The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-05

piles.
that have gone before 1 am here sim
ply to state a few facts evident to all
only come to prepare the way for the
master, for there comes one mightier
IMAM l, the latchet of whose shoes l am
not worthy to loosen.
That is the second time I have been
llkened to the Diety," remarked Mr..
Goulding, who sat at the speakers ell
DOW, and the remark was followed by
general laughter.
referred to a personal deity, re-
piled Mr.. Vaughan
Continuing, he said in substance:
Now, gentlemen, to say that these
cases are important is an ina leuuate
expression. l shall not go back as far
as the garden of Eden. l shall begin a
little this side of Adam | shall deal
only with the actual existence of this
water way and with no fanciful dreams
such as might arise in a mind whose
owner had been out too late the night
before. There are submitted sixty-scv-
en- petitions, involving eighty -four water
privileges. The locality is a manufae-
turing locality, the streams united for
manufacturing purposes. The petition
ers seek only a just recompense for
their Toss. | shall not accept the state
of the mills which is laughed at by the
other side, because from them has
sprung the greatest industry of This
secuon. There are some things about
which we do not differ. The petitioners
claim that Worcester took 270O acres of
land, the city claims that it did NOT.
1t only took 2400 acres The question
comes, then, to the including or eXelud-
ing of the Peter brook shed.
The experts for the city have under
taken to show that the yield of Kettle
brook is less than that of the Sudbury
basin. The manifest intention of wit
nes5es for the defense was toward
minimizing to the greatest possible ex-
tent. They have analysed not only the
drops of water, but dissected the grains
OF sand. A gallon of water on the
hundredth of an inch have been beans
IN their eyes. We shall ask you gentle
| men when the proper time comes how
you see these things. l am surprised
that the other side even admits these
waters ever reached the ocean.
The testimony of the witnesses, for
the respondent, shows a difference from
| that OF the petitioners, of 81 acres in
area and 100 million gallonss in ca
pacity regarding the reservoir. It is
evident that the area and contents of
THESE reservoirs are not flexible to be
turned and twisted to suit the views of
THESE experts. The area and capacity
in the city's statement rest on the
statement of Walter e. Hassam. The
accuracy of his Instruments I do not
think caused the difference. l attribute
IL TO the man himself, to a considera-
| tlon OF his own best interests and in
what manner he could best serve the
CITY. SO 1T was not the instruments.
but the eye of the man. AS to Mr.. Has.
sam accuracy, all that l have to say
is that opposed to his statement YOU
nave those of two expert engineers.
| NOW the defense says that these are
minor matters. / agree they are. but
they show the accuracy of the men
whose testimony is offered You can't
ma In Mr.. Hassam's measurements
out ) right and so oddswrong. Now Mr.
f1aSSam admits on examination that
the building referred to as outside the
Oh foot line is inside it. That throws
the burden of responsibility upon the
man VINO prepared this defense. Now
Whatever else have to say l never told
q man 10 state what he knew was false.
Yet they say, believe this man. Against
Whom? Against Charles A. Allen, Now
submit that Mr.. Aliens whole testi-
fnony and conduct has been the high
est that could be attained to any so
iaf as FAIRNESS goes Are you ~oina to
say that the testimony of Mr.. Walter
u. Hassam should be accepted above
That of Mr.. Allen?
we have to deal with the disputes
arising over certain titles. This
sllall leave to others and pass on to
the question of head and fall This is
another illustration of the mininizine,
p0llcy of the respondents. The citv mas
accorded TO us more than was asked in
some OF the claims of head and fail.
Dy some few hundretdths of an inch.
Inc gross head in many instances. Mr..
Herrlck has not given. Now, | simply
ask whose accuracy are you going to
rust trust whose eyes are you going to
peiieVe, and IN what can we or other
petitioners place our belief?
AS far as / can judge. l don't think
senator Hoar, Col. Hopkins or Mr..
Hugg ever hear of a horse power in
q mill. 1t cannot be seen, you can't
lay your hand on it, and like ali other
claims of the petitioners. they aver
that II IS thin air. You talk about of
audaclty of propositions, for plain. I'M
Varnlshed cheek, that is entitled to the
palm. Horse power dates to, the origin
OF the water wheel, and vet in this
18th century they tell us it does not ex-
list They say we haven't proved that
proposition, and our whole case falls.
II is an actual existing thing. They
say you can no more have a horse
power at your mill than a horse some
one else owns. If he is a horse he is
mighty well trained, for he follows the
same road he did when the water first
flowed off the Paxton hilltops. And yet
you have the audacity to talk to us
about the Inconsistency of water pow
err! Shaking his finger at Col Hop
lins) o, silly! That's what we had,
that's what they have taken. A rose
by any other name would smell as
sweet; horse power by any other name
is the same thing.
Figuratively speaking, they have ia
ken Mr.. Herrick and put him down as
the decimal point from which spring
all their mathematical calculations.
Now 1 submit that these three men,
Mr.. Herrick, Mr.. Gray and Mr.. Fitz-
gerald, could dry up the Red sea and
explain the passage of Pharaoh's army.
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