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Narragansett Herald.
Issued every Saturday by the Narragan
pett Press Publishing Company.
IRVING WATSON, e e o Epitos
The Herarp with its 64 coiumns of news
has now become the model weekly newspa
per of Southern Rhode Island, anditis in
gq demaad, no' only at Narragansett Pier,
t at Newport, Jamestown, Watch Hill and
Block Isiand, and also by people who are in
terested in what is going on not only at home,
but all over the country, eagerly seek its col
uwrs for information.
The HeraLp can be found on sale at the
:.nh Avenue Horel and the Astor House,
ew York, and ia Boston at the news stand
o :he Providenee depot, at the Parker House
an ' Y unc's Hotel. All the steamboats and
o~ minz and outgning trains have the Her-
ALD the tvpical and soley sheet, always full
o! inter-sting news, containing comment on
eur- 0 avents, incluling those of a political,
o #i. ‘nancial, commercial, sporting and
dr . . +'lc pature, together with humorous and
o¢ - v + matter just suited to while the time
aw - and also to entertain, amase and in
otrnet.
The eottaze colony at Newport, as well as
at Narragausett Pier, have the HERALD regu
lariy the year round.
Advertisers report the Herarp the best
paper to reach the people who have money
to purchase.
All communications should be addressed :
::.u;n. Narragansett Pier, R. 1., P. O.
x. H.
=" Remember, all ecommunications re-
lating to business, or to news, society events,
etc., intended for us, should be addressed
Editor Herarp, Narrazausett Pier, R. L,
whieh wiil receive prompt atteation ifi re
ceived before Thurday noon.
The Washington Star thinks ‘‘lnter
national arbitration would be an ex
cellent thing if Eagland could be per
suaded to torego the privilege of die
tating the terms of every compro-
mise.”
In arecent lawsuit it was shown that
thie materials for one of our best makes
of bicycles cost only about $l5. The
work costs sav, as much more. ‘‘But
g 0 lonz as enthusiasts will pay £lOO
for all the wheels first class makers
ean proluce, the makers would be
foolish to reduce prices,” remarks the
Pathfinder.’ .
The trolley car and the bicycle are
eredited with being mainly responsi-
ble for the remarkable fact, stated in
the Department of Agriculture re
ports, that the value of horses and
males in this country decreased by al
most one-half between 1892 and the
end of last year. The aggregate de
cline in the value of horses is put down
at 2500,000,000 and of mules $BO,-
000,200, The stories that have come
from Western ranges lately seem to
bear out the figures in general.
The lightning performs some curi
ous ‘reaks, but the other day it took
it into its head to befriend a woman
out West. This woman had straight
hair, relates the New York Herald,
and, of course, she despised straight
hair and wanted it curly. We always
want what we don’t have and can’t
bave. Well, this woman was caught
out in a terrific thunderstorm. The
lizhtuing played all about her in the
most caressing fashion, and on one oc
c:sion ook a little excursion through
ber body, starting on the picnic at her
head, and saying farewell, or au re
voir, at her feet. When she recovered
consciousness she found that her hair
was frizzled as nicely as though’ it had
been done with the ourling tongs.
Well, a more grateful creatare you
never saw. She believes in electricity
with all her heart, and is glad that she
was struck by lightning.
How strange it is, muses James Payn
in the New York Inlependent, that
Afriea, the least populated, and on the
whole the least interesting of the four
quarters of the globe, should always
Le written about at greater length
than any of the others. From the
days of Livingstone down to that of
Slatin Pasha accounts of this region
bave always been published in exten
so. When you have read one chapter
about the Soudan you have read al
most all; one chief is the fac simile of
apother; oma tribe, one army stand
for all; cue rule of cruelty and blood
shed extends from end to end of the
great tarren tract. The pictures of
bideous mwen and still more hideous
women that illustrate works on African
travel lo notenhance their attractions.
If the wiiters would condense a little
I feel sure they would have muck more
of the public’s attention. .
In a paper in the Forum on “The
Future of the Scuth,” A. S. Van de
Graaf says: “The South is large: it
yet remains thinly peopled and praec
tically undeveloped. Great as has
been the industrial advance made,
considerable as appears the present
immigration movement, they but
fairtly foreshindow the development
now at hand. If so much has been
dcne in the last thirty years under
such disuivantages and practically
uuaided by immigation, what may we
Dot €x: ect wnen that rich tide which
has created the Empire States of the
Northwest is torned in even greater
voiuwe southwar.? Ogzly the marvel
ous growth of the great West itself
can gaide {he imagination in attempt
ing the forecast, and even that must
be surpassed. To the South ungues
tionably belongs the future. In such
8B expansion of its population snd
wealth as evea a single generation has
witnessed in the West, its race problem
must vanish even thouzh the emigra
tion of the colored people should
ccase; sectional lines must be blotted
out and South and North merged in
the indivisible Union, which is ideuntity
of iuterest and conditions, s well as
of blcod, of language and of history.
The people of the South are realy for
this the more perfect Union, the pro
phetic aspiration —never the atiain
ment—of the fathers: Louisville,
Chattanooga and Atlanta have spoken
.. our feeling. It but remains for the
~ people of the North to come and share
‘all the wonder that shall be,””
THE PRISCNER.
A man’s skull is his life-long jail;
Behind its prison bars,
From its eye-windows, doth the sotv
Peep at the earth and stars;
Bat unlike jails of wood or stone,
Its prisoner ever dwells alone.
Though through its front doors perfumed
gales
Are blown from glens of gladness,
And through its back doors music strains
Roll in waves of madness,
And though he hear and need each tone,
The prisoner still must dwell alone.
Though past the windows of the jail
Sweep scenes of solemn splendor,
And through the doors float hymns of joy
Or dirges deep and tender,
The prisoner hears the mirth and moan,
But in his jail he dwells alone,
No lover ever knows the soul
He loves in all its sw2etness;
The fullest love, however strong,
Is marred by incompleteness;
No heart is ever fully known,
The prisoner ever dwells alone,
—B. W. Foss, in Whiffs from Wild Meadows.
A PERMANENT CURE.
ETER PATTERSON was
ill—at least he thought
so—and depressed ; he
had a headache and he
hated the dusty streets,
in. which the summesr
heat burnt and the
summer sun shone before the green
leaves had draped the trees, and potted
geraniums, which had come to be so
blessedly popular in New York, lent
their summer fresh- ness.
“What shall I do, doctor?” he said.
“You say nothing ails me, but I can
tell what my feelings are better than
you can. I know I shall be down with
something soon. I rode in a car with
a half dozen dirky children the other
day—to the small-pox hospital, I
haven’t a doubt—very red and nasty
looking, all of them ; and while I was
buying something in a store down
Broadway the other day a horrid old
woman begged of me because her hus
band was sick wich typhoid fever. No
doubt I have caught both diseases,
and it’s the complication that puzzles
you. Couldn’t relish my coffee this
morning; left my milk toast un
touched. Hateful life, that of a
bachelor at a hotel. Ob, dear me!”
““Why don’t you marry, then ?” said
the doctor.
*‘They need so much courting,” said
Patterson. ‘You spend six months
or so, at least, dangling at a woman'’s
apron strings. You must go to the
theatre and opera 1f she is gav, and to
church if she is pious. At fifty a man
likes his slippers and dressing-gown
and chair of an evening. If it was
just stepping over to the clergyman’s
and getting married, putting a ring
on her finger and saying or nodding
yes two or three times, why I wouldn’t
mind it, you know.”
““Ah, well, courting is the fun of it
all, in my opinion,” gaid the old doe
tor, ““but every one to his taste. And
my advice to you is to get out into the
country.”
*‘To another hotel and more mercen
ary waiters!” said Mr. Patterson.
“No,” said the doctor; “go to a
nice, private home. I know cne—a
motherly widow lady, who cooks a
dinner fit for a king. River before
the house, woods behind it, orchard
to the left, kitchen garden to the
right; no fever and ague; no mos
quitoes. Heavenly! I am going up
there to-morrow, and I'll see if she'll
take you.”
““Very well,” said Mr. Patterson; *“1
think I will try it.”
“And you must drink plenty of milk
and eat plently of nice home made
bread.”
“Yes, I will,” said Patterson, over
joyed at least at hearing something
that sounded like a prescription. **And
yop would advise milk?”
*Quart of it every day,” said the
doetor.
“I’ll take a note of it,”"said Patter
son, ‘““and if I should be very ill she’ll
purse me.”
*““Splendidly,” said the doctor, and
went his way.
Mr. Patterson thought the matter
over and thought better of it every
day, and when the little note inform
ing him that the widow wouid be will
ing to “‘take him in and do for him”
reached him, he had his trunk and
portmanteau already packed, and was
ready to start that afternoon. As for
the widow, the doctor had prepared
her forl her boarder’s peculiarities
thus:
- “Nice fellow; social; plenty of
money ; thinks himself il!, but isn’t;
ought o be married ; told him so, but
he hates the idea of courting; MArry
off some day, no doubt. ‘Will you
have me?" ‘Yes." Call in clergyman,
but then old bachelors are peculiar
generally.”
The widow was a smart woman. She
bad married at sixteen, and had never
failed to have her washing over when
other people were hanging out theirs.
Her bread always rose, her cake was
tlways good and her butter always
sweet. At forty-five she had married
oft all her daughters, was well-to do,
buxom and happy.
Her son and his wife boarded with
her, and she added to her plentiful
savings by taking a summer beoarder
or two, if they happened to offer.
“Fifty and a bachelor,” said Mrs.
Muntle, looking in the glass. ““Well,
it seews a pity; but when elderly gen
tlemen marry it is to some hitytity
girl that leads them a terrible life,and
likely it's for the best.”
Then she looked in the glass again;
for the widow was but a woman, after
all.
Mr. Patterson came to the widow's
and obeyed the doctor’s prescription
carefully. He ate bread aad milk,
robbed the orchard like a school-boy,
and reclinedover thestrawberry short
ceke after a fasiion that would have
made his reputation at the bar. Then,
too, Mrs. Muntle did not smile at his
aches and pains and insist that he
must be perpetually well because he
had a fresh complexion and dimples
on his cheeks. She had savory herb
teas and potions which she produced
when he complained of feeling mis
erable. '
For two months or more Mr. Pat
terson boarded yith Mrs. Muntle, and
happier months he never lived through.
Then he went back to the city for a
few weeks, returning in urgent need
of more pellcts from the medicine
chest, and staying until the last pink
chrysanthemum was bloomiug on its
withered branches. He had grown so
fond of his little room, with its white
curtaine and fresh grass-bleached
linen, of the country good things and
of the buxom Mrs. Muntle, that he
could not bear the thought of parting
with them altogether.
After all, why could he not buy a
house and get Mrs. Muntle to keep it
for him? Perhaps she would. He
would offer a high salary, and she
could have plenty of servants. Then,
indeed, he might have friends to dine
'with him, and be as happy as possible.
If only he could approack his hostess
showing her as he did to that he con
sidered her his equal and alady—and
all that she certainly was; a clergy
man’s daughter and thy widow of a
country doctor.
After much consideration he finally
mustered courage for the effort, and
walked into the front parlor and sent
the servant to ask Mrs. Muntle to
please step there for a moment.
‘‘Gracious!” thought Mrs. Muntle
to herself; ‘“*what can he want?”
Then she blushed brightly, settled
her necktie, took off her apron and
walked demurely in.
“‘Be seated, ma’am,” said Mr. Pat
terson. “‘Sit here please. Allow me
to sit near you, as I have something
to ask which may require some con
sideration.”
““Oh, dear, it is coming!” thought
Mrs. Muntle.
‘I suppose you know I'm a man of
considerable means, ma’am,” said the
old bachelor, ‘‘able to buy a nice
house, furnish it well and live in it
comfortablvy ?”
““So I've understcod, Mr. Patter
son,”” said the widow. .
‘“‘And of course it is pleasanter to
live that way than at a hotel,” said
Mr. Patterson.
“I should judge it might be,” said
Mrs. Muntle cantiously.
*‘You judge rightly,” said Mr, Pat
terson; “‘but you know a bachelor
must be in the hands of servants if he
keeps a house. A gentleman doesn’t
want that; he wants a lady to superin
tend things for him—some one of taste
and refinement and all that. Com
mon people don’t understand his feel
ings, and mercenary servants are a
poor dependence.”
““I know that,” said Mrs, Muntle.
‘“You are almost as much alore as J,
aren’t you, Mrs. Muntle?” gaid Mr.
Patterson, coaxingly.
*The doctor knew him. He’s going
to do it just as he said he would if he
ever did,” said the lady to herself.
Aloud she answered: *“Wel!, sir, I
am pretty free, it is trme. All my
children are married well.”
“I know money would be no object
to you,” said Mr. Patterson. *“You
have enough. Butif I was to tell von
that I hated boarding hounses and
wanted a home, I think you would
have pity on me. T’ll buy a beautiful
house, and you shall have complete
control of everything; only to make
my strawberry short-cake for me all
my live.”
He paused and looked at the lady.
*‘That is delicately put,” he thonzht.
“‘Now will you hire out for a hoase
keeper, 1 wonder?”
“I ain’t romantic,” said Mre,
Muntle; *‘but still we ain’t young,
neither of us, and it gets to be just
that with the most sentimental after
awkile.”
“Don’t refuse me,” pleaded Mr.
Patterson.
““Well, Mr. Patterson, I won't,” said
Mrs. Muntle. “I’'m myown mistress;
and though I've never thought of a
second marriage, why 1 thiok I'm
warranted in making ome. And no
doubt I shall never repent, for I think
you've a fine disposition, and I under
stand your ways and tastes.”
Mr. Patterson listened. He saw
what he had done—proposed and been
accepted without having any idea of
whet he was about. He looked at Mrs.
Muctle. She was very nice and comely
and ten years his junior, at least, if
she was forty. He could not have
done a better thing, and would be
married without any {roublezome
courting. So he a$ onece put his arm
around Mr. Muntle’s waist and said:
““Thank youn, my dear. I consider
myself very fortunate.”
He wrote to his good doeter in
about a fortnight’s time, to tell him
that he had taken both his preserip
-5 tions; was a married man and ictend
ed to bring his bride bome about the
first of the new year.
The Praise of Self Cullura,
The safegunard again:i temptation
is not seclusion, but seli-culture. As
1t is not disinfectants which will most
certainly secure one against infection,
but a sound constitatiorn, se it is not
rules of life which will sirenzthen
one against temptatior, but a strong
soul. One must build up his moral
constitution by the habit of noble
deeds and high thinkinz, by fellow
ship with pure women and honorable
men. The chief aids in this regimen
are literature and friendship, —Jan
MacLaren.
Population of the Earih.
The total population of the ecarth is
estimated at about 1,200,000,000, of
whom 32,214,000 die annually—i. e.,
an average of 98,848 a day, 4020 un
hour and sixty-seven a minute. The
annual number of births on the other
hand, is estimated at 36,792,000—i,
e., an average of 100,330 a day, 4200
an hour and seventy a minute.
“FARMERS’ ROADS.”
A lA'ITER_QF IMPORTANCE TO
-TILLERS OF THE SOIL.
United States Department of Agri
culture Takes It Up—Macadam
and Telford Systems—Model
North Carolina Roads.
HF. United States Department
; of Agriculture bas taken up
the matter of “‘farmers’
roads,” avers the Chiecago
Record, and Roy Stone, an engineer
of the department, believes that farm
ers can build good roads without im
poverishing themselves. On this sab
ject Engineer Stone says:
“In the first place the road that will
best suit the needs of the farmer must
not be too costly ; in the second place
it must be of tLe very best kind, for
the farmer should be able to do his
heavy hauling over it when his fields
,are too wet to work and his teams are
free. The road that would seem to
fill the farmer’s need, all things con
sidered, is a solid, well-bedded stone
road, so narrow as to be only a single
track, but having an earth track along
side.
““A fine, dry, smooth dirt track is
the perfection of roads; it is easy on
the horses’ feet and legs, easy on the
vehicle and free from noise and jar.
1t holds snow better than gravel or
stone and requires less snow to make
sleighing, and where such a road has
& stone road alongside to take the
travel in wet weather it will suffer
hardly any appreciable wear.
*“The stone road, on the other hand,
wears by the grinding of the wheels
and the chipping of the horses’ calks
in dry weather more than in wet. If
it can be saved this wear for an aver
age of eix months in each year, so
much will be clear gain.
‘“The questionsraised regarding this
method of construction are: Can the
junctions of the earth and stone seec
tions of the road be kept even so as
not to have a jog in passing from one
to the other, and can the mesting and
passing of loaded teams be provided
for?”
Mr. Stone cited the condition of the
Canandaigua (N. Y.) roads as evidence
that there is no sign of division be
tween the earth and stone, and added
that those who use these roads say that
no difficulty is found in the passing
of teams, since practically no two
teams ever turn out at exactly the
same spot, and no rutting of the earth
road occurs.’
The League of American Wheelmen
has taken up the cause of good roads,
and men who are accustomed to feel
the public pulse say that good roads
will soon be a dominant issne in State
and National politiecs. = What bicycle
riders are doing at present was done
by the horseless vehicle men of Eng
land in 1831, when their agitation re
sulted in the appointment of a com
mittee of the House of Commons “‘to
inquired into and to report upon the
proportion of tolls which ought to be
imposed upon coaches and other ve
hicles propelled by steam or gas upon
turnpike roads.”
It was just about this time that
James Macadam, Road Surveyor, and
Thomas Telford, President of the In
stitution of Civil Engineers, with their
adherents, were engaged in a contro
versary legarding the relative merits
of “Macadam” and ““Teliord’” roads.
Up to that time England’s best roads
were the remains of the old Roman
roads, bat Macadam and Telford be
gan an era of road building, each af
ter his own kind, which brought Eng
lish roads to a high state of develop
ment and made those two engincers
famous as the originators of the two
systems which to-day bear their names.
SECTION OF TELFORD ROAD.
The macadam road has the earth
graded and rollen for its foundation.
The principles laid down by Macadam
were as follows: 1t is the natural scil
whichreally supports the weight of trav
el; while it is preserved in a dry state
1t will carry any weight without sink
ing. This native soil must previously
be made quite dry and a covering as
much impenetreble to lain as possible
must then be placed over it to pre
serve it in that dry state. Thai the
thickness of a road should only be reg
ulated by the quantity of material
necessary to form such impervious
covering and never by any reference
to its own power of carrying weight.
These principles, modified in some
respeots, govern the making of a mac
adam roadway to-day. The natural
earth foundation is graded so that the
curve of the foundation will be par
allel to the curve of the surface of the
roadway when compleied. The earth
foundation is rolled aad rerolled un
der a heavy roller until the earih is
firm, compiet a.ndr even. a
On bLoth sides of the roadway exca
vations are made for the drains. in
the bottom of the diteh thus made
tiling is laid, covered with hay, straw
or some such filtering material, and
over it 18 laid broken stone in such a
manner that water will easily find its
wey down to the tile,
Sometimes, instead of tiling, bundles
of rods or straight limbs of trees,
bound together fazet fashion, are laid
in the bottom of the drafed instead of
tiles. This is a cheaper construction,
but is not regarded so good as the
U-shaped tiling.
When the roadway has been graded
and rolled and the drains have been
built the first layer of broken stone is
put cn the rolled surface of tho easth
foundation. This layer is about six
inches deep, and consists of broken
stone, no piece tco large to pass
through 2 ringz of two and one-half
inches inside diameter.
When this layer is evenly spread
over the foundation the roller isagain
brought info use, avd the stone laver
is rolled until it is firm and compact.
The stone is eprinkied with waier be-
fore the roller .is passed over it, and
sometimes clean, sharp sand is sprin
kled over the stone.
The second layer, thick enough to
bring the stone bed np to ten inches,
is next spread on and rolled, and then
a top layer of clean gravel or stone
chippings is put on and rolled. Care
is taken that the gravel shall not be
waterworn, with smooth, round cor
ners, for this is injurious to the road
way.
The Teliord road differs materially
from the macadam, for it has a foun
dation cof stones laid downsingly, with
the broad side down, and the spaces
between the stones filled with smaller,
ro;xgh, wedge-shaped stones driven in
rolid.
Orig nally the Telford foundation
was ‘“‘convexed” by laying the largest
stones to form the crown inthe center
of the roadway and then grading down
to the gutters with smaller stones, but
this practice is no longer followed, for
the earth is graded to form the erown
as 1t 1s done in a macadam road.
The earth foundation is well rolled
and then the sub-pavement 1s laid on
with the lung side of the stone set
transversely. Between these stones
stone chips are packed firmly and then
broken stone is placed over the sub-
SECTION OF MACADAM ROAD.
pavement in two layers, the first layer
being rolled and packed before the
second is laid on.
This layer of broken stone forms
the intermediate course, for the sur
face is made of stone brokenin smaller
pieces and packed nfider a light roller.
Sand is swept over the surface and In
other rolling with a heavier roller
completes the pavement. The sand is
moistened and the rolling is continued
until the sand can no longer be driven
in between the broken stone. Drains
are laid, as thev are for macadam
roads, before the sub-pavement is
built.
A simple experiment, which can be
made with any wheel, will show why
a smooth, ‘hard-surfaced road makes
hauling easy for a horse. On such a
road the roadway is tangent to the
circumference of the wheel. The wheel
stands on the immediate point of con
tact, and there is no obstacle over
which the wheel must be lifted. On
a sandv or loose, soft earth road the
wheel sinks into the roadway. To
draw the wheel forwerd the earth be-
fore its track must be displaced or
passed over, so that a horse, in addi
tion to the force it must exert to draw
the load, must use extra force to over
come the obstacle in the path of the
wheel.
In Mecklenburg County, North
Carolina, the systematic improvement
of roads has made progress for nearly
fifteen ycars. The general plan
adopted was to start at the city limits
of the county seat and to grade and
macadam all public roads from this
point out toward the towanship and
county limits. These roads have a
width of forty feet for the first two
miles from the city limits and beyond
this point a width of tairty-six feet.
The average cost of these roads, in
cluding the macadamizing and grad
ing, is abount $2OOO a mile. The effi
ciency of the roads is shown by the il
lustration, copied irom a photograph.
The wagon loaded with tweive bales
of cotten weighs 6000 pounds, and
each of the other three wagons is
loaded with a cord of wood.
- Much of the road buildicg in this
county is dome by ccavicts. The av
‘erage number of couvicis employed is
‘about eighty, and the average cost of
this labor per conviet, including food,
‘clothing, medicalattention and gnards,
tis from twenty to twenty-two cents a
day.
~ The rate of taxaiion in the county
‘is eighteen cents on $lOO worth of
property. In addition each township
levies a tax varying from seven to fif
teen cents on each $lOO worth of
property. The law requires all able
bodied citizens along the public roads
to labor four days of eaci year on the
public roads or to pay fiity cents a
day in lieu thereof.
This class of labor is used indepen
dent of the conviet labor, principally
in the work of grading or in the gen
eral repairs of those roads or portions
of them upon which the conviet force
is not engaged.
A Feline Fireman,
There’s a remarkable cat in this city
called ‘““Tootsy.” She is the only fire
cat in the land. Tootsy is a member
of Engine Compaay No. 27, and all the
firemen love her. She was born on the
Fourth of July, has been in the cat
show, rides on the engine, sitting on
the driver’s seat, and loves the smell
of smoke as much as she does a dinner
of live mouse. Nothing could induce
the men of No. 27 to part with their
pet. Tootsy} knows an alarm of fire,
even if she hears the gong strike when
she’s a block away. When Tootsy
dies there will be sorrow of the genu
ine kind in the engine house of Ne.
27.—New York Record.
Where Water is Scarce,
Water is so scarce in South Africa
that it is dealt out by the gallon, the
allowance to each person working for
the mining companies ranging from
one to one and a half gallons per day.
This limits the drinker of tea and cof
fee to one gup, while if sironger stim
ulants are ;ndnlged in-they are swal
lowed without. Washing is a laxury,
clothing being submitted to the action
of sunshine and air, with a good shak
ing, aiter the manner of carpets, to
get rid of the dust.
Fireproof Paper,
An izhabitant of Berlin is responsi
ble for the invention of fireproof pa
per. A considerable quantily of as
bestos fiber ol the best quality, with
several other ingredients, is mixed
with the ordinazy wood pulp, with the
addition of some lime water and bor
ax. Paper thus produced will resist
the direct infiuence ol a {iame and ean
be placed even in & whise heal with
impunity,
FOR SALE LOW.
A Carryall well worth 850 can be had
for 835 by applying to C. A. Lufkin,
Norwood, R. 1.
N.E.Pa
OADELFORD & TILLINGHAST,
Ladies’ and Gent's Restaurant,
59 Weybosset St., Providemee, K. I, -
Open from 6 A. M. to 8.30 P. M.
Course Dinner Daily, 30 ots.
PALACE HOTEL.
San Francisco, California,
The Lezding and Most Magnificent Hotel in
the Upited States.
The Palace Hotel occupies an entire block
In the centre of San Francisco. It is the
model hotel of the world. Fire and earth.
’ouake proof. Has nine elevators. Eversy
om is large, light and airy. The ventila.
tion Is perfect. A bath and closet adjoin
&v:ry room. All rooms are ea.s{ of access
m broad, light corridors. he centrai
oourt, {llumrinated by eleetric light, its im.
mense glass rcof, broad balconles, earriage.
way and tmpic&lgxlants. are features hith.
erto unknown in American hotels. Guests
vrtertainad on either the American or Euro.
'mmn plan. The restaarant is the finest in
e city. Secure rocwms in advance by tele
graphing.
THE PALACE HOTEL,
San Francisco, Cal.
METROPOLE SHIRT CO,
MAKERS OF
Uress - and . Business - Shirts,
BLANKET WRAPS.
Ladies’ Shirt Waists a specially,
335 Vestminster St., Providencs, R. L
Room 2.
WM. H GRIFFITH & (0.
Plumbers and Sanitary Engineers.
DEALERS IN
, STOVES, CROCKERY,
TINWARE, ETC. .
. Rooe and Rodman Sty Narragsusett Pisr
> .« » , . . ey
Fine Dressmaking and Ladies’ Tailoring.
Our airz is Lo maintain a standard of work
onexcelled for artistic style perfect fit and
fine workmanship. Ladies’ and Misses’ tail
or made garments, wraps and fashionable
gowns, of every description to order.
WESTMINSTER FASHION CO.
Parlors, 362 Westminster St., Providence.
NATIONAL BAKK of NORTH AMERICA,
45¢eybosset St., Providence, R. 1.
Capital §1,000,000. Surplus, $125,000.
Personal and Busine.s Accounts Solicited
Special arangements made with valuable
accounts, Jesse Metcalf, I'rest.; C. H. Merri
man, Vice-Prest.; S. k. Carpenter, Cashier.
F.E NEWBRUNY,
>OPGICIAL«
157 Westminater Bt.; Providencs, R. I
Ceomplete line of Spect :cles. Kve Glas<es,
Thermometers, Hydrometors, eve,. Ocn iste’
i‘rescriptions receive prompt and personal
attention. Repairing of every desc: ipiion e
Wweecialte.
The L. A. Tillinghast Co.,
CATERERS.
Weddings and Parties served in the best
possible manner. Banquet hall and recep
tion rooms and first-class cafe.
281 Westmiuster St., Provideace R. L
if you are looking tor the highest grade of
Four-valve Automatic Engines,
remember that
THE HARRIS CORLISS
Leads all competitors in the world.
WM. 4. HARRIS STEAM ENGIKE CO.,
PROVIDENCE, R. 1.
The Famous
NABRAGANSETT LAGER
Is the Thing.
NO FINER LAGER
BREWED INTHE COUNTRY.
C. H GEORGE & CO.
No. 43 Weyhosset Sire-t,
Providenoce, . X.
LAWN TENNIS GOODS of
every description, including the
finest Racquets made, such as are
used by all the leadicg Tennis
players.
LAWN MOWERS—The cele
brated ¢ Leader,” ¢ Philadelphia,”
and ¢ Granitz State,” for sale at
iowest price.
LAWN SPRINKLERS, Rub
ber Ilose, Wind-w Screen. and
Doors, Fly Netting, Poultry Netting,
&e., &e.
Headquarters for all the afvuve seasonable
goods, which we offier at lowest rates.
C. H. GEORGE & CO., Providence, B. ;
Desirable Building Lot
FOR SALE.
Bituated ou the westerly side of Cojumbis
Street, Wakefield, near the G. A. R. Memo
rial Hall- For particulars, inquire of
il. B. PERRY
NATHAN B. LEWIS,
Attcrney and Counsellor-at-Law.
. Justice, Second Jadicial Distriet.
Probate matters, and the preparation o 1
all kinds of legal papers, a specialty. I 8
years experience 1n that line.
WESTERLY OFFICE:
No. 28 High Street, Tuesdays, Fridays an¢
Saturdays.
RESIDENCE AND PRINCIPAL OFFICE!
ans ly Wickford, R. L.
jaTHAN W.ern.;nxx.n. WALTER ;t.snuu:
LITTLEFIELD & STINESS,
Attomeys and Comsellors-at-Las,
CIANS‘I‘ON, HENRY C.,
BANKER AND BROXEERE,
87 WEYBOSSET BT., - PROVIiDEsaE, D)
United States Bonds and Tomirercia
Paper bou‘fht and cold. Stoeks and Doneds
bought and sold i all markets on comiuis
gion, particular attention being given g
First-class investmnent Bouds and Stocks
Interest Allowed on Deposits.
C. M. BELL,
Dational Photographer,
463 & 465 Pennsylvania Ave.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Ladies and Children a Specialty.
. FALL IN SUITS.
The low price of wool has so reduced the
grice of woolens that I can sell the Best
usiness Suits for the
LOW PRICE OF §25.
The Suitings were manufactured bg the
well-known mills, the Hockanum and Broad
Brook of Rockville, Conn.
EBig cut in prices ot Single Garments,
TROUSERS FROM $6 TO $lO.
Call and examine them.
PATRIGK DENAHY,
114 North Main St. Providence.
C. H. TILLINGHAST
N 005.667 to 677 Broadway, opp. Bond St.
Location unsurpassed. The new Rapid
Transit Cable Lines passing the Jdoor: ran
the « ntire length of Broadway from the Bat.
tery 10 Central Park, passing ali the fash
fonable s.ores, theatres, and principal at
tractions of the city. The CENTRAL will
be run on both the American an'l European
plans. The refular tariff of charges for
each persan wiil be: For room oniy, 81.0¢
£1.50 and $£2.9%; for room and board, $2.50,
&3.00 and $3.59; for single meals, 75 cents:
for rooms with parlor or bath, extra.
UNITED STATES HOTEL, BROADWAY CENTRA)
Boston, ITorve., New York.
FROM NARRAGANSETT PIER.
Leave Narragansett Picr at 7 40,9 05, 2 00,
4 00 %7 35
_Leave Wakefield at 743, 815, 207, 408,
*7 48,
Leave Peace Dale at 751, 916, 210, 4 il,
&7 46.
Arrive at Kinegston 806, 939, 223 492
* 01.
TO NARRAGANSETT PIELR.
Leave Kingston at 8 10, 10 22, 257, 5190.
*RII.
Leave Peace Dale at 6 30, 322, 1031, 3 09,
522, *7 15. *3 22,
Lewve Wakefield at 635,53 23, 1037, 312,
5 25, *¥7 18, *8 26.
Arrive at Narragansett Pier ¢ 41,8 33,10 43,
320,533, ¢7 =3, *5 34.
#Saturdays enly.
GEO. T. LANPHEAR. Supt.
GEORGE H. BULLOCK,
Successor tc Partelow & Bullock,
Wakefield and Narragansett Pier.
CONTRACTOR
Cf All Branches of Masornry.
Estimatesonall kindsof Masonry Promptly
Furnished.
Ofiice—Maln street, Wakeifield.
TELEPHONE CONNECTIONS. 3
Trzins leave Hope Valley for Weood River
Junction, deily «t 7.15 end €.50 a. m., 129,
350 end 455 p. m. Leave Wood River
Junction ior Liope Valley at 7.4% snd 11.04
a. m, 15, 44and 526 E‘ m.
§35 Wecnezday and Thursdey e~ suine
stoainloat train leaves IHope VUle{ for tus
Junctica at 8§ p. m,, wan%cr Hae
Tark. LM EA . eny
JAMES MURPHY,
MERCHADT TAILOR
PROVIDENCE,
12 foot Galvanized
*GEARED
AERMOTOR
50
and never gets tired. This une
Beard of price is for special introductory
nrpooes and will prohably not remain open
8. No farmer should let the opportunity
pass to get a mill for grinding, pumping,
sawing, etc., at such a price. 8-foot mil
for pumping only, £25 and treighi. Send for
special circular and advise us yvour wants.
All supplies such as Pumps, Tanks, Pipe
Fittings, etc., for complete systems carried
in stock and furnished at low prices.
SMITH & WINCHESTER,
19-37 Wandell St. 2.12 ilartford S ¢
BOSTON. MASS.
[. B. MIASON & SONS,
LPork Fackers
And Wholesale Dzalers in Provisicns.
165 & 173 Canal St., Providence, R. L.
RIGGS HOUSE,
Washington, D. C.
OPPOSITE THE TREASURY
And One Block from the White House.
MOST POPULA= HOUSE i# THE CITY.
HORSEST
Dot be a bat, don’t be blind, there’s corn
1 gyptlyei. We lead—let those iollow who
can.
INO'I"TCE::!
Tre world still moves<. We are in th?‘pm
ces~ion, right behin:i the band. No hMiest
mian can sell horses c¢neaper than we do and
stay at 136, 138 and 14) Daorrence street. Oar
HORSES e ARGUMENTS; our PRICES are
ELGQUENCE itself. Our uim is to make
both horses and prices satista¢tory ever
time. If you have tried elsewhoere and failm{,
give us a trial and be convinced. We sue
ceed where others have ailedl. Come and
sec the difSerence between dencing withdead
and iive men. We hiave conustantly on Land
from 75 to 100 horses to select flom inelud
ing Gentlemen’s Drivers, Matehed pairs in
all colors, suitable for all branches of busi
ness, from a high-bred Trotter to Team
Horse. Any one wishing to Luy a horse
gmln'{ fail to give us a culi. THLY MUsST Bi
OLD,
D. Ahearn & Co.,
Auctivneers and Gommission Agents, -
136, 138, 149 Dorrepca St., Providsres,
F. W. SWAN, Salesman. Auction Sales
THURSDAY and SATUZDAY, commencing
WINSN AL M.
BROADWAY CENTRAL HOTEL,
NEW YORK.
TIT,LY HAYNES. Proorietnr
NARRAGANSEIT PI:RR. R.
e Time Table Commencing Monday,
Nept. 23d.. 1595,
WCOD RIVER BRANCH RAILRDIY.
26 Westminster Slr( et,
Room 1,
EIGHT
ICAGO.
rk of four
-thind the
harnestey
Convenien ly near the Grard Centra)
Depot and the East and Waet Side Elevated
Btatione. Omnibuses on the avenue rus
direct to the shopping district and al! places
of interest. Elegant aspartments en suite for
families, permanent or transient,
Astor House,
{2 On the European plan. Rooms $1 and
gpward. The -coommosm of the Asto?
will ba found first~class in every respeci
Elgvator runn ng night and day.
f. A. XEITH, Manager
7. J. ALLEN, Proprieter.
Broadway and Eleventh Street,
Opposite Grace Churaeh,
NEW YORK.
European Plan.
Rooms $1 Per Day and Upward,
“Therve is an atmosphere of home
and hospitaple freatiuent at the &:
which is rarely met with in a public ho
and which insensihly draws {ou tbare
gflen as you tura your igee iQwards !
ro.tk,” - eTR X IR
g » I
Newspaper Advertising.
To know how to advertise vour Hotel
send for estimate and list of Newspa~
pers to '
HICKS® ADVERTISING AGENCY,
WiLrLian Hrcks, Propnetor,
Vanderbiit Bidg. Nassau & Beekman sts N. Y.
SOSTON HOTELS.
PARKER HOUSE,
Schoel and Tremeons Sts.,
BOSTON.
EUROPEAN PLAN.
SBECKMAN & PUNCHARD.
J. H. Broxman. E. O. PUNcHARD.
REVERE HOUSE,
BOSTON.
First Class. Fine Table. Deslirable
Rooms,
Horse cars to and from ail the Depots s
.uli parts of the city pass the do or,
J. F. MERROW & 00., Propristors.
Boylston and Clarendon ’
Streets, Boston.
The Brunswick ix the fincst hote! stru
1 New England. Fire proof; modern m
its appointments; elegantly finisied; kept on
the Airerican plan. Location unsurpassed,
Dartne vth street, Longwood avenue and
Back Bay cars pass the hote! evo-rg thred
minuics. BARNES & DUNKLEE,
Proprietors.
Bowdoln and Allston Sts., Boston,
Beacon Hill, near Staie House and Com
200, noted for ite e<cellent table and mod
sratle prices
THE THORNDIKE.
EUROPEAN PLAN,
Hoylston Street, Opp. Public Gardea,
BOSTION.
The locution of the Thorndikg, between
the Public Garden arnd Pro- ‘dence Depot, §§
the ficest in the city, and Is accessible from
Sl POLaUS.
Kooms, One Dollar per day aud upwerd
Private Aintng f srlors for club dinners, ota
G. A & J. L. DAMON, Propriecora
Crawford Houss,
EURCPEAN PLAN.,
SCOLLAY SQ., - BOSTON.
GUOODWIN & RIM BACH, Propricters.
BENRY GOoODWIN, GEORGE H. Rivßaom
YOUNG'S HOTEL,
EUROPEAN PLAN.
Opp. Head of State St., Bestoa.
Entrance for L.ar Court Street, neas
~ Waslineton.
J. R. WHIPF LE, Proprietor.
ADAMS HOUSE
European Pian.
Washingtom Street, Boston.
GEORGE G. HALL. PROPRIETOR
GOPLEY SQUARE HOTEL,
Huntington 2ve. and Exater Sts,
BOSTON, MASS.
Overlooking Conley Square. A new house
ot the highest ¢class. 250 elegantly furnished
rooms, single and en suite, with private
baths. Every modern improvement. ADso.
lutely fire-proct, One miaute's walk from
Huntington Avenuc station Boston & Al
bany R. R. Three minutes by horse aand
electric cars to BDoston terminus Fall River,
Stonln%ton, and Providence boat lines, and
Shore line E. R. Five minutes to principal
shoping centres, theatres, ete. American
plan, & per day and upward; Ecropean
plan, $1.50 per day and upward.
NEW YORK IHOTLLS.
HOTEL BRUNSWICK,
Fifth avenue and Twenty-sixth street,
NEW YORK.
American and Earcpoan Plan.
Tebie d'hote and Restaurant. Elegantly
remodelad and refurnished,
MITCHELL, KINZLER & SOUTHGATE
CROPRIETORS.
MURRAY HILL HOTEL,
PARK AVE. & 41st STREET,
One Block from Grand Ceairzl Depot
The only firsi-class Hote! in New York oz
both American and European plans. Bag
goge to and from depot {ree of chinrge,
HUNTING & HAMMOND
EVERETT HOUSNE,
4th avenue and {7th etrest.,
XEW YORK.
Centrally located; evarlwoking Union ey
Large elegant and comfortalle rooma
Warm in winter. Cool in summer. Tuble
service » s Carte.
JOHN G. WEAVER Jr, & CO.
BREVOORT HOUSE,
Fifth avenue, ncar Washilugton cguare,
NEW YORK
A quist hotel cf enviable reputatics with »
restsuraut of peculier cxcellence.
O. B. LIBBEY, Propfletor,
HQTEL GLENHAM,
3 FIFTE AVENUE,
Between 21st and 224 vtree's, New York.
EUROPEAN PLAN.
Loceticn and servi.oe un-urpassea, Ewvery
amolern improvemn-at for tue convenienocs
and eomfort of nairons.
N. B. BARRY, Propricter,
FIFTH AYENUE HOTEL
Madison Squate, New York.
The Lergest, Best-a;pointed, and Mos
Liberally Managed Hoiel in the City, with
the wost Central and Deligutfui Location,
SITCHCOCK, CARLING & COO.
The Windsor,
PIFTH AVEAUE, - - NBE YORL
HAWK & WETH ERI:EE, Prop’s.
fHE BEST EKEPT AND MOST ATTRACTIV®
BHOTEL IN TEE CITY.
BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
The St Denis,
F. 8 RISTEEN & CO.