers OF Prosperity Lodge.
No. 10 Temple OF Honor at the meeting
held at the lodge room on Lonsdale ave-
nue last evening. w. g. T.. Samuel In
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