Norwich bulletin., 1911-03-10
BOOMING WESTERLY GRANITE
Board of Trade Do Its Part-Eort Secure Benefit From Proposed Lincoln Memorial-Lobstermen Op- pose Amendment to Lobster Law-Death of Rev |. M. Cottrell.


 as W. Middle. Albert H. Langworthy, 1 Charles w. Austin, Westerly; s. R. | Richmond of Hopkinton, George c. I Cranston of North Kingstown, l.. ! Herbert Gardner of Exeter, Joseph T. l Dennico, Frank L. Caswell, of Nara | gansett; Sumner Mowry of South Kingstown; John w. Collins of Rich | mond.
 | A photograph of Phineas PendIeton i has been presented the Westerly pulp lie library. MT. Pendleton was born port, Maine, in his eighty fourth year. He served as captain throughout the war of 1872. under Caleb Strong of 1 the commonwealth of Massachusetts.
 He married Agnes, daughter of Isaac Gilmore, and they had twelve chi1- dren. six sons and six daughters. The donor of the photograph is Mrs. Ben | jamin Ingersoll Nesmith (Leonora $. Pendleton), of Brooklyn, N. Y.
 At the January meeting of the Westerly board of trade, suggestions cial reference to the granite indus | try, by advertising and the systematic ! distribution of envelope stickers, were presented by%William w. Hiscox. and looked good to the board of trade members. The suggestions were in VI licity committee for action. As the chairman of that committee subse- quently resigned, nothing was done and the whole matter came back to the board of>trade meeting, Wednes- | day evening. In the meantime, NIT.
 Hiscox prepared additional sugges- tions along the same line and all were again referred to the new publicity committee with instructions to re- port to the next regular meeting. It
 was suggested that should favorable report be- made by the publicity com- mittee, tho actual work be conducted | by a special committee which shall have in its membership representa- tives of the local granite industry. | At the thirteenth annual meeting
 ef Westerly lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of EIks, officers were elected as follows: James H. Ma | honey, exalted ruler; Martin H. Spell man, esteemed leading knight; Robert E. l.. Mason esteemed loyal knight; Dr. Michael H. Scanlon. esteemed lec- turing knight; Joseph Twomey, sec- 1 retary; John B. Johns, treasurer; Dan- iel J. Whalen, tyler; John A. Farrell, trustee for three years.
 Dr. John M. O'ConnelI was elected delegate, and Frank G. Haswell alter nate to the grand lodge convention to be held ill Atlantic City, July 6. The officers will be installed at the next regular meeting when the exalted ruler will announce the appointive officers and the standing committees. Thirteen applications for membership were received, the largest number of any one time since the formation of the lodge.
 Joseph T. Murphy. one of WesterIy's representatives in tho general assem- bly, is a believer in taking time by the forelock in. all matters that perS tain to the advancement of the best interests of Westerly. He recited the fact that a federal appropriation of $2,000,O00 had been made for me | morial to Abraham Lincoln, to be erected in the District of Columbia, at the regular meeting of the West erly board of trade. He added that 1 Senator Wetmore of Rhode Island, was 1 one of the committee to arrange for plans for the memorial and considered it probable that granite would be used in the construction. Mir. Murphy sug- aested the appointment of a special committee to get in close touch with the committee representing the gener- al government and endeavor to have the plans include Westerly granite in the construction, and thereby have much of the work done here as ben 1 eft to the granite manufacturers and granite workers and for the town as a whole.
 Postmaster Charles J. Butler stated that while it might be possible for the memorial coISmittee to specify i that it should be built of granite, the government would not insist on West erly granite as that would be dis | elimination against granite industries ] elsewhere.
 1 John J. Carney favored some action {! that might result in the use of gran | ite in the memorial even if no special er1-r a 11l1 Ia l i of the latest public buildings in Wash [ ington were of Concord granite, se-
 lected for it's white, marble-like ap- : pearance, and perhaps that some grade i of granite might be favored As the 1 New England Granite works have quarries in Concord as well as in ! Westerly, this concern would have op- 1 portunity to bid for furnishing the material in it's finished state. Should i-Concord granite be chosen, the work 1of cutting and carving would be done | in Westerly and the town would get
 almost as much benefit as if the stone | was quarried in Westerly
 l After further discussion by Charles
 Perry, Eugene B. Pendleton, Milo NJ Clark and Ira B. Crandall, the mat
 ter was referred to the executive committee with full power to act at ] the opportune time.
 | When the train crew picked uu William Potter by the side of the
 track, Wednesday, after he had been
 struck glancing blow by the train l and his left arm sustained a com pound fracture, it was with the inten- i tion of having Potter taken to the | Westerly hospital upon arrival here ] The accident occurred about a mile west of Kingston station and West | erly was the nearest place where the I injured man could receive hospital I attention
 | Although the train was late in ar- l rival by reason of the accident, infor- | nation of which was sent to Westerly | there was no one to receive the in- ] jured man at the station. The train was held for two minutes and as ! there was no indication that Potter 1 was to be cared for in Westerly, the l train proceeded to New London l where an ambulance was in waiting to ! take the injured man to the Memorial | hng ifol