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Show Idle Tales from Boston Noted Oratorio Singer Who It Living in Retirement in This City Win-throp Win-throp Circui Declared a Success Millionaire Silk Manufcturer Teaching a Sunday School at llolyoke. i i ) 1 IIOHTON Probably many readers of the .sT53v "'" generation will remember Mrs F1or ' 1'F -sSJitwJhk """ one of the greatest oratorio singers of the t'&fa&ZAclSS, I'""1 who Is living In retirement from tho public lItslJ'ftVFXJBL " "' this city Among American singers Mrs j&Hm llaw Is the rciiosltory of the true tradition e.l vif k3 "ruu "" sI'iKlng III her prime a choral nseoola- ff . , j- p3f "" I"' 'omul lii Minuet every city or Im uV V S'M iKMiuini l-i the country The popularity of It W Plnufoii had not et started the erase tax ams i. -4' T '" ! r i mid liK-al singers practiced nnd sani V " ! the rhoi us tiaiis of the great oratorio i A "" Vv FA 'i'"" l gone days Mrs llarr) aang In nenrljfl W v'X AVtf- "n "'""' '" tht union, from the Atlantic W P-XWA EctiiV "" 'i""1' nnd fimn fanada to Old Meslco li ft'Cl!W s ?ffMfr "" " Hri i iciii from the strenuous eslslence o . JJaM M&'JS'' ,l,u i""'11' "lni" r ho "1'" "' ,'''J0,"u,n, VtaiilL mffwfrwi ihoiigh man) Interests ilemaud from her though nnd labor Perhaps her most thrilling musical experience was Just after the do. of the war whin she sang In llalilinore no times In a single oenlng Iho ba lad In I! erss The I'lnga Come Hark to Teniiessee" Veterans wet moved to tears bj tin pathiM of her singing In lloston she sang In the two great Julillws to celebrate tho return c peaie to n reunited country In lh course of one Jubilee sho sang with the great Parepa Itosa Th, ramous singer was a woman of gigantic frame Afterward Mme llosa sr : In Iho opera of Martha, nppenrlng In short skills Mrs Harry Is still amux t nt the meinor) ot the plcturu prenentiil by this enormous woman, welghh , 250 H)Utids or thereabout. In tho short skirts of Martha" AMATEUR CIRCUS IS A 8UCCE8S Tho big nmntiur circus which recently camo i III. Jl to a close nt Wlnthrop has been voted n great --A I A success The circus was presented under tho iZ'M M direction of the Wlnthrop yocht club nnd was rfS-J RH'Vif'j1 will ntlmded b) the colony of nctors who nro AsS-v) ' AJs t resting for Iho summer In that locality Sft Jsj lJtt lllclmrd (iiilden was ring master for tho con VSsV"" Rr eluding iierfnrmanro and was mil with it showir f CtYftryr)f7A r of npplause as he intered the ring that simkc yilyStfCfir A) will or his iHipularlty with tho resldonta ot thu rKfit I ton Although the weather wns disagreeable, ,f rV jO.l i ns real circus weather guierally Is tho tint was -nrt TK ' lllliil to Its utmost man standing In the open TVV ""-isJIl I Ing nf the eniinnre SUV jlCn . The Tenth band artillery corps pla)od the ;7 s4n& opening oierlure and were loudly applauded jfjjtfir The Marvelous Mi Mile came next In n suisa rjGQP tlonal aerial act and was also the icclplent or l an ovation The real run however began when Charles (1 lllrd, the popular secretary of the club catno on wllh his centaurs, or hobb) horses II appeared that the ipiadrupiils tired of hating to folio's the bidding nf tho mnn with the whip and turned on their master When ho ordered them to sit up they Jumped on him tnstiad and faltl) mobbed him They rolled him In tho sawdust and should him that the) weru real romping, fiery thoroughbreds as they reared ubout him Ho llnall) managed to oscupo from his educated djulnes MILLIONAIRE SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER. I I Ono of the most successful Institutional yJiSZi&fr churihea In western New Knglnnd la located In TcvStfy-XS lloljoko, nnd Is known aa "a homo church for rjK ",u ""I'le" ; u Unlike most churches. It has a large attend is V anro of men, and It has IncrwsiMl ao rapidly that W t'ZZS. C23l 'l 'ln,, u-Wun II" modest little rjuarttrs and " 'w; "li ' n to I'f"10 oul 'r n more pretentions edl Its next puriK)so was to bring nbout n reel ml Ing or rellowshlp nnd cooperation between em- W ployers and tho emplo)ed Tho man molt active SI In Its growth and roundtiig Is Joseph A. Skbncr, V . . a millionaire, and treasurer of tho Bklontr silk 3fc mills. KJ Ho Is known In Holyoko as tho crobViyevho J2 knowa all his employes by nnmo, nml fWrk-BAfMmi fWrk-BAfMmi men hnvo confidence that ho Is always nrklng for thnlr good ' Tho church Is really nn Institutional branch of tho Pe-cond Congrastlnnal church, ono or tho wealthiest ot this city Its ranka Includo peoplo i natlvo American, hngtlsh, Scotch, north or Ireland, German nnd French detest, and all theso nationalities nro working lor a common cause, namely, bottf Amor lean citizenship It Is a church or clubs, and thu work Is dono malnlrlarougn them Thnro Is a men's club, a young women's club and two boys' dibs and two girls clubs, and each meets weekly MORE WORK FOR NAUGHTY COP8. A now a) stem or punishment ror delinquent scrn -tti policemen Is on trial here Pollco Commissioner rr fW'iL. 1 O'Meara, whon ho took otneo on Juno 1, let It bo J A '" iLJC known that ho proiosel to aeo that all police S'iZL f I I men porformod their full duty nnd that such of ST t ySiS I them ns fallenl to do so would bo punished, but 25!5s7 rJ that ho would try to punish tho men Instead of ' :-,? 'SA making their families surfer, aa would bo tho flak. I caso If ho lined them I (MVfi as Ho gao tho policemen ralr nollco that II It MtfAVs!-' became iucessary to punish any of thom for fat) I (HssWl' uro to patrol Iholr imsts proporly, ho Intended to I f,,UPr do It by making them do extra duty ror a cor- . VyJK tain number or hours, tho amount of tho extra (03 duty being regulated by the seriousness of Iho - JL-(--HS offense Tho policemen took nollco of this warn tSSSXS Ing, especially after a patrolman waa found guilty ?2. of not properly patrolling and sentenced to do 35 I hours extrn duty as a penalty Tho commissioner left It to tho discretion or tho captain as to how the patrolman should work out tho lino, hut provided that tho man should not be required to do any part or the extra patrol ' .t: within two hours after going oft duty, nor within two houra ot tho tlmo hen a re'gular tour ot duty waa to, begin Tho police man had to work out his time on his days off, and on daya when ho otherwise would have hud a few hours to himself and the exutnplo which was made of him has dono much toward bracing up the patrol men Tho city has had tho henollC of 3S hours nxtru patrolling and, moat Important Im-portant of alt, next to tho Impression tho now system has mads on tho do-parlment. do-parlment. thu delinquent haa had to undergo u pi natty which got to him as the loss ot oven u month's pay would not liuvo dono It Is understood now by every member ot thu department that If ho shirks work It raesns that ho will have to do a good many extra hours of duty Thn t onsequeaco Is that lloston never hud more faithful patrolling than It Is getting now FROM COODLER'S SON TO MILLIONAIRE. Tho ilsn o( Daniel Wesson who dlod at . . Springfield thu other day from th$ son of a poor cobbler to that of a mill 1 1 millionaire pistol manu- "" ?Jv fncturer, Is Interesting As a tio young Woa- jf jv "" recolfod but n scanty enliicatlon and uftsr a ll VvV 1'r,'' ll,rl01' "' work on his father'a farm, he Cr 5!j aVt begun at 17 jwira of age to learn the trade of a WUJ 'IttH 1 shoemaker His hnithers Kufus and Marlln. 7 y?S woro already In the business Daniel ratolvwi I VhX "Jf Hint he would not become a shixnilker. Ills f 4hs w y craxo for flruarina resulted finally In hla, going iri-V Into the gunshop of his elder biuthur, Hdwln, at 7rf m ill .Sorlhbm i ilf 'V 4l7k The su.r) Is told that within a fow houra arter WVi'i fW&fo ' arrh 1 lie proved hla right lo be a gunsmith rS. jr'jPMini h wwnililliiB all the parta of a now gun without Wm -S M'Mn, Instruction from his older brother to whom ho wMvEXSS'JSy iMlMr wa PIrontlced In 1818 Kdwln mosWl to Hart- ffW KGY , WKffm ford nnd Daniel aecompanled him Js suporln- li ndont J Tho Hrst of Mr Wessons gread Invontlons was a prucil i trldgn and noxt waa a ateel disk u which jhe hammer could'X' i pui ijii iniKol.. thus doing away wllh ihnlnrlmer In wor 1 1 v Mr Wtasoi. uecame acquainted with HoracA8mlth, and hlr bw i Jj Thi rliii ' Smith & V Mson manufacturwl revolers In Nojwloh, Conn, t rron Hi" i iS The partnera then separated, Mr Smith golnaMpto tho llv-i, llv-i, iiisltiosk n this city Mr Woasou was soon connected with the Vol-Mil Vol-Mil i ua company, of which tho Winchester Arms ooinpauyHjs tho suo-'.4)i suo-'.4)i Siou artorward he perrei-t.d iho Smith & Wesson clprldgo In ..u" tho imirgunlieil 8mlth & W'osso started a fsttory with ii Nuids In this city and the product has since oblali d world wide fame for thaJl&akera In 1860 n new factory In Htockhrldgo leet was built, and from Jre70 to 1874 the firm supplied thu Russian nrmy Uh 1100 000 revolvers In lHl Mr Wesson Wes-son bought out Horace Smith, but the firm mime has remained tUisamo. Since 1880 the capacity of the factory has trebled and Mil 0 revolvers aro now made each year An Importaut Invention by Mr. Weasonji 'as a safety device on the handle of hla revolvers. f II |
