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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09
THE COMING CENSUS,
Director Merriam Says it Will Be conduc.
ted on Business Principles.

Washington, March S.-Ex-G Governor
Merriam of Minnesota, the new director
Of the census, was busily engaged today
going over preliminary matters. There
was host of applicants for places.
Director Merriam made the an.
nouncement today that these appoint.
ments must be preceded by an exam
ination.
Referring to the coming census work
Director Merriam said today:
The general policy of the approach
ing census will be TO conduct the insti-
tuition on the firm and sound principles
that underlie business success. First
statisticians will be selected from
among the best men engaged in that
work in the country This will be done
only after careful deliberation and con-
Sultation with such men as Commits
sioner of Labor Carroll D. Wright, Hem
ry Gannett and other eminent authori-
ties.
Then the heads of the various bu
reaus VIII be selected after painstaking
consideration, and they will be men of
recognized ability All the appointees
will be selected after rigid examination
as to their fitness along the lines of
work in which they will be engaged,
The employees will be appointed solely
ON the basis of their capacity for work.
The yhole plan is to accomplish the
work as rapidly and expeditiously AS
possible, and not to take on an immense
amount Of lines Of inquiry which over
burden thetask and make the census
drag on for a long period.
Everything will be made secondary
TO the general questions of population.
vital statistics and the mechanical and
agricultural schedules, and the general
scope will be united as the values OF
the undertaking will permit"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09
NEW HEAD FOR WELLESLEY
Miss Caroline Hazard the Choice of the
Trustees.


Wellesley, March Sat the conclu-
sion of the chapel service at Wellesley
College this morning, Rev. Alexander
Mckenzie, president of the board of
trustees of the college, announced that
the trustees have elected Miss Caroline
Hazard of Peace Dale, r, l., to the
presidency of the college, to succeed the
present incumbent, Mrs. Julia J. Irvine,
Miss Hazard, the new president is a
woman Of az, widely known both by her
writings and by her membership in a
FAMILY which for many generations has
been prominent in affairs. She is the
granddaughter Of Rowland G, Hazard
WOODEN manufacturer of Peace Dale
ana notable writer on philosophical
subjects. Miss Hazard collected and
edlted her grandfathers writings. She
is not a college-bred woman, but in her
student days enjoyed at Providence
her rather being member of the cor
poratlon of Brown University-the
semi-collegiate privileges there granted
especially under the inspiring tuition of
the late Prof. Diman, whose memoirs
she wrote in 1856. Prof. Diman cult
waited in her that large view Of history
which enabled her afterward to draw
AOAil AoIillS PdpeIS ana village rec
ords, Thomas Hazard, Son of Robert
Called College Tom a Study of Life
in Narragansett in the Eighteenth
Century By His Grandson's Grand.
daughter book which, with all its
antiquarian minuteness, is a genuine
contribution to vital history Her in.
terest in local history showed itself
again in a poetic form in a volume OF
Narragansett Ballads" and her poetiC
gift in more intimate way in a pri.
Vately-printed volume of religious son.
nets.
Miss Hazard thus brings to her office
a training in intellectual pursuits anG
a generous sympathy with the aims OF
the college. She brings also a min(
vel equipped for the management Of
alIalrs IN the conduct Of an institution
so complex as a woman's college
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09
NATHAN HALE AT YALE
Prof. Hoppn Suggests Statue to Him to
Be Built with the Vale Cruiser Fund
Surplus.

Prof. James NJ. Hoppin of the Yale
Art School publishes letter today, in
which he suggests a use for the sur
plus of the Yale cruiser fund. He SAYS:
My feeling is that this handsome sum
would form q grand lead off from the
students Of the university toward a
subscription for the erection of a
bronze statue of Nathan Hale on the
Yale campus"
He says now is the time to take this
step, because the country's patriotism
has been stirred. Many Yale men were
among the volunteers for the recent
war. He adds: 1T was revival of the
old spirit of the civil war, when Yale
was high among the colleges in the
numbers of its volunteers, and above
all it was the same spirit as that of the
war OF the revolution, of which heroic
period Nathan Hale was pure if not
the purest exponent. He belonged to
ale of the class of 1873. He fell a
willing martyr to his country at the
age of q. The theme is beautiful and
unique"
He picks out as the artist to do this
~
says the sculptor and the sculpture is
ready for the work, the clay model
having been made by Mr. Partridge
and Prof. Hoppin thus describes what
he has seen:
1t is the statue OF young man
other statues on the Yale campus are
those of old men who represent the
peaceful pursuits of literature and sci
ence. This is of a youth who made
way for peace over his body. 1t is in
entire sympathy with the place and its
associations, and not out of sympathy
with the original object Of the fund"
Prof. Hoppin states that the occasion
of the approaching bi-centennial OF
Yale would be a fitting time for placing
such statue on the campus. He con-
cludes: such a statue would unite the
heroic periods Of the country and of
Yale. 1t would unite the traditions of
the past with the hopes of the future
A hundred statues of Nathan Hale
might be put up in other parts of the
state and the land. but nowhere so fit
tingly as on the Yale campus, and none
for its subject would be more success
full and noble as a work of art"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

A Boston contemporary advises I'm
Gle Sam to discontinue the free lunch
counter where $4,000 Havanese are fed
at government expense, and set the
Cubans at work. All this will come
in good time. 1t has been done in San
tlago and to some extent even in Fla
Vana. The Cubans have but Just got
IN their first sugar crop for two years
or more, and even that is a small one
The coming tobacco crop will also be
far below the average. Three years
OF war reduced the island to a wilder
ness, and fertile as the land is, COM
plete industrial regeneration cannot be
accomplished in six months. There are
mills TO be built, plantations to be re-
habilitated and new machinery to be
erected before the ante-bellum condi-
lions of employment can be restored
No doubt the feeding of large numbers
of people at public expense is in a way
demoralizing, but it is preferable to
starvation, brigandage and anarchy.
Cuba is hard nut to crack, which,
ever way it is taken, but up to the
present time Uncle Sam seems to have
handled it very successfully.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09
BALL IN MECHANICS HALL.

At the meeting Of the Building
Trades Council last night, 1t was voted
to affiliate with the National Building
Trades Council, and committee con-
sisting of William CrosbIe and j. b.
Lamotte, was appointed to visit the
Paper Hangers Union to get them to
take action in the matter
1T was decided to hold q bail I'm Me-
chanics Hall April IA, and the follow
ing committee Of arrangements was
appointed: NJ. r. Garrett, William
Crosbie, Albert Maggs, j. NJ. OBrien
A. g. Bennett p. b. IIeefe, Patrick
Defsey and A. G. Porter
A special meeting OF the council was
called for next Monday night.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

Treasury receipts for March have
started out with a boom. Returns Of
S9,S3S,OOO for seven days indicate about
$43OOO,OOO for the entire month, which
would pay the ordinary government ex-
penses on a peace basis and leave S12.-
100000 for current war expenses. Leav-
ing out of consideration the $4,000 600
due Spain and the $SOOO.OOO to be paid
to the Cuban soldiers, the receipts at
the present rate would quite cover the
expenditures.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

Postmaster Warfield of Baltimore
has come into his reward He is a
hold-over from the Cleveland admin
istration but he has been reappolnted
by President Mckinley in recognition
Of his services as a gold democrat in
carrying the state against Bryan. Mr..
Warfield had ample endorsements. ex-
cept that Senator German stood against
him with stolid consistency, and hence
the appointment was not made I'M
congress adjourned and Germans term
had expired.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

Dewey's flag lieutenant Commander
Rees, has added new and graphic de-
scription to the literature of the IA
nous fight at Manila bay. 1T was"
he says, "a victory achieved without
the loss of a single man, a single gun,
or a single meal"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

There is one less senatorial
deadlock to chronicle, and now
there are four. Judge Hayward.
upon whom the Nebraska repub-
licans have finally united, has been the
leaoing candidate, and the country will
find relief in the assurance that there
will be two republican senators from
Bryan's state
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

The professor is a well known Austrian
scientist, who has had rare success in
predicting earthquakes and bad wea-
Their. The Spanish court always has
its ear to the ground to catch what
ever is said in Vienna, and if the
queen wants time to enjoy that $2O,
100000, she will ratify our peace treaty
forthwith, and waste no more precious
hours dallying with the cortes.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

If the president decides that public
affairs have quieted down sufficiently to
allow him a vacation, there are a few
over-anxious anti-expansion editors
who can also afford to lay aside for a
while the tremendous cares of state
that have so cruelty burdened them. OF
course they need not follow the presi-
dent to the Georgia woods.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09
A REMEDY FOR THE GRIPPE

a remedy, recommended for patierts
ainlcted with the Grippe is Kernp's AL
sam. which is especially ADAPTED 70 az 5,i
eases of the. throat and lungs, DO not
wat Tor the first symptoms of The disease
for use the moment It Is needed II r. i to.
lected the grippe has a tendency TO brihg
on pneumonia. The Balsam prevents tI,i{s5
sell the Balsan. 80 Us 'Sts
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

The New York Journals platform for
home politics is populistic enough to
satisfy the middle-of- the readers. An
income tax and public ownership of all
franchises are only two of the planks,
but they are sufficient to characterize
the whole fabric. The Journal used to
be the one great eastern organ of Bryan
and free silver but lately it has found
other subjects more interestiue
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

Former Secretary of the Treasury
Charles S. Fairchild does not know
whether he is a democrat or not. so he
is conscientiously compelled to decline
an appointment offered him as such by
Gov. Roosevelt. 1t is peculiarly difficult,
nowadays, to give to the airy nothings
of democracy local habitation and a
name.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

Kaiser Wilhelm's message to Mrs
kipling was graceful and deserved, and
is another instance of that versatile
monarch's ability to get his name into
the papers.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

ward graduate and professor who is
in the north in the interests of Atlanta
University. Mrs. Ednah D. Cheney
Will also speak, and it is possible thai
Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the talented
Young negro poet, may be present to
read some of his poens
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

Mr.. Fitzsimmons, a gentleman who
earns a fine living as vitascope model,
actor" elocutionist, long distance
penman and sparring artist is said to
be suffering from break in the tip
bone of his elbow. A modern prize
fighter with a fractured funny bone is
not nearly SO badly off as one whose
maXillary is out of order.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

The amalgamation of half a dozen of
the principal coal railroads of the east
representing a combined capital of
$SS9, 900, is the reported result of j.
Pierpont Morgan's recent visit to Lon
don, where considerable stock is held.
The magnitude and public Importance
of this scheme place it at the head of
all the numerous combinations that
have yet been made.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

Buffalo follows other New York cities
IN adopting the voting machine, and
the invention is attracting attention in
cities farther west. The Rochester eX-
perience has been widely advertised.
1t may be taken for granted that in
Que time machine will be perfected
that will satisfy all reasonable tests,
and one of these days the question of
Its adoption will be revived IN Massa-
ehusetts. Much of the opposition to
the Worcester experiment was similar
TO that which confronted the Austral-
ian ballot; but with perfect machine
such an obstacle would be as easily
overcome in the one case as it was
IN the other. Both the Australian bal
lot and the voting machine operate in
some sense as educational tests, though
neither results in disfranchisement
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

Fifty thousand enumerators will be
required to take the census next year.
Hope they won't forget to count them
selves.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

The president seems to have taken
the senators at their word, in the an
poiptment of librarian of congress.
They objected to MIR. Barrows because
he had not been trained for the bust
ness, and now the president turns again
to Librarian Herbert Putnam of Bos-
ton. 1t may surprise the senators to find
their Pickwicllian arguments taken so
literally
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

Wages are increasing everywhere.
Col. Bryan of Nebraska win have to
hang up his calamity telephone and
ring off
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

1t begins to look as if the only way
to stop the Filipinos from firing VIII
be TO fire the Filipinos.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

Worcester appears to have developed
a new industry: suing the city for dam
ages.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09
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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09
THEIR MONTHLY BANQUET.

The Worcester Medical Society held
their monthly banquet at the State
Mutual restaurant last evening. Fifty
members gathered around the tables.
After the dinner all present adjourned
to the floor below to listen to q lecture
by Or. r. w. Swan, on "Dilation Of the
stomach"
The topic was introduced by DR.. Max
Einham of New York the well known
specialist on diseases of the stomach,
who was the society's guest of honor.
Dr. Swan illustrated his lecture with
charts. a general discussion fol-
lowed the conclusion of the address.
Auction sale of TAG Chandler street,
Thursday, March 9Th, at 2 p, m. sharp
Don't forget. Rents for s66 per month;
10 $500 TO the highest bidder Now is your
chance. ]. J., Currier, 7W State Mutual
Auction. Auction! Auction 1t 146 Chan
der street, Thursday, March 9th, at D.
for a bargain. ]. l.. Currier, 7O7 State
Mutual building.
DO NOT PUT OFF until tomorrow the
duty that. ought to be done today. II
your blood IS impure and you feel weak
once.
Hoods Pills cure all liver ills. Mailed
for 25 cents by c. l. Hood & Co, lowell
Mass.
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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

Congressman William Sulzer has re-
turned to New York, convinced that he
is to succeed Bailey OF Texas as leader
OF the House, and Sewall of Maine as
Bryan's running mate in 1900. No man
can lead the democrats, he says, who is
not strong on silver, the Chicago plat
form and anti-eXpansicn. He admits
that there are other good men, but only
Sulzer is strong enough on these points.
1t did not occur to him to add that his
own fantastic egotism will make a
shining mark for the caricaturists.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

a trustworthy observer informs out
ana About that the first bluebird has
arrived Patience! spring itself will, he
along one of these fine DAYS,
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09
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THE SPY SHOULD HAVE The EYE OF ARGUS: HE
IS HONORABLE If He DO But LOOK TO THE VEL
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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

Why don't you try Carte,,s ' t.4,.
rms? They are positive cure for h a;Sn
nrdcEnd ana all the ills produced BY dis
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

Prof. Rudolph Falb of Vienna says
the eastern coast of the United States
is to be destroyed by earthquake and
tidal wave, next summer and on No.
vember 10 the whole earth will tumble
into the comet of 1866 and sizzle up.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

n AT m AUCTION tbt on Thursday March 9th. M +,
no l46 Chandler street. rents fo 20 s7Ss
tivo SuTTr; sold subject to $4,000. Sale nosi.
Cn vr EeF To7 &C. cash above mortgage. L.
4A'eA' 'W state Mutud building.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

DR.. Balls Cough Syrup is Grand
old remedy, used for many Years ana
still in public favor. il is without doubt
the best medicine for all pulmonary ar
fections. II always cures. All druggists
sell It for 20 cents.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

THURSDAY. MARCH 9, 1899.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

Heliotrope sachet powder may be
made at home by thoroughly mixing v
pound dried rose leaves, u pound pul-
Verlzed orris root, one ounce vanilla Il
or an ounce of grain musk, two ounces
OF ninety ground tonquin, two drops of
altar Of almonds. Sift through a sieve
a a, number Of times to insure the perfect
blending or the ingredients and place
dainty silk coverings.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

The Worcester League of Unitarian
Women will meet at the First Unitarian
church, Wednesday, to discuss Social
ISM" which will be considered under
the three heads: What is socialism p
Are there soclalistic tendencies in
modern economic conditions?" what
is Christian socialism," The program
promises to be one of interest. All
women are cordially invited.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

Hoods Pills cure all liver ills. Mailed
for % cents by c. l. Hood G. Co, lowell,
Mass.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

AT the regular weekly business
meeting Of the College Club, held at
their rooms in the Day building, yes
terday afternoon, there We're readings
by Mrs. George A. Slocomb, Miss Alice
Hastings and Miss Alice Smith, after
which tea was served and a social hour
enjoyed There was large attend
ance.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

Mr., William Justin Mann will give
the third in his interesting course of
historical lectures, in Memorial Hall,
this evening, upon the subject, THE
federal convention and the adoption of
the constitution"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

The lecture by William Justin Mann
on The federal convention and the
adoption of the constitution" will take
place this evening instead of last even
ing, as was enormously reported in the
afternoon papers of yesterday.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-09

Mrs. Gilbert Fl. Harrington will enter
tain Mrs. Chaffees art class this after
noon at her home on Main street. The
subject of the lecture viii be Leonardo
da Vinci." The hour is $3.50 .. M
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-10-13
Some Interesting Figures.

The following interesting item is
from letter written from Virginia
City to the Mining Record of New
York on the 9Th Of October, 1877. 1t
gives something of an idea what it
cost to mine on the Comstock Mt that
time:
In the month Of July last there was
brought over the Virginia and
Truckee railroad and used in the
mines and mills 15,446 cords of wood
and delivered by team 600 cords,
making IN the aggregate 16,046 cords,
which at Sl1 per cord would amount
to Sl76,506; 2,289, $50 feet ct lumber
we're delivered and consumed in July
which at S22 per thousand feet would
amount to S503.549. There are thirty
tons OF ice used daily at $50 per too,
the aggregate for month costs S27,-
600; 10000 40-pound boxes Of candles
consumed monthly in the mines at So
per box, $4,000; SO tons of quick
silver at the mills monthly at $4,000
per ton, making 100000. Salt con-
sumed monthly 225 tons, at $50,
s675O; l25 tons Of sulphates at $3.50.
$4,000; other chemicals $4,000.
Hardware, stores, etc, per month,
100000. The machinery erected on
the Comstock lode since 1852 has
cost from s2S,O0O,OOO to s30,OOO,OOO.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-10-13
It Was "Equalized."

The Gazette is showing up the as.
sessment Of 'Washoe in great shape.
1t gives the following as one Of many
instances on the roll showing how
The Washoe board aequalized" the as
sessment Of property in that county:
"a piece OF land owned and situat-
ed In the southeast corner OF town is
assessed at Sl1 per acre, while an old
gentleman named Mccormack, who
bought ten acres of the same land 81,
owned and assessed at $11 per acre,
pays taxes on it at $40 per acre.
When the county wanted to buy a
piece of this same land for a cattle
road the owner held it at $3.50 per
acre, but the appraisers valued it at
S1O6 per acre. The Gazette will
show up few more of Washoe's un.
equal assessments and the way the
board @equalizes," from day to day in
order to see if it cannot be remedied
next year." o.. ....