Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-01-30
d0lurtrstrr Daily spp.
New England News summary.


The bride of the member of the Boston aih'
NAV be styled the belle Of the ball.
A collector OF the South Boston company Is
supposed to have vanished IN ms own gas ana
experts are irving 10 find traces OF HIM
At Boston, on Sunday afternoon, Ellen Hanry
lcii her Gtfle son John in her room, where the
child amused itself in PLAYING with tue hTe gu
it set FIRE to It's clothes, wren II was so oadly
burned that death eusued.
4 Boston paper says:-"lt was beautiful
sight 10 see the committee on prisons walk down
10 Scolley square from the state house, and
rough ii in the horse cars for the state prison.
Riding in close hacks always did look little
suspicious.
Hon. George Bancroft, United States minister
at Berlin, has forwarded to Harvard college the
first installmeni of permanent fund when he
Proposes to establish, the income OF which Is to
dclraV the expenses of Il travelling fellowship.
The incumbent thereof is TO be selected from
each graduating class, and Is TO travel in ior-
cian countries under instructions from the col
leae for the term Of one year.
The amount of coke produced yearly in the
Boston gas works is aboat $4,000 chaldrons.
All the fires CT the works are run with this, thus
using a large amount of il under the Tciorts.
be remainder, after being screened, is sold
for fuel at 81 per chaldron, delivered. Hun
deeds about the CRY use hardly any other fuel,
and women and children may often be seen
at the works with basket for their days sup
ply.
in an elaborate article concerning the city gas
works, The Boston Herald says: 'Snce the
early DAYS of gas manufacture there seems to be
comparatively little advance in processes or re-
suits. Difficulties have been surmounted, to be
sure, and experiments have enabled manufac-
turers TO produce better article at less cost,
but no radical discoveries have been put into
successful operation. Within 4 year or two,
several discoveries are claimed to have been
made and patents issued These are receiving
the careful Investigation of the best engineers
in the country, and if found practical viii be
adopted Tor the benefit of producer and con-
sumer."
The officers OF the Boston young mems Chris
tan union have determined 10 establish at
their rooms a cabinet OF specimens in natural
history, geology, mineraloey, ethnpogy and
kindred subjects, and they earnestly solicit
contributions from mining companies, ship
owners, and, in fact, everybody who is in con-
ditIon TO aid them. 1t is believed that such a
cabinet wonld tend to interest the young men
who frequent the rooms of the union III scien-
tific siudcs and lead TO the formation OF classes.
No man in the community is working more
earnestly With head and heart to accomplish n
herculean task than P. S. Gilmore. Since the
national peace Jubilee Of 1863, encouraged by the
great success of that memorable festival, the
dream Of his life has been to bring about an in-
ternatlonal musical jubilee; and there is every
prospect that the great undertaking will be
crowned with success. One thing is sure-every
musical person in the country, with the eXcep-
ton Of a few croakerS, look forward with conf
dence 10 its realization, and the sympathes and
pest WISHES OF the whole musical world are witt
IT. The past week has placed the enterprise
upon SUBSTANTIAL foundation, and we hope the
gentlemen who are TO control its management
VIII announce the completion of their organiZa-
ton during the present week.
The Boston Herald says; cat the PI evidence
railroad crossing, on the Back Bay where the
Boston aud Albany road passes, there is a most
remarkable collection Of pipes, within a TRAN
guar shaped piece OF land embracing about
seyenty-ive square feet and almost equals any
thing of the kind that lies under the surface
where two noted London streets intersect.
Here are eight water pipes buried, besides two
of tue Jamaica pond aqueducl, two gas pipes,
sewer besides the Stony Brook channel and
the high and low service Cochituate, thus pre-
senting strange collection of underground
auXiliaTies TO health and convenience. Within
this seventy-hve square feet there are twenty
openings to the surface for the various pipes
including gates and other necessary ncidcntals
Lying across this surface there are two steam
railroad tracks and the numerous tracks OF
horse railways. This triangular piece OF land
is necessarily paved"
In his recent report, W. II. Bradley, ESQ.,, SUI
perintendcnt of Boston sewers makes the fol.
lowing statements relative TO the utilization Of
sewage: All the experiments, in attempting
TO "recCvcr the valuable constituents of sewer.
age, and return item TO the soil have establish
cd tue lact thai no process has succeeded in me.
chanicallY or chemically Scparatingthe valuable
matter after it is once mixed with the water
OF the sewers, or recovering il in any cOndcnstd
form The only system which has afforded any
approximate return for the outlay is that of if
rigatlon, where the wafer of the sewers, holding
dissolved or suspended ali the foreign matter, is
applied directly and continuously to vegetation.
To utilize by irrigation the dry weather sew
age only Of Boston would require its collection
by q large encircling sewer, the raising OF 1O0,-
O0O tons OF water daily to a height Of twenty or
thirty leet, the construction of covered chan
mel sufficient for Its carriage to suitable dis
trict, and its continuous Discharge upon farm
OF 1000 acres. What should be done with the
storm-water drainage (olten the most valuable
but requiring ten times the provision necessary
Tor dry weather); where to find the necessary
farm within a reasonable distance, where land !,
Is NOT constantly growing in value for building
sizes; and what TO do with the works during
the four winter months when the ground i.
frozen and the whole system imperative, are
questions that would preccde any attempt tc
project