Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-26

Editors Of The Spy: In the Gazette of Sltur-
day, Feb "a, is nearly an entire editorial column
on what is there headed al Vered Question. F."
The article is evidently intended to be truthful
and candid; but it is, in several of its repre-
sensations, considerably on the rose-colo7ed side
of the real facts in the case.
0le Of its erroneous statements so misrepre-
sents, and unfavorably toe, the school board, as
to demand correction. 1t says:
ct is proposed by the school boaid that the
| lot De GRADED to conform TO the surrounding
| streets, &c.; and that "the bodies be removed
| and re-interrcd in some other cemetery" &C.,
| &c.
Now nothing Of the kind has been proposed,
or voted for, by member of the school com
mittce. Their plan is not to grade at all; not to
disturb any bodies, except only to take up and
renter, in decent and respect full manner, the
few bodies that may lie in the way of putting III
the foundations of the proposed schoolhouse Be-
yond this, not a spoonful of earth is to be
stirred, within two feet of any coffin! Indeed,
were il not for the fire regulations against wood
EN- structures, the school board would favor
plan, for the sake of compromise that could be
carried out without moving or disturbing the
remains oil single person; for a small school.
house might easily be so built, and of a size TOO
nevertheless, sufficient to receive all the pupils
from The Front street school house, soon to be
taken down.
And now, pertinent question may be asked
Have not the board Of aldermen, within less
than year, agreed, or consented, that, in the
proposed new railroad improvements, connected
with the Union Depot scheme wealthy and
formidable corporation, the Boston 4 Albany
Rlil Road Co., ma, do about what they please
with the cemetery near WASHINGTON SQUARE? Is
nj Grtl =,
the way Of the great enterprise? VIII the board
OF aldermen undertake TO defend il against the
gigantic anaconda that already stretches aero IS
this entire commonwealth, and is very likely
soon to have the whole state at its mercy? Why
are these prudent officers of the CITY so torpid
toward the Pine-court burialplace, and so sensi.
tive toward the much Older one on Mechanic
street? Does MT the poetry-see late quota
lions in board of aldermen-appy TO the one as
to the 0therp Is it true only of the Mechanic.
street dead, that
'By fairy hands their knell 'toere rung2"
Is it not as true in regard to the "iorefathers"
and the loremothers in the ono as in the other
OF these highly revered cemeteries, that
"By forms unseen their drge 'Uere' sung?"
What is such poetry good for if it can not lap
over spots SO near together2
And now, most assuredy the editor of the
Gazette ought to have substituted astonishing"
for "vexed questions" since, after all that has
been sad and written, neither editors, nor peo-
pie, nor even aldermen have yet learnt anything
OF what the school committee recommend
Bat, enough, and more than enough of this
let us now turn our thoughts to the flower gar
den PROJECT for Mechanic-strcet Burying Ground
Perhaps that will get on more easily than the
school housed At any rate, "forms unseen"
nave most generously prepared the surface soil
there for rank growth of the loveliest orna-
men;s Of the vegetable kingdoml Gentlemen
OF the board of aldermen, let us sit down by the
Hover beds, and compromise, or at least, med
itate SCuooL CoMMITTEr