The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1906-02-16
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(Speclal COrrcspOnuence.)
A great influx of doctors is expected
in this city next June. A conservative
estimate places the number at 25,OOO
and most of the doctors will be ac-
companied by their wives.
Such a gathering Of medical men has
never been brought together before
They will come from every section OF
North America. Papers by leading
specialists will be read and there will
be banquets and sightseeing.
The city of Boston will assist in en-
tertaining the distinguished visitors.
The medical congress will continue for
a week.
Queer characters are TO be seen daily
in the neighbophood Of Portland street.
where the sales stables are located.
Thither the horse traders OF all de-
scriptions resort for stock. The other
day a conversation was overheard be-
tween two of them from the hill re-
glon of Worcester county. One man
had acquired by trade or purchase
sorry, ewe-necked animal, whose ema-
ket il wore. Les see it," said the
ket it wore. Les see IT,, said the
other man. 20, hain't no use takin'
of the blanket" protested the proprie-
tor of the wreck, hes drefile poor" But
he'll hang together jest minnit, won't
he, if you take OFF the surcingle?"
After an absence Of nearly IL months
the bold firebug who worked in all
parts of Charlestown, battling the efforts
Of police officers and fire inspectors to
apprehend him, and who destroyed
hundreds of thousands Of dollars
worth of property and imperilled doz-
ems of lives, has returned TO the dis
trict-at least this is the belief Of the
fire department and the railroad police
of the district.
Already in one week several attempts
were made 10 start fires, and the fact
that barns, stables and similarly con-
structed buildings have been attacked
is ground for the belief that the same
old pyromaniac is again at work.
You have some very rare and val
liable rugs and fragments here" said
John Kimberly Mumford, the oriental
rug expert, to a small group of people
in the museum of Fine Arts the other
day after he had LOOKED carefully over
the specimens that are on exhibition in
hn m Al gnInnh
and pointed out a few errors in the
labelling
Few people ever notice this room eX-
cept in a casual way as they pass
through ii TO the more showy ceramics
in the room beyond, yet in this textile
room are some verltable treasures as,
for instance, fragment not much
more than a yard in length and about
Is inches wide that hangs in frame
on the right wall-a fragment Of a
Persian silk rug-whiCh Il few years
ago attracted more attention than prob
ably any of the other choice artistic
objects that were offered at the famous
Marquand sale.
This was one Of the treasures which
collectors fought for at the time. but
il went to some mysterious person in
the crowd at the sale, only 10 reappear
a few days later in the textile room OF
the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Ii is the opinion of leading arch-
tects that we are at the beginning of
a new era In construction. According
to their predictions, Boston of the fut-
ure will look no more like the present
city than Boston of today resembles
the group of log huts on the shores of
the harbor in 1880.
The future will see the present un-
slightly maze of brick and stone and
iron buildings crumble away or he de-
molishel, and in their place will rise
a city of glass 1t will CLEAN in the
sunshine with prismatic tints. like n
celestial city. 1t will be more beauti-
ful than Venice at sunset.
This is not merely imagination. We
are taking the first steps in that direc-
ton now. The greatest amount OF
light and air, made possible only by
the increased use Of glass is the prob
lem that confronts every architect The
desire for the beautiful will strengthen
this tendency, and American inventive
genius will furnish the materials to
work with. in the opinion of Architect
William +. Putnam, Jr.. of Boston.
The city of Boston, despite an ample
water supply and an efficient, we'll
equipped fire department, is, according
to the engineers of the committee of
20 of the National board of fire under
writers, in serious danger from con-
fagration owing to narrow streets and
size and interior inaccessibilty OF
many of the blocks in what is known
as the congested value district.
These engineers have been for some
months inspecting the fire protection
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