The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-30

responsible patients would not be al
lowed TO go off OF hospital premises
until fully cured. This would be q
If allowed TO visit outside who would
become incurable If kept confined al
the time.
DR.. Houston of the Northampton
institution voiced the same sentiment.
He suggested, however, an amendment
to the law similar TO that applying 10
patients at the state hospitals for dip
somaniacs and inebriates at Foxboro.
In these cases the local authorities can
send patients back without going
The celebration of the Tooth anniver-
sary of the birth of the Rev. DR.. Sam
uel Francis Smith, the author OF Am
erica" was held last week in this
| city.
The one great feature OF the day was
the playing by five schoolboy cornetists
OF the hymn in the belfry of the Park
Street church.
Several thousand people gathered on
| lIt ,OIlIIlOn dl HOOI W HtdI tUt
strains of the national anthem as they
floated on the air from the lofty spire
| The musicians were all English High
school students.
Long before the appointed time peo-
pie gathered, seeking place of want
age, and immedia' ely after the stroke
Of II from the clock on the Park Street
church they played four stanzas OF the
anthem
Men barred their heads, and at the
close gave a mighty cheer the ladies'
| applauded and the children helped the
celebration along by singing the words
OF the anthem. IL was indeed a fitting
tribute TO the authors memory, for
such celebration has never before
been known in the annals of historic
Boston.
II was deemed appropriate that the
hymn should be played from the bel
| fry Of the Park Street church because
il was within the walls of the church
that the hymn was first sung. The
date was July A. 1882, and the occa-
sion was a children's observance Of the
anniversary of Americas independ-
ence. II had been Written but few
weeks before by DR.. Smith, who had
been given the music by DR. Lowell
Mason and asked to write appropriate
words for It..
Inspired by the air before him, DR..
Smith wrote the words which will live
and be sung as long as the country
| shall endure.
We are told that Joshua OF old COM
| manded the sun to stand still and make
ii stick; Joshua b. Holden one day
last week damned the Charles river
and the river backed up.
AS member of the Charles river
basin commission. Mr.. Holden threw
the electric switch which released the
first of the "a gates in tSe dam and its
2300 pounds plunged to the bottom. I'm
mediately men stationed at each gate
with axes cut the ropes which suspend
ed the gates TO huge timber frames.
and all the gates fell, in scattering
groups, and amid the shrieking OF
everything that had steam whistle
from dredges and tugs to factories.
The Charles Is now closed to navi-
CATION except through the lock, and
the basin above the dam is a body OF
water without tidal flow, which may be
maintained at any level desired by the
engineers.
Gov Guild. Mayor Hbbard, Mayor
Wardwell of Cambridge, Mayor Walk
er of Waltham, Mayor Grimmons OF
Somerville and large gathering of in
vited guests witnessed the ceremony
of closing the dam from an observation
stand on the roller-lift bridge.
II is difficult TO appreciate the mag
nitlrie of this work at first. Concrete
10 the extent of 10000 cubic yards was
used in the lock, sluices and the basin
and harbor walls of the dam. for in
stance; that means that an equal
amount would build solid wall of con
crete one foot thick and four and one
half feet high around the entire city
of Boston, excepting East Boston. The
amount of filling of earth required for
the dam and the Boston embankment
would cover the Public Garden 40 feet
deep.
The attractions at Keiths theatre of
late have been of such a character that
there has been some doubt as TO the
ability of any manager TO keep up TO
the standard that has been set, but IL
doesn't seem TO bother Mr.. Keith. At
ter having introduced Annette Keller
mann to the vaudeville patrons in oNe
of the most novel acts ever devised,
and creating n sensation, he will this
week not only keep Miss Kellermann
on the bill. but have another attrac-
tion-Eya Tanguay, who enjoys the
distinction of run Of 20 weeks in
New York City. record heretofore be-
lieved impossible for any artist, no
matter how popular or how clever.
Following the plan of presenting the