Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-26
GREELEY LETTER IN WESTERLY
Library Presented Valuable coecon Of Autographs With
Massive From Great EditorF on Pond Street
Brakeman Injured, May Lose Sight.

ARTILLERY F., Fred Brown, lieutenant
Battery c., First regiment, r.. l., l..
A.; Fred M Sackett, first lieutenant,
First r. /. L A. The last autograph
on the last leaf OF the album is JoEn
s. Coy. Westerly, r. I.
An Interesting feature Of the album.
Is the attachment of an autograph
letter of Horace Greeley. editor of the
New York Tribune, on letter head Of
that newspaper and dated October 10.
1853. The letter is addressed to e
5. Champlin, Esq. secretary of COM
nittee and reads as follows:
Dear Sir: Excuse my long delay. !
have been. overwhelmed with every
sort OF care since, reached home. j
propose to lecture for you on Monday
evening, November, 21st. l. do not see
how can do so earlier. Then l viii
have finished my new lecture on
Western America and you can choose
between that and my last one on
Great Men. Let me hear that this
win or won't do. Yours, Horace
Greeley.
The use Of the portable SchooIhouse,
|. like the one in connection with the
Pleasant street school and the other
at Bradford, IL growing In Rhode Is
land. and It is believed that many
more viii be in use to- accommodate
the overflow of school chilaren, where
| a building for temporary purposes Is
needed. The first portable school
hbuse to be used in Rhode Island was
purchased by the town Of Westerly in
| 1912 and II has proven a sue cess
7'here was need for room 10 care
school committee decided to buy 9
| for large number Of pupils and the
! two room building costing $1,000, with
an additional S30o-to erect the struc-
Iture. A year later q second build
ing was purchased which was prac-
i tically a duplicate of the first aanc
accommodated sixty pupils. THE two
| buildings are Of the same size, its
rooms being 31x34 1-2 feet and q
! hallway between each 3 feet wide and
~ ID feet long. The buildings are
/ Y feet long and 25 feet wide. Tit
I structures are of good material and
are not affected by the. weather con.
/ ditions,. as they are easily heated and
/ vel VENTILATED. There are sixteeE
j windows on the front and rear, and
one in each end OF the building. Thu
i school commissioner opposes the plaI
4 of portable buildings for school pur,
| poses North Providence has pur,
| chased a portable school house, sim
liar to those in use in Westerly AM
1t has just Sbeen erected WarrenyilIe
land it is expected that within TIVE
years will be removed to LymansvilIe
! While someone was having a tele
/ phone talk with Chief Engineer Sam
uel G. Cottreli, Sunday night, rela
4 tive to a fire outside the fire district
and just as the chief stated that tn
apparatus would be of no service ii
| that case as there was no hydran
pressure in the vicinity and as tn
burning barn was at a safe. cistanc
from other buildings, somebody els
rang in the fire alarm for Box q
at the corner Of Dayton and Pierc
streets The motor apparatus mad
a quick run to the box only to fin,
that the fire was the one that ha'
been discussed by the chief. and tn
recall was sent in.
;. The fire was in a combination barr
and slaughter house located on tn
extension of Pond street and half
mile from the nearest hydrant Th
building was owned and occupied b
Aniello Matarese. Two horses wer
saved, but the rest of the contents O
the barn. hay vegetables. harness an
barn utensils. Were burned with tn
building. involving total loss. Their
is no insurance and the origin Of til
fire is not known.
: About two years ago a sinnila
building on--the. same site with all Il
contents, including two horses, wer
, totally destroyed by fire, but NJ
Matarese was paid some insurance fC
the fire.