Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-11-26

conduct toftheir great force of employees; other
clothing firms were as considerate and helpful as
they well could be, and every day brings some
story of generosity. Messrs. Rand, Avery & Co,
Who'll were burnt out last week by a fire that
ould have been thought large one
three weeks ago, pay their workmen and
workwomen IN fdll for all the time lost, and do
not discharge a single person. The Boston Her
aid divided $1,000 among its employees on account
of the extra labor required by the fire, and gave
$1,000 to the relief fund and $1,000 more for dis
abled fremen. Every day, too, brings some new
tale of irreparable loss-of valuable pictures
burned, of family silver melted, of rare collec-
tons destroyed, and of heavy pecuniary losses
to widows and orphans who thought they had
larger sure incomes TO depend upon.
There is cause of terrible suffering here quite
apart from the fire, and that is the small poX,
which is more prevalent than ever. Last week
there were Al deaths from this disease, and do
not know how many are sick. A large number
of the sick who cannot be kept at their boarding
houses where they live, and who cannot
be left to die on the sidewalk, are taken,
against their own wishes and to the great
distress of their friends, down the harbor 10
the hospital on Galloup's island The
exposure is perilous, often fatal; but there is
nothing else to be DONE If friends can care for
the sick person at home, and present public
report of the case, they do so, but often that is
impossible, and in addition to the dreadful dis
ease, the sick man or woman is anxious, eX-
cited and unhappy, and in that condition is
I hot Oh
used as pest house, down the harbor, with the
chances that he or she will never see home or
friends again. 1t is cruel and brutal, and if the
city government had done nothing else bad,
this ought to condemn them to everlasting dis
grace. All last summer they invited this
scourge, and made its course easy; and in per-
suance of the same policy, they neglect to pro-
vide suitable hospital. What will come of it
| all is impossible to say. Doubtless cities nave
many advantages, and many nice things to be
seen and heard, but in the long run their horrors
and miseries and forlornness far outweigh their
charms.
The coliseum is, in fact, victim Of the fire,
although it was not burnt. Its ncighbors grew
so afraid of it, and it was in reality so alarming
finder box that it had to be sold; 1t brought
only $40, 800, and its expensive decorations only
$3.50, and the furniture, water-pipes, fences and
other things about $4,000 more. So that has
come to an inglorious end.
The Old South is still a cause of dispute. Iii
battered and empty Its friends agree if one
may judge from reports-that it was saved by
Providence from the fire; but they can't decide
whether it was saved for a Westinghouse or
post office. Outsiders insist on its being kept
for a church; and antquarians grow ardent in
defence of this plan; but as it belongs to its
society, and the expense of keeping it will come
upon them, it seems only just that they should
decide for themselves, between money and his
toric associations: and that the people who in
sist that it must be kept as a place of worship,
should buy it, and so control it.