The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-11
ABIG NEED.
Clinton Police
Station
ALMOST NUISANCE
Coming Banquet to Con-
gresham Weymouth.

Clinton, Nov 1O-There is a crying
demand here for new police station,
or at least for extensive repairs to the
one that serves the purpose. If there
is anything that is not the matter with
the building in which offenders against
the law are confined in Clinton, the po-
lice do not know what it is
There is always an evil smell about
the place, it is so far underground, so
sewer so imperfect. The floor boards
are rotting away from the sides of the
rooms. The sins beneath the floor
boards are badly decayed and the
floor is rising in places as if it We're
trying to get up and go somewhere else.
Chief Murphy believes that it is al
most as much of a crime against a
prisoner to keep him all night in one
of the dark, damp and. odorous cells of
the cell room as any crime that prison
ers ordinarily commit
The plain drunks who are arrested
Saturday morning or Saturday after
noon and kept over Sunday have the
most to complain of. Those gentlemen
addicted to the over-use of LIQUOR who
are frequently compelled to occupy the
cell room complain the most colored
man who was taken in the other day
SAID TO the Clinton correspondent of
The Spy:
Yes. sab; l was drunk, sab. l ought
TO be sent to Jail, sab But l ought not
to be kept heah, sab, over sunday"
1t is the general opinion of the force
that two days in the police station
should be regarded as equal to ten DAVIS
IN nice, comfortable jail, like the one
at Fftchburg. In short, they all be-
lieve that the building should be re-
modelled. or a better building con-
structed
Some time ago there was a move
ment to do something. and the metro
pontan water board offered $500 to
make repairs with if the town would
give as much more. The offer was de-
cined by town meeting called to con-
slder the proposition, it being the opin-
Ion of most of the voters that to ac-
cept II would be to defeat any effort
that might be made to secure a new
station 1t was held that if the metro
pontan board paid for repairing this
station, they would not feel like
contributing to new station At any
Idte' nothing was done. and the miser-
aple men who are locked up here for
SAFE Keeping continue to be made as
miserable as possible.
Inc banquet that is to be given to
congressman G. w Weymouth and
other guests, by the Business Mems
Association, promises to be an limos
ing affair as things go here A great
zeal OF interest. is expressed by citizens
as TO the tenor of the papers that will
pc read dealing with town affairs. II
IS pelleved that they will be in line with
the movement given expression in The
spy, Tor government more suited &c
the need of the town. The conjectu-
raj fellow is on the ground WONDERING
II the banquet may not have a political
bearing. The president of the asso.
citation is Warren Goodale, and Mr.
Goodale IS candidate for the post
ONCE. The association is not a politi.
cal organization. however, and perhaps
the most that can be said, as a mem
Der of the association expressed him
self today, is that there will be moth.
ing in the festivity to injure Mr.. Good
ale's chances.
Inspector John M. Urquhart. who ha.
been engaged on the metropolitan worl
for about year. will be joined by Mrs
Urquhart and their child in a few days
and will make Clinton his permanent
residence. Mr.. Urquhart will reside il
uMSliiilS at the IOOt OF High stree
convenient to the work on the sewer
reservoir, which he is overlooking.
The local bakers are making sucl
changes in their manner of doing bust
ness as viii enable them to exactly
conform to the law fixing the weight o.
loaves of bread, which takes effec
Nov. IA. The new law has been prop.
erly advertised by Hugh Stewart, seal.
er of weights and measures.
Town Chairman David l. Walsh saiC
last night: | am pleased with the vote
polled by democrats here Every dem
ocrat must be gratified at the excellen
run made by the Clinton Democrat,
candidate for representative, Mr.
Gentsch, and especially gratified by tn,
showing of Mr.. Fay, the candidate fol
senator. Considering that little inter
est was taken in the election, Mr.
Walsh thinks the democratic vote wa:
large.
The ladies of the Hibernian Society
are making preparations for their an
nual ball, which they intend shall sur
pass all the other successful ball.
given by them.
The members of the Clinton baske
ball team are taking as much practic,
as possible between now anC
Friday night when they will
play the Marlboro team, re
puted to be the strongest in the state
There is Marlboro money in town, suel
is the confidence of people who hav,
seen that team at work. The loca
aggregation is far from being discour
aged, and will make a fight worth see
ing.