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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-20
CITY PHYSICIAN.

Outdoor poor: Orders for medical at
tendance, 25S; visits made, 494 office
calls 12O; deaths, IA; sick paupers re-
moved to city hospital, 80; Memorial
hospital, Z; st. Vincent's, 2; isolation,
I; state almsouse, 6; city almshouse,
r.
City almshouse: Visits made, SO;
cases treated, 800: births, 1; deaths, 25:
pauper insane returned to friends, 8;
pauper insane recommitted to Worces-
ter lunatic hospital, 1.
Miscellaneous duties Visits to po-
lice station, SO; school children vacci-
mated, 1884; vaccination certificates is
sued (estimated). 1000.
The report closes with a list of the
patients who have died at the city
almshouse and the disease, for the
year.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-20
RESOURCES.

The revenue Of the department for
the year is $311.39. Bills of the depart
ment are in the treasurer's hands for
collection, amounting to $22.62. a.....
The contract with the Worcester
Electric Light Co., provides for 1000 C.
p. lamps to be burned from dusk
to daylight every night for
three years from July /, 1898, al a con-
tract price of 80 cents per light per
night, the company TO furnish and
maintain all lines, lamps and fixtures,
and secures to the city continuance
of the excellent service OF past years
The amount expended for arc lights
during the year is $6S.S76.s1.
Forty new ares have been installed
during the year at various locations.
The contract price for incandescent
lights with the Worcester Electric
Light Co., under a three years con-
tract from July l, '9S, is $24 per lamp
year for a 80 c. p. series lamp. The
amount charged 10 these lights is
SSS9.64.
The cost of ordinary gas lights
amounts to $500.
The contract with the Welsbach
street Lighting Co, was renewed for
one year from Sept l, '9S. The contract
price is $50 per lamp, per year of 1900
hours. The lights to be not less than
so c. p.
A years experience with their lamp
confirms the opinion il my last report
that for heavily shaded streets it is the
most effective light on the market to-
DAY. The number in daily use at this
date is 298. The cost of the Welsbach
service for the year Is S723S.59
The gasoline service at this date con-
sists of 1S41 lamps, 84,4S7 gallons of gas
oline has been used during the year and
the cost is $22.37S.07
The price paid for the care of police
signals is 2 rs cents per light per night
for gasoline and 1 81 cents for gas.
254SO0 Gu. it. of gas and 49S gallons of
gasoline have been used in the signals
during the year.
City property used by the street light
ing department, tools nxtures, supplies
etc, inventory, S27,11663.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-20
REPORTS.
They Tell the
Growth
OF AN INLAND CITY.
Heads of Departments Sub
nit Their Accounts.

In accordance with chapter As of the
city ordinances, the reports of the va
rious city officers, departments, etc"
are to be submitted on the 18th of De-
cember. Fifteen departments respond
ed as follows: City physician, police
department, city engineer, fire depart
ment, commissioners of the Jaques
fund. treasurer city trust fund, water
commissioner, street lighting depart
ment, commissioners of the sinking
fund, overseers of the poor, supervisor
of wires, water commissioner superin-
tendent of sewers, superintendent of
public buildings and water registrar.
Abstracts are given below. The sub
stance Of them has much to interest
and shows remarkable growth and de-
velopment along various lines.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-20

amount Of storage space at the East
Worcester street headquarters. What
has been necessary in the past has been
made much more so by the great in
crease in the work put upon this de-
partment during the past year as well
as by the continued depreciation of the
wooden buildings which were not of
the best quality when built.
OF publication, the superintendent
says: There has been no material
change in the method of treating the
sewage during the past year. The
very heavy and frequent rains have
rendered the work more difficult than
during years IF normal rainfall. On
this account, the results of the treat
ment have not quite reached the high
standard of 1896 and 1897.
As in previous years, frequent analy-
SEES have been made of the Blackstone
river water at various points above
and below the discharge of the effiuent
at the publication works. The results
of these analyses show that during the
year the condition of the river water
has improved below the publication
works, while it has become more pol
luted above them. This improvement
is most marked at Aldrichs mills,
where it reached 2S.0S per cent over last
year, and 52.6 per cent over 1898 For
Jne summer months TINS Improvement
is even more noticeable, having run as
high as SL04 per cent over last year,
and 60,46 per cent over the correspond
ing months Of the year 1898.
During the year an average of III
million gallons of sewage have been
treated daily, and for this treatment
1912 pounds of lime have been used per
million gallons. AS a result of the
treatment, 5O473,177 gallons Of sludge
have been removed from the settling
basins. Something over 10000 two
horse loads Of dry sIudge have been
hauled on the adjacent farms.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-20

Registrar Bachelor saws of the ever
troublesome question of water rates:
1t is to be hoped that after the settle
ment of the damages for the taking of
Kettle brook, the city council can see
its way clear to equalze and reduce the
water rates to manufacturers. I am
clearly of the opinion that some stems
must be taken to meet the just de-
mands of the manufacturers in order
to keep those that we now have and
to hold out some inducement for others
TO locate here A rate should be made
so low that manufacturers would feel
that they could afford to use city water
and not be compelled to sink artesian
wells. Our sister cities of Springfield
and Fitchburg have reduced the rates
for water used in generating steam to a
very low figure as compared with our
rates. 1t will be observed by the last
census of water takers that we have a
population of 10S,463 We must not lose
sight of the fact that we are an inland
city and wholly dependent on our man
ufacturing industries for our future
growth, as we have been in the past.
The diversified industries Of Worces-
ter have been the cause of it's growth
from little hamlet of a few thousand
Inhabitants to the second city Of the
commonwealth and possibly the sec
ond city in New England.
The increase in revenue over last
year is $11942.17. This is a very fair
increase. when the number of artesan
wells has increased during the past
year. Had the premium on water bonds
received during the past year been
credited to the water department
where it properly belonged. instead OF
being used to help out other depart
ments our financial showing would
have been much better, as the 2.08S
received in premiums should have beer
transferred to water works construc-
ton
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-20
CITY TRUST FUNDS.

The amount of the city's trust funds
Dec. l, '97, were 1881, S6O76. The re-
ceipts during the year amount to
$35, 1924, the payments $29,149.95, show
ing a gain of $6012.39.
The table of the amounts on hand of
the several funds, Nov. 30, is as fol-
lows;
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-20
FIRE DEPARTMENT.

The fire department now consists of
one chief engineer, one deputy chief en-
gineer, one assistant chief engineer, 101
permanent and 100 call men.
The apparatus consists OF six engines
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-20
Brandreth's Pills

are the safest and most effective remedy
for indigestion, irregularity of the bowels,
constipation, biliousness, headache, dizzi-
ness malaria or any disease arising from
an irlpure state oc the blood.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-20

During the year the filter presses
have been put in operation and they
are running in a most satisfactory
manner While it is expected that the
results of this treatment will be ma
terialiy improved in the near future, it
can be said at the present time that
the presses have proved more efficient
than was expected when the order was
placed for their construction. All Of
the sludge is being pressed, and it has
not been found necessary to run the
plant all of the time, as was at first
estimated. In all probability. this work
can be done in two 60-hour shifts per
week during a greater part of the year.
The superintendent recommends that
a stable be erected as soon as possible
at the headquarters on East Worces-
ter street; that a new building be pro-
vided for shop and storage purposes;
that more yard room be provided; that
the ordinances be modified to conform
to the plan adopted for a separate sys-
TEN of sewers.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-20
The ROMELIEsT MAN IN WORC SEER

AS well as the handsomest, and others
are invited to call on any druggist and
get free trial bottle of Kemp's Balsam
for the Throat and Lungs, a remedy that
Is guaranteed to cure and relieve all
chronic and acute coughs. asthma bron-
chitis and consumption. Price 25c. and
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-20

companies furnishing them, while the
gas and the gasoline lights are cared
for by the employees of this depart
ment The equipment used for the
lighting service is in excellent condition
and capable of successfully caring for
any probable increase of business dur
ing the next few years.
The financial con ition of the de-
partment is as below:
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-20

good as that coming from Tatnuck
brook. The amount of free ammonia in
the reservoir is lower than at any time
since 1890
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-20
THE AUDITORS STATEMENT

City Auditor Bowker has prepared a
Der 30 1898.
The exhibit of the amount expended
and the balance remaining was as fol-
lows: 80
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-20

lotals .''''''t''..'.''S5 OOO ~ $GSiS13 II
There has been received during the
year ending November 80, 1898, and ap-
propriated as follows, viz
Funded loans-From loans appropri-
ated 1896: Fire department, 100000.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-20
U. s. CONSUL.
CURED Or
G. z . NH A
C(jTTlC(JRAI

had an attack of Eczema, and ordered
box of oxide Of zinc ointment. The first
application changed the Eczema TO hell-ii.c
which seemed unqlenchable. The druggist
had used rancid cerate and was poisoned
A local physician did not help matters, ana
everything either failed to help, or made it
worse, i was becoming desperate, when
thought of CUTIcURA REMEDIES, and dis
patched my servant for a cake Of CUTICURA
SOAP and a box Of CUTICURA tointment)
The fret application TelieCed me and ia tire.
days sp0s 3DeH.
PULASKI F. HYATT, United States Consul.
Dec. 10, 1897. Santiago de Cuba
Sold throughout The world PprrEK q. &c. CORP SOLO
EEops. Boston. How 70 Cure the Worst Eezena tree
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necessary to the use of its conduits,
and has begun the work of connecting
the commercial service with the con-
duit wires. The wires necessary for the
street lighting service have been pulled
into the conduits, and the prepare
ton of lamp poles for use in connection
with the underground wires begun.
There seems to be no reason why this
company should not take down a large
part of its overhead wires in the near
future. This company has also laid 1928
feet of four duct conduit in the business
streets of the city during the year.
The New England Telephone and
Telegraph Company has built 10, 6S4 feet
of conduit in Church, Commercial,
Front, Green, Madison, Myrtle, South
bridge, North Foster, Salisbury and
Grove streets during the period COW
cred by this report. They have also
built the new pole line for their long
distance service, as per agreement of
last spring, and begun the work of run
ming their wires thereon.
All the conduit laid during the year
is of the usual crushed stone and ce-
ment type, and is on locations given by
the city engineer. The ducts used by
the telegraph companies are of iron
pipe, while cement pipe, protected by
an iron casting is used by 49, 49,
phone and electric light companies.
One duct in each new condu - re-
served for the use of the city.
Seventy-nine miles of dead wire have
been taken down by the companies
owning it during the year-New Eng
land Telephone & Telegraph Company,
45 miles; Postal Telegraph Company,
"a miles; Western Union Telegraph
Company, 10 miles.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-20

I preceding motherhood by purifying the
whole system and by Strengthening and
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-24
Margaret Mather's Early Career.

Margaret Mather was of humble eN-
traction. the daughter or "A ship car
penter named John F~inlayson, who was
employed in the construction of steam
ers and sailing ships on the great lakes.
Detroit was the home of the lowly me-
chanic, whose favorite child. born in
Detroit. was a vendor of newspapers
and later a dishwasher in the city of
her birth. Miss Mather's first venture
In her profession was with a barn
storming company. in which she played
obscure roles and was occasionally cast
for soubrette parts.
George Edgar, the elocutionist. stage
coach and instructor in what IL called
stage department. was the first to dis
cover the dormant spark that lay o n
cealed In the earnest oul Of the Mather.
Edgar induced Miss Mather to study
stag department under his direction.
He was then conducting = dramatic
school i'm Chicago. and meeting j. NJ.
Hin one morning at the Palmer house
communicated To that side-whiskerCC
eNploiter OF theatricals that another
Rachael had arisen on the horizon NJ
the Thespians. Hill. by request of Ed
gar. was an audience of one at a
reading in Edgar's rooms one mornin :
with Margaret Mather as the reader.
Hin was struck so forcibly by the bud
ullR l~Idkthitflut Una ne lnlfileulditiN
entered into a contract by which MatheI
was to star for a term OF years under
his management. Mr.. Hills originality
OF exploiting stars was instanced In
the case of Miss Mather.
Hill toured the country with his pro-
tege. who a V readings in the parlors
of hotels before an audience of drama
tic critics. This o consumed one sea
son. and the following rear she came
forth as a full-ledged player OF the
classics with Romeo and Juliet" AS
You Like It," The Hunchback" and
Tobin's Honeymoon and DR.. Mosen-
that's Leah, the Forsaken.' in her
repertoire.
Her first season in legitimate plays
failed to turn a cent of profit. but Hill
broke even on the enterprise. and the
following season his star made a profit
able tour. realizing thousands OF dol
lars for her adroit manager. The mem
oIable run of Mather at the Union
Square theater. I'm New York. i'm a
sumptuous revival OF Romeo and Jul
let" was The most able achievement OF
her stormy career. Though this "Ro-
meo n Juliet" revival was sINken OF
by the critics as an artistic triumph
Hill actually lest money on The en-
gagement. The financial fizzle was the
beginning OF the end betwee Hill and
Mather, so far as Hill was concerned.
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Marriage schools In Germany.
the Cairo (Egyptl Sphinx.

From the Cairo tEgypD Sphinx.
In Germany they have started "A new
idea-marriage schools. I was curious
to know the working out of the scheme:
1t struck me as comical. and so I only
made Inquiries. "Ah. you will laugh.
you Will point the finger of scorn.!'
murmured a German friend. | tried 10
look grave. Il hould very much like to
hear all about it," / replied. 80 far. ="
told my friend, "the undertaking has
met with undoubted success. No girl
Is 1 Omitted to the marriage school
unless she has finished her ordinary
education. Her principal instruction is
i'm housekeeping. although she keeps up
more or less the cultivation Of her mind.
At a school where | have visited about
20 girls are admitted. Each has her
own bedroom. At the opening of school,
after term. the mistress singles out
four girls. and tells them she expects
them to take entire barge of the house.
Two servants. housemaid and cook. are
kept only to do the very rough work.
The four girls. then. are expected to
rise with the lark and see that the SER
wants get through their duties. Break
fast they prepare with their W hands.
After breakfast they go the rounds and
see that every room Is perfectly neat.
Dinner (under the mistress's tuition)
they must cook themselves. Later on
tneN prepare supper, tuy up the hitcn-
en- and go all over the house to see
that every door Is properly closed. The
girls on duty make and mend their own
n their companions clothes. The fol-
lowing week another quartet of girls
IL chosen. Walks and bicycling in the
country enter into the days pro-
gramme. Very frequently guests are
invited To dine. and the girls in turn
play at being hostess. They carve the
...,a -. 81. l.Il ~ ali
ing. and 80 forth. Dances and musical
parties. too. are given in the evening.
Again the girls act as hostesses and ar
range the whole entertainment. OH
GERS and professional men attend the
s~oirees. and are charmed at what they
see and hear" My friend stopped to
lake breath. And 10Y many girls" l
asked. lou OF the 20 are supposed to
capture an officer or professional man
as husbands while at the school, AT
least eight out OF the twenty" was the
emphatic reply.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-24
HOME WITH HIS DEAD.
Ruined Farmer Hauling the Bodies OF
His wife aud Children.

From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
John a. Cowden, who drove through
st. Joseph. Mo, "A few days since on
his way from Wallace county. Kansas.
To Winfield, Ill. is probably making as
sad "A journey as was ever undertaken
by mortal man. None knew that the
stained and tattered canvas-covered
wagon sheltered the dead, and that the
bodies OF Cowden's wife n two chill
dren were being taken by him from a
once happy home To their old home in
Illinois for interment. The nature of
the load which the ponies had dragged
across the treeless state of Kansas was
accidentally discovered when Cowden
stopped before an undertaker's place To
obtain some assistance.
He said he went West 10 years ago
and took a farm in the extreme western
tier of Kansas counties. His wife made
the journey with him. n their chill
dren were born on their new claim.
They managed to make both ends meet.
and last fall We're hopeful that better
times were in sight. Then misfortune
came. In November fire destroyed their
home and almost their all. In the
wretched dugout in which they were
forced to take refuge the two children
sickened and died. and were buried on
the banks of the Smoky.
In despair. Cowden and his wife de-
cided TO go back to their old home In
the East and take the remains of the
little ones with them. This, they rea-
soned. could he lone in the winter.
when the freezing atmosphere of the
wind-swept plains would almost petrify
the bodies before starting. The Solo
mon river was crossed at Delphos. a lit
tie more than half the distance to the
Missouri river, when Mrs. Cowden sue
cumbed to the exposures and priva-
tions OF the trip n died within "a
hours. They were i'm camp on the
prairie. far from any town, and where
medical aid could not be secured.
When IL became evident to her that
the end was rear she begged for one
more look at the faces of her children.
The husband took the lids from the
boxes and. lifting his wife i'm his arms,
he held her gently within touch OF the
forms OF the children. The coffin lids
were replaced. and hat evening the
mother died. Her body was wrapped
i'm blankets and was hauled To a small
town. where a box was secured, and
then the old man with his silent com
pany drove YEARLY on. He avoided all
but the smallest hamlets. fearing that
he would be prevented from continu-
ing. but, crossing the Missouri on the
bridge at this point. his passage through
81. Joseph was unavoidable. The IN.
dertaker kept the mournful travellers
secret until he was well beyond tn,
jurisdiction of the health authorities.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-24

avenge n insult TO Americans In
foreign countries. We could never heve
any trade with those nations
where our best future trade 3 to
De. n remark quoted above IL PROOF
OF that fact. This old world still rests
on the law OF might. and force Is the
real thing that nearly all nations are
controlled by. The world uncon-
sciously acknowledges this fact. Ask
any man among the civilized or SEMI
civilized nations what Great Britain
would have done had the Maine. under
the same conditions. been a British
ship when destroyed, and the answer
would be prompt: why, within a
week Great Britain would have bonn
barded Havana This is because tina
country has impressed upon all the
nations of the earth the fact that when
ever her citizens n especially the pes
sons directly In her service. are imposed
upon. her vengeance is going to be
swift and effective. 1t is true, too. that
the difference In the bearing of the peo-
pie in the ports of Mexico and South
America toward Americans will be very
great. whether a peace Is patched up
without fighting, or whether the great
republic rises I'm its might and breaks
the cruel arm of Spain. The difference
that would be made in the trade Of this
country with those countries would
amount to more in Is years tina a war
with Spain wou cost now. and the
difference to the~men of the United
States who desire to settle in those
countries would be Unreasonable. for.
with the first arrangement h greasers
would be careless in their bearing and
treatment: in the second great fear
will come on all who G the mighty
name ii great republic.