The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-02
All Traffic Re.
sunled.
SPENCER IS HAPPY
AT Last a Car Runs Through
to Worcester.

Spencer, Dec Never before since
the first car of the Worcester and Su-
burban Street Railway Company
passed over the tracks from Worces-
ter to Spencer in 1891, has the travel
been stopped on account of snow as
long as it has during the past week.
The last car that left Spencer to run
through to Worcester until the 1.29
car left this afternoon1 was the 7.4O
car out last Saturday night, which was
in charge of Conductor Michael Cal
vim, and was stalled directly opposite
Joseph Proctor's residence on East
Main street.
The rails were at last cleared be-
tween Spencer and Leicester at exact
~ 1870 O'Clock this afternoon. aud soon
after, the first car was sent through
to Spencer The progress of shovellng
was somewhat hindered yesterday at
ternoon by a strike Of several of tine
shoVelers who were employed under
James Nafen, and were working on this
end of the line. The town of Spencer
was paying IL 1-2 cents for snow dig
gers, while the Worcester and Subul'-
ban Company was paying only II cents
RMS did not set at MI we'll in some
OF the mems crops, and consequently
nine of them struck for more pay
When they told Mr.. Nafen the trouble.
he said that he did not blame them for
striking, but his orders were opay only
10 cents an hour, and that is all he
could pay. The men then shouIdered
their shovels and came home, many
OF them going Immediately to work for
the town.
The Warren, Brookfeld and Spencer
company, although their drifts We're
fully as deep as the Worcester and Su-
burban nevertheless completely
outdid the latter, and lad their cars
running on schedule time all The Of
/. ternoon. a big gang of men have been
at work all the afternoon clearing the
rams from the corner Of High street
70 the terminus, and tonight the cars
instead of stopping at the corner Of
High street as before, ran clear
through to the terminus
The leak in the main water pipe, which
was discovered about a week ago in
the swamp across the road from the
Deacon Proctor place on Main street,
was finally repaired today. Superin-
tendent Billiard with a gang of six men
started in to locate the leak at o'clock
this morning, and al o'clock tonight
the repairs were completed The leak
was caused by the settling of the pipe
in the mud, While the weight of the
mud on top started joint. Mr.. Billiard
says that where the leak occurred the
mud was actually from 10 to 10 feet
deep, so that it made the leak as diff
cult one to repair as he ever tackled.
1t was necessary, inOrder to repair
the leak. to shut all the water of from
town, sc that there has been no water
in town all day, except what was drawn
before 8 o'clock this morning.
The firemen have been on the lookout
all day for fires, and were prepared to
make good fight if a fire had broken
out. All the fire apparatus was in
readiness. and the reservoirs were well
filed with water The town was in the
same predicament five years ago, when
the big fire occurred, so that now when
the water is turned off the greatest
precautiOn is taken against fire.
There is one thing in town that the
big snow storm has benefited, and that
is the Spencer branch of the Boston
and Albany railroad. For the past
four days, since the electric cars have
been unable to run, the passengers cars
of the Boston and Albany have been
crowded with passengers on every trip.
Conductor Tyler told The Spy man
this afternoon that for the past three
days he had averaged to carry 200 pas
sengers a day. while on Tuesday he
carried over 300 Up to this time the
passenger trade has been almost moth
ing, as the electric cars have taken
away all the passengers from both di-
rections. There have been so few pas
sengers of late, in fact, that one pas
senger car has been taken off all to-
Sether.
The town clock, after a rest of four
days, was once more started today, to
the great satisfaction of the people.
James Mccain, Jr.. Of Pearl street
has accepted the position of assistant
SUPERINTENDENT Of the Spencer branch
nf the Boston and AlhanN.