The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-11
The BOSSES AGAIN.
No Work Without
Board With the
Shanty Bosses.
WATER FLOODS A SHOE SHOP.
Clinton Rifles Discuss Gen.
Bancroft and His
Orders.

I Clinton, Aug. 10.-Michael Consulate,
an Italian laborer, came to Thomas
| Dawson Tate this afternoon with a
! grievance. Consulate lives with Louis
Julian at 290 Wilson street. He came
here from Northboro in search Of work.
According to Consulate's story, he APP
piled for work to Luigi Romano fore
man Cor Busch Bros The following
conversation is alleged to have taken
place;
lyon can have work" said Romano;
bring your things up to the shanty
and come tomorrow"
But l can't board in the shanty," re-
Piled Consulate; Il have my parents to
care for"
If you can't board in the shanty,"
was Romano's ans wer, you can't have
work on this job.
Consulate urged his cause in vain. He
was told that the rule was inflexible.
1t must be board in the shanty or no
work. This is the story as Consulate
tells it. He says that there are no
end of men in Clinton who have been re-
fused chance to work on the reservoir
because they had homes of their own,
T
told Mr.. Tate that the contractors get
a large part of the pay for labor back
I again in one way and another, If they
can keep their help in shanties and
make them buy their groceries of the
shanty boss. He said that he could
furnish the names of at least a dozen
men who had been treated in the same
way
Julian confirms Consulates story. He
says that Consulate is supporting an
aged father and mother. If he board
ed in the shanty, he would not have
money enough left after paying his own
board to take care of them. But if
/ they can all live together in the same
/ house, he can get along nicely if he has
work.
Mr.. Tate will investigate Consulates
story. He has, in fact, Investigated
enough already to be reasonably GER
/ tain the man is telling the truth. BY
/ inquiry among the Italians who speak
English, he has learned that Consulate
{ is regarded as hard working man, and
( will do as much work in a day as the
most exacting contractors boss can re-
/ quire
4 Louis Leone, an Italian cobbler, who
A does business in a small frame shanty
] between the police station and the brick
4 block which almost abuts, is full of sor-
row this evening He came home from
I q journey to find his stock of shoes
floating in water and his tools sub
merged The lasts which he uses in the
operation of making shoes by hand were
water soaked and had suffered much
{ damage. He thinks he has an action
for damages against Contractor Weloh,
who is making repairs on the police
station, or else against the town.
The one-story addition that has been
made to the station is against
I Leone's shop, cutting out two of his
I windows and destroying his light In
return for the windows, the police sta
! ton committee agreed to put a sky
! light in the roof of the shop. The
I carpenters had torn up the tin on the
/ roof, preparatory to making the skys
light. The rain came and the foods
I descended With disastrous results to
/ Leone's goods.
| George Thompson, who has been Is
1 years in the sheriff's office in Boston
4 is the guest Of Attorney David l.
/ Walsh. Mr.. Thompson is well posted
on the political situation In talking
| with representative of The Spy last
/ evening, he said: 1T is agreed by the
/ politicians in Boston that Bates is al
+ ready beaten. Guild has carried every
thing before him. The ticket will Ger
tainly be Crane and Guild
Relating to the vacancy on the bench
said that there was little doubt in the
minds of most people about the state
mouse that Attorney General Knowlton
4 could receive the promotion if he
( wants it, The general idea is that
Knowlton does not care to go to the
bench at this time.
\ Some of the members of Company K
say that the Worcester boys are to be
/ charged with the responsibility Of a
H dry camp The Emmets are nothing if
4 not hospitable. 1t was the extra guam
tity of stuff brought by them, according
to the stories told by K men, that at
tracted the attention of General Ban
croft and brought disaster in it's train
The stuff from Worcester was
brought right up to the gates without
effort to avoid notice and in quantities
enough to last General Bancroft's at
tention could not help but be attracted
to the kegs the bottles and the boxes
At any rate, there were dryer times
than in years before. Some of the K
men think that the war gave an ex-
ira impulse to discipline.
There was an evident determination
on the part of the authorities to bring
the discipline up to the war standard
In fact, the extra rightly of the rules
proved trif1e irksome to some Of the
men. The statement is freely made
here that it will be difficult to get mer
to go to camp, If they are to be treated
the Same as if they were before ar
enemy. The week in camp, the boys
say. must have enough play in it tc
make it a vacation, or u won't do.
Not only are the men angry because
of the restriction Of their supply of wei
goods, but they object to the rule re.
quiring them to retire earlier than they
used to do. They also object to the re.
strictions placed on the visits Of theil
! friends.
Visitors were admitted only two days
in the week. The members of the com.
pany did not receive nearly as many
visits as they have been in the habi
Of receiving at camp. Take it alto.
gether the local indictment of Briga.
der General Bancroft contains much
that would not be pleasant reading fol
him.
DR.. Jeremiah Fiske said, this after.
noon, in relation to his assault upor
eight-year- Alfred Gigure, that h
found the boy, with other boys, build
ing a fire behind his block. He says ht
chased the boy into his home, ant
caught him by the shoulder. He de
MES that he took the boy by the necl
or injured him. Some Of the people il
the neighborhood say that DIR. FiskC
started the fire himself.
When Dr. Fiske's statement wa:
brought to the attention of Attorney
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