Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-04-19
Munie,pnl Affairs.

At meeting of the Board of Mayor and
Aldermen, last evening, the petition of Cum
mings & Hudson for the usual building privi-
leges was granted. 1t is their intention to
erect two story brick building, for a shoe
mandatory, on the corner OF Foster and
Waldo streets.
The petition of Sands, Nathan, & Co., for
license for circus exhibition, April 25, was
granted, with the condition of payment
of $780,
Edwin Conant and others petitioned for the
establishment of sidewalks on the North side
of Lincoln Square-referred.
1t was ordered to open the polls on Monday,
May 9, from II o'clock to 8 o'clock, to vote on
the Two Years Amendment.
1t was voted inexpedient to repair the en-
CINE injured by the gas explosion on Pleasant
street; to buy another engine of the Hume
man pattern and to build cistern near the
City Hall, at an expense not to exceed $780,
Alderman Armsby introduced an ordinance,
which was ordered to be enrolled, fixing the
salary of the Superintendent of Schools at
81, 400 instead of 81, 200. In the Common
Council no final action was taken.
The petition of John c. Mason and others,
that the sidewalk from Wellington street to
New Worcester be graded and put in good re-
pair, was referred to the Committee on Side
walks.
Charles E. Mills and Baylies Upham petition
ed for the usual building privileges, which
were granted. The building is to be erected
on the corner of Main and Park streets.
The following petition, signed by Hon, Ira
NJ. Barton and others, was presented by Alder
man Messenger:
To HIS Honor the Mayor and the Board of
Aldermen The undersigned, legal voters of
Worcester, respectfully represent that, in their
opinion, the public peace and welfare of the
city would be greatly promoted by strict and
impartial enforcement of the laws concerning
the sale of spirituous or intoxicating liquors,
and the suppression of common nuisances !;
wherefore we pray that the Marshal, his assist
ants, and other police of the city, be forthwith
instructed by your honorable Board to see that
said laws are so enforced
In reply to inquiry, the Mayor stated in
brief that the instructions given at the begin
ming of the year, to the Marshal and his of
ficers, were general and specific embracing the
law which was the subject of this petition, as
well as all others. When it was moved in the
Board Of Aldermen, short time afterward,
that the Marshal be instructed to execute all
laws Of the State and city and especially the
law relating to the sale of intoxicating liquors,
be had opposed the Issuing of special instruc-
tons, for the reason that the government had
been recently organ zed, and it was simple
justice to the Police Department to wait until
trial had been made. If it was the de-
sire of any body of our fellow citizens, that
the instructions should be given in public
manner, and it was thought they would re-
ceive any additional sanction by so doing, he
would give them with entire cheerfulness and
alacrity.
Alderman Armsby stated that he had voted
against issuing special instructions at the time
1t was proposed. He desired to give the de-
partment fair trial, and now believed that the
| Marshal had faithfully executed the duties of
his office as far as he saw them. Yet what
ever measures could be adopted to suppress so
alarming vice as that contemplated by these
petitions, were certainly worth trying, and he
proposed at the next meeting of the Board to
introduce a motion upon the subject
After the transaction of some further bust
ness, the Board adjourned for two weeks.