The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-23

mentS OF three times that amount, nave
been sent to Vladivostock, Russia dur
ing the past week by a prominent steel
company in Maryland. These rails are
intended for use on the Trans Siberian
railway and the contract calls for some
10000 tons. ,...........
| Seven thousand puueys were shipped
to England last week by q prominent
tool company. Important consign-
ments are soon to be made by the same
| firm to Germany, Belgium and other
! European countries.
One of the directors of the largest ma
| chtnery house in Glasgow has just sail
ed for home after placing an order with
a New York firm for compressed air
! tools to be used in the Clyde shipbuild-
/ ing yards.
| This is not meant for a free "ad., +"
| but everybody knows the professor
who sits at the corner of Walnut and
Main streets, behind a little table on
which he has writing materials and
specimens of his penmanship. It isn't
about the writing he does that I wish
! to speak, however, but of his manner
| of dress. The 'professer" is q swell
and shows a great ldeaH Of, talent if
! not genius in the selection Of his wear
ing apparel Last summer his favor
! lite costume was duck trousers, ocea-
I sionally white, white shoes, a white cap,
and a dress coat, covering only partly a.
white shirt decorated with a four-inch
diamond Sometimes he would vary
matters by putting on a striped flannel
Jacket and dark trousers. and topping
! them OFF with silk hat
| This fall he has affected boots of the
vintage of '25; boots that come outside
| the trousers and have the tops turned
down half way. He still wears she
| diamond" and the silk hat, but the
shirt is no longer entirely white Its
/ fair bosom is decorated by specimens
of the professors handiwork in the
shape of four supposed to be portraits
| of the fair pupils Of days gone by.
They stand out on their starched back
ground with all the conspicuousness of
a circus bill, and their staring eyes gaze
| in mute admiration at the aforesaid
| diamond
| And with the professor always is
a walking stick of ancient pattern and
a pair of great circular glasses perched
on the place where the bridge of his
nose ought to be.
It has been my misfortune to eat at
many boarding houses in many differ
ent states and it amuses me to study
the sameness of the unfortunates who
gather around these barren boards.
Whether the select boarding. house
south it makes little difference, there is,
a terrible sameness in her patrons,
sameness greater even than the same
ness Of her diet. My companons de table
in my Worcester boarding habitation
are the same people exactly have met
in other climes, only they masquerade
under different names Just as a par
ticular environment in the biological
world produces particular species, so
the boarding house environment pro-
duces a peculiar genus of the human
species
However, / do not wish to speak of
them collectively but there is one of the
number who amuses me immensely 1
nave seen her counterpart in at least
three cities, and am sometimes inclined
to think she is triplets She is our star
boarder," our aristocratic member and
hers is the task of supplying the estab-
Ashment with no small part of that
high tone" in which it rejoices. She Is
highly connected;" belongs to one of
the first families" of Worcester, but
does not live with her relatives, or at
least they don't with her.
She breathes a refined west side at
mosphere. She is very particular whom
she meets and very few Of our boarders
can pass the rigid test each novice must
before receiving recognition
from her. One new arrival tried to be
Social. he remarked upon the mild
warmth of the weather and was re-
warded with a glare, I was mistaken.
on second thoughts, it is decidedly
chilly he thought to himself
But though she may occasionally be
q little brusque she is greatly esteemed
for her brightness of Intellect and her
good family We are very proud of her.
She rules the roost, and in strawberry
season gets her fruit served in a soup
plate while the rest Of US have saucers
which in size resemble overgrown but
ter plates.
BY an irony of fate she is not seated
at table next any of her intimates but
among several of the young gentle
men" boarders, none Of whom will she
to notices They revenge
by discussing prize fights
and foot ball. She carries on an inter-
mittent conversation with her friends
at other tables over the heads of the
rest Her one topic of conversation is
Europe. She has been there twice, 1
believe. She talks like a discoverer and
prides herself on being traveller. I
nave seen hundreds of her kind in cheap
continental pensions. imagining they
were seeing life and studying Europe
AS for the United States, she imagines
hat Albany is the frontier. Il do not
ike New York, she said the other day,
taking one at a time six pears out of
the fruit dish and squeezing them to
zee which was softest. 1T is not refined
enough" In appearance she is dow
ager of a rather dumpy mould. Her
are boorish. She fancies her
self a Sl1periOr heing Yes she and her