The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-30
SIXTY MEN
Digging Out
w ebster.
THE WORK is SLOW
On Electric Road Because
Big Plow Is Useless.

4 Webster, Nov. 29.-Road Commission
Ter James Dugan has had a gang Of
shoyelers at work on the roads for the
past couple Of days. He has about 60
men at work, and he could utilize Is
more, so he told the local correspond
ent Of The Spy, could he secure shovels
for them. Snow shovels are a scarce
article in town, and the store keepers
would do wen if they laid in an extra
stock.
Commissioner Dugan has gangs at
work on the old Thompson road and
in the neighbOrhOOd of the Gore ''
clearing The roads so the teams can
pass. The job of breaking and carting
away the snow will occupy the remain
( DER OF the week. The storm will cost
the town about $500
! Cars We're run today on Main street,
| from the Joslin house aus far as East
| Webster, but they have not yet been
able to make the terminus of the line.
A gang is at work removing the snow
as fast as possible. The lines to Perry
| VIE and the lake are still closed by
high drifts. AS yet no attempt has
been made to clear the tracks.
With the best of weather it will be
! impossible to convey passengers from
either the lake OF Penyyille stations
for at least week, unless the com
pany car rig the snow plow which is
saIe.y stalled at the car barn.
Mr.. Flint said today that he wishes
the road in running order as soon as
possible, and he is doing all he can to
open il. Motors are being taken from
one Of the open cars and being trans
ferred to the pillow. IL viii take a
couple 81 days, however. to accomplish
I B. Il
be broken in Jig time.
The condition OF Chase avenue after
the storm was exactly opposite to
Main street and while Main street was
piled -lp with drifts, there was very lit
tie snow on the avenue. In order to
make good sleighing on the avenue,
which in season is great place for
brushes" among the fast horsemen,
the snow taken from Main street is
being carted on the avenue.
Charles n. Brown, the coachman, who
was found lying in a snow drift, Sunday
evening, in an insensible condition, and
taken to the lookup, where DR.. T. j.
Cronin and others succeeded in pump
ing the alcoholism out Of him, is still
i'll. His case was called by Judge Bar
tholOmew this morning but, of course,
he did not respond.
drunk eases: Thomas Kennedy of
Dudley, $4; James r. O'Rourke of Fall
River, 81; Frank Quinn of Manchester,
! n. H., and Robert Tyler of Fall River
were each committed for three
months.
James Meagher of Company E,
Eighth Massachusetts regiment, left to-
day. accompanied by his brother Thorn
II I he
who has been spending a 30 days fur
Tough with his parents, in Jericho vii
| lage, will sail for Georgia, Where he
| joins his regiment Since he has been
at home he has gained SO pounds, and
looks better than ever.
Joseph L. Brissette went to South
bridge today, where he presents "Ten
Nights in a Bar Room" tonight in
French Mr. Brissette win reproduce
the play with the same cast in Spencer
soon.
stephen Russell is the townsman
drawn by the board of selEctmen to rep
resent the town as juror in the Deem
Der sitting of the Worcester superior
court, known as the long" term.
Mr.. and Mrs. Asher 7. Moore, with
Miss Carrie Wakefield daughter of
Probation officer e. 3. Wakefield and
wife, left this morning for Danbury,
Ct. Miss Wakefield will spend the
winter there
p. Henry Haggerty representing the
Singer Sewing Machine Company of
Providence, r. l., is renewing &C
quaintanCes in town.
James H. Copeland is the up-to-date
"newsy" at the local depot, and since
he presided there more Spys have been
sold than ever before. People are
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