Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-28

| MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS. regular meeting
Of the city council was held last evening. The
| following petitions were received and referred to
the proper committees From Charles Baker &
Co., aud Others doing business on Manchester
street, for the repairing of that street so that
| they will not be incommoded by the mud, as
| they are at present, to the committee on high
ways; from W. II. Jankins for remittance of
money paid by him to the city for the rcIaying
Of sidewalk on Prospect street, when the same
had been torn up by the city; aud from Alfred
Davis and c. Is. K Clahm for damages caused
to their estates on Main street. near Hammond,
by the grading of sidewalk, to the committee on
sidewalks; from f. z. Goulding and Others for
lamp on Benefit street, and f. j. Spading and
| others for lamp on Dread street, to the commit
tee on lighting streets.
The committee on education, to whom was
referred the order introduced at the last meet
ing, authorizing the mayor TO sell the old school
house on the common at auction, reported,
recommending the adoption of the order, with
the provision that the right TO hold and occupy
the building until next July be retained. The
order was adopted
The committee on finance, to whom was re-
icrrcd the communication from the bOad of
| oyefseers Of the poor submitted to the council
Sept. 25h, recommending the purchase of "a
acres of land adjoining the city farm, reported
favorably to the purchase and offered an order
| authorizing the mayor, on behalf of the city,
10 take a decd Of the land and draw his order
on the city treasurer for payment therefor.
An order was adopted requesting the com
mittec on the monument to the late James b.
Blake to present Il report at the next meeting
Of the city council. Orders were also adopted
for the rcparin" Of sidewalks in three places on
Thomas steer, as petirioned for; and for chang
ing the namrs of Harrison avenue and Grant
street to Ricblaud street, which makes the two
former into one.
The committee on fire department submitted
report fayoing the attachment of the fire
alarm telegraph to the new bell in the high
school tower, and presented Herewith an order
authorizing the committee to contract with
proper authorities ior such attachment at an cx-
pense not TO exceed $1,000. The report was ac-
ceptcd and order adopted in the board of alder
men, but in the common council the second
reading of the order was objected to and the
whole matter was laid on the table
The committee on highways reported on the
order Deferred to them at the last mecting,l for
paying the damage incurred in the laying out
Of Coral street The report favored the adop-
lion of the ORDER and it passed the upper
branch, but did not reach a second reading in
the common council. The sum necessary for
payment of the damages is about $1,000.
The decree laying out and locating Wellington
street, Il second reading of which was objected
to in the common council at the last previous
meeting, was taken from the table and referred
to the committee on highways-an unusual
course in the disposal Of su"h DEGREES, which
arc the results Of highway committee invcstiga-
tons.
communication was received from w. W.
Rice, solicitor for the Crompton carpet company,
asking Tor damages to the estate of said COM
pany by the diversion of the water in Lyndc
brook, and referred to the committee on water
The following resolution was received from
George Crompton, as chairman of the soldiers
monument committee. 1t was unanimously
adopted at recent meeting Of the committee:
Resolved, that it is the desire of this committee
to express TO the members of the city government
their glad appreciation of the generous cOnsidera-
an appropriation for soldiers monument, and the
prompt action on the subject, which, in their OpIn-
ion, has commended itself to the unanimous ap-
prOYal of this community.
The communication was accepted.
The decree laying out and locating Wood
land street was taken from the file in the board
OF aldermen, adopted, approved and allowed and
sent down for concurrence. In the common
council it was discovered that the decree had
been so drawn as 10 entange the business of two
committees, and in that board so much of it as
referred to highways was referred to the high
way committee and so much of it us referred 10
sidewalks to the committee on sidewalks. The
same course was taken with the decree LAYING
out tue northerly portion OF Waldo street. This
leaves these DEGREES in a similar condition as the
Wellington street decree.
The committee to whom was referred certain
petitions relative to the free public market, sub
mittcd a report and offered an ordinance, both
of which were laid on the table in the common
council, where they were presented. The ord-
nance repeats the law establishing the market,
and the report gives various reasons in support
OF such action. The committee state that they
find on investigation that the market does not
bring the consumer into direct communication
with the producer, as was the intention when it
was established. They found that a very small
proportion of producers occupied stands in the
market, that it was entirely occupied ny middle
men, tor whom the city is furnishing stand.
lights and other conycuienccs free. During the
few first months of tbe market the producers
came forward. but they gradually cave wov. and
now it is almost entirely occupicd bv middh,
men. As the ordinance ESTABLISHING thc market
forbids the pcddling of fruits. vegetables or
other farm produce within fine mile circle with