The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-11-20
NOTED GUESTS AT BANQUET
OF R. !. BUSINESS men
Gen. Charles H. Taylor of Boston, r. B. Warou and Mayor Nc
Carhy Make Interesting Remarks

But l would urge the Municipal league
and the other associations OF like charac-
ter 10 advocate the right Of suffrage for
single women who are property owners.
They are taxed but they have no repre-
sentation. There may be reasons why
married women should not have this right.
but / see none why the single ones should
not have it."
The mayor referred to the police COM
missions work and the attempt to bribe
the reform chief OF police. as told else
where in these columns.
After referring To the monopoly held
over transportation facilities I'm Rhode
Island by the New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad company the mayor
told several capital stories which were
heartily enjoyed.
Richard II. Watrous. the next speaker,
described the work carried on by his So
cety, and OF it's benefits to his city. In
part he said:
1.-The principal business OF our organi-
zation is to get conventions I'm our city.
We believe that they are a benefit TO
business, and we want all OF them we
can get We send out and coax these
men TO come to our city Last year we
had about rs conventions there
Gen. Taylor, whose theme was "Ameri-
can Journalism and Success I'm Life. told
of the growth OF the newspaper in this
country and comparing the printing meth
DDS OF 10 years ago with those OF today. He
pointed out that during the last 40 years
the telephone. typewriter, electric light
and many other inventions were first
brought INTO use.
MANY of u.s." he said. have lived
through that period, and have not real
ly noticed or realized the wonderful
progress that has been made. Forty
years ago the fastest press could turn
out 1900 eight-page papers printed on
one side only, In an hour. They were not
folded or counted. But now you can
print 100000 eight-page papers on both
sides, and have them automatically count
ed, folded and separated into packs of so
in an hour.
MANY people kick about the size of a
Sunday newspaper. In early days paper
went into a house and the head got IL
first. He hogged it, and the rest had to
wait. Now ii Is different. When the pa
per comes there is a piece for everybody.
him most and grabs that. All are salts
fed. All have something TO read. Cir
cumstances demand that space In the pa
per be allotted to baseball, football,
yachting and everything of that kind. Ad-
vertising also takes room. and those are
reasons for the big Sunday papers.
1.-The papers have grown with the prog
ress OF the country. that is all. You must
remember that. no matter what you want
TO find. you must respect the wishes of
others. A modern newspaper caters 10
all classes of peope, and must have news
for them ALL There are some that make
distinctions. but they are not the popular
newspapers"
Following the dinner Gen. Taylor was
entertained at the Hope club by personal
friends including: Charles III. Child. Jo-
sah w. Crooker. William Penn Mather'
Henry A. Carpenter. Bertrand j. Horton.
Albert A. Baker. Henry j. Spooner. VIII
liam e. Joslin, John Shepard. Jr, Fred
erick Roy Martin and Charles ID. owen.