The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-12
WEBSTER'S CROSS.
The Absence of Cross
walks a Big
Burden.
THICK mud ON MAIN STREET.
Citizens Threaten to Take
Matters Into Their
Own Hands.

Webster, Nov. 11-Yesterday Web
ster was swept by a storm of dust,
but today the town is drenched with
rain. Yesterday the street sprinkler
would have done good work had it been
summoned into commission, but today
the application of an opposite utility
would have been just as gladly well
come had it been called into service.
The rain started this morning and
continued all afternoon and during
the evening. The rain, however, was
notout of the ordinary, and the effects
were not, either, but every. time it
rains in Webster the people raise a
wall Of distress; in other words, a big
howl of complaint goes up.
1t is not because the people are afraid
of getting their clothes and hats wet;
it is because they stand in dread of
catching pneumonia by getting their
feet wet every time they attempt to
cross Main street. 1t is the condition
of the street and not the rain that they
kick about.
This is not the first public complaint
that has Oeen offered about the street
nor the hundredth, either. Complaints
are galore and so are wet feet How
ever the crosswalks don't come. and
it does not look as if they would. At
any rate. they are not yet in sight, and
the spring town meeting ia yet quite
ways off. Why did not tie town do
something Thursday, at the town meet
ing? ask the citizens; but the answer
comes from Maurice p. Clare and
few of his friends who uphold him in
the idea that the town does not need
crosswalks. The rest don't, however.
Main street is in a dreadful condi-
ton without crosswalks. The citizens
claim that it is simply imposition upon
them by not replacing the walks.
When the street was macadamized the
walks were discarded, as it was
thought that they would not be needed.
But they are needed more now than
ever before, as the street is two inches
deep with mud. One can not cross the
street on a day like today, and it's evil
effects will occur until a good hot sun
dries il up, without wading through
mud over the ankle. Many citizens de-
clare II the selectrnen do not take some
action soon, the town will rise up in
body and act themselves. The streets
are an outrage to the town and a curse
to those who are obliged to cross them
The Webster unions went to South
bridge tonight and played the K. S. r.
basket ball team of that town. James
McGeary of the regular Webster team
went with them as a player
The Millbury b. B. A will play the
regular local basket ball team, in Mu-
sic hall, Thursday night, and the affair
will be followed by a dance to music
from Brooks orchestra.
On account of the rain and muddy
streets, Music hall did not have the
big crowd it had anticipated at the
production of THE Sunshine of Para
disc Alley" The play was good, how
ever, and deserved, a bigger house
Matthew Hoye and Miss Jennie Nc
lntosh were married, at the home of
the brides parents, Andrew Mcintosh
and wife, in Dudley, last night, by Rev.
Alexander Digit. The couple will re-
side with the brides parents for the
present n
John Hughes and his partner, Frank
Berry, are playing this week in the
Star theatre of Philadelphia. Hughes
is the Oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Thorn
as H. Hughes of East Main street, and
has been on the road as a musical man
FOR several years, although still d
young fellow.
Mrs. II. N. Slater will open a kinder
garten Monday, in the former East
Webster boarding house, The teach
ers will be Miss Lizzie Townsend and
Mrs. Arthur Bergeron. The sessions
will occur during the late afternoon
hours.