The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-06
ALL ON QUI WYE.
Much Interest in the
Election of Gene
terry Trustees.
MURPHY'S PROSPECTS.
Likely to Get the Contract
For Removal of
Bodies.

Clinton, April 5.-The proprietors of
st. Johns Cemetery Corporation meet
tomorrow night to elect a new board
OF officers and trustees.
The election is watched for by the
Catholic people of the town with some
thing Of the same interest that an eX-
citing horse race would be, or with
perhaps mora interest
1t is another chapter Of the cemetery
fight about to be published
The proprietors are the legal voters
of the corporation. They are not, as at
first might seem, lot holders, but lot
holders and stockholders. There are
but 40 shares of the stock. The stock
Is held at SIS a share, and no man Is
allowed to hold more than one share.
Therefore no more than 40 votes can
be cast at the meeting tomorrow night
AS matter Of fact, there will not be
so many. The stock Is not all sold. A
majority OF the stock Is sold. That ma
1ority is in the possession of friends of
John W. Mcnamara and Martin Muir
ply.
The particular grounds of disagree
ment between the parties into which
the corporation is divided are two.
the way the affairs of the corporation
have been conducted He publicly
made the statement that a one-man
power was behind the throne, is the
throne, in fact. The one man he re-
ferred to, as everybody knows perfect
1y we'll is Judge John w Corcoran,
noted attorney noted politician and
former judge of the superior court.
Martin Murphy is not pleased with
the way the contract for removing the
bodies from the old to the new st.
Johns cemetery is being conducted. In
cidentally he agrees with Mr., McNa
mara. Now the situation is this: The
trustees met Sunday night and made
provisional award of the contract to
Coughlin & Cooney Of Chelsea, the low
est bidders.
The award was merely provisional,
because the procedure was not legal,
being taken on Sunday. Rev. Father
r. J. Patterson was made a committee
to investigate the responsibility Of
the firm, and is now engaged in the
investigation.
The trustees were divided on the
matter of the award. 1t was not de-
oided until Bishop Thomas D. Beaver
voted, as he is entitled to do The vote
was lost under the warrant of proxy
in the hands Of RevFr, Patterson, and
was cast in favor Of the lowest bid
der.
Now, unless the situation changes
between this and tomorrow evening, a
board of trustees is certain to be elect
ed, who will feel more like giving the
contract to Martin Murphy than to
Coughlin & Cooney
It is certainly true that many lot
holders want Martin Murphy to do the
work. Their reason is that he buried
many OF the dead and that he will per-
form the work Of removal more eXpe-
ditiously and tendeTly than anybody
else would; or, at least, than stranger
would
Judge John W. Corcoran, Rev. FIR.
Patterson and Bishop Beaver are I'M
qualifedly determined that the lowest
bidder shall DO the work. under the
specifications prepared by the corpora
ton engineer.
The specifications provide, they say,
means by which the bodies shall be re-
moved as reverently and tenderly as the
work can be done, no matter who does
IT.
The magnitude of the interests is
great, and the standing Of the people
involved so high and the number of
persons affected so many that inter
est in the coming action Of the proprie-
tors is at fever heat,
The people who have bought stock
and paid 1928 share for it may receive
SIS Of it back again. There is meas
ure in being which provides that the
stock shall be valued at and sold fol
but $40 a share.
Clinton, or a part of it, will go tC
Boston tomorrow, to be present at the
continued hearing on the Clinton bill
The remonstrants will advance rea
sons why this town should not be com
pensated for the injury it has received
and will receive by the construction O.
the Wachusett reservoir.
nice lot of these remonstrantl
there viii be for one small town to con
troll.
Two or three members Of the watel
board will be on hand. From three Il