Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-10-27

BOSTON lMPRoVEMENTs.- There really seems
now TO be prospect that the waste, marshy ground
Boston, Roxbury and Brookline, is TO be imnroyed
and made habitable. II is proposed to lay out a
park, and form large circular pond IN The center If
the tract, and fill up the rest with good gravel from
the country. We extract the following PASSAGES
from report upon the subject, which has been sub
mitte1 10 the Common Council:
"The question of the future occupaton of that
part oil the Back Bay known as the s'Empy Basin %
has been subject OF consideration by the CITY GOV.
eminent IN former years. A very large tertiary
adjoining some OF The most valuable land in our
whole city, has been for long period pot onlv
without any value TO the city, but has beer the source
OF great annoyance, land dangerous the health Of the
community. Many circumstances have put II out of
the power OF the city TO rake any efficient stems to
prevent this. The unsettled aud disputed tites IN
The territory, the apparent necessity Of draining some
portions OF The city into this spot, necessity which
has only been within a very short time removed bv
that very valuable common sewer, which now passes
through the Public Garden and emplies inn the
nam waters OF the Back Bay, on the northery side
OF Beacon street. The want Of power 10 comnel
the owners OF the territory to Gil ii up and improve
IT. All nave made 1t impossible to take any other
course than TO submit to circumstances.
"These difficulties are all now removed. re.
solve was passed 10y the Legislature in 1852 in which
power was gwen 10 three Cnmmis sioners 10 he ao
pointed by the Executive Of the Commonwealth m
hear all parties who claimed any interest in The
Territory, and setle their respective rights and to
devise and adopt plan for the Improvement, NJ The
flats in Back Bay, and for filling them 10 with clean
gravel, for building purposes, aud for securing ncb
spacious streets, squares aud ponds, as might be de-
sIrable for public and ornament
at is understood that the Commissioners have
hhled their duties, that the questions of title have
been settled, and that the great public Improvement
SO important Tor the interests Of the community, will
now 60 on"
The SCHOOL MASTER ABRoAD-The Wbie
papers inform that WIN. c. Punkett their can.
didate for Lieut. Governor, has been school master.
One would think as much by reading his letter of
acceptance. We make the following extract from
IT. which, the COMMONWEALTH very justly says, is as
clear as mud:
Permit me, also, TO ray that regard the honor
the greater, coming as il does from a marty whose
republican principles have always commanded nv
admiration, and whose wisdom in the erection IS
public affairs has given TO Que Commonwealth a M.
sition SO respectable, prosperity so stable. and a
character so exalted that il stands in The foremost
rank, and IS justly entitled to the praise Of all the
states Of this Union, while they may well vie with
each other IN emuaiing noble an example. In
the resolutions adopted by The Convention am han
Ply 10 see these principles maintained and a deter.
mInatIon clearly indicated to adhere 10 them ~
GLIDING they do all inequalities either moral or
political, the benign Influences and the Tenderness are
denied TO no one, however humble may be M. can.
dltion and the practical results NAV be enioved
by all. '''0N