Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-07
Municipal AGairs-The Inauguration of
Mayor Earle.


| Mayor Earle.
The regular meeting Of the city council was
| held last night and after several petitions had
been referred, and other business acted upon,
Hon. Edward Earle was installed as mayor, and
occupied the chair during the latter part of the
| evening.
Petitions were received and referred as fol-
lows: From ]. NJ. Scofield and sixteen others,
for sidewalks on Benefit and Mount Pleasant
streets, to the committee on sidewalks; from
John S. Baldwin and fifteen others, asking that
Chatham, Quincy and Congress streets be laid
out and accepted as public streets, to the COM
mittee on highways; from John Carney, for
damages to his estate on Langdon street; from
D. NJ. Wheeler, for damages sustained by his
wife in injuries received by falling into an exca-
walton at the corner of Prospect and Hanover
streets, caused by building the sewer, and not
| properly covering the same while building;
from Michael McKniff, for pay for injuries re-
ceived by fall on the ice on Park street, to the
committee on claims; from Isaac Davis flor the
benefit of james Sinclair,) from Daniel Foley,
jeremiah Clifford, Ellen Haley, and Dennis
Drscoll, asking for a hearing on
their several cases in the matter of
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sewer, and deemed by them insufficient referred
to joint special committee, consisting of Alder
men Marble and Kelley, and Councilmen Pratt
Childs and Al Walker; from Catherine Clynch,
Ior damages 10 committee Oh highways; Irom
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qulrles IN regard to the miscellaneous eXpendl-
lures, and other matters, was taken from the ta-
lilo and ocoon+ed , G o,,,anded
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councilman d. H. " alher introduced resolu-
ton, speaking of the explosion at the gas works.
nv which Hon James r Blake came tn his
ue"tu' anu al accompanying oluei' callihS upon
Coroner j. Marcus Rice to hold an inquest on
the body of the late MAYOR and tLorOurhIy IN
vae+;ooto tho coueo Of tho e1,rlosion 10 s,n
ported the resolution by remarks, IN winch he
enumerated the inquests which had been held in
rho c;.v SAVING that rho members or +he citv
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COUNCIL "eIe' Ill " eertaln uesiee' custoulais Vi
the gas company, and it was due to them that
an examination into the explosion and its cause
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but was reconSldered IN the board OF mayor and
aldermen, and laid on the table, on motion of
IN JOINT CONVENTION.
Ar a nnorter before nine o'clock tbe boards
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went lh'o Joiu' 'o"'on'ioi ioi 'ii0 P"i Poso vi
lnaugurating Mayor Earle. On taking the
chair in the convention Mr.. Chapin spoke as
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loIo"s'
Gentlemen Of the city Council:
Upon retiring from the position which was
assumed upon the day after the sudden and
lamented death of Mr.. Blake, under circum-
stances which we shall never forget it becomes
my pleasant duty to bear testimony to the fidel-
| ity with which the members of the city govern
| ment have performed their various and i'm
| portant duties. Having been comparatively
| stranger to the management of our municipal
| affairs since it was my fortune to take part in
| the same, have been surprised at the increase
| in the duties of the various departments of the
| city government and gratiied TO ind, especially
| In most Oh tneln, So huCu oysteHl anu sklluul
| management. Having had an opportunity re-
| Gently to express in an official document my
views upon the affairs of the city, there seems
to be little occasion for further expression
of them at this time 1t may not, however,
be considered out of place, to say that
it is pleasant to witness the determination still
| further to systematic the affairs of the
| different departments, and especially to put
the financial matters of tho city into condition
which shall not tend to absorb funds which can
| be advantageously used 10 develop the business
Of the people, and which shall be clear and intelli-
gible to all who may desire readily to understand
our financial condition. For the present, at
least, it will probably be desirable to fund sub
| stantialy two millions of dollars of the city
I hp indebtedness