The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-02
A TALL MAN
Much w anted
in Clinton.
ABOUT BASKET BALL
Plans for Big Reception to
Co. K Complete.


who drove away with his black mare /
and his sleigh with yellow running gear, |
would return the property at once.
The police are looking for this young I
man. He is about feet and 8 inches
tall and thin. He wears a black over
coat. He doesn't seem to talk English /
very well, and his name is more par
ticularly unknown to Mr.. Connery
Tuesday afternoon. about 5 o'clock, I
he came to Connery's stable, on High .
street, and tried to engage a team Of .
Edward Connery, brother of the pro- (
prietor. He said he wanted to drive to .
Lancaster to get his sister, who, he (
said, was employed in the Lancaster /
hotel. The snow was so deep that Mr.. |
Connery refused to let the horse go out |
of the stable, but the tall young man I
pressed the issue with James Connery, |
and finally secured the black horse
Billy a shift bar sleigh with yellow |
running gear and a black body, a short |
black whip, a buffalo robe with a [
black lining, and a blue checked /
blanket
This was about Z o'clock Tuesday |
evening.
Then he said "G'lang" and turned |
the corner toward Lancaster so sharp !
ly that Ned Connery trembled for the |
drivers safety.
So far as the owner knows, Billy and |
the young man have never reached |
Lancaster yet. Neither have they put |
in an appearance since Tuesday night !
James Connery has given the alarm to |
the police. He and the police are
unit in believing that the young man
and the horse cannot be far away |
They believe it is impossible to drive |
any morse very many miles a day over |
country roads while the roads are in
their present condition.
1t seems to Ned Connery as if the
fellow gave some name But it is a !
French name, and Mr. Connery cannot |
remember it. He thinks, too, that the
fellow said he resided on Arch street. |
put is not certain. The harness worn
by Billy is rubber trimmed The sad
ole is peculiar. in that it has been
double-packed for a horse with a poor
back. Billy is a horse that weipbs
about 800 pounds
1t looks as if the citizens of Clinton |
might not see any more basket ball in |
CLINTON this season. If they do, some
BODY will have to give in. That some |
body will be either George DETER, own |
er of the rink, or Manager John Rodg- |
Manager Rodgers is very sure he win
not be the somebody, and he has passed |
his ultimatum: mo games in the rink |
until the demand for morerent is with |
drawn. The thing, from the standpoint
OF the basket ball players, is this way. |
as one of them stated it to the Clinton |
correspondent of The Spy:
rms game hasn't been paying very
well, but we got the rink at a fair price |
which have
loss, without kicking. The last game
or two showed a reasonable margin on |
the profit side. Now we are confronted |
with a demand for 40 per cent of the
gross receipts. That is 10 per cent
more than is demanded by first-class
theaters from theatrical companies. II !
is a percentage we cannot afford to
pay, and will not try to pay.
"As there is at present no place but
the rink available for the game, it looks |
a little as if no games would be plaved
in Clinton for some little time. OF
course there is an excellent chance
that the town hail may be arranged
for
Tonight the committee behind the re-
ceptlon and banquet to the officers and
members Of Company K stand on the
eve OF a. great success. Nearly every
detail of the arrangement was com
plete at o'clock this evening.
The out-of-town guests as they ar
rive on the late afternoon and early
evening trains will be met at the de-
pot by members of the reception com
mittee with carriages, and driven to
the armory, where they will Join the
column that escorts Company K and
other Clinton volunteers to town hall.
The program at the town hail will be
carried out as already explained in The
Spy. 1t is expected that adjournment
can be made to the banquet hall at the
close of Judge Corcoran's speech, about
$50 o'clock.
A most interesting series of toasts
have been provided for.
Congressman John F. Fitzgerald will
respond to the toast THE Nation"
Governor Roger Wolcott, or a mem
Der of his staff, will respond to THE
Commonwealth
Colonel Lawrence J. Logan will an
swer ITO the Regiment" Captain P.
j. Cannon to THE Company" and sew
eral other speakers. yet to ne selected,
to other sentiments. 1
Grand Marshal George S. Gibson is |
putting in some hard ticks. He expects
to move his column on time. and in |
good numbers. In the line of march |
will be the members of the local Grand |
Army post, of the local camp Sons of |
l.
ciety, members of the Metropolitan !
Club, and other civic organizations.
A most peculiar project for a street |
railway to rival the Worcester e Clin- |
ton line, mysteriously fCated into town |
today, and gained circulation among |
a whole lot of people who wondered |
why. The project provides for a line !
from Sterling to Worcester, skirting the |
pa mn Grounds in GtaT1tno I lie flo ,,.1
lid ghost of plan talked over in Wor |
cester some years ago, before the Wor- |
cester & Clinton line was contemplated |
The earlier scheme was never robust, I
and it breathed its last when the Wor- /
cester * Clinton people got their chan
ter.
The new plan is a ghost plan Tho
Clinton correspondent OF The Spy, who |
tried to view the scheme at close quar-
tiers, today, found everything about it |
ghOstly.
1t is treated seriously in offices that
have no earthly number over the door.
by capitalists whose names are not in
any mundane directory, and many
Clinton business men, with money to
invest, who are not yet born, are talk !
ing seriously about it. This is the sub
stance of rumors of capital and bust
ness backing behind the ghost plan
Walter r. Dame is treasurer of the
Worcester & Clinton Street Railway |
Company. He is pretty well posted on
street railway matters IN these parts. i
He knows that it takes real money ana |
real men to build street RAILWAYS. Hn
has been able to find neither i'm the
neighborhood of the diaphanous scheme
to connect Sterling with Worcester by
rival line.
Ezra Brabrook Taylor died this NOR
ming, at the home of his SON 99o WI