Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-08-15
hey fa now are, under the isuperinte ndence

| uactable boys, part OF them IN irons, were
conveyed to the Concord Jail for safe keeping
They were kindly addressed by Mr.. Starr as
they went away, and urged to conduct them
selves with propriety under their common
trials During all the confusion of these
changes and transfers from place to place, only
one boy escaped 1t was Francis Percy of
Lowell, a boy of only ten years, who had
been in the institution but short time. His
liberty, however, was of short duration, as he
was overtaken by Deputy Sheriff Newton in
Ashland, where he is now secured. Three
others it was found necessary to put into tenn
porary confinement.
INCIDENTS.
Judson S. Brown Esq, of Fitchburg, one
of the Trustees, was stopping at the Institu
ton at the time, and was one of the earliest
and most active at the scene of the confagra-
| ton Lieut.. Gov. Brown, and Josiah II.
Temple of birmingham, also of the Board OF
Trustees, were there at an early hour. The
public owe much to the efficient officers OF
the institution for their unwearied exertions
upon this trying occasion.
The movable property of the State, and OF
! the officers was thrown roughly together IN
the garden, and was much damaged by being
trodden upon by the multitude who were
drawn to the spot. Thieves were also on the
ground, who carried off several blankets, and
valuable ARTICLES of clothing, belonging to the
officers. Several gold watches were also miss
ing.
| No serious accidents are reported. Mr..
Franklin Paine of Northboro, and e. M. Low
ell of Westboro received slight injuries.
There are five hundred and sixty boys con-
nected with the institution atthe present time
Three unsuccessful attempts are reported to
have been made within the last six months to
burn the building.
The entire loss cannot be far from 100000
For land and buildings, the State has expend
ed about S165,000 There was no insurance
upon the property.
HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL.
In 1916. the Legislature confirmed the ap-
pointment of Board of Commissioners to
provide State Manual Labor School sufficient
to accommodate one hundred pupils. The
Commissioners, Alfred Dwight Foster, Robert
Rantoul, and Samuel H. Valley, in consuta-
ton with Theodore Lyman of Brookline, q
generous benefactor of the enterprise, located
the institution at Westboro', and completed
and furnished accommodations for one hun
dred and fifty pupils. Under the fostering
care of the State, it has been enlarged from
time to time, till during the last year, it has
had an actual average attendance of five hun
bred and ninety. Encouraged by its large and
increasing means of usefulness, the trustees
confidently stated that it had passed its yar-
GUS stages of experiment, and was firmly
! planted, with established principles of man
agement, and a certainty of beneftting those
who at proper age are sent to it. Care has
been taken to supply it with the best of teach
ers and advisers, who have at all times exer-
cised salutary moral and religious influence,
while they used their authority with rigor in
regard to physical health and mental instruc-
ton. The whole number committed during
the year 1913, was I'll. The whole number
who have shared i'll its benefits during the
| twelve years of its existence, is about 2500
| The necessity of such an institution, for the
employment, instruction., and reformation of
juvenile offenders, is not now subject for
discussion. And we doubt not that early
measures will be taken to rebuild the school,
upon as broad and liberal basis as before.
CRIMINAL CoURT AT Pronunciation Sat
urday, Hiram Ward of Brookfield, convicted
for destroying furniture of Otis Reynolds to
the value of 500, was sentenced to three
months Imprisonment in the common jail
! John Wells of Ashburnham, convicted on
two complaints for selling liquor, received the
usual sentence of fine and imprisonment
After the naturalization of several persons
and the hearing of variety of motions of no
public interest the court adjourned to this
(Monday) afternoon at p. M.
MUSICAL FEsTIvAL.-A musical festival will
be held at Lancaster, commencing on Monday,
Sept. s, and continue five days, under the di-
rection of Professor o. Colester of Worcester,
assisted by Miss J. E. Houston of Boston, So
loist, and Mr.. H. B. Danforth of Worcester, pi-
anist.
THE twelfth monthly meeting of the Wor-
cester Sabbath School Union will be held at
the Park street Church this evening, at a
quarter before eight o'clock. Question for dis
cussion, "How can we best promote a spirit of
benevoence in the members of tho Sabbath
! School 90
"BLACK DIAMONDS" is the title of book
that has been published in New York by
Pudney & Russell and is for sale here by E.
Mellen Jr. We notice that the New Orleans
Delta finds it commendable, and that the New
York Tribune thinks it the production of an
Impoverished ofice-holder" who is troubled
with low spirits. 1t consists of sketches of
slave life in the South, by E. A. Pollard of
Virginia.
Picnic ExcURsIoN.-The Father Mathew
Temperance Society of this city, and their
friends, have made arrangements for grand
picnic excursion to Portsmouth Grove, Nara
gansett Bay, to come off next Wednesday.
They will be accompanied by the Quinsiga.
mond Brass and Quadrille Band
APPALLING DEATH FROM HYDRopHoBIA.-
We are nearly every summer doomed to re.
cord one or more of the most awful of deaths
in which the King of Terrors assumes the
appalling shape OF hydrophobia. Some four
weeks ago, Frenchman named Louis Leclere
a laborer, was bitten on the arm and wrist by
a dog. About four days ago, the first symp
toms OF the horrible malady he feared began
to manifest themselves His employer pro