The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-12-20

| Gently on his tour OF the country as
an officer OF the brotherhood welfare
association Of Chicago, a society that
has undertaken 10 enlighten the peo-
| pie on the question OF vagrancy and
| also to secure legislation which will
| prevent the growth In numbers OF
| these useless members OF society. The
doctor started his investigation by
sleeping at the Wayfarers' lodge on
Hawkins street. He was not enthus-
astic over the Boston way Of handling
| the wanderers.
Plunging into the chilling waters OF
| the harbOr and swimming about as II
| IL were midsummer weather, Mrs. LIZ
zie j. BerlO, reputed TO be one Of the
most proficient women swimmers In
New England, has been daily demon
strating the capabilities of her sex TO
withstand winter bathing, In Dorches-
ter Bay, of Marine park, City Point,
the past few weeks. She intends TO
continue the practice throughout the
winter.
why, swimming in the salt water
at this season Of the year Is far more
invtGorating than during the warm
months" Mrs. Berlo said the other
day.
"Of course the shock on first enter
ing the water sends thrill up your
spine, but that feeling Is quickly over
come. | feel as warm as toast after |
leave the water, and after a brisk walk
home / have a regular lumbeIman
appetite for breakfast"
Mrs BerlO usually bathes at about 10
o'clock In the forenoon. She attires
i'm costume at her home SOi East Sixth
street. n stones throw from the park,
and wears macintosh while en-
route 10 the shore. She Is generally
ACCOMPANIED by her two youngest
daughters. Pauline and Twiny, aged q
and 3 respectively. Mrs Berlo swms
about from 10 10 20 minutes.
The woman is the wife Of Anthony
Berlo, a stained-gass worker, and Is
the mother Of 10 children.
At the height Of the recent south
erly storm one Of the mammoth old
poplar trees at the CharlestOwn navy
yard was blown down. The tree,
which stood at the corner d.agonally
opposite the COmmandants Office,
broke several windows In the sail-lOft
building against which IL fell.
Capt Joshua Eldridge, the general
foreman Of the yards and docks de-
partment narrowly escaped being
crushed as the tree fell, almost with
out warning, directly across the street,
and it's heavy branches covered large
section of the sidewalk at the sail
loft entrance, from which he had Just
emerged So strong was the gust OF
wind that felled the tree that heavy
granite flags which paved the lound
above its roots were torn up as If they
had been ordinary sized paving blocks.
After the tree fell an examination
disclosed the fact that its roots had
considerably rotted II stood exposed
10 the full sweep OF the winds from
the harboT.
The old WOfkmen AT tue ydIu shy
that the tree was more than 100
years old. Second avenue was once
part OF the old Salem turnpike road,
and the poplar trees along its sides
are said TO have been those that shad-
ed the road when it was public
highway running directly through the
center Of the yard, and before the navy
department about 90 years ago gave
the present Chelsea street strip, out
side the yard limits, in exchange for
the turnpike section within, so that
IL could enclose the yard
Klaw & Erlanger's advanced vau-
deville at the fremont theatre might
appropriately he likened TO some tre-
mendous machine, and all machinery
needs to work for while 10 be oper-
ative at its best. The success of Klaw
a. Erlanger's latest amusement enter
prise is without a precedent. There
will be no acts 10 serve only as fillers
and time-consumers. Every act will
be a head-liner. and the people will