The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-24
BUSINESS BOOM.
Opening Of Trolley
Road a Big, Help
To Webster.
LINE WELL CONSTRUCTED.
Already Trade Feels Effect
Of an Increased
Patronage.
LINE WELL CONSTRUCTED.

Webster Oct. 23.-The opening of the
Worcester and Webster electric road
has been more Of a benefit than the
majority of Webster people are aware
Of and an example of the same was
clearly demonstrated Saturday night
and yesterday, when scores of people
came from Auburn North oxford and
Oxford, and did their trading in town.
The mere fact of Webster being con-
nected with Worcester by trolley has
and will benefit the town in all ways
as well as the intervening villages along
the route of II miles. The road has
inaugurated a young business boom for
the town and it's business men, which
will materially increase instead of de-
crease as the road gets running on reg
ular and permanent schedule.
Experts say that the Worcester and
Webster road has not a superior in any
portion of central Massachusetts. 1t
is equipped with all of the latest i'm
provements and accommodations that
money could procure. The stockhod-
ers have laid out $150,000 on the line
The brick power house and car barn
situated in oxford, is second to none
in this section of the country, and ev-
erything in relation to the road is up
to date in every respect.
Webster people are we'll pleased with
the work that the Worcester officials
are putting into their enterprise to ac-
commodate their patrons, and, al
though it is chilly ride from here to
the Auburn crossing, in open cars, the
patrons realize that the road is doing
all it can to accommodate them. AS
soon as the necessary equipments ar
rive with which to operate the closed
cars, they viii at once be placed in ser
vice and the opens pulled in, but Web
ster riders are not complaining, as they
are aware that the road is doing all it
can for them under the existing cir
cumstances.
Webster people are we'll aware that
as soon as the cable arrives, the vesti-
bule cars will be placed into commits
sion and the ones now being used, the
open cars, will be housed in the car
barn. The other difficulty is the walk
Of about 800 feet at South Worcester
where there is no rail, in order to con-
meet with the Consolidated Railway
and the problem is the Auburn cross
ing, where the passengers are trans
ferred. Work is being hustled to fin
sh the bridge at this crossing, and
this will be completed as soon as posi-
BILE.
superintendent Frank Miller had the
cars running on schedule time all day,
but on account of the damp and bleak
weather not very many went to Wor-
cester from here today. But had the
closed cars been in use it is probable
many would have enjoyed the ride. AS
previously announced in The Soy, the
last car to leave Webster for Worces-
ter will be- at p. m. for the present
Cars will leave at 10 and II O'clock but
the latter will go only as far as the
car barn in Oxford
Supt. Miller of the road had special
cars here tonight to accommodate a
couple of hundred that wished to at
tend the fair of the ST. Roch's church.
held in Memorial hall, Oxford, tonight,
when the members of the Webster st.
Louis Dramatic club produced Fin
negan's Fortune" A large number of
Webster and Dudley people accompa-
MED the troupe to Oxford The Young
Mems Drum Corps also went The
show made a big hit. 1t will probably
be reproduced in Music hall before the
season closes.
Officer Gilbert Osborne has resumed
his beat in the south village after a
weeks vacation.
Rev. c. L. Ball, pastor of the Univer-
salist church, is attending the conven-
ton in Boston.
Rev. Andrew Campbell of Midway,
who has been engaged by the Congre-
gational church as pastor will take
charge Nov. l.
About 60 Webster people have be-
come voters during the recent registra-
ton, and there are still number more
who will be registered Saturday That
is the last day for registering, and if
that day is skipped those missing it
will not be able to vote this fall The
session commences at noon and con-
tinues until 10 O'clock at night 1t is
estimated that nearly a hundred will
get registered this fall the majority of
whom have been influenced to do the
same by Joseph P. Love, the demo-
cratic nominee for representative, who
thus adds strength to his party and
himself at the same time.
Butler Bates, who has been visiting
for the past couple of months with his
brother, Alanson, in Topeka, Kan, re-
turned today.
e. e. Young, the base ball manager,
was in town on business today.
A meeting of the primary and junior
teachers union will be held in the Con-
gregational chapel, Tuesday evening, at
730.