The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-17
Clinton Team May
Drop Out of the
League.
CURFEW LAW OPPOSED.
Many Parents Fail to APP
prove Of the
Measure.

brace up the attendance at the New
England league games here, Clinton
Will wake up some morning and find it.
self dropped from the league. 1t costs
money 10 run polo team, and it costs
more money to run the Clinton team
than the receipts have justified up to
this time Manager James H. Blake
is not discouraged. however. He realizes
that the games since the season opened
have been uniformly attended with bad
Weathei. He knows also that people
like to see a winning team, and he is
DONG ms best to get a team that will
fill the bill.
Inc game with Portland last night
was not encouraging 1t meant, how
ever, the talent believes, nothing more
than that the team was temporarily
out of form
Today Blake is in Boston trying to
get on an engagement with some good
National league men
Thomas McNally, who saved the
game with Amesbury the other night.
will probably never play polo again He
has been brought back from Manches-
ter with bone in his ankle broken
He will have to stay in the house for
some weeks. 1t is more than likely
that he can never again safely subject
the ankle to the strain of roller skates
He did not get into the game with
Manchester but was in practice, when
he heard something snap. He found
himself on the floor. He had heard the
sound of the breaking bone.
Frank e. Babcock. chief engineer Of
the fire department, has put an end to
one-half of the curfew law project quite
effectually. He says that it is his opin-
ion thar the fire alarm should be used
only to sound fire alarms on. He does
not approve of using the system to
sound bed time for children
a surprising amount of opposition is
developing against the curfew law,
which The Clinton Woman's club have
offered to the next town meeting. f.
B. Ellis heads the opposition. The law
is described as an abridgement of per-
sonal liberty Many persons say it will
never be enforced if it is established,
and will only be a dead letter
The age is fixed too high to suit most
persons. Some of the factories run I'M
til 8 o'clock. Young persons under 16
work in them sometimes The argu-
ment is put forward that if the curfew
law is passed, they either become Grim
inals, in a mild sense. or else must be
dams.
Patrick F. Finnerty is not pleased
with the curfew law idea Once in a
While ome of his newsboys do not get
in off their routes until after o'clock
A boy with so papers to deliver, and
the papers late from the press, Mr..
Finnerty thinks, is eXcusable if he is on
the street after 9.
There will doubtless be plenty of ar
NJ 10,
saturday evening" and some against
I'D
Eugene Buzzell of Worcester directed
the meeting of the Choral union, as
usual. this evening. He has returned
from his wedding trip.
Rev. James Boyd Brady of Worces- |
ter spoke in his usual vigorous fashion |
in the Congregational church this even |
ing, on THE forces that make a man"
The talk was one in a series of talks |
now being given by the Young Mems |
Christian association. An audience of |
fair size was present,
Andrew L. Fitch of Sterling was in |
town today. He talked with The Spy |
man about the approaching trials of |
metropolitan water board cases, and |
ton of Assistant Attorney General Hal |
lowell to push the cases to trial. He
said Mr. Hallowell called the witnesses
together to get their ideas of the stu
alton. Mr. Fitch expects to be called |
upon to testify about land values. He
expressed himself as opposed to the
large prices that the metropolitan water
board has been paying
Some of these men who won't take |
~,
"wil come out the wrong way after |
their cases are tried. Look at the Cum |
ninghams, for instance. The water |
board offered them $4,000 and were
going to offer S12,50O. They tried the |
case and only got a little more than |
$40 900, and had two lawyers to pay.
Mr.. Fitch also referred to the Phil |
bin settlement, which he said was pay
ing three prices for the Philbin land
Mr.. Fitch did not care to tell the
details of the talk between the district
attorney and the gentlemen who are
to be witnesses.
Col. John e. Thayer is going to send
a string Of II horses from his Maple |
hurst farm to the New York sale tomor-
row. Mil1ado, who has record of
2:S0b, Is in the lot. Baron Wilkes fur
nishes paternity to most of the string
Among OIneT horses III the llSL are.
Attempt (2:141a) by Dark Night; Bar
oness Mabel, years; Quo Vadis, 5
years; Baron Desmond, 2 years; Baron
Iawton, years. Baron Lotus, years
Baron Dillon, years; Baroness Helena,
Q wears; Baroness of Donerail years;
Baroness Angelica years. Baroness
Marion 2 years; Baroness Rosalind, 81
wears; Baroness Fora, 2 years; Baron
ess Katrina, years; Baroness Lenora,
2 wears: Baroness Josephine, 2 years
Baroness Mabel, 2 years. All of these,
except the first named, are the Off
spring of Baron Wilkes.
1t is likely that the high school foot
ball team will not play any more games
unless as an independent organiza-
tion. The association voted, at its
meeting, this afternoon, to conclude the
official season.
Miss Julia A. Costello has been elect
ed president of the Ladies' auxiliary to
Division s, A. o. H., in place Of Miss 3.
A Cannon, who refused to be installed.
Mtss Cannon was elected to succeed
Miss Mary A. McGrath.
Engineer H. H. Ropes expects TO leave
town shortly. He Is a division engl-
neer on the Wachusett reservoir. He
would have resigned the place to at
tend to matters of great interest to MIN,
and left town some time ago had he
mot desired to wait the result OF MS
snjt for divorce against Mrs. Kittie
Ropes, which was settled, as tolu IN
The Spy, by the granting OF decree