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Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-02
DID NOT MIND STORM.
Locomotive Firemen and Friends Have a
Good Time at Horticultural Hall.

Bay State Lodge, No. 70, Brotherhood
OF Locomotive Firemen, held their four
teenth annual concert and ball in Horti-
cultural Hall, Tuesday evening. The
committee in charge of the ball was a
little apprehensive as to the attendance
on account Of the snowstorm which
blocked all avenues of traffic but their
fears were ungrounded, as fully $50
couples attended. The grand officers of
the order were expected to be present.
Dut We're unable to get here on account
of the impaired railway service.
The lodge had as its guests, however,
w. B. Hodges, f. w. Joslin and L. A
Harlow of the Fitchburg lodge
Music was furnished by the Harry e.
Brigham orchestra Of Marlboro, with the
famous Harry" and his time-honored
double bass as a conspicuous feature.
The grand march was led by Mr. and
Mrs. L. A. Stoodley
The following concert program was
rendered:
March-Peacemaker ........ Perkins
Overture-Raymond ....... Thomas
Cornet solo-Air and varie. . Hartman
(Horace Cushman)
Selection-The Serenade Herbert
Xylophone solo-Galop brilliant, Burnett
John Burnett)
Finale-Indian war dance. -. .Bellstedt
The following were in charge of the
floor: Floor director, L. A. Stoodley; as
sistants, E. E. Hammond, L. G. Chaff1n
aids, r. #. Fuller, f. A. Reynolds, c. A.
Houghton w. N. Holland, f. A. Fuller
At intermisslon Caterer Yeaw served
tempting supper.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-02
RAILWAY CONSOLIDATION.
West Shore May Control New York, On
tario and Western.

New York, Feb. 1.-"F'ollowing the re-
ported plan of consolidation of the New
York Central and Lake Shore compa-
MES comes the statement, made today,
on high authority, that plans are now
maturing whereby the West Shore is to
acquire control of the New York, Onta-
rio and Western. The proposed acquisi-
ton is said to be in the interests of the
Vanderbilt soft coal interests, and the
proposed plan provides for the insurance
of an outlet to the lakes and seaboard
of the Beach Creek Railroad tonnage.
1T is said that the proposed acquisi-
ton of the Ontario and Western is to
be made by an offer of four and half
millions OF West Shore debentures in
exchange for the $5S, 900 of Ontario
and Western stock. This would repre-
sent one price on the total capital stock
of the Ontario and Western, and is con-
sidered a very fair offer.
1.-THE Ontario and Western is repre-
scented on its board of directors by Pres
ident Depew Of the New York Central
Between Weehawken and Cornwall II
uses the West Shore tracks, and from
Oswego to Buffalo those of the Rome
Watertown and Ogdensburg. both New
York Central leased lines.
THE company has line into Scran-
ton. and from that point to Williams
port 65-mile extension could be built
TO connect with the Beech Greek road.
This would enable the Beech Creek out
put to reach the seahoard and lake
markets, and would make that property
a more important factor in the eastern
soft coal trade than 1t is at present"
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-02

tice was growing gradually less. Mr..
Roosevelt gave an amusing account of
the effort to introduce the merit system
among the New York police, but he
said there was no doubt that the intro
duction Of the system had proved OF
vast advantage to the service.
The examination for this service was,
he said, half physical and half mentaa,
and 1t was being constantly perfected.
He conceded that the examination for
this service should be on the lines of
practicability rather than academic,
but he said that 1t had been conceived
proper that the policemen should have
some general information. Mr.. Roose-
welt said that he thought it would have
been better If deputy internal revenue
collectors had not been included in the
classified service in the order of 1895.
Ultimately they might come within this
service properly, but now they were too
much scattered to make it practical.
Mr.. Roosevelt also expressed the opin-
ion that private secretaries to executive
officers should be exempted
MIR. Roosevelt contended strenuously
against change of the system to one
putting the examinations in control OF
the departments. He said that the out
side supervision was necessary to the
efficiency of the service. Under the
system proposed, it would be good I'M
der one secretary and bad under an
other, and would prove to be a mere
cloak for the rankest sort of spoils sys-
tenn.
Superintendent White of the railway
mail service and H. Y Bregden, chief
clerk at the navy yard, both testified to
Improvement under the classified SER
vice. Mr.. White spoke especially of the
improved record in handling the mails.
He said that where there was formerly
one mistake in every three thousand
letters there was now only one in every
Ii, 000
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-02
THE CIVIL SERVICE
Has Worked Inconceivable I'm.
provement, Says Roosevelt.
The Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ap.
pears sefore the Senate Committee
on Civil Service.

Washington, Feb. Theodore Roose-
welt, assistant secretary of the navy,
was before the senate committee on
civil service today. Speaking of his
practical experience, Mr.. Roosevelt said
that ne had found that the civil service
system had worked inconceivable i'm
provement. He had observed this both
in his position as police commissioner
in New York and as assistant secretary
of the navy.
Referring to the navy department,
Mr.. Roosevelt dwelt at some length
upon what he pronounced tine abuses
under the former system. He said that
in the navy yard the spoils system had
become so intolerable under Secretary
Tracy, that the secretary had been COM
PEELED to adopt a registration system. He
spoke especially with reference to the
increase of men in the labor depart
ment of the Brooklyn navy yard just
previous to election, and, contrasting
1892, after the present system went into
effect, with 1883, he said that just pre-
v:ous to the election in 1888, there had
been $500 men employed; whereas, few
weeks subsequent to it, the number had
been reduced to 400; while in 1892 there
had been no change in the numbers be-
fore and after election. Mr. Roosevelt
said that he had Investigated the EN-
ployment of labor in all the big navy
yards of the Atlantic coast personally
and that at Mare Island by deputy, and
that the commanding officers had with
out exception commended the change
from the old system to the new, saying
in most instances that the improvement
was beyond belief, both among the la
borers and in the clerical department
The commandments had testified that
without exception the work was better
done and more quickly done than form
erly. Mr.. Roosevelt said that the
places of shipkeepers were the only ones
left in the naval service which did not
now come within the classified service,
and these positions gave the officials of
the department more trouble than the
entire force outside of these
Referring to the recent change where
by minors and apprentices had been
brought under the classification, he said
there were often severe struggles for
these places, and that he had spent the
better part of two working days in an
interview with senators and members
VINO were pleading against the right Of
commandant to promote man from
$1,000 place to $1,000 place. without
consulting the congressional delegation
Of the mans state
Mr.. Roosevelt said that there was still
some importuning on the part Of SEN
ators and members, but that the prac-
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-02
THE sPYs CARRIERS.
Heroic Work on Their Part in Delivering
aperS.

The Spy's carriers performed heroic
work in the delivery of papers, and the
| news of the storm was being eagerly
read in all parts of the city early in the
morning by subscribers. No one who
did not attempt to tramp around in the
snow-bound streets at daybreak can
have any idea of the effort made by the
brave boys to supply subscribers with
their papers. The work in many cases
seems incredible. OF the AZ carriers.
Al reported on time and were on their
way to duty less than 10 minutes late.
The carrier who did not show up is a
little fellow who carries the Normal
school route. At the proper hour he
attempted to go down town. In front
or his house was a mammoth snow bank
that lowered way above his head, and
the street beyond seemed little better
After several attempts to cross the big
drift in front of the house. he gave up
and returned. A short time later. a
| stalwart fellow from the mailing room
put in an appearance forced an en-
| trance to the door, and called for the
! snow-bound carrier bringing his papers.
With the aid OF the mail clerk, the route
was carried The hard walking made
II impossible to cover the routes with
any speed, but the papers were all de-
/ livered by o'clock
Three traverse sleighs and a mounted
| carrier left the office in good season
with bundles. The New Worcester
sleigh left at 5, and reached New Wor-
cester at 6. 1t was impossible to cross
through Grand street to South Worces-
| ter, 50 1t was necessary to return to
Franklin square and go down South
prlage street, using only the forward
runners. On Cambridge street it was
| necessary to drop even the forward run
ners, mount the horse and push for
ward After much difficulty, South
Worcester was reached at $40. The
whole trip is usually done in half an
hour. The team for Quinsigamond
Village also took in Millbury street
This team was stalled twice on Winter
street and had to be shovelled out 1t
left the office about 8, and occupied
nearly two hours on the trip. The re-
manning sled took the Front street, de-
pot and Summer and Main street bun
dies. In going out Garden street to
Prescott, it was necessary to
abandon the sleigh and mount the horse
to get through. This sled was stalled
! in several cases and shovelled out with
great labor.
The mounted carrier proceeded TO
Lake View, leaving the office at GAS.
The residents were amazed when he
passed around, for they had not dared
to attempt to reach the city, and much
less expected that any one would at
tempt to come to them. The round trip
was made, however. in a little over an
hour, nearly two hours before any other
paper attempted to make the trip.
The drivers suffered intensely from
the sleet, hail and rain, and came back
to the office cold and exhausted, but
conscious that they had beaten all other
deliveries from one to two hours
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-02
DEATH OF PATRICK McCARRoN.

Patrick McCaTon. an old resident OF
Sacred Heart parish, died Tuesday af-
ternoon after short illness He leaves
three sons and four daughters, Edward
j. OF Chicago, Andrew j., who keeps the
grocery store at the corner of Cam
bridge and Millbury streets, William F.
an employee of the Speirs Cycle Com
pany, Mrs. H. F. Hughes of Charles
town, Mrs. j. b. Laverty of GAINESVILLE.
Miss Mary A., the music teacher, and
Rose, who lives at home The funeral
will take place at the Sacred Heart
Church Friday morning at o'clock.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-02

gineer, to succeed George H Pegran,
resigned; and John w Grifi+bs srani'
ehaslng agent, are the presidents an
General Manager Dickinson am
9 ~ 1 as the head of his official starr
y, Buckngham, superintendent ~
transportation. He has heretofore hee,,
s9Iperi1ntendent of the car service onlv
al other superintendent and chiefs If
uepartH ns,s are retained until further
potlGe. Ihere are many rumors of inn
pending changes, but investigatior,
SHOWS that so far, the dismissal If q
score Of clerks from the several depart-
ments OF headquarters is the only out-
ward sign of retrenchment.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-02
TODAY.
LOCAL NOTES.

Cbemeaice sells today. at 10 a. M. the
personal property of the late f. Whit
man. at his late residence on Salisbury
street, just off Of Park avenue, opposite
the military school, carriages, single and
double, buggies, sleighs, single and double,
Dung sleighs, tip-cart, horse rake, hay
tedder, team wagon, manure spreader, q
horse sled, one COW, lot Of fowls, hay LOT
of small farming tools, harnesses, single
and double, etc, etc. Sale positive; farm
anld
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-02

The many friends Of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Dolan, Of Is North Ashland street,
viii sympathize with them In the death
of their baby boy. aged 3 years and 10
months The funeral, which takes
place at o'clock this morning will be
strictly private.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-02
UNION PACIFIC DEEDS.
The Roster Of the New Organization Has
But Few Changes.

Council Bluffs. Ia, Feb. Yesterday
there was offered for record in the office
of the Pottawatomie county register of
deeds, the instrument conveying the
title to the Union Pacific road to its new
owners. The first deed conveys the gov
ernments interests, the consideration
being set as s5s,527, 532. S. The second
conveys the interest Of the first mort
gage subsidiary bonds, the considera-
ton being 5000 ABS.
Omaha, Feb. lon and after midnight
of Jan. 81 1898 according to the circu-
lar issued by the receivers of the Union
Pacific. the receivership terminated. In
formal notice to all employees that
the receivers have turned the property
over to the new company, according to
a circular issued by President Burt I'M
der date of Feb. 1, the official roster of
the new company is given out Only two
changes are made in the list which has
been familiar to all having dealings
with the overland route during the time
since s. H. H. Clark succeeded Charles
Francis Adams as president.
Edward Dickinson remains general
manager
John a. Munroe, freight traffic man.
ager; Edward L. Iiomax, general pas
senger agent; John B. Berry, chief en-
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-02
d@ortester 9ailp SPY.

Subscribers who fail to receive their
papers regularly will confer a favor by
Immediately making complaint Mt this
office.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-07-24

ister's. And, my darling. before we 60,
you must marry me-"
~"Marry-now!" faltered Yolette.
otherwise the American minister can
not protect you. II you are my wife he
is bound to do so. l can't stand this sort
OF thing; the city has gone distracted. no.
body is safe outside an embassy. The
Prussians must respect our flag, dear, and
anarchists and kindred rufhans dare not
enter the embassy. Shall l tell you what
has happened in the Rue d'Ypresg A gang
OF communists, cutthroats and thieves have
broken open our house and are carousing
in the cellar with our red wine. S%tauffer,
Mortier and Buckhurst are there and they
will do us mischief II they have n chance.
He went up to her and drew her head
down TO his shoulder.
"Will you marry me tomorrow, Yolette? %
he asked. 80 that I can leave you safe
at the embassy and go to my friend?"
Yes" she whispered, then threw both
arms about him in a passion Of tenderness
| and fear.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-07-24

You're cold" said the Mouse, awkwardly.
Go TO bed"
I'm afraid she whispered.
"of me7" asked the Mouse, with a strange
sinking OF the heart.
Yes, and the shells"
I'll knock the head of any pig OF a Prus-
sian who harms you" said the Mouse, wav-
ing his club. You never mind the shells;
they won't hurt you. Now are you afraid
of me, little one2"
mo" sighed the child. A glow OF pleas
ure suffused the Mouse's ears again. Then
he felt ashamed, then he looked at the child,
then he wondered why he should take pleas
ure in telling the little thing not to be
afraid. For n while they contemplated each
other In silence; then the child said: when
you were in the Rue d'Ypres l used to make
you split wood. Do you remember
d. Yes" said the Mouse, much gratifed.
And you were afraid of the lion,'' pur-
sued Red Riding Hood.
Dame" muttered the Mouse, II am afraid
yet"
The child laughed-such a sad, thin little
laugh. The Mouse, to please her, made an
awful grimace and winked with his sight
less eye.
"will you stay with lis now ?" asked the
child.
The innocent question completely upset
the Mouse; the idea that he was wanted
anywhere. the sensation of protecting any
thing was SO new. so utterly astonishing
that even his habitual suspicion was car
ried away in the overwhelming novelty of
the proposition.
Red Riding Hood rose from the sofa, went
to the bed and climbed in, then turned
gravely TO the Mouse.
Don't let anything harm u.s. she said.
GOOD night
For a long time the Mouse stood and stared
at the pale little face on the pillow. There
| were blue circles under the closed eyes;
Omaha daily bee., 1898-07-24
: CHAPTER XXV1T.
An Underground AFFAIR.

When the Mouse left the Rue Serpente
the bombardment had shifted to the south
ern' forts and the southeast s~ecteurs Of the
Notifications were covered with exploding
shells. AS he skunk across the city he
could hear the fracas of the distant bonn
bardment and he gave the danger zone
wide berth. His mind was preoccupied by
two problems-how to conceal his silver
forks and how to get back to the Nanterre
fort.
The second problem could wait till morn
ing; the first needed serious study. He al
ready possessed one burrow. 1t was in the
cellar of the house in the Rue d'Ypres. For,
while doing mental service for Bourke and
Hardwood, he had managed to abstract
booty from neighboring windows-a spoon
Omaha daily bee., 1898-07-24
Ashes of Empire.
am
XVI.
The Uombnrdment

On the 9Th Of January, at seven minutes
after 5 in the afternoon, the first shell fell
In Paris. The projectile entered the city
n little northeast from the fort OF Vanves
and plunged into the street, exploding with
frightful force. A moment later the ominous
uuayer of another shell was heard from the
Porte Rouge. The huge projectile seemed
to hang above the rue d'Ypres, growing
larger and larger as 1t neared the street.
Suddenly 1t exploded, sweeping the roof
tops with a hail of iron fragments, wreck
ing chimneys and tiles and showering the
street with shattered states.
An old woman ran shrieklng along the
sidewalk, her gray hair dripping with blood.
A cannoneer on the ramparts lay writing
beside the Prophet. The artiilerymen re-
covered from their amazement and swung
the great gun southwest. A clap of thun-
der shook the bastions, a white cloud, ever
spreading, wrapped the Prophet. But again
came the terrifying Shrek of a shell, nearer,
nearer-then the street trembled with Its
Impact and the houses rocked and reeled
to their foundations as the Prophet thun-
dered Its reply.
The forts of the south were flaming and
blazing from every embrasure; the batteries,
the redoubts, the southern bastions of the
Notifications were covered with smoke; but
still into the city plunged the Prussian
shells, blowing houses to ruins, setting fire
to roofs, exploding in the streets, on the
sidewalks, on bridges and quays, squares
and boulevards, hurting death and destruc-
ton TO the four quarters of the city. Three
little children crossing the Rue Malaise were
blown to atoms; u woman running for shell
ter to, the Prince Murat barracks was dis
embowelled in the rue d'Ypres. A convent
was struck repeatedly; two shells entered a
hospital and tore the helpless wounded to
shreds, another killed a poor American
student in his room in the rue de Seine.
Faster and faster came the shells; night
added to the horror Of the scene; the dark
ness was lighted with the flames of burn
ing houses. The uproar Of the forts, the
scream and hiss of shells, the deafening ex-
p1osions Of the cannon blended in a tumult
indescribably frightful. At moments, in the
brief lulls of the uproar, the iron knelling
of the tocsin was heard, the fainter booming
OF drums calling to arms, the distant rush
of artillery, galloping pellmell to the bas-
tions.
In the rue serpente, Hide and Yolette
crouched, half dead with terror. A shell had
fallen at the corner Of the street and had
torn a cafe to pieces. Bourke had been
away since noon, and Yolette's fright and
anxiety for him drove Hide to forget her
own fear.
In that dark, narrow street, with its rows
of ancient houses, women and children, fran
tic, shrieking, dishevelled, ran hither and
thither to escape the shells. Some shouted,
The other side of the river! Save your
~selves!" Others ran back into the tall
crumbling houses to cover on the worm
eaten stairs or crawl into the cellars.
I'VE must go to the cellar" repeated
Hide with white lips. "Yolette, everybody
Is going to the cellar"
81 cannot-I will not stir until he comes
Omaha daily bee., 1898-07-24

squares and streets where men lay dying
by the score from lack OF bread. There was
starlight On the bridges, on the quays, on
the carved facades OF palaces, on the
strange towers OF st. S~ulpice.
The jeweled splre Of the st. Chapelle, the
silvery dome OF the 1nvalides, the gro
tesdue gothic tower OF st. Jacques doomed
distinctly from the endless mass of house
and palace. monument and church. In
the east an bulk detached itself
against the sky-the Pentheon. In the
north the stupendous win towers OF Notre
Dame dominated the shadow shapes OF roof
and chimney. And through the world Of
shade and shadowy silhouette wound the
star-tinted, ghostly rivera phantom tide
spanned by a score OF fairy bridges. impal-
pablo, vague. ghostly as their own renec-
tons in the frozen. ice bound stream.
And, now, far beyond the walls. Hide
could sec the forts. The tiny flashes ran
from east TO west, then south, then back
again, a running chain of sparks. The cam
mons solid thunder rolled and surged ma
jestically, wave after wave. harmonious, in
terminable. On the heights of Meudon.
Clamart and Chatillon the flicker Of the
Prussian guns ran parallel TO the flashes
from the forts of the south and west: their
shells were falling on the Point du Jour,
Hide could see the bright reflections Of
fires along the frozen river. the red smoke,
the nearer blasts from the great guns on
the ramparts. Overhead raced the shells,
streaming by with kindling wakes of sparks
dropping and fading one by one. Then from
Mont Valerien the rockets lowered TO the
zenith and drifted and faded while the
Point du Jour answered, rocket on rocket.
and the bastions reechoed with the double
thunder of the shotted guns.
Could that be real war? This Venetian
fete OF oolered fires, rockets, Examinations,
dull reports? Hank! The jar of n great
iron bell came quavering over the city. The
rant rattle OF drums broke out across the
river-the tocsin and the alarm! Hide
did not hear them. She was talking TO her
self, under her breath, counting the forts
on her slender fingers. Issy Vanyes, Mont
Vaierien. st. Denis. o, then there must
lie the Nanterre fort-there where the
darkness is shot with streak after streak of
narne At last she knew.
The fort was silent now, but within her
breast a voice spoke. And she listened,
leaning from the iron railing. She knew
that Gods justice was p~assing-passing in
the fire through the heavens above the CITY
the fair city, brought low in shame. For,
the night of atonement was at hand.
ITO Be ConcludedD
Omaha daily bee., 1898-07-24
back" whispered Yolette. go TO the cellar

back" whispered Yolette. go to the cellar
II you wish"
Shell after she'll, moaning, whistling, flew
high overhead. The air hummed with the
quaver; the windows yibrated. There came
a terrific report from the corner of the
street; a house bulged outward, falling
slowly amid the crash and crackle OF
wooden beams, A heap OF plaster choked
the street. Some woodwork afire lighted
up the mass of lime and bricks, under which
something writhed feebly-a man, perhaps,
Red Riding Hood knelt clinging TO
Hides skirt in an agony Of fright. The
child was still in her night gown and her
little limbs, numb with cold, quivered.
Somebody on the stairs cried out: 1.-THE
roof Is on fre!" Another rushed scream
ing TO the cellar.
Gomez" murmered Hide, 1--WE cannot
stay, Yoiette-we shall be burned il we
stay; o comet"
Not to the ~cellar!" cried Yolette.
"What are you doing-the house will burn
over you'll" They were on the stairs now,
Hide dragging the child by the hand, Yo-
Iette following and trying to make her
self heard in the din.
Don't go into the street," she cried
again.
I'VE can't stay in the house!" painted
Hide, desperately.
go back. Go back!" shouted a crowd
of soldiers, who came stampeding through
the street and poured into the houses,
9Th cellars are safe. Go to the cellars"
They pushed past the doorway, motioning
Hide TO follow. She shrank against the