The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-02-28

iHg in Postoffice square, has started
q campaign TO keep the leisure class
out of the corridors. People who come
down TO the federal courts just 10 Kill
time and take an afternoon nap in the
drowsy hum of lawyers conducting
their cases will be vigorously elected
if they are found out by Collector Gill
OF his minions. Notices 10 this effect
have been posted all over the build
ing.
It is quite within the range OF pos
sibility. he declares, that Boston in the
future will become the home OF the
banana and that New England farms
will be studded with banana groves,
and her granaries filled with -four,
produced from these bananas which
will prove more nutritious and useful
than that produced from wheat.
Burbank declares that the time is
coming when Boston is going 10 raise
her own banana crop The California
magician plans 10 raise In New Eng
land the banana as il is raised In the
tropics. He aims TO adapt to New Eng
land climate and soil a banana which
will contain a natural, creamy, luscious
pulp instead Of the soft mealy pulp or
the banana ripened artihcially.
Assistant United States Treasurer
Edwin U. Curtis, acting for the Treas
ury Department, recently purchased
about half Of the property which the
government intends TO take as site
for new appraisers store on Gus
wharf The price paid was $235,OOO.
The property was owned by l6 heirs
of James Otis, the famous Revolution
ary orator and lawyer, who originally
held the land a century ago II was
assessed for Sl39 600 and contained 49,
$50 square feet Of land.
Assistant United States District At
torney William II. Garland represented
the government and "A member OF "A
prominent real estate firm, negotiated
the sale for the Otis heirs.
Condemnation proceedings have been
Instituted by the government against
the remaining half OF the property, as
the owner could not come TO an agree
ment with the government regarding
the price.
A Japanese resident of this city,
received a letter from Toxic the other
day, in which he was informed that in
a primary school in the latter city.
where there are 343 boy students. a
teacher recently asked them 10 vote for
che man they believed tC be the great
est In history. When the votes were
counted George Washington headed the
list with 90 votes and Lincoln was sec
ond with SO votes Admiral Togo was
third. The boys are all studying Am
erican history. After reading that
letter il doesn't look very much as If
my people were very anxious for war
with America. does it?" asked the Bos-
ton Japanese.
Dramatic portrayal at the Harvard
Stadium Of incidences from American
history and a pageant through the
streets of Boston of the participants
are suggester 10y Representative Da-
vol of Taunton for the celebration of
the coming Fourth Of July.
He is 10 bring the matter TO the at
tention of the Sons and Daughters Of
the American Revolution. v hen Il was
first suggested at "A meeting of the
educational committee of the Twentieth
Century club the idea met the hearty
approval of Edwin ID, Mead. secretary
Chandler and others.
The maypole at Merry Mount, the
expulsion Of Gov. AndrOs from BOs-
ton. the visit OF Lafayette TO Boston in
1924, the killing OF Indians by Hannah
Dustin. and Gov. Andrew receiving the
soldiers after the civil war Represent
ative Davd thinks would be typical IN
sidences, well adapted for dramatic
representation.
The plan is TO have the participants
dressed as the characters whom they
represent, and on the green stage OF
the Stadium do and say what history
records
The 10th anniversary of the destruc.
ton Of the battleship Maine i'm Havana
harbor. Feb. l5. 1898, was officially OBJ
served by the United States government
in Boston by the firing OF a salute OF
81 guns at noon in the Charlestown
Navy Yard
The celebration Of the day Of Boston
is due TO the efforts Of a l0-year-old
Dorchester boy. Sigsbee Chidwick Don
oyan, who was born on the day the
battleship was destroyed and who is
named after its captain and chaplain
He wrote to Congressman 0Connell
urging that public celebration be held
In Boston with a salute at the navy
yard and the Washington authorities
ordered that his suggestion in the mat
ter be carried out.
On all the public buildings Of the city
the flags were at half-mast including
City hall and school buildings in the
remotest part of the city. This is al.
so due to the suggestion OF the l0-year-