Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-01-24
City ann County anteIIlgentr.
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS,
At the State Lunatc Hospital Worcester for the week
ending jan q, 1850.
Thermometer. Wind. Rain.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..


A regular meeting of the city government
was held last evening. In the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen, the petition of A. E. Peck, to
be licensed as auctioneer, was granted.
The annual report of the Chief Engineer of
the Fire Department, Samuel A. Porter, was
Department, in concurrence with the other
Board BY this report it appears the Depart
ment consists of seven engineers five engine
companies, comprising two hundred and ten
men; three hose companies, comprising thir-
ty men and two hook and ladder companies,
comprising fifty men making a total of two
hundred and ninety-seven men belonging to
the Department. They were called out twen-
ty-nine times during the past year. During
the year; new brick edifice for Hook and
Ladder Co., No. l, and Eagle Hose Co., No. 3,
has been erected in Bigelow's Court leading
off of Front street. A water cistern has been
built on the old Common, capable of holding
$4,000 gallons, and two or three other cisterns
are recommended to be built in other localities,
for reservoirs in case of fire. The property
belonging to the Department now, consists Of
six engines, nine hose carriages, four thousand
feet of leading hose, one hundred and sixty
eight feet Of suction hose, twenty-five ladders,
seventeen trumpets, eight fire hooks, sixteen
crotch poIes, fifteen axes. ten shovels, and 9TH
er necessary implements. The whole are
valued at 900.
The expenses of the department during the
past year, are:
For pay of Members $3.50 IS
For horse hire and alarm bells, l,049 w
For new hose, $50 %
All other expenses, l,l96 IL
Total, s9.82l %
The department is reported to be in highly
satisfactory condition, for character and eff
cheney equal to that of any i'll the country.
The report closes with declination, by the
Chief Engineer, of reelection for the ensu-
ing year.
The sixth annual report of the Commission
ers of Hope Cemetery was then read, accept
ed, and sent down. The Board organized at
the opening of the year, by choosing Hon.
Levi Lincoln Chairman, Albert Tolman Secre-
tary, and Albert Curtis Superintendent Dur
ing the past year, many Improvements, by
grading, ornamenting, &C., have been made.
Numerous avenues have been put in excellent
order. All the lots have been numbered in a
permanent manner, and the common burial
field has been dressed over, &c. On the east
side of the cemetery, adjoining the estate of
the College of the Holy Cross, where there is
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been set, with the view of completing a sub
stantial fence, five feet high, along the whole
line, by the opening of spring, an amicabe ar
raugemept with the agent OF the College hav-
ing been made, to bear a portion of the eX.
pense of the same.
The amount of money granted for the Gem
etery for 1859 was $500: amount drawn from
the treasury, S354 leaving SAC undrawn.
Cash on hand at the commencement of 1859,
S53 &c. cash drawn during 1859 for wood, &C.,
S42 IS; received from the treasurer and all
other sources, during the year, including cash
on hand, $452 05; expended during the year,
S405 So; leacing balance in the hands of the
commissioners of SAG 20. There have been
81 burial lots sold during the year, which
brought $685., showing an income to the city,
over appropriations, of $685. and an increase
over the actual amount drawn from the city
treasury, of $3.50 Sc.
The income about pays the interest on the
whole expense of establishing the cemetery.
Burials were first made there in 1852. The
number Of family lots sold is 464 the number
of burials is about GIG; the rumber of lots
laid out and ready for sale is 1913, at prices
from SIS to $50 each. The grounds comprise
So acres.
In a convention of both Boards, Albert Cur
It's was reelected Commissioner of Hope Gem
etery, receiving all the votes cast but one.
The petition of Luther Ross for school
house on John street, was taken from the files
of last year and referred to the Committee on
that subject.
The Board then went into executive session,
and chose Charles G. Parker Special Con
stable at the Boston and Worcester Railroad
station, and L. B. Dewry and jeremiah Kane,
Constabes.
Luther w. Rugg was drawn as Juror at the
present civil term of the Superior Court, to
fill a vacancy.
Both Boards adjourned for one week.