The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-06-28
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before the Bunker Hill Monument AS
Sociation by President Warren on the
Seventeenth is one that deserves more
consideration than it is like 10 get.
Impressive as the great granite shaft
is, il deserves better setting and ap-
proaches. There is a chance here Tor
aesthetic taste, public spirit, generous
appropriations by the city and gifts
by private citizens to effect trans
formation which would better not only
the immediate surroundings Of the
monument, but also give 10 a section
of the city not over-rich in parks and
oases of beauty perennial blessing.
After a FIVE months sojourn in South
America, Dr. Francis f. Clark, presi-
dent of the United Society Of Christian
Endeavor, and his daughter returned
few days ago on the steamer Devon
ian. Dr. Clark Travelled in the inter-
ests of the society and was very favor
ably impressed with the progress made
by the organization in Panama, Peru,
Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and
Brazil.
The c. f. movement is particularly
strong in Brazil, and the convention
there was unusually successful. DR..
Clark's party was treated with the
greatest courtesy by the several gov
ernments. On the whole, DR.. Clark
thinks South America is making rap
Id progress, especially Peru, Argentina
and Brazil.
With the first mackerel Of the sea-
son aboard, and what is believed 10
be the largest single catch ever brought
into this port, the fishing schooner Es-
peranto, Captain Mcguire, with a car
go valued at $1,000, arrived early in
the week.
The Esperanto had been gone four
weeks. She left in company with %
other fishermen including the Fannie
Prescott. The latter was seized by the
Colonial government for fishing in
side the three-mile limit.
The Esperanto sighted the Fannie
Prescott several times since she left
port, but was not near her when the
schooner was captured by a colonial
cutter. Members of the Esperanto's
crew are wrathful at the action of the
Canadian government as they claim
that the present government had for
mally promised TO withdraw all cut
ters.
The choice that Engine Driver Ia
gan made on the Seventeenth between
sure injury and possible death to
many others and probable injury and
possible death for himself is one that
is forced on many servants of the mod
ern city who enlist in the cause of saw
ing property from destruction by fire.
In Tagans case, as with many other
engine drivers similarly placed, death
came to him while his fellow-men es-
capped, and his epitaph may well be:
HE saved others, himself he would
not save"
This everyday sort of heroism which
abounds in our civic lie is not sung
as loudly or spontaneously by verse
makers of today as the older and more
martial kinds of heroism were, but IL
deserves to be noted, at least for the
moment, If not permanently.
If the plans of the men who are pro-
noting the first worlds shoe and
leather fair, which is scheduled TO open
In July, 1908, are carried out, Greater
Boston will become the possessor of
the largest and handsomest convention
building in the country.
In a recent interview Oran McCor-
mack, who is at the head of the shoe
and leather fair, declared that the
deal for the land on which to construct
the building has already been consum-
mated. II fronts on the Charles river
in Cambridge midway between the
Harvard and the new West Boston
bridges. Comprised in the plot are
176,000 square feet of land and on this
will be erected a structure two stories
in height, with seating capacity Of
between $1,000 and 10000 persons.
The company behind the proposition
has been capitalized for $500 600 and
plans and specification for the NAM
moth building have been prepared and
the work of construction will be be-
gun in a short while.
Two deaths and more than 100 cases
at the hospitals is the record for the
Seventeenth of June celebration. While
an appalling one it is not so large as
in some years past. The police did
their best TO keep down the enthusiasm
and many arrests OF violators Of the
city ordinances were made, but they
had little effect and small boys and
grown men and women entered into
the celebration of the day with such
recklessness that the hospital stats
and fremen were kept busy all dur
ing the day.
While the majority of the cases
treated at the hospitals were for min
or injuries and burns there were sew
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