The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-23

will not be occupied for more than two
months.
The quarters are as uncomfortable as
they can be today. The roof has been
torn off from the room devoted to wo-
men, and the floor of the barracks is
covered with plaster.
The cornerstone of the new station
was laid today This morning Contrac-
Tor WEIGH was looking for somebody to
pronounce laudation over the work
Nobody could be found.
His search was not really serious but
the result would have been the same ii
he had wanted a speech. Nobody APP
proves of the police station, neither OF
the waste of money incurred by the re-
pair of the old building, nor of the
structure itself, which is an architec-
tural joke.
The latest thing to attract attention
is the ornamentation of the one story
ell, which Is being built for the double
purpose of enlarging the cell room and
increasing the space for the barracks
Nearly or quite $400 worth of red
sandstone has been ordered from the
Webb Granite & Construction Company
of Worcester, and has been delivered
1t is the best LonEmeadow sandstone
and lot of hammering, cutting and
carving has been done upon it.
All this expensive stone is to be used
to beautify the ell. There is to be nc
similar adornment on any other por-
ton Of the building
The ell is a most inconsiderable part
of the work. 1t stands out from the Me-
chanic street side of the main building
much as shed might. The ell is AZ feet
long and about 15 feet high, while the
building is u feet long and about 80
feet high.
The ell is on the rear of the structure
and not on the trent. 1t is part Of the
police station and not a part of the
court house
Yet this dinky little ell is to be ornately
constructed with red sandstone fin
ish, while the other four-f ifths of the
edifice is to remain as bare OF eXpen-
slve adornment as 1t is now.
A master mason who knows what he
is talking about, says that the $400
worth of sandstone, the best product If
Longmea dow, will accentuate the squat
ugliness of the building instead of MAX
ing it look better.
The situation is about the same that
the fellow found himself in who built
his mansion of cheap red brick, and his
pig pen of granite with white marble
trimmings. Everybody who saw the
pig pen said: How cheap the house
looks!'
George w. Morse, who is one of the
heaviest individual taxpayers in town,
If not the heaviest thinks that the en-
tire matter of new police station has
been handled in a way that is far from
wise He said yesterday; Il would
much rather pay my share toward a
new police station"
Chief Bates thinks his men have re-
covered the wheel stolen from George
Sawyer of Berlin, July 80. The wheel
was found in the possession of John
Gachay, 1873 Grove street. John says
that he purchased the wheel of man
for SO. The police believe his story.
The wheel stolen from Sawyer was a
Bay State, No 1892. The wheel in the
possession of the police is numbered
1882. The name plate has been re-
moved so that the name of the wheel
does not appear. Mr.. Sawyer is coming
over from Berlin tomorrow To see if he
can identify the wheel. There is every
prospect that the thief may be arrested,
The wheel Is in excellent condition and
a bargain at the price Gachay paid for
1t.
Officer George Burk settled difficult
ty that has agitated Sugnor's boarding
house on Greene street. For some
weeks the boarders have been missing
small sums of money and small articles
of various kinds. Early last week sus-
picion fell upon a woman who
gives her name as Sarah Sabsch. A
complaint was made at the police sta