The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-10-30
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The state forester, Mr.. f. w. Rane
has just issued notice to the forest
wardens requesting them TO use extra
ordinary care in preventing forest and
grass fires getting under headway.
Mr.. Rane says the present conditions
are extremely dangerous, owing to the
drouth and falling leaves, and precau-
tionary measures must be adopted i'm
mediately. He suggests the estab-
lishment of patrols by whom people
may be warned and fire dangers antici-
pated and this work should be done
persistently until there is drenching
rain.
Any janitor or engineer in a public
school in this city who frequents a
saloon will be Immediately dismissed
from the service. Such a decree issued
recently by the school board for the
safety and best interests of the chill
dren."
A letter was received from Chairman
r. Clipston Sturgis OF the Schoolhouse
Commission, calling attention to the
fact that while fire drills have been
classes were in their respective rooms,
no drills had been given while the
children were massed in the assembly
halls.
He asked permission to have his in
spectors carry out drills under these
conditions to train the pupils how 10
act when all together. 1t was voted
TO grant the authority.
Plans for the restoration OF the Old
State House, IL Is understood, have
been agreed upon by the governor and
the mayor and the representative of the
Boston Society Of Architects. This
work, it is 10 be hoped, will be car
ried to completion without delay.
OF those monuments of the earlier
days which remain in a condition Of
more or less entirety, the Old South
Church and the Old State House are
the only notable examples. The Old
South was saved by a struggle. The
Old State House was fast passing into
the ignomny OF commercial uses when
the late William II. Whitmore com
ished the "mansard roof" Of later In
artistic days, replaced the lion and
unicorn in defiance of opposition, and
gave back to Boston something Of the
historic structure
Something has gone out of the in
telectual life of Boston in the passing
of the venerable Charles Eliot Norton
of Harvard University; something
powerful, If intangible; something
which has been cherished as an inilu-
ence inherited by sturdy material
generation from "A day when the refine
ment of scholarship and of scholarly
thought was held to give supreme dis
tinction.
Professor Norton was fine example
of that class of thinkers and scholars
of inspired teachers by whom the di
Tection of American thought has been
influenced along the higher levels. His
faith in his ideals was not n blind
faith but a confidence buttressed by
knowledge. And this faith in the su-
premacy of that which is highest and
through his marvellous human sym
pathy, TO generation after generation
of students in the university of which
he was part.
Boston's evening schools opened last
week with the greatest rush for seats
ever known in their history.
Montgomery street in front OF the
English high school building. never
witnessed such a large crowd of people
as the throng that assembled there To
register. The first lot of pupils to reg
lister filled 10 class rooms, and Principal
Richardson had 20 secure several more
rooms. Last year only six rooms were
found necessary for use during the first
hour of registration.
At the Eliot Christopher Columbus
and Hancock schools at the North
End; the Wells. Mayhem and Phillips
at the West End the Franklin at the
South End, and the Quincy in the Cove
district, more pupils applied than
could be registered. Bostons new even
ing drawing school at the Mechanic
AIlS uleu StuOOl, uHutI FIduh NJ.
Leavitt, principal, opened with splen-
did attendance.
The department of freehand draw
ing and designing, under Henry w.
Poor at the top of the Latin school
building on Warren avenue. made the
record for opening registration, forma-
tion of classes, and work actually com
menced.
In the Bunker Hill district the num-
ber of applicants for instruction in the
Charlestown high school, the Warren
grammar and the Charlestown branch
of the free evening industrial school
was unusually large. The sessions of
the evening high school will be Mon
day. Tuesday and "Wednesday of each
week.
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