The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-04-12
Especial Correspondence.)


Lent IS now over and naturally the
demand for fish has fallen of, but II
is still good in some cases and the
market as a whole is livlier than ~
often is.,at this time. Sales Of oys-
ters continue 10 decrease. but there rs
q good demand for CLANS, and lobstcIs
sell about as we'll rs could be eX-
pectod at the prices which they com
mand. Cured and salt fish are very
quiet. but AT this time Of the year they
are rarely active Takings OF fresh
FISH are lighter than they have been
recently. but the demand is by no
means as dull as il usually is just
after Lent Most kinds of fresh hsh
are cheaper than they have been for
some time.
Receipts OF ground fish from the OFF
shore grounds have been very heavy
during the few past days, but the
fares OF shore FISH have been neither
numerous nor large. Shore fish have
had q good sale for fresh consump-
ton. but The Gloucester splittcrs have
offered more for the offshore FISH
than they would bring here and most
Of them have been taken for curing.
At last activity begins 10 reign al
the site for the new Museum OF Fine
Arts IN the Fenway, and the chc'-
ished dreams Of 50 maay OF our ci'i-
zens assume the tinRe of a not ia'
distant reality. Men arc getting ready
the concrete machines and are pre-
Taring 10 cXcayate for the foundations
of what shall doubtless prove 70 he one
Of our chief rlorics in the line ot art
The building is badly needed as a home
for our treasures of painting and sculp'
ture safe from the threatened dangers
OF fire and permitting all The expansion
that the coming years shall demand
II the location now seems unsignuy
and remote, il must lo remembered
that I'm the days 20 come the Fcnway
VIII be the great and beautiful cen
ter Of most OF the arts and sciences IN
which Boston is Interested We are no
longer doing things tor the present
Or Edward Everett Hale celebrated
his S5th birthday last week in Wash
ington. Not only Boston and New
England. his birthplace and the pace To
whose highest ideals he has always
been loyal. but the people of the whole
country, extend congratulations. br.
Hale is national possession. He
is the ideal American a patriot,
proved In the hour of the nation
peril: good citizen. active In all
work OF popular advancement: teach-
er OF spiritual uplift; a man OF the
! masses. tenderly sympathetic with the
! stress OF poverty or Weakness:
strong aid for the feeble and an in
spiration FOR the strong. Thus Tor
two generations has Dr. Hale stood he
fore the American people, and they
congratulate him and bless themselves
that such benign influence has sur
| vived to their day
II is much that this Younger genera
ton has 20 prize in the possession of
such a personality. Dr, Hale Is one of
our foremost scholars in many fields
Of learning. He has led in prac'ica,
philanthropy where the multi-million-
aires of this later day seek to follow.
One evening last week the members
Of the Vermont association Gf Boston
and their guests enjoyed their annual
"sucaring off, al one of the local no
tells For many years AZ this time the
/ lot "A
Ing OF" but never until this year was
the scene so realistic. In the first place
there was a maple tree. filled with SAP
which Eushed forth when the tap was
applied. The sap was the clear, un-
adulters;cd article, as any one could
see, as il poured into real sap buckets
hung from sap yokcS carried on the
shoulders uf real NermonterS. garhed as
such are when they gather sap in th'
maple groves Of the Green Mountain
state
Then there were the kettles. hUhhlinl
and frothinc as the liquid sinmcrcC
down 10 the right consistency for cool
ing, and wonderful wooden sura
spoons made for the occasion from ma
PIE pTOuthl NNNn llplu Nt'h ht'''s ~
gar waNed on snow is the mos; approx
ed method with Nermontcrs for catini
the maple sweet. and for the sugarinI
of there was snow just as 1t fcll iron
the clouds in Vermont few days he
fore
The sap spouts and sap yokes wer
sent down from Vermont hy Mrs Nile
Of Morrisvillo and they were ,h
relics OF SO years ago The sap, q
which every one~ad drink, was sen
through the kindness Of State Foreste
Vaughan OF Randolph. Other friend
Of the association sent different ms
mentoes. One old-timer even elaine
TO have with him the sap paddle fror
North Hero that the president use
when ne visited Vermont when