The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-06
FORCE TOO SMALL.
Signal System and
"Hurry-up" Is
Needed,
GROWING CLINTON.
District Covered By Men Is
Jeopardized- Hospi-
tai Report.

Clinton, May 5.-Chief Oren B. Bates
thinks the efficiency of the police force
would be increased if few call boxes
were added to the equipment of the po-
| lice department. He will bring his idea
to the attention of the selectmen and
ask permission to put it into effect.
He thinks there should be tele-
phone in the station, connected with
five or six other telephones conveniently
located in the Burditt Hill district and
the neighborhood of the north dixie.
In connection with the call boxes
there should be team on call. This
arrangement would dispose of the ne
| cessity, now existing, of the officer on
a distant beat, in the Burditt Hill Sec
ton, walking in with his prisoner, dis
tance of two miles, or less, as the case
may be.
The force is insufficient for the work
| it has to do. A system of call boxes
enabling an officer to communicate
with the central station without leav-
ing his beat would, Chief Bates is con-
WINGED, increase the usefulness of tine
force and the amount of territory the
police can thoroughly protect.
| Chief Bates has secured estimates of
the probable cost of putting in a one
wire system in the Burditt Hill dis
trict. The estimate was made by Fred
Evans, formerly electrician for the
| Clinton Gas Light Co., and recently APP
pointed electrician for the fire depart
ment. Mr.. Evans estimated that six
telephones, including one in the station
could be installed for SIS. Chief Bates
estimates for the entire work, in
| Guiding rent of poles, cost of 500. He
thinks the advantage to be derived is
much greater than the cost of getting
| 1T.
Chief Bates would put the first call
box in the neighborhood of O'Tooles
saloon, on Main street The others
would be distributed at points be-
yond this, and along the frontage of
| the dixie.
| More than a thousand men will be
working in this neighborhood before
| long and the necessity of extra police
protection seems imperative.
! Chief Bates said to the correspondent
| of The Spy this afternoon that he is
much exercised to know where to get
! a policeman for Central park. He can
! not see how he can take an officer off
any of the beats. They are all needed.
In fact, the town needs four more po-
| licemen than it has. The beat patrol
led by Officer Joseph Lawson is entire
| ly too big and important for one man to
handle advantageously.
| 1t looks very much as If Chief Bates
would recommend to the selectmen
that some action be taken toward en-
| ploying more policemen. This will
mean that the metropolitan water
| board will be requested to pay for
more men. The enlarged force is for
| the most part necessary by reason of
| the work the board is doing in this
| town. Every citizen feels that the
state should pay for the extra protec-
| ton.
Last fall the selectmen appointed
| John e. Cannon a policeman to look
| after this part of the town, but there
was some trouble with the selectmen
Of Lancaster over the appointment, the
water board would not pay the salary,
| and the matter fell through. There
was fort of understanding, however,
! that when work opened in the spring
the protection would be furnished.
The annual meeting of the Clinton
| Hospital Association will take place in
the room used by the district court,
| Tuesday evening.
The trustees, in their report, say
| that the past year has been eventful in
the history of the institution. They
| speak at some length on the addition
to the building, and the extra kitchen
| and dining room accommodation it af-
| fords. There are besides better quar-
| tiers for the servants and two ex-
cellent rooms for private patients, so
that the hospital now contains % beds,
six being in private rooms, One room
is being maintained by e. V. r. Thayer.
| The cost of maintaining a private
| room is $500 year. The trustees have
| accepted legacy sufficient to MAIN
| tain room, left to the corporation by
Miss Emma Whitney of Lancaster. A
| legacy of 5000 has been received from
the estate of George A. Brown of Lam
| caster. To this fund has been added
| $1,000 given by Miss Charlotte Lane as
| a memorial life membership. Special
| mention is made of additions to the
| grounds by donations of land by Ma
| thaniel Thayer and John E. Thayer
| The hope is expressed that the town
| VIII construct a sewer through Flagg
| street, to relieve the overtaxed cess
| pools. ]. Wyman Jones has given
| money to pay for grading and plant
ing trees and making certain improve
| ments about the grounds. j. E.
| Thayer has had the building painted.
| Thirty-five more patients were treated
| in the hospital than were treated last
year, and there were eight more out
! side patients. Surgical patients spent
3061, medical patients 1892 and obstet-
| rical patients PA days in the hospital.
! There We're IL deaths to - the year be
| fore.
Especial attention is called to the
/ need of a new operating room with
| proper equipment. ]. Wyman Jones
| has offered to give a large portion of
the necessary money if the balance
| can be raised.
| The actual expense of maintaining The
| hospital is greater by $1,000 than the
! amountamount received from patients.
Ernest E. Burdett of the White Grown
poultry yard, has succeeded, with the
| aid Of a hen, of Matching two chickens
| out of an egg with a double yollI The
! chickens were as lively as could be this
afternoon, and promise to thrive
The monotony of life in the district
court was varied this morning by The
| appearance of two men with wooden
| legs. Washington Peterson, colored
was one and Michael Brennan, also oil
Ored, with rum, was the other The
right leg of each was replaced with
| timber. They We're a jolly pair and took
a fine of IS without a whimper. 1t
means only eight days in Jail for them.
That's markdown," said Peterson IN
the station house afterward. Il have
| been accustomed TO 80"
That's So" said Brennan there s
| four more acoming to US" Michael Ca
rey, Thomas Foley and Anthony Toner.
also without money, Joined the dOleful
march to Fitchburg. John Murphy,
whom officer Caspar VAIL found beg
ging on Greene street, said he wasn't a
vagrant. He couldn't give an account
of himself and the court dished on,
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