The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-06-19

doing a rushing business. Although
the majority OF the regular boarders OF
the fashionable Back Bay hotels go
elsewhere during the warm weather
the number Of transients is more than
enough 10 make up for the loss. In
some of the hotels apartments are en-
gagged more than a month in advance.
Another lot OF young women arrived
here the other day on the Cunard
steamship Ivernia, from Liverpool, TO
Join their betrothed husbands, and
within "a hours half dozen marriage
ceremonies we're performed In this city
and suburbs. They were met at the
dock by their intended husbands and
after they had passed the immigration
and customs officials they hurried away
10 escape the crowd 10 whom they were
objects OF interest. Nineteen OF the
steerage passengers who failed 10 pass
the preliminary examination were TAX
en- TO the detention station at Long
wharf
Commercial sts<et in the neighbor-
hood OF the South ferry is TO be trans
formed by reason of the contemplated
construction OF a gigantic addition TO
the great cold storage plant OF the
Quincy Market Cold Storage and Ware
house Company. All the buildings en-
braced in the lot fronting Eastern ave-
nue., Commercial street and Sar-
gents wharf are to be torn down
shortly, and the erection of an History
addition TO the huge plant OF the com
pany.
This will make the plant the largest
Of its kind in the world All the build
ings will be given over exclusively TO
the storage Of eggs and butter.
The new addition will be OF concrete
construction, with brick facing 70
match the buildings which it will join
when completed.
Il don't think II was remarkable at
all for a young woman to graduate
from Technology, the only one Of her
sex in the class said Mis- Mabel Bah
cock, who received the only degree
(hat OF bachelor of sCience) awarded
10 woman at the Technology gradua-
tion.
Women are entering every sphere
OF occupation today and there are al
ready many women landscape archi-
tects, so why shouldn't | be one? !
went through enough in persevering
with my studies among so many men,
and don't believe I'll be prosecuted
on account Of It, now, I'm through part
of them.
I'm going back again in the fall,
too, and take postgraduate course
of two years, for I'm in earnest"
Miss Babcock, lives with her uncle,
MI Swift, at his home in Wellesley
Hills. is a Chicago girl and graduate
OF the North Western University. She
intends. however, 10 make her home
here and will open an Office as land
scape architect in Boston as soon as
her plans have matured little more.
Boston's crooked streets have been
the theme OF song and more or less
classic prose for SO many years that the
memory Of man runneth not to the
time when il ceased TO be funny, but
il remained for two visitors from Yer
mont a few days ago TO learn just how
crooked they really are.
The strangers had been about the
State House on tour of sightseeing,
which ended while just about sufficient
time remained for them to reach the
h In N hat
train.
Say. mister how do you get 10 the
depot from here?" was the query hurl-
ed at Messenger Clair an hour or two
,afterward, and he turned TO find the
duo OF Vermonters still in the build
ing.
Il thought you left here some time
ago; did you miss your train?"
Yes; we missed il all right" an
Swered one Of the visitors. I'VE went
out back door somewhere down un-
der the building and then we turned 10
the left and walked. And we kept
walking until we didn't know where
we were Finally we got back here"
why didn't you come right back
sOu iVuhN sNN nav tNhN "iNht
asked Mr.. Clair.
We'll, 10 tell you the truth, mister"
replied the stranger, 1--WE tried TO, but
we couldn't find the State House eth
er."
The receipt Of $40 as conscience
money at the mayors Office recently led
Secretary james G. White 10 inquire
how much money has been turned into
The conscience fund during the past 20
years. To his amazement he discov-
cred that exactly s3334 20 had been
credited. Some OF this was sent by
women.
The latest contribution was taken
10 City hall and presented TO the may
or personally by one OF his closest
friends. a clergyman. The latter had
received the money by mail from some