The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-06
PAINTING POLES.
Millbury Residents
Must Observe the
White Stripe.
The WORK OF THE STORM.
Road Commissioner Having
a Hard Time Repairing
Much Damage.
The WORK OF THE STORM.

Millbury, Sept. 5.-As was printed ex-
clusively in The Spy last Saturday, the
electric cars on the Worcester and Su-
burban will stop only at white poles
in the streets of Millbury in the future.
The officials of the road have had the
matter under consideration for the past
few weeks, and this morning Edward
Dyer, the company's painter, began to
place white stripes on poles where the
cars will stop. There is no regular dis
tance between the poles.
The white poles have been located and
run from Park street in Worcester to
the Providence street extension. From
the Providence street extension to the
car barn in Millbury there are no
painted poles, and the cars will stop
at any point between the two places
Beginning in Millbury the poles are
painted white and located with a view
Of suiting the public.
An official of the road was seen by
The Spy man tonight and said that the
new arrangement would be both
benefit to the patrons of the road and
to the company ITSELF as under the
new arrangement ears will run on more
regular time and a person in a hurry
Will reach his destination quicker than
If he had to stop at every block to al
low passenger to get on or off
Street Commissioner Henry W. Car
ter received a good share of complaints
from all quarters of the town today,
about the condition of the roads. Be
cause of the heavy thunder storm of
last Sunday night. the roads of the
town are in wretched sh ape. Washouts
are in almost every street and large
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them in the storm protrude in the road
and make it very DANCE rous.
At the Mayo WOODEN m ills the surface
drain is elogged with sand and the rain
water lies in a miniatuce pond in the
street and the yard of the wooden COM
pany. Superintendent Greenwood of
the mills made complaint to Select
man W.. E. Horne today about the con-
dition of the drain.
Street Commissioner Garter had his
men at work today cleaning out the
surface drains about town. When this
work is completed he twill take cara
Of the roads.
Tho boys on steamer Mo. 2 are after
the scalps of the Putnam firemen, as
well as the No. company. Several Of
the boys were seen by The Spy man
today and they declared they are will
ing tc have a race with the Putnam
men on the hose wagon at any time
for fun, money. or marbles.
w. f. Horne of the fire engineers
was seen by The Spy man today and
said that the Mfllbury hose companies
were the best in the state, and he felt
confident that If a challenge was re-
ceived from Putnam that the Millbury
boys would come out winners. The
boys are hoping that a challenge will
be forthcoming from Putnam.
The funeral of Timothy CFonan was
held at st. Bridget's church this morn
ing al . o'clock. High mass was con-
Quoted by the Rev. FIR. Quaille The
interment was in st. Bridget's Gene
terry. The pail bearers were Frank
Jake5, Dennis Leary Patrick Buckley
and Charles Lacrosse.
All the schools in town re-opened this
MORNING after the summer vacation
The corps Of teachers as published in
The Spy We're on hand at the different
schools. At the high school John f.
Roach occupies his old position as prin-
cipal and the assistants are the same
as last year. The freshman class .his
year Is unusually large and the school
room is Rome too big for the number
this year
The .Minbury electric light company