. Webb's New England railway and manufacturers' statistical gazetteer; containing an interesting sketch of every station, village and city on each railroad in New England, together with a statistical, historical and biographical account of their representative manufacturing establishments . endowed. It has a library containing about30,000 volumes. The grounds connected with the collegebuildings are very extensive and are shaded by our favoriteNew England Elm. Among the rnore interesting featuresof the University is Rhode Island Hall, w-hich contains theportraits of twenty-nine distinguished me
. Webb's New England railway and manufacturers' statistical gazetteer; containing an interesting sketch of every station, village and city on each railroad in New England, together with a statistical, historical and biographical account of their representative manufacturing establishments . endowed. It has a library containing about30,000 volumes. The grounds connected with the collegebuildings are very extensive and are shaded by our favoriteNew England Elm. Among the rnore interesting featuresof the University is Rhode Island Hall, w-hich contains theportraits of twenty-nine distinguished men, many of whomhave, in their different spheres, assisted in giving prominenceto the State, not only in the history of the nation, butthroughout the world. The Athena>um, incorporated 1836, has a library of about30,000 volumes. The Mechanics Association, FranklinLyceum and Franklin Society all have large libraries. Providence takes much pride in her Public Schoolswhich are second to none. For the past few years, a mark-ed improvement has been made in the building of substan-tial and elegant school houses which are an ornament to thecity. The best teachers are engaged at liberal salaries, thewhole in charge of a school committee, and superintendedby a gentleman of long The Narraoansett Trotting Park, situated about4 miles from the centre of the city, in the town of Cranston,is decidedly a city institution, and the sight-seer or travellerleaving it out of his route can tell you but little of whatProvidence is. What nature has not done in providing a levelof acres, sufficient for the purpose art has land is high, dry, and susceptible of the highest culti-vation. There is within the enclosure, about ninety acres,so arranged and divided as to secure each department itsmost appropriate and legitimate place, with ample room for every needed thing without crowding. The grounds aresurrounded by a board fence, painted, 12 feet high. Thereare 3 places of e
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