Hope High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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Reselved that the Previdence Harber Slltcruild be Immediately Develeped JOHN LAMSON EDDY The first thing to be considered in the development of a harbor is: What natural advantages should a port possess to justify the expenditure of a large amount of money in its improvement? In answering this question we must consider both the formation and the situation of the harbor :-It should have a depth of twenty-five feet, or be of such a character that this depth may be easily maintained by occasional dredging, it should have a large area for anchorage, it should be well protected from the fury of the oceang it should be capable of easy access, it should have some large city at its head, from which goods can be distributed in all directions, and where necessary repairs can be made on ships 5 and finally it should have room for abundant wharfage. Now let us see how Providence harbor fits these qualifications. It has a depth of twenty-five feet, and this can easily be increased by dredging 5 it has a sufhciently large area, when Narragansett Bay is included to harbor the entire United States navy 5 it is completely protected from the ocean, and ships never experience more than a gentle swell in it, it is easily accessible, being only about twenty miles from the ocean, while many other large steamship ports are a hundred or more miles from the sea 3 its head comes up to the city of Providence, one of the largest manufacturing cities in the country, a city which is soon to be connected directly with one of the greatest continental rail- ways, and a city which is a natural distributing center for all New England, finally it has scores of miles of land, where docks can be built which will equal any in the world. Perhaps you wonder why Providence, if she really possesses all these advantages, is not already a great steamship port. Its present condition can be attributed principally to its narrow policy. It forces steamship companies to rent their wharfs, it does nothing to entice commerce, and steamship companies often find considerable difficulty in trying to gain admittance. Moreover, it has neither city or state wharfs. Boston, on the other hand, is spending over ten times as much for the development of her harbor as Provi- dence. She gives free use of her wharfs to steamship companies, and is continually invit- ing new lines to come to Boston. That more and larger ships will readily come to Providence, when abundant wharf- age is provided, is shown by the engagement of the city and state wharfs by steamship companies, even before they are in existence. Perhaps the most notable tenant of these wharfs is the Faber Line. This company is considering making Providence a trans- atlantic terminal, instead of a port of call. Several other ocean steamship companies are also considering this port favorably and are only deterred from immediate action by the lack of wharfage and the uncompleted dredging of the harbor. Perhaps you will ask: What use will these steamship companies be? They will be useful in many ways. They will bring more trade, more people, more money, and thus greater prosperity to the city. Furthermore, merchants and dealers will not be forced to ship their goods to New York or Boston, and from there on. They will thus be enabled to save time, labor, expense, and trouble. Now let us take a glance at Providence, as she will appear in 1960, if she awakens and immediately develops the harbor to its fullest possibilities. We see the trade coming from the west to Providence through the Panama Canal , and from the south and east through the inland waterway. We see the great ocean steamships anchored in the lower harbor, or alongside some splendid new wharfs taking in grain sent from Canada by the Southern New England Railway, and manufactured products from around Providence. The steamships have found the ports of New York and Boston over-crowded and have realized the superior advantages of Providence as a great steamship port. Let Providence authorize further improvements immediately, so that she may catch the trade from the Panama Canal, as well as the trade that is now desiring to enter. Let her provide a deeper harbor and score of new wharfs, before the trade is enticed to enter less advantageous but more widely advertised harbors. . ' 25

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on the way out. If any one was trying to smash in the door, it would not have been difficult, for it hung by one hinge and required a great deal of coaxing in the watch- man's vocabulary to make it latch. I did not know what happened until I was uncovered in a little house on a moun- tain-side in Switzerland. The sunsets there were beautiful, when the snow-capped mountains loomed up into the heavens with the dull glow of the setting sun reflected on their summits. One morning several men came in, and began to talk, and I soon dis- covered that their conversation concerned me. 'They've caught on, weid better move along,' said one. 'I will keep her in my house,, said a man with a pleasant voice. 'T he children may tell,' objected another. 'Not if I forbid themf said the pleasant voiced one, decidedly. 'And besides, it would please the boy.' fWhat boy?' I think there was a sob in his voice, as he answered, 'Pedro, my only son. He is a cripple, and you bet I'd not be bothering about this old picture, if it werenft for the money I get, which I can use to help him.' It was satisfactorily decided, and I was borne back to Italy. You know the rest, Carlotta, how I came back here, and how pleased your brother is, to be brought in here to see me. 'It's no longer safe here,' one said. 'No weid better take her to Italyf replied the other. So again I was taken out, Wrapped in my cloth. I Then began a very long, but pleasant journey to Italy, the land of sunshine. We rode in a carriage, but the cloth covered my face most of the time. Once it fell off, but was quickly replaced. We rode in silence for a long, long while, and soon I heard the men snoring. A jolt of the carriage made the cloth slip again, and this time, it was not replaced. I saw my companions sleeping, and then looked out between the curtain and the window, just in time to see the sunrise the first one I had ever witnessed. The world was bathed in a soft light, which grew brighter, changing from pink, rose, gold,.into all colors of the rainbow. Then the rim of the sun appeared, growing larger until the whole of it was visible, flooding the earth with a golden light. I longed to see more, but as the carriage was moving faster, I could only catch a glimpse, now and then, of a peasant woman, going to market, or some children, playing in the road. Unfortunately, the men awoke, and quickly replaced the cloth, where it remained, until I was safely placed in the darkest corner of the dirtiest room I had ever seen. I was in Italy, but it was very unpleasant, because men came in and played queer games, that required a good deal of shouting, and talking like the night-watchman, at the Louvre used, when he stumbled over something. And I think I'd rather be here, Where a little crippled boy is pleased to see me and who talks to me as though I were his own mother, than in the Louvre where tired children are dragged along by equally tired nurses, who tell them to look at me, so they can tell their friends they've seen me. I hope I shall stay here, too. Just then a door slammed and little Pedro was brought in. Go on, dear Mona Lisa. It's only Pedro, murmured Carlotta, looking at the face. But the sweet face only smiled at the little girl. I must have been dreaming, thought Carlotta, as she arose to push Pedro's chair before his beloved picture, but, nevertheless, I'll tell the story to Pedro. So she did, and as she told it, Mona Lisa seemed to smile at the two children, and tell them it was true. 24

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The Class el l9l2 Q Cffneers FREDERICK ALLAN BALLOU, JR., . . President WILLIANI BUTLER GOWDEY, . Vice-President HARRIET LOVEGROVE LAIRD, . Secretary LEARGUERITE EVERETT DAY, . Assistant Secretary PERCY WATERMAN SARLE . . Treasurer J osEPH LINCOLN SMITH, Maurice Adelman. Alice Allen Dorothy Austin Frederick Allan Ballou, Jr. H. Russell Burbank. Nellie Ann Burke. Ellen Ann Burke. Helen Rowland Burr. Albertine Louise Butts. John Joseph Cashman. William Curtis Chase. Albert Bullock Coop. Sophia Corp. Elsie Wild Cushing. Marguerite Everett Day. Herman Davis. Harriet Baggott. Rose Boresowsky. Julian Marie Buckly. Harry Anthony Carroll. Grace Edith Carpenter. Marion Mitchell Clayton. Margaret Gertrude Collins. Anna Teresa Crane. Emma Lillian Daniels. Mary Catherine Daly. William Clifton Dandeno. Etta Evangeline Goldin. Marguerite Marie Golrick. Classical Francis Anthony Degnan. Sara Elizabeth Droege. John Lamson Eddy. Margaret Hathaway Evans. Francis Farnham. Herman Feinstein. Robert Vincent Fitzpatrick, Bertha Clark Greenough. Bertha Cecelia Johnson. Lenora Kile. Alice Knowles. Laura Mae Lauzon. Vivian Mildred Lewis. Joseph Lozovitsky Meyer. William Rhodes LeRoy McBee. Charles McCann. English William Butler Gowdey. Minna Augusta Haas. Irene Aleda Honan. Harriet Lovegrove Laird. Lena Ethelyn Latham. Helen Francis McCabe. May A. McCann. Cecelia Max. Mary Gertrude McCarthy. Emma Cecelia McCormick. Lillian Edith Nevin. Marion Consilio O'Donahue. Mary Irene O'Sullivan. 26 . Assistant Treasurer Bertha Alida Metzger. Dorothy Dean Nichols. Emma Elizabeth Nye. Mary Amelda O'Brien. Anna Marie C'Connell. Kenneth Gilbert Parsons. Alice Marshall Rounds. Percy Waterman Sarle. Edward Sheridan. Ruth Taft Somes. Evelyn Ballon Stone. Helen Tulloch Sutherland. Mabel Janet Taber. Sara Katherine Taudevin. Margaret Walker. Amelia Peters. George Harold Pickering. Samuel Leo Rosen. Mary Cathryn Eleanor Shea Bessie Schrieber. Joseph Lincoln Smith. Veronica Genevieve Smith. Rosilind Goldie Sundlun. Mary Florence Walsh. Emma Maria Ward. Eudore Lorie Watson. John Milton Weeks. Edith Isabel Wilkinson. l