The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-18
I'M CONCURRENCE.


A big grist of petitions was referred
to the several committees, the most inn
portant being petitions from the finance
committee of the school committee for
an additional appropriation of $4,000
and from the city hall commission for
an additional appropriation of $R500.
The following orders were adopted:
For the payment Of 500 to Johanna
Donnelly as compensation for land ta-
ken on Camp street; $500 to Clara A.
Gle as compensation for damage to
her estate on Westland street; $50 to
William c. Howes as additional COM
pensation for land taken on Institute
road; $25 to Marvin M. Taylor as COM
pensation for stone taken by the city;
IS. SO to Augusta j. Lawrence as abate-
ment of street betterment assessment
on Alvarado avenue; $5416 to John j..
Power as abatement of taxes; $S.5S to
Henry S. Smith as abatement of street
betterment assessment on AIvarado
avenue; $S.5S to Harriet A. Blanding
as abatement of street betterment as
sessment on Alvarado avenue.
Appropriating $4,000 from the premi-
ums on city bonds for the purpose of
exhuming and bringing back to this
city the bodies of the Worcester SOL
diers buried in Cuba; appropriating
$500 from the premiums on city bonds
for the use Of the street lighting de-
partment; appropriating S9200.31 from
the premiums on city bonds for the use
of the police department.
For the payment of $s.5S to Evange-
line P. Russell as abatement of street
betterment assessment on Alyarado
avenue; $73.97 to James w. Boyle and
SIS 80 to A. E. Hinci1el as compensation
for time lost through injury received
while ON fire duty.
For the construction of crosswallSs on
Montague street at a cost of $7S.40; at
the corner of South Harding and La
fayette streets, at a cost Of $126.20; at
the corner of Main and Young streets,
at a cost of $14S; forfsidewalks on Ian
caster street in accordance with the pc
tition of Jonathan N. Mann, at cost
of STA; on Suffield street. in accord
ance with the petition of Dennis OCon-
nell, at cost of $676.S0; for the con-
struction of Caro- street, at a cost of
$261370.
For laying new water pipes in En-
glewood avenue, in accordance with the
petition of Harold D. Waterman, at a
cost of $1374.75; in Hampden street, in
accordance with the petition of Freder-
lex w. White, at a cost of $S75; in Har-
rison avenue, in accordance with the
petition of Thomas M. Anderson, at a
cost of 1851. 70; in Pleasant street, in ac-
cordance with the petition Of Elmer G.
Potter, at a cost of $363.50; in Richmond
avenue, in accordance with the petition
of James j. Warren, at a cost of
$3S415.
For the construction of catch basin
on Providence street; for the laying of
200 feet of Pinch water pipe in Park
way, at a cost of $3.50.
Directing the mayor to take such ac-
ton as will cause the railroad and
railway corporations crossing with their
tracks Grafton and Green streets. to
use such rails as will reduce to the
minimum the jolting, shaking and dis
agreeable tossing that street car pas
sengers now experience riding over said
street crossings.
For the construction of q crosswalk
on Southbridge street opposite the NAL
vern road school house at a cost OF
$104.41
Directing the committee on finance
to consider the ACCESSIBILITY of the city
paying a part of the funeral expenses
of the dead Worcester soldiers who
have been brought to the city
Directing the finance committee to
consider the advisability of purchasing
a lot of land in the rear of the police
erecting a stable for the use of the
police department.
The following orders were referred:
For the purchase of oil paintings Of the
ex-mayors of the city, to the commit
tee on finance; for the construction OF
crosswalks at the corner Of Providence
street and Union avenue and Arlington
street and Union avenue, to the COM
mittee on streets.
A decree making public Hamilton
street, was adopted, and decree locat-
ing sidewalks on Jefferson street, was
ordered on file.
An ordinance providing that itemized
tax bills and notices of assessments
shall be sent to taxpayers when the
bills and assessments relate TO more
than one piece of property, was re-
ferred to the committee on bills in Sec
ond reading.
The committee on finance, to whom
had been referred the petition of the
Worcester Society of Antiquity for
marking the spot where INSTRUMENTATION
of independence was first read in Mas
sachusetts. reported, recommending
that the matter be referred to the
mayor, the city solicitor and city en-
gineer with power to act. The report
was accepted.
A committee, consisting OF Aldermen
O'COnnell and BranllOn and Council