The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-05-21
NOTES FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence.)

week opened bids for cartihg imported
goods from the steamship docks to the
appraisers storehouse in Boston. Only
two bids were received, and they have
been referred TO Collector Lyman for
consideration and recommendation
Meanwhile Mr.. Reynolds will not dis
cuss the terms Of the bids. One bid
was submitted by J. p. O'Riorden Of
Boston, the present contractor, and the
other came from Michael BAR, who
formerly had the contract. The bids
contain several propositions, including
the carriage Of packages at so much
each, regardless Of size of certain mer-
chandise in bulk at a stated price a
hundred popnds, and of what are
classed as general order" packages,
which have been held up for various
reasons. The government pays only for
the carriage OF packages, but the CON
! tract will include rates on bulk mer.
! chandise, the carriage Of which has TO
! be paid by the importers. This method
( is adopted because the government
/ wants only a responsible person TO
! haul goods 10 and from its warehouse.
! The present contract OF Mr.. O'Riorden
will expire July /. The new contract
will run for three years. Mr.. ORiorden
has not had the contract long, because
he took it some time ago from a Mr..
Tutein, who gave it up.
To Hold Congress in June.-An inn
pCrtant Catholic congress Will be held
here in the second week in June when
the various missionary societies
throughout the United States Will as
semble at the Apostolic mission house,
near the Catholic university. This
congress is the direct result of the
great conclave of Catholic mission
aries who met in Chicago last autumn
and Is called to discuss in detail the
various papers and programs which
formed the work of the Chicago as
semblage. The scope of the Chicago
congress and the multitude of papers
and lectures rendered 1t impossible TO
discuss at length what had been sug-
gested. All those who took part in
the Chicago congress have been invit-
ed to come to Washington. AS the
season when the missionaries are
most actively engaged in is ended
now, many Of those who are in actual
service have expressed their willing
ness TO attend and to give the results
of their methods. The congress Will
be opened by Cardinal Gibbons and
will be attended by several hundred
priests, about 20 bishops and all the
students of the affiliated colleges Of
the university All the religious or
ders will send representatives to the
congress and this marks closer union
between the regular and secular
clergy and means a united effort to-
ward church extension.
Adoption of English Daylight
Hours"-Commande Edward +. Hay
den of the naval observatory, is the
hero of the baseball fans among the
$4,000 employees in the departments of
Washington. Commander Hayden has
written a letter to his chief suggest
ing that the English daylight hours"
be adopted by the u. S. government.
1t is his idea that employees should be
at their desks at s a. m. instead OF
a. m. as at present, and should be al
lowed to get into the outer air at
$50, instead of 4.30. Commander Hay
den has put his suggestion on purely
hygienic grounds, but every baseball
enthusiast in the departments, or
roughly, 90 percent, see in the plan
a possibility for which they give the
commander full credit The letter has
reached Asst. Sec. Winthrop of the
navy, who is in entire sympathy with
the plan, both hygienically and for the
baseball season, but who doesn't dare
trust his feelings in the matter, being
q fan himself He submitted the sug-
gestion TO Sec. Meyer last Tuesday,
when the secretary returned from his
trip of inspection at Annapolis and
Norfolk. AS Sec. Meyer is an outdoor
sportsman, and as the president is
confessed lover of the national game,
it is not improbable that government
hours, IN the summer at least, will be
changed.
Return Of Prosperity-While Presi.
dent Taft isn't Dragging about It, two
departments treasury and commerce
and labor are pointing with pride to
signs Of the return Of prosperity. Com.
merce and labor has charge of the i'm
migration work, and 1t is stated there
that the first tangible evidence OF PAN
ic was the departure of foreigners with
the money that they had earned in
America. Now the department an
nounces the immigrants are coming
back. Washington has not yet the
detailed figures from the immigration
commissioner at New York, but IL has
the assurance that the tide has turned
and that the immigrant station at Ellis
island again is the busy place that it
always is in prosperous times. At the
trnoSurv dppartOnpnt tho first iOdica.