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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12
WHAT TIE F0TURE OFFERS.

The Hon. Richard Olney's remarks
regarding the financial strength of the
New York Central are interesting.
However strong a corporation is it is
not certainty that it will retain ITS
full measure of prosperity ten CEN
turtles and at the end of thousand
years be as fiourishing as it is TODAY.
The Bank of England notes may be as
worthless as confederate currency ten
centuries hence and the New York Cen
trail may have gone the way of the old
time stage coach.
IN fact, it ic almost uncomfortable that
such will not be the case. If the sar,a
inventive activity reigns in the coming
centuries that has been characteristic
Oh the past, railroads will be abolished
ana airships, an electric one-railed sys-
tenn or some other improved means of
loconlotion established in their Mace
New York, now the chief seaport of the
country may go the way Of Salem and
New Bedford, and all it's vast trade
divert to some other port allowing other
railway systems to walk away with the
business. In fact the possibilities offered
by the future are without end.
However, there is this to be said on
the other side. The New York Central
snd the Boston & Albany have so much
in common and are situated geographi-
cally so CONTINUOUSLY that they are af-
fected by almost precisely the same
conditions. Influences affecting one dis
advantageously would be almost certain
to affect the other to some extent. II
the Central is prosperous, the Boston &
Albany will probably yield dividends.
If traffic should be diverted from the
Central the Boston & Albany would
suffer financial tribulation whether
leased by or independent of the other.
Then again the present stockholders of
the Bcstcn & Albany will have thirty
generations of descendants before the
lease expires, and however solicitous
they may be for the financial welfare
Of their thirty-times great-grandsons
they are not likely to disregard what
they may consider their own welfare
for any such remote consideration.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12
WoRcESTER'S SAYINGS BANKS.

The figures published in today's Spy,
relative to the increase of deposits in
the savings banks Of Worcester, tell a
most remarkable story of the city's
prosperity since the beginning of the
year. A gain of over half million of
dollars in deposits over the correspond
ing period of 1898, does not by any
means represent the accumulated prof
its of the weather classes. 1t means
purely and simply that the wage earn
ers Of Worcester are a half million bet
ter off than they were upon the first
day of January last. Worcester stands
pre-emlnently as the most prosperous
city in Massachusetts today when one
takes into consideration the fact that
out of $20,000,000 increase in the saw
ings banks of the commonwealth dur
ing the last eight months, she has con-
tributed over a twentieth of the entire
sum. The natural inference may be
drawn that this immense increase of
savings may mean in the long run a
reduction in the rate of interest to de-
Posltoi . bul II SnOulQ be Dorne in
mind that both the Five Cents Savings
Bank and the Worcester County Insti-
tuition for Savings have so surrounded
themselves with limitations as to pre-
clude any such possibility, and it is
fair to assume that the other savings
banks will resort to similar means of
protecting old depositors. The wage
workers of Worcester have reason in
deed to congratulate themselves not
only upon the conditions that surround
them, but upon the careful. conserva-
tive and highly honor Die management
of the monetary Institutions that con-
tain the nearly $4O,oOO,OO0 of their earn
ings
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12
PERSONAL.

Mrs. Hanna Peterson is at Wood
Stock Ct, for few weeks.
Miss Maud Howe leaves for a two
beautiful land of Acadia.
Or. and Mrs. Lamson Allen and Miss
Wyman have returned from a two
weeks trip to York Beach, Me.
Mrs. Ellen and Miss Mary Coonan of
Solu1np1a street are stopping at Ply
mouth during the month of August.
Miss Marion ]. Blood will leave Tues
DAY Tor a two weeks vacation from
ner duties as secretary at the Y. w, e.
Miss Charlotte M. Atwood starts to-
day for her home in Baldwiny;1Ia
cation.
Misses Agnes and Annie Woodhead
Oh boston have returned to their home,
after short visit with Miss Grace G.
Woodhead of this city.
Mrs. Martin Burns, Miss ouinie Burns
ana MISS Mary Scanlon leave Tuesday
for New York, where they intend IA
remain for two weeks.
E Fl. Willmarth Of Cleveland, O.. and
Morton M. Miller of this city, are
spending their vacation at the White
Mountains, dividing the time between
the Maplewood, Profile and Crawford
Otis ID. Arnold, for the past eight
years connected with the local agency
OF r. 9. Dun & Co., has resigned his
position to accept special agency IF
me state Mutual Life Insurance com
pany, under General Agent f. f. Hop
Klns. Mr. Arnold before engaging with
the ercantile agency, was for seven
years In the employ of Drew, Allis &,
90, directory publishers, and he has a
host Of Worcester friends.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12

81, a sum much lower than had been
anticipated.
The charter will remain open for 80
days, and members coming in within
that time will be numbered among the
prime movers in the organization. A
majority OF those present favored an
other meeting within a few days, prom
Using to bring at least 100 more MEM
bers 1t was voted to have the next
meeting Friday evening in labor head
quarters, and efforts will be made to
have the membership run into the hun
dreds.
Organizer Connolly will go to Holyoke
at once, and will probably return for
the meeting Friday evening In speak
ing of the new union to The Spy man,
last night, Mr.. Connolly said: "The en-
thusiasm manifested at the meeting
leads me to say that it will not be
many weeks before the machinists in
this city will have powerful union.
1t is difficult thing to get 40 names
attached to an application for a char
ter, and that number Is far greater
than the starting point of many of our
largest unions"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12

National Founders Association conven-
ton at Niagara Falls, resulted in a
special meeting Of moulders in labor
headquarters last evening.
The session was for employees in the
Holyoke Machine Company and Edgar
B. Pierce's foundries. The proprietors
Of the foundries are members of the
National Founders Association, and
Stephen Holman, manager of the Hol-
yoke Machine Company, attended the
Niagara Falls convention.
The moulders at the meeting last
night have been employed as union men
in the two foundries, awaiting a de-
cision by the arbitration board, COM
posed of moulders and founders. This
committee did not reach a decision, and
the matter was left for the National
Founders Association to decide. At the
special convention, the president was
authorized to appoint a committee to
meet a similar body of men from the
Moulders National Union, for adjust
ment of the difficulty.
At last nights meeting, the action of
the founders was discussed, and there
was sentiment expressed against a
continuation OF the haggling methods.
Neither side is willing to establish a
precedent by retreating an inch, and the
pollcy or the founders has been one of
repeatedly favoring and urging con-
tinuance. Moulders in union foundries
in this city are working under a mini
mum wage rate of $2.75 per day. There
is but one action that could be taken
by the founders, and that Is recognition
of the minimum wage rate. The abol-
ishment of piece work, recognition of
shop committees and other minor de-
tails do not enter into the local trouble
to any extent.
By agreeing to pay the scale of wages
in effect in union shops in this city,
the National Founders Association
would have settled the strike. An ar
bitration board can result in no other
decision than continuing the payment
Of minimum wage rate of $2.75 per
day, or there will be differences to adj
just with foundry owners who conceded
the demands of the local union at the
beginning Of the strike.
1t is said that the haggling means
something. 1t is nothing favorable to
the moulders. 1t may mean that the
association intends to insist on a lower
minimum rate than now adopted for
its local members The meeting was
peaceful enough, but the moulders do
not like easily avoided delays.
President Martin Fox Of Cincinnati.
who is at the head Of the moulders ma
tional organization, was authorized. at
the convention in Indianapolis, to an
point committee to confer with the
founders If such action became neces-
sary.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12
MAcHINIsTs ORGANIZE.
Officers Elected and Forty Men sian
the Charter Roll.

Nearly two hundred machinists
swarmed into labor headquarters last
night, and were given sound advice re-
garding the principles of unionism.
Organizer John j. Connolly of Chi
cago, who had canvassed the local ma
chine shops to arouse interest in the
formation of a local union of the In
ternational Association of Machinists
made the principal address of the eve
ming. President j. d. Pierce of the
State Federation of Labor urged the
maehinists to organize, pointing out the
need of having the Drawn Of Worces-
ter's leading industry banded together
for protection.
Vice President James e. Roach Of the
Iron Moulders' union of North America
was unable to be present Addison w
Barr the active exhorter of the prin
ciples of the socialist labor party. 10 a
machinist, and last night volunteered
to talk upon the proposed organiza-
ton. Mr.. Barr held the floor for half
an hour during which he gave straight
pointers by the score.
Organizer Connolly made q final nlea
Tor support Of the union, and then tenn
porary officers were elected. An anpiI-
cation for a charter was sent to nation-
al headquarters, and forty men became
charter members Of the new local
union. The initiation fee was placed at
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12

Alderman "Bathhouse" John Cough
lin of Chicago and his green dress suit
will be forgotten when Alderman
'Hdnky Dink" Kenna reaches Saratoga.
The Bathhouse's ideas Of dress reform
may be advanced, but Hinky Drinks
are several laps ahead. Hinky's even
ing apparel is light blue in color But
this is the least of the sartorial crea-
lions with which he hopes to win fame.
He has shirt with a roulette wheel
design, another with the ballet scene
from Semiramide embroidered on the
bosom, a "weskit' the color Of robins
eggs with a delicate green vine grace
fully mounting to either lapel. But it
is the tag of each shirt that would fill
William Waldorf Aston with envy. On
each and all is embroidered an elab-
crate coat Of arms consisting Of two
stems rampant surmounted by silver
pipe argent and at the bottom a bal
lot couchant. Beneath is the motto,
'Absque argento omnia vana." Truly,
Hinky Dink is an arbiter elegantiarum.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12
THE FOOT BALL SEASON.
Gardner High School Eleven Will Be a
Strong Team.

Strong Team.
Gardner Aug. 1.-THE high school foot
ball team will depart from the usual
custom of playing games with all teams
with which contests may be arranged,
and will play only strictly high school
teams this fall.
The team will be nearly the same as
at was last season. Two of the best
players were in the class of 80 and will
mot be back this fall. They are w. p.
Brooks. who played left end. and Capt
o. s. Colby, who was full back. Prac-
Sice will be begun early this fall and will
be carried on stricter lines than before
and one of the best teams which ever
represented the school will be put on
OF the old players, s. Wilder, centre;
+. Shippee, ]. p. Alger and w. Phillips,
guards guards, Delay Stone and Il. S; Kts.endall,
quarter backs, and z. L. Grise and s. L.
Carr, backs. will be back on the team.
Capt. Grise expects that two other
etrong players will attend the high school
This year. and. if they do, he will play
them on the team.
II is hoped that games may be arranged
the David Prouty high school of Spencer.
"A game was arranged lbr last year. but
the Gardner boys were obliged to cancel
system of raising money to carry on the
eampaign In years past it has often
proved difficult to pay the expenses of the
team, as the receipts were often small.
The new plan is to sell season tickets at
VI each and charge Is cents for single
admissions instead of Is cents, as form
erly, These tickets would admit the
holders to all home games except on
Thanksgiving day. There will be at least
six home games to which the ticket could
be used. The ticket would be punched for
each admission, so that two people could
see the games on one ticket instead of
pne person attending six games.
William w. Peabody has returned from
Concord. n. H., where he has been for the
last three weeks. He has been consulting
MS counsel In regard to a civil suit
against William B Durgin, siverware
manufacturer, OF Concord. Several months
ago Mr. Peabody, who is a resident of this
town, was engaged at work in Mr.. Dur
gins factory, when he lost two fingers of
against Mr.. Durgin for $1,000 The case
will be heard the first Tuesday in Octo-
Der.
sergt L. L. Richardson of Co. F Sec
Ond regiment, has been detailed as COM
miseary sergeant. The company has
plenty Of work mapped out for next week.
There will be drills on Monday, Wednes-
day will come the departure of the com
pany for camp at South Framingham.
Mrs. Rufus Kendall Is visiting her
father, p Quigley, in South Dakota
Mrs. James Crowther and three children
of Worcester visited Luke S. Crowther
yesterday
r. L. ellison ana c. A. Adams have
agreed to close their bicycle stores We'd
nesday nights during the remainder Of the
bicycle season.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12

There appears to be a strong DISPOSE
ton to let the vacancy in the board of
aldermen stand until the next regular
city election. The cost of a special cleo
ton involving the whole city is thought
to be altogether out of proportion to
the service which Alderman Wallis
successor could give the city. however
able he might be. The board will have
but few meetings between the date of
election and the end of the municipal
year, and as the bulk of the committee
work has already been done. the duties
of the new alderman would be largely
ornamental.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12
UNION is RECOGNIZED.
Steam Filters Helpers Are in Position
to Make Demands.

" Wake OemdnoSs
The Steam Filters Helpers Union
became a full-fedged labor organiza-
ton at it's meeting in labor headquar-
tiers last evening, when a communica-
ton from the national body was read
designating the Helpers Union as "Lo-
cal No. 3d."
Through the declaration of the Steam
Filters Union, that all union filters
must have union helpers, employers
have been obliged to raise wages, and
in many cases discharge non-union
helpers in order to comply with the
edict of the Steam Filters Union. Five
candidates were admitted to member
ship last night
The action of the Building Trades
council In regard to the Kelley & Dele
manly bull ding was indorsed. No
union helpers or steam filters will be
aliowed to work on the building. The
IolloWing delegates to the Building
Trades Council were elected: Alnhee
ii.amothe. Walter Willis, David VIII
llams. Charles Engall, M. F. Garrett
Inc delegates will also act as the com.
rn,rtee on Labor day arrangements. ana
VIII attend the meeting of the general
LABOR cay committee in labor head
quarters tomorrow afternoon.
Inc steam Filters Helpers Union will
nave special meeting Aug. % wben
business or vital interest to the MEM
perS Will be discussed.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12

The adulterous marriage of Perry
Belmont to Mrs Sloane is followed by
the death of the clergyman who per-
formed the ceremony and died broken
hearted at the discovery of the wrong
he had unwittingly done and the criti-
cisms which followed it. But New
York society, with its equally vile cases
in the same and other families, will
hold on its rich and rotten way, intol-
Grant Of all decent rivalry and con-
temptuous of every adverse comment.
The ostentation and arrogance Of
wealth, accumulated by Woodworking
fathers and grandfathers, is bad
enough, but the assumption that such
riches entitIe its owners to lordly priv
ileges in vice, legal and illegal, is a
thousand times worse.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12

larger to the brakes, but the fact that
trolley cars kill more people in New
York state than all the steam railroads
in the country is not due either to mo-
tormen or to brakes, but to the fact
that the opportunities for killing Are
greater than on all the steam roads fn
the country. The road beds of steam
railways are far from being crowded
thoroughfares.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12
AN IMPORTANT ELECTION.
New York SUM-

The eighth annual convention of the
Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo will be
held in Denver Sept 9. Already there
is unusual activity among the Vice
gerent Sharks in the several states. The
mail bags sag with calls for proxies.
Every member will be expected to have
a voice in the election of officers. Never
in the history of the high Order of Hoo
Hoo has general election caused so
much feeling and bad blood,
There are two tickets. The so-called
regular ticket has these names:
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12
PLANS FOR LABOR DAY.
Mclaughlin and Holland viii slon
Articles When the Latter Arrives

Articles in the Mclaughlin Holland
match race at the oval Labor dav. in
conjunction with the field day of local
iapor organizations have not been sign
ed President 7. f. Harvey of the
Building Trades Council, who is at the
mead OF the committee on sports for the
Labor day celebration, said last night
tnat Holland and Mclaughlin have
agreed upon all terms, and that the
signing Of articles will not change plans
for tie race.
ne lapor organizations have hung
~ flVu, ana the runners will post a side
pet OF $lOO each, making purse Of ssoo
70 1ne winner Mclaughlin viii con-
t,nue training, and when Holland ar
rlves In this city, there will he ,,,aat
ing OF participants for the signing ~
articles and the selection Of a refereo
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12
ARRESTED IN NEWARK.

A telegram to Chief of Police James M.
brennan from Henry Hopper, chief of
police of Newark, N. j., received last
night, stated that the police of that city
arrested a man yesterday giving the name
OF S. Cohen, who Is wanted In Worcester
for the larceny OF horse and buggy in
this city. Chief brennan did not recall
the case last night, and will refer II to In
spector w. j. e. Stone today.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12

Railroad commissioners for the state
of New York assert that the surface
railroads in that state kill more people
annually than all the steam railroads in
the. United States. The commissioners
attribute this to carelessness on the
part of motormen and to lack Of proper
brakes. A small percentage Of the ac-
cidents may be due to motormen, q
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12

Spain is indignant because several
Italian officers spoke in laudatory terms
of Dewey's victories. Spanish after
dinner orators can get even by sound
ing the praises of Menelek, king OF
Abyssinia
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12

In estimating Columbia's chances of
winning against Shamrock, it should
not be overlooked that in the trial races
thus far the former has actually beat
en- Defender each time. And the latter
is marine hummer, too.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12

Dreyfus made a faux pas when he
betrayed an intimate knowledge Of
German For Fr4nchman to know the
intricacies of the Teutonic tongue is rs
certain a proof OF guilt as it was for
the defendant to be old and ugly in a
Salem witchcraft case.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12

For a trial that was going to be pub
lie, the Dreyfus rehearing is having a
good many secret sessions. However,
the accused is present at them all, and
hears whatever is said and charged
against him, which is fairer treatment
than he had at the first trial
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12

If the Consolidated officials carry out
their threat Of attempting to beat the
striking telegraph operators by running
a telephone line, the knights of the
wire will have a chance to demonstrate
their skill at breaking and cutting
IN,
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12

The Springfield Union quotes drum
mer as saying that the majority of
people he has conversed with are out
Of sympathy with Senator Hoar. The
senator should find some way of in
gratlating himself with hotel clerks.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12

Root will not tolerate a continuance
of the Miles-Meikeljohn controversy.
Notice has been served upon both to
desist. Friction in the bureau chiefs of
the war department must stop. They
must be uprooted.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12

Japan announces that she will buy
most of her tobacco from the United
States. After a high-bred Oriental
gentleman has had a few pulls at a
Connecticut stogy he may be recon
ciled to revival of hari-kari.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12
PLAGUE IN PORTUGAL.

insDon, Aug. liam unconfirmed report
? N circulation that case of bubonio
plague mas developed at oporto, capital 81
ine pri,Dvinee Of Douro on the river Douro
kazette announces thatcas OF siisn D,,caai
i i.i nave been observed during ths ~ ~
two months at Oporto. ene past
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12

The first reports of disasters are usu-
ally exaggerated. Not so with the
stories Of the hurricane. They failed
utterly to indicate the magnitude of
the devastation and loss of life. The
response of the government to the call
for assistance for the suffering thou
sands will be prompt.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12
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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12

A New York cat, named Tony, as
phyxiated his mistress by turning on
the gas by mistake. Tony must have
been country cat on his first visit to
the city.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12
SPECIAL MEETING.

Moulders Discuss the Non-actIon OF
Founders at Their Convention.
The exclusive announcement In yes
terday's Spy of the proceedings Of the
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12

Worcester's leading base ball en-
thusiast insists that Providence is far
ahead of his native town in it's treat
ment of umpires. There he says the
outraged spectators unite in one long
sibillant chorus, far more effective
than the Massachusetts, custom of
calculating deprecatory epithets. The
fans should get together and rehearse
the hiss.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12

A Colorado Springs guest has been
murdered by the servant who waited
on his table. A ten-cent tip in that
case would have been a good invest
ment.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12

The rains have filled up the trout
streams again, and fine strings of the
speckled dainties, caught "over there,
will be duly chronicled
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12

Dreyfes is showing signs of physical
distress. MERCER is showing signs of
mental distress.