Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-01-31
1854 o.
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There are some bills for trimming and boxing
trees, and other work not presented that will re-
| duce, If not eXtinguish this balance.
| FNote-UpOn the departure Ofthe Grand Moral"
caravan of +. I. Barnuin, 1t was found that an
anaconda had "shuted of its mortal coil" and been
| left behind among other hallowing influences. 1t
required two dollars and pretty tough stomach to
deodorze the neighborhood. Tho interment be-
hind the Old Gun House, of a "captator Yerborum -
who fell victim to a bad access of grammar, being
labor of love, devoid ofexpense to the treag-
ury In neither instance has there been subsequent
offence although, in one case the stenen was over
towering before burial; and. In the other, de-cona-
| position had become nolsome.
The following enumerated work has been ex-
ecuted during the year under the direction Of the
| commission. FOrty-dye lz5J trees were protected
with perpendicular slat-. Seventeen nj circular
guards with iron band. have been allowed lin parfj
| by the commission, and ia addition, one hundred
and fifteen ll5l common guards Sixteen new posts
have been atnxed 10 STAT. IN plzcss Of others that
were roitOn.
The property belonging to the eomraissioa and IL
for use is thus reported: Thirteen ISJ rats 4Vs
!oldl tree guards; ten l0l new Do: Hfty % s.ais
for trees three hundred and ms 100 packets VII s
will make seven hundred (7f0 sat; and ufaa effs5,
lar guards There are also on hand hsry-iehtf 81 tas
OF beach-stones which will be used in paving az.
tiers when the condition of the ground viii adsf. ~
II. Quite number OF neat signs that had been nut
| In position upou the Common, warning people dofT
the grass" are missing, and were undoubtedly sto-
len. There is as yet no clue to the thief suspicion
justly attaches to stranger who BETRAYED remarkable
interest In them, and whose departure from the city
| was siDgularly coneident with the disappearance
| OF those signs. Such forms OF lunacy are usually
| harmless, however, beyond the loss consequent
| upon their manifestation; and no Increase Of the
police force Is recommended, should there be q re-
| appearance Of the same or similar depredators.
In the report of tie commission for 1870, Occurs
| the following paragraph;
"This commission holds very definite opinion
| Of what should BIZ done TO render the Common a.
tractive and ornamcntal as it is emphatically nei.
Their at present But il Is not deemed expedient 10
ask appropriations for the decoration of an irregular
and imperfect fraction, when measures have been
Initiated by the people TO free the whole from in-
1t is scarcely worth the while to explain 1.-THE rea-
| sous ny whic1 the commissioners wsre i1ducA1 to
| cnange the policy thus indicated Perhaps as de-
clsVe as any were the INDUCED in by the sa-
| aacious COUNSEL for the railway corporations, in
me "liearlng" before the railway committee of
Tue general court II II was true as alleged that
aside from the railroads. from the dilapilated
fence when encoses IT, and all the surrounding of
tit a. ~ ~ AZ Wv VIII Know by single glance
inal IL Is not the resort OF our citizens who would
like park or common for uEen N seemed ~ this
commission, high time that the desolation N this
public ground should no longer supply an argnmenf
| against its improvement 10 oxtinayors ~ 10
legal profession, by whom IL had been cioeg ~,
leoted And, although the failure Of their "uncul.
tiyated country eyes" 10 appreciate the beauiiee
| Of " orcester Common" as admitted by the batant
advocates from Ftchbnrg Rayine, might be largely
due to their inability 10 discover an "ichng DliDI
among our Flora OF which 80 conspicuous d spoci
men Is supplied by their GORGEOUS Town (el yet i
9ehooyed this commission all the more TO remed,
uehclehcies confessed by none so readily them
selves. For. be that Common what Il might, II wa
none the less precious Tor the "reminiscences that
| hWahentu hllu toI Tue hopes which IL inspired. |
was small ,-more's the pity yet such tanut cam,
with an III grace from those who had encroache,
upon It's limits. Its appearance was Rororl enon I'll
| undoubtedly; but 10 whom was its bare aud stari,
aspect more attributable than 10 those who Rrudgo,
all sums expended in its Improvement osteeInlni
the devotion Of u cent 10 plans OF civic embeish
ment as an aggravated personal robbery The CON
missioners had never lacked keen perception
their duty in the prem'sesi to that CONSCIOUSNESS
was now superadded lively sense that the work {
reclamation might no longer be postponed. AecorC
iDgly by way d experiment and almost eycusivel
as tentative measure, the task Of filing the acui
| triangle or delta, at the n. E. corner, was con
menced. The material employed, and indeed Ill
only one then available, was the scrapings from III
public Streets Of which the highway department
J was glad enough 10 be rid so handy. The capacli
1 Of that tract Of land TO swallow up dirt was II
wonder Of the commission, which beheld the eni
municipal force of men and teams severely tnskt
n y establish even tolerabe grade When the q
a. nahlon OF material at length constrained paus
lne enforced cessation VI work was found "