Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-04-12
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METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS
At the State Iunac Hospital in Worcester the weel
ending April 10, 1853.
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MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS.

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B. Mignault for the usual building privileges;
of Samuel Bannister to be appreciated as inn
holder at the Exchange Hotel, and of Charles
B. Putnam to be licensed as auctiOneer were
granted. The petition of c. K. Dorman to be
appreciated as common victualler at 81 Main
street was laid on the table.
The memorial of Isaac Davis and others
against the practice of posting bills on hydrants,
trees &c, Oh Main street, was referred to the
committee on Shade Trees and Public grounds
A memorial from the School Committee ac-
companied with a remonstrance from the in
habitants of the Tatnuc district against the
plan reported for the new School House were
referred to the committee on Education, with
instructions to suspend action till the remon-
strants could be heard.
The quarterly report of VIM. ID. Cheever,
water commissioner was submitted, showing
that the aqueduct is at present in good con-
dition, there being now in the Pond feet IL
inches of water to keep the aqueduct in re-
pair about $3.50 dollars is required.
The reports of NJ B. and James Green, liquor
agents, were submitted and placed on file.
The following memorial, signed by Clark
Jillson, was presented by Alderman Messenger:
To the Honorable the MAJOR and Aldermen of
the City Of Worcester The undersigned re-
specially represents that the illegal traffic in
intoxicating liquors, which is carried on to an
alarming extent, against the moral sentiments
and convictions of a large portion of our citi-
zens, ought to be suppressed. Your petitioner
would, therefore, ask that your honorable Board
direct the Mayor to forthwith issue a proclama-
ton, warning all violators of the act concern
ing the manufacture and sale of Intoxicating
liquors that unless their stores and shops are
closed within seven days from the time said
proclamation is issued, their liquors and the
implements used in selling and keeping the
same will be seized and dealt with according to
law, as set forth in the law on the subject
CLARK JILLsoN.
In connection with this petition, the Mayor
read the following report of the City Marshal
for the quarter ending April, 1859:
city Marshaps Report.
To the Honorable the Mayor and Aldermen of the
City Of Worcester
In part discharge of the duties of my office,
l have the honor herewith to present report
of the operations of the Police Department for
the quarter ending April l, 1859.
Immediately after the organization of the
government, in January, the several officers of
the Department were called together, at the
request of the Mayor to receive such instruc-
tons as he might desire to give.
AT that interview, instructions were given
by the Mayor to this Department, at length,
and in detail, to enforce all the laws of the State
and the city, and the laws relating to the sale
of intoxicating liquors, were particularly des-
ignated
In accordance with these Instructions, such
measures were adopted as led to the belief,
that to some extent the sale of intoxicating
liquors was abandoned, and such other special
directions were given to my subordinates as
were deemed necessary to carry into full eff
feet the general instructions of the Executive
1t has been my endeavor to carry into effect
the instructions thus received. In our efforts
to accomplish this object, the usual obstacles
have been encountered, which we have been
able only partially to overcome, and which the
experience of all cities has found it possible
only partially TO remove or vanquish.
The provision of law which grants u per-
sons complained of for drunkenness the privi-
lege of disclosing the place where, and the per-
sons of whom, the intoxicating liquor has been
obtained, and which requires the discharge Of
such person upon such disclosure, has been ex-
planned, in all instances, to those thus arrested
But of the one hundred and Twenty-Five individu-
ais arrested for drunkenness, only three have
been found willing to avail themselves of such
means of escaping punishment.
While the prisoner is found to prefer impris-
onment to what he deems diShonorGbte disclos
ure, and the citizens, some of them looking to
the police as the panacea for all ills, and Others
of them, anxious to condemn them for want of
efficiency, sometimes conceal in their own
breasts the evidence which would turn defeat
into success, all alike failing to furnish informa-
ton, it is difficult for the officers in themselves
to accomplish everything l am ready now, as
at all times l have been ready, to execute
the instructions given me by the Mayor;
to institute the complaint and to prosecute
without distinction or selection, fearlessly,
honestly, and honorably" all offenders against
the laws of the State or ordinances of the city.
But in the absence of assistance from with
out the department is thrown upon its own
diligence and vigilance. These have been
well and faithfully exercised, and not without
effect AT the same time, with day police
proportional to the inhabitants as one to seven
thousand, and night force as one to about
three thousand persons, it is hardly to be ex-
pected that all crime should be detected or
every criminal brought to justice-this de-
partment to be in every instance detector, Wit-
ness, prosecutor, and executor.
While, therefore, the records of the Police
Department show but limited number of
prosecutions for liquor selling, am enabled
to report that have prosecuted to successful
termination in the Police Court, every violation
of the laws which has been brought to my
knowledge through the medium of the Police
Except as detailed herein) or by information
furnished, and complaint made by others than
officers of the law, when accompanied by pro-
per evidence to support the complaint; and,
further than this that every practicable exer-
ertion has been made by this Department
to discover and prosecute the authors of
crime. More than this, any reasonable man
in the community cannot ask more than this,
whether it be asked or not, the Police Depart
ment cannot accomplish.
A detailed statement of the doings of the
Department for the quarter is appended hereto,
and is made part of this report.
have received and paid over to the Treas
urer of the city the sum of eighty-six dollars
and thirty four cents, fees of the watchmen as
witnesses in the Police Court for the judicial
quarter ending January II, 1859, and of the
present Marshal and Assistants for the same
term; also, the sum of twenty-six dollars and
ten cents, balance of fees earned by Frederic
Warren, late Marshal, deceased, together with
the further sum of one hundred fifty-two dol
lars and thirty mine cents, received from John
M. Goodhue, late Assistant Marshal as fees
earned by him for the same time-for all which
sums hold a receipt of said Treasurer.
The alterations directed by the vote of your
body to be made in the Police Office have been
completed, and when furnished with bedding,
which will be soon done, will contribute alike
to the convenience of the officers and the COM
fort of that class of persons for whom the pro-
vision was made.
cannot conclude this report without, as
believe truly, representing the city as having
been, on the whole, throughout the quarter
orderly and quiet; as orderly, as quiet, as
law-abiding, and lawobserving, as any city of
equal population in the Commonwealth ! de-
sire, Also to bear testimony to the ZEAL
promptitude, and fidelity, at all times mani
Tested by the members Of the Department over
which have been placed.
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