Newport Journal And Weekly News (Newspaper) - August 30, 1918, Newport, Rhode Island Uu VOL 61 NO 34 NEWPORT R I FRIDAY AUGUST 30 1918 THIRTY IN NEWPORT Total Registration in the State I Small three aliens hlu first pa ot J Twenty-six na rives one who hud who hud the since registered at of i local board Saturday Them who win be cadet ior It Jr Dudley Isaac W Thames Victor lu Hammond Julian S ruaU James 10 0 Waller Michael Carroll avenue S Clarke 15 Russell nne Comce Second Leo care 11 C Fort Adam Peter J Dodd steamer A T l Joseph Fagan 4 Carrol avenue Walter Kilby 5 Sheffield avenue Larson 21 J lay ward Law ton 11 Central James Isaac Law tun Jr ington Samuel Wallace Charles lolin J McDonald 30 Hall road J lurry Francis Thames Francis 1 lin Slrother Molle Albert Russell iam diaries Henry I Vernon Timothy William Quill Thames li I ted Cross 27 Thames Waller Shea 1 Hugh Church Constant John Smith Jr li Smith Kair Cornelius Van Estimates wont by the board night when Urn registrars of hu stilt e reported to draft a total registration of for Island Most preliminary lations too small Uuu to con- arising from Uio two prior uf the night the shooting conte was brought to a with a larg number of favorable 1 Blake waj tho winner making 71 of a but were number of seconds with 09 a a tha -140 from the Jaw fantory at dinner anil at the anil 3 from the Company t Providence were by tii of the Station numbering 7 to a dinner AN ENJOYABLE AFFAIR Dance Given at La Reserve b Girls Club for Benefit of Mercy Homo and School nee civen at Sat v.-iiIiiM by the Club fo tho of Home am well and tHe lat hits orchestra suited the dancers exactly The hall was Oriental designs am Japanese which rendered th scene Mrs Frank f 1 nnd Mrs and The list of included Mrs W T Libby Mrs Mary Curley Kooney lohn J Mrs O Connor Mrs William S Irs Arthur I Mrs Krank lowell Mrs Archie Mrs K Mrs Mrs Michael A Mrs T li Connolly LARGELY ATTENDED resented at Funeral of Cap- tain David I Scott Many attended Iho funeral Sunday of Captain 1 Scoit the of his lr H on AUH street Tha police nights of Pythias and in Womens He lief of rs Scott is a well Rtv C Edwin Silcox er of the urch officiated at and at 10 grave i He City The were of Police John S and and to tho supposition many of the men to Captain James 1 had entered the and Wi army or navy The results reported Ham Kane reprinting the polli and t el egra plied to the provost mar follow by districts 1 10 Ward 2 iM f Ward Ward 4 Ward Ward C 24 Ward 7 24 Ward g Ward Ward 10 1 57 2 tral Falls 42 Newport 30 57 State Division 1 47 Statt Division 2 State Division 3 27 State Division 4 42 State Division 5 7 Stain Division S 24 Total Early predictions of the state total lor this registration varied from to SaO but with few draft inclined toward the latter figure ex- cept the provost marshal himself The PH fur of 779 will probably bo increased ot least to the 800 mark after men a member of the old New of prohibitive religions uho have been exc and T and Chancellor Com- Tamos C the oi FRANK C PEMBER DEAD Former Member of City Council Succumbs to Hemorrhages After Two Weeks Illness ONE HUNDRED PER CENT NEWPORT BABIES SUBSTITUTE PUN wib Adopted by Council on of Aldermen draft but not in tho city's and Intended to safeguard against assessments under the terment plan It had nothing to do with taxation as improved property Mayor Burdick in reply to further Brackott said tho hud the matter they had the City Doubted in Dr suggested i s Avenue I'll A IS Gibbs Avenue THOMPSON Albro Place A CATERPILLAR PICNIC irand Drive to Rid Aquidneck Park of Pest September 7 Provement Association Committee Meet With Supervisor Leland and Outline Plans for Crusade SECOND WARD BABIES At the Completion of All the Tests a Show Will be Held With Prizes In this issue the Daily print of three of the babies of the Second ward The work of uring and testing the children in the First Second wards k and in tV I am Fifth wil lie in l future At the uf Hi a show will be and The of the Newport b0 In awarding or Association appointed day noon by the and ivy and Mr John take L L of Mm Max KiKs met j day with Supervisor of belaud to outline plans the of i The playground Letters on Estates of Elizabeth be extended until tlie day previous lo thu of her 7 t litre will a driv lo rid park the Tlie all-day outing on y will be -in thf nature of a IN 1 HE COURT M Sherman an dMary Ann Swan Granted In tho probate court this be wag waived Mr Frank S Pember former convictions Hampshire hand attached to tile are registered Ull Training early district 1 nnd showed tho largest district morning at his on Thames street after an Illness of two weeks About three atro he suffered the state being it led the slate Ifi both previous severo from the nose ami SOME HAVE SERVED HERE in Marine Corps Nominated for Promotion other which be- and moro severe and finally dilis death The de- ceased was born in Fall Uive ago to Newport in had made his humu since time He was for 1 yours and Colonels to the Training station playing also in that and other tras After ret L from tho val force lie was employed in various capacities by the late Lewis Shamler Mr Issler and Iho loral Wilson sent to tho dry companies For a number o afternoon the nominations lie conducted a market on brigadier to be Major and of six colonels to bo generals in the marine corps The brigadiers promoted to major are John A and W T and the colonels tinned for brigadier are lames K Malioney Hen F Fuller John T CI C and Albertus W Callin Nearly nr these marine officers have been duly here either in command of the marine guard or the Naval in: Station or as members of various classes at tho War R assistant quarter- master with rank uf was be a general avenue until a year ago le was employed at the Torpedo lon continuing until his death Mr Member was in local ics being for many years u member of tho committee and serving In 1903 as a member of tho Common Council from tbe Fourth iVard He was a member of Tribe of Ked men lie is survived by a widow son Mr Waller C a Airs Julia Pember A Mr and two DIRECTOR LOZITO DEPARTS Scene at Wickford Boat Beach Well Patronized Sunday Vincent who the band at the Newport 1 teach for past reasons departed morning to enter the Montanari the baritone will lead for the remainder o the on- Tin send-off which was given Mr a feature many the war began At the was the drummer the ha ml actually and from this scene by a woman in automobile band assembled at the do duty the city tu boat and joining woro Manager tile and a of the Italian both men and women and an were At and the Kalian custom A kiss of out as the pushed out the band played Spangled filu Dithering saluting Thu steamer re- tho uncorded her r by the throo Sunday day from tho standpoint tho fog and m though of course it what it would have a hot day at this stage of the in evory pros pod if tli holds favorable that the will rim miwh later this usually upon the morning of ad- in to those a- M wero granted lo fur I Id ward A Sherman The personal Miss has donated a tennis will not exceed and it is hoped thai people in sureties Annie A cily who have ur toys for ml Walter Sherman The ut ich they have no usu will inw are Waller Sherman brother and to the for use A sister in or Tho Belters of on the can use utmost anything Mary Ann Swan were the way m Inn tile to Lewis Tne vation mado hy tlie war and estate will nut exceed thn for surety Deposit work it to ot Maryland A for the sale Of real make them donation of of roci l John moths and and the entire fired nt tmc stroke River hopias and Mrs by bottom in Full s h Kvery persi points will ITS of nm winning pi mind will receive bar pins i HCO LARGE TRIP Newporters Go on Annual grimage to Camp for Clambake playground on r rt child who has t clusters will be I to all the at PRIZES ASSURED Improvement Association points Committee to Assist Children's Caterpillar Campaign to bo Followed by Another on ing of Schools Tho Children's Caterpillar Crusade hag received another substantial boost for the prizes The fund has grown thr of a resolution tunl tho ot a of the Association so thai all may be c-d and the children who ore service for the a meeting of the rewarded improvement Association Supervisor of peck which Aldermen to Take SUps o Procure Setter Gas Service for Public the city its believed to have doubled population in a very few years Tho Representative Council held a a sreat future and tho city ment should in even two-hour meeting move there should be an Jay evening ami then adjourned only energetic committee with ears to the uhen iho question of a was ready it o hustle for the city's when an effort was made 10 work to money and amendments to the aw An amendment to retire the rod numbered licence plate had been from the table upon a motion in action to take up the matter of All Mutt Be an engineer of loUal ii Sal Corporation asked if he un- to payments of a double fare that in the city The Council authorized the carrying I the work is conditional obi of the substitute plan for building of streets on the crease the city's standing hackney tions are changing and the city not wait for critical moments and try to put cumbersome machinery the burying of all wires He mid such work at is difficult and mem housing plot at an expense of authorized the aldermen issue certificates of indebtedness to amount of to meet hoped the city's act would not bo modo conditional MV William Williams spoke of the difficulty In putting wires under ground now of war con- overdraft of aldermen this year directed the arid said this was learned in handling the Rood It appeared to him as if the provision tho joker of the agreement and payment for the gas lights until come up to contract power provided for a commission to appear before moved that it be stricken Island Public Utilities Aldorman Hughea informed mission to demand that Council that District engineer Princo gas company provide a good and six projects and in every ijas appropriated nearly more one of them the wires are to go un- for coal for the schools received a ground There was no petition from tho reserve policemen that the government could procure the for one day off in eight with pay to the Committee of city has been rid of its forest of poles Rive a petition from tho and My said de- for more to thb wires but does noC for the aldermen to have to be up in case this the preparing impossible It is Lho corporation's in- act upon a commission to work for the good and growth of the cily when the hackney propositions caused them to beat a retreat Barely enough were present to hold to nave mechanics living In the houses by December Mr Scannevin if the cost of going under ground was included in the city's estimate if pot it would DC a no one knows thia orni of potential caterpillars in the TJie of ny more than it would make out of tho i business Mr j A Martin that The Aldermen met at to paas resolution pass as framed by the upon and accompanying Tlie cily has tried to tho which had directed to wires for years but the companies wiil submission to the do it unless compelled to do so Tlie resolution was passed intact The resolution providing for the the proposed streets on Of certificates of indebtedness so-called Old Fort Road plot lo make was taken up Dr Rrackfctt said noon ho prepared for Council A resolution pledged tho city to playgrounds are scouring the city the sidewalks lay sewers and ne was laboring under the idia that or the team of three small vide hydrants and street lights find jt be necessary to have 12 of age stipulated that all electric wires ny frOm the to secure loans for having 13.000 points to should be rim under ground all to any other purpose than in anticipation of taxes and asked If seeking such a The of the is so aa to the way the loan not be exceeding- the that Hie present campaign 1S to be to Council's power and imperilling the bp the day before I water-bound city's credit Ho in holding In- open and a to the letter and of the charter that limo for ue Brought to sut grade so far as possible but admitted that of thJ city tlle these times Children of school was read stating Loan Must be Raised in tho Housing approved owing to easily learn to gypsy and if they are allowed to and find that points uv to those securing the nf been instructed tlie and nd that they bring them to the instructors to trees girls noticed hurning tin a highly ng when little dresses nf flimsy material ad could be ignited have varied mn lo burn the pests as lay of is a will be built of the city's proposition for tha class of tne demand of New England banks for work to be done on the road and for certification it had anticipated the city to do the work J K that the loan would have to be floated in and hence per cent in- terest had been reckoned on City Solicitor Sullivan said the de- mand for certification is a rule not egg LIVELY ATTIC Roof of a Tenement Block on Fillmore Court ly Wrecked Al for Tiro In l mi Pirn writer in is it necessary to put A clc will the and dl will vim will also bo he of the Newport h made by the children at the various playgrounds wilt lie put on in he Store windows morning AT ART Program Given at Sunday Afternoon Reception for the Enlisted Ken t camp i nd in i anu a large 10 in boat for it all expecting to in lor which icrc was no about y of and that el lilies wan as always make the hakr one of his best tbe return was at UiA pleasure of quests the pumpers in line to reach the by a of hut an attempt tn lake if while after a had all up living in u hem selves away the nf Ilie out door iti th At Iho Art reception on Sunday for men 1 Incidentally il 1 li were in Mr for a i appointed by the i up of and lohn il and backing the siuM the city might 10 last to be pf st OPEN-AIR MINSTRELS The City's Financial Status A communication from the board to tUe Council was approved It law The city no it be- while June tho hoard lial up to those the certificates tho that it They arc legal he believed tha intr a deficit the Council made local banks would take them but no provision Mr Andrews If tho banks to meet large expenditures It would float the loan The said the fact that had beon an that if the certificates aro legal apparent deficit of bui banks would had received by the The passed of Hie Tharo The Board of Health was granted been a loss of in additional appropriation of for what tlie Council had orders and what the had gave an overdraft of would be a of from unexpended at end of the year If tlu appropriations were for plan streets to extent of and more were and vaccines upon its The Council refused to the to the Committee of Twenty Jive The board also era n ted additional for its for A Gas Attack It being announced that President and Dr Mattison of the for coal for the Newport Association was present and desired to address be this was Council Hiey to do to pay in one year the first saying it be by the I of certificates of to be paid off at the rate of per nnd the certificates to be issued as the board finds for the money in 15.000 Alderman Hughes for the coal com- Performance at Re- made a tentative report on coal for the schools made of the commodity He said there is no intention to do injury to the company but the public should be able to what it pays for Ho a resolution passed by ilio tive council of the Association last This styled the iras as no- serve Barracks Under of Knights committee of the hat the Board Committee nitrht: I and large audience gathered nt vc thea ry Monday when minstrel how was by General ary Thumas of the Knights f Columbus activities As the famous band and made itself heard to the the satisfaction of all expended with a little more Minn half supply secured The mayor announced that tho supposed portrait of Governor dington had been afier 1 renovated nnd it voted he extend to thanks of Ur Beck asked the If there a of ibt went breeze he sun it ind with tlie t- tr he woods efton tlH Wt half of Among tlie was a man wilh a and four children II is a cripple rheumatism fire did noi reach the living portions of tlv were drenched that are Tommy ventriloquist army like it is i Him dread Mr n Hungarian led by Mr Alfred the of i was tin Why Is Iho Anu of seh formerly Mrs Hardy In the attic a number of this city twice of storerooms which with presented by partitions gave the chopping to the pa rt r it Tht roof wa hav II burno Miss a known artist by MKM I- Mason rendered on tlie allo the lark At and things tu about The d and Clark h KinL William J Sheriff Anthony Deputy Sheriff Frank P King Colonel John n-H Anthony nr King H mil from Mr stymied l if and the marched these ci the power of tho and was i n formed none as the board had no money for the purpose tc with the city was down on of power and on the stage jt jt should be baton while the band played whether the city was Stars and Stripes paying for The lino did their Dancin I town in I receiving tremendous and J M several jokes of sane Lov with W K Catterall Here Arthur R Coi Hair U Harvey Victor Alton barker James Valhan Edward Ve Will We with Him proved encore material V A of Three Wonderful ters Home anil Living ton to the suggestion It They a Tax on An number by Dyke and Trainor ninny and P Carroll was old Hotel the wa of past for It is i owned Mr The resignation of George It Austin be- cause he had beon called to the vice The report of the men upon the requ ment for Hoard of st of in the hoi sin proposition road It was the that the aldermen have from first plan to spend in- of the which the ment proposed U stated the is to erect 3.1 costing from 57000 would net the eliy In taxes It was bv the resolution Intr tlie of the the draft of the In the government ment with and the from In- forming the city that its plan was Knink K It Is In Fort to me only with which people and Mother Mine and and which with Kong known to hy Mr to go to a firo swen eh A George Gordon Kint Then rame another treat from i S Watts Abni r 1 Soemn X when sang Oh How I i asked If the ii they find direct by Mw Frederick ea by us In thin son were served the on tho lawn Have you any uplift In life lately my Oli landlord our Baltimore American 10 ne Tp in thr with or a private tion under the of York Mr number the tableau snM nil the stork is owned of Tfi your which the nnd fence tin end of an formance after the for Tho Disked the moan of the clause which er which would no assessments enjoyable on the for the public menty This It wu In 10 more payments for street R to the Cleveland Vapor Light until it compiles with the as to candle power nnd posed that solicitor as a com- before the Public ot Rhode Uland to for a demand that the company provide gns Hr all knew what the and in his opinion it is that mani people in Newport cannot afford to pay for They should not be expected to pay for it either His remarks were straight lio said the company should be treated justly applause lowed Dr unanimous consent to introduce a resolution which was similar to that passed by the tive of the Association It was as Tho Gas Resolutions The gas light furnished by tne Cleveland Vapor under existing contract with the city of Newport does not comply with the terms and of contract and The gas furnished by Gas Light Company to inhabitants of the cily for cooking and purposes is notoriously and unsatisfactory and Whereas The made by Light Company for the KUS now furnished by It for domestic and purposed ore and and Whereas It has come to the of this body that the las Company proposes to in- the price as now charged Cot said irns ami there to be na on oho part of said Newport Company to Improve the quality of the Ran as now furnished Now bo It Resolved That tho of bo and it Ls hereby to mako no r for furnished by the Cleveland Light Company un- der its contract with the city of port until It has with on
