Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-02-04
THE LIONS SHARE.
Leicester Gets Nearly All Wor.
cester County Allowance.
HEARING AT BOSTON.
State Road Commissioners Make
$13, 500 Appropriation,
With unexpended Spencer Allowance,
Total Amount for State Highway viii
Be sIzooo-seIectmen Happy

De iFiOOU-SeieCtmen fappv.
The happiest man in Leicester Thurs
day night was Chairman A. E. Smith OF
the board of selectmen. Selectmen Al
bert E. Smith, J. w Boardman and W..
A. Bell, the selectmen of Spencer, Sec
rotary Thomas T. Robinson and Acting
President Isaac L. Prouty of the Wor-'
cester and Suburban road, were given
hearing at Boston, Thursday, to discuss
the amount of state road which should
be granted between Leicester and Spen-
Ger this year.
Chairman A. f. Smith detailed the
reasons why a good strip of road should
be built in Leicester this year. The
chairman of the commission then said
that Of the 100000 appropriated in Mas
sachusetts for state highways, only
$4,000 would be spent in Worcester
county and the Leicester men shook In
their shoes. They gave it as their opin-
lon that the strip of highway between
Spencer and Leicester was the most inn
portant of those projected in the state,
connecting as it does two large places
like Worcester and Spencer. They said
highway from the end of the last sec
ton at Rawson street to the Spencer
line, and granted $4,000 out of the $15,-
900 allotted to the county to push the
good work along.
The town fathers thought their cup of
joy was full and running over, but
more was yet to come. OF the amount
granted to Spencer last year, $500 was
unexpended from some unexplained rea-
som The amount is not sufficient alone
to build good sized section of road,
and the commissioners decided to give
this also to Leicester, making a grand
total of $4,000 to be expended in good
highways for Leicester horses The
strip of highway from Rawson street to
the Spencer line will be built anyway,
and more money will be granted if ST..
900 will not do it,
The Spencer selectmen did not oppose
taking the money from their town, as
It will benefit Spencer fully as much as
Leicester.
The railway men are also satisfied, as
all of the tracks can be moved at once
with less trouble than if two different
strips were built. The track will be put
on the north side all the way, as the
commissioners will not allow the tracks
to cross the road. This win make a
change of the tracks along almost the
entire line necessary, commencing at
the crossing at the foot of Mount Pleas
ant hill.
When the macadam is all laid, theirs
viii be a longer strip Of state highway
in Leicester than in any town in the
state, extending entirely across the
town. Leicester has been granted $41,-
561.9S on the last three sections, making
grand total Of over $4,000 in all.
The rest of the towns are lost in
thought, but people on the windy hill
are not thinking hard, but are saving
wood.
Allowing for roadbed of macadam
Is feet wide, it will take about 5000 or
5000 tons of stone for the road. es,@
| About a week ago Chairman Smith
! wrote sort Of joking letter to the COM
| mission, saying that Leicester was not
going to be hoggish, and that although
they wanted $40, 600, $4,000 would do on
a pinch. Notice was sent Mr.. Smith
that the letter was received, but the
good it did was felt today.
TOWNS AGAIN CONNECTED.
The first car from Spencer passed
through town about 1890 Thursday
morning, and Spencer and Leicester are
once more connected. Cars were sched-
uled to run to Worcester Thursday on
40-minute time, but no one was sure OF
catching any car, apd the first one that
came along suited The double tracks
are all cleared, and Commute time will
beEun today to Worcester. The storm
has cost the railroad about $4,000 or
$4,000, not only in wages, but in payment
for food for the men while doing their
best, which the company pays for.
Eight or nine teams were at work
Thursday clearing Main street of snow,
and travel Is much safer than yester4
day.
WAYSIDE NEWS NOTES.
A rehearsal of the Albany depot
was held at the home of Mrs. H. E. Sar-
gent, Thursday evening. Mrs. George
A. slocomb Of Millbury will take Mrs
r. H. Gifford's place in the cast.
Charles Rice of Cherry Valley, while
pedling milk Thursday morning, froze
both ears badly, and was rescued in
very numb condition by Patrick Foley.
Miss Nellie Smith Of South Framing
ham is visiting her cousin, Roderick l.
Kennedy.
Mrs. Patrick Butler is i'll with the
grip.
A. B. Davidson, who has been confined
to the house, was out again Thursday.
The w. G. T. U. met Thursday even
ing with Mrs. s. D. Thurston.
A NARROW ESCAPE.
James whiting, conductor on the Wor-
cester and Suburban, had narrow es-
cape Wednesday afternoon. He WIS
conductor on train of two, cars cou-
pied together, going to Worcester, and
was stepping from one to the other,
about opposite Drury's house, eastr-of
McDermotts switch. Owing to the fee
on the track the current was all in the
car, and he received a bad shock on TAX
ing hold of a handle of each car for an
instant. When the power was shut or
he dropped. and barely escaped going
under the wheels. IT,