The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-24
CLINTON SIGHTED.
But Mr.. Brockelman
Thinks 1t Was
Unintended,
WALSH AGAINST WATER BOARD.
Does Not Believe in States
Land Conisca-
ton.
WALSH AGAINST WATER BOARD.

Herman Brockelman is convinced that
the county commissioners desire to be
fair with clinton. He thinks the town
was not purposely ignored when the
board went over the Boylston road ac-
companied by the engineers of the met
ropolitan board, but unaccompanied by
representatives of the town. Commits
sioner Brockelman is also convinced
that Chairman Emerson E. Stone did
write a letter of notification to the
Clinton road commissioners. Mr.. Brock
elfnan does not know how this letter
went astray, but he is sure it was writ
ten.
Mr.. Brockelman is of the opinion that
the Worcester and Clinton Street Rail
way Company has a little the best of
it. The road commissioners think the
grade of the tracks should be changed.
The tracks stand up above the road
now, so that the water can't run into
the gutter on the track side. The trou-
BILE was begun when the town granted
the railway people a franchise to run
over the road, While it was the proper
ty of the metropolitan board, as repre-
senting the state.
The members of the county board
were inclined to believe that they had
no jurisdiction for the same reason. The
tracks were laid before the county
board instituted an inspection OF the
road, or was called upon to accept it
No alarm is felt here as far as the
railroad is concerned. Its directors are
public-spirited men who have been IN
clined to make reasonable concessions
whenever the town has demanded
them.
The fate that overlook the ponderous
stone crushed in Martin Murphy
quarry is worse than was known, when
the exclusive report of the way IN
which it had fallen off from its perch
in Ledge court was printed In The SPY
this morning. The crusher, with the
sitter, bin and other mechanism,
weighs As tons. The sitter and all the
woodwork is destroyed, beyond repair
The crusher is injured to some extent
but can be reset The entire damage
is more than $1,000.
Mr. Murphy believes the crusher was
deliberately upset by persons VINO
wanted to Stop work in the quarry, but
the people who live in the neighborhood
say the trestle work foundation spread,
and let the machine down. 1t lies half
way down the bluff. against a large
tree, which stopped it from gong the
rest of the way.
In district court, this morning. jerry
Chester WI as nelQ lOt ltlS 81 anu - =
on the charge of breaking and enter
liz the house of Fred Carruth, wilson
street. Bonds were fixed at $500.
Michael fully Michael f. q MalleN,
Thomas Fendergast and William Hart
ley We're arraigned for disturbing the
neace. They are the men who barrl-
caded themselves in their room IN
smiths boarding house and deheG The
police. Judge C. C. Stone considered
the fact that they were stranG9is to
his court, and assessed them only 50
each. Richard Gibbons, Albert Lemay
and Philip c. Smith were fined SlG eacn
David |. Walsh democratic candidate
for representative, Is running IN an
anti-metropolitan water board plat-
form. He issued his letter of accept
ance today, in which he said the only
issue in the eleventh representative dis
trict is the issue between the metropoli-
tan wate>r board and the people The
letter scores the board for the methods
it has used in this part of the state.
This is a courageous thing to 90, be-
cause the water board controls many
votes in Clinton, and has a long arm
besides
In passing, Mr.. Walsh refers to for
ner representative of this district, who
said nothing in favor of the Clinton biz
or against the water board, while M
was in the house, and who was paid as
an expert witness by the state.
The salient parts of the letter as
follows:
There is one issue in this contest
one dealing not only with the future,
but with the present existence OF Gin
ton, West Boylston and other neigkbor-
ing towns.
TT is the people and their rgnts
against the metropolitan water district.
1t is whether Legislature can rob .
municipality of its territory; whether
the Legislature has a right to build ur
a great city like Boston al the expense
Of the rest of the commonwealth.
Il believe a corporation, a metropoli-
tan district, or a city, to which power
is granted to use the public ways and
to take private property by right Of
eminent domain, should be bound to
make full and complete compensation
to the community for the special priv
ileges enjoyed.
THE metropolitan board ought not
to have rights of an exclusive charaC
ter over any part of the territory OF
Clinton, Boylston, West Boylston,
Nlrthboro or Southboro, without giving
in return complete compensation
II am opposed to the confiscation of
private property by the suborned testi-
nlony of 'so-called experts in the pay
OF the commonwealth
The letter says further that the
writer is opposed to any attempt to
trial by jury in the accustomed way.
that he is opposed to the employment of
non-citizen labor. in violation of the
law, in the construction of the reservoir,
and that he is opposed to the methods by
Which these same laborers are being de-
prived of the results of their labor by
methods akin to robbery and extortion.
The matters referred to in the last
four paragraphs have been agitated in
The Spy on occasions in the past
The following names have been added
to the voting list: Isaac Bloom, so
High street; Patrick F. Cavanaugh. 219
Beacon street; Edward ]. Fitzgerald.
149 Chestnut street; Reed K. Cove. 10
Richmond street; Patrick j. Gibbons.
II Nashua street; c. Anthony Hardy, 10
Leighton court; William F. Joyce. s.
California court; John Jewett 25 White
court; John H Kenary, 118 Clark
street; Martin f. Kelley, % Beacon
street; Michael Kraemer, Chace street.
Henry E. Merrill, Wilson street: John
c. Perry, 240 Chestnut street: Thomas
A. Robertson, 77S Main street; Carl r
Schubert, 152 Chace street The Ed
ward ]. Fitzgerald referred to is Rev
Edward ]. Fitzgerald, who assists Rev
W., G. Mclaughlin in the care of ST
Johns parish.