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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-22
BoWKER's SIGH OF RELIEF.

City Auditor John B. Bowker's office
presented a different appearance yes
terday from what it did few DAYS
previous. Mr.. Bowker can draw a sigh
Of relief in consequence. For several
days past he has hardly had time for
his meals and his working force has
been increased five times its normal
size.
During the portion of the month in
which only routine work is done, he
can get along with one clerk, but dur
ing the first half CT last month he
not only had five young ladies at work
in the office, but they had to work UNI
til o'clock almost every evening in
stead of stopping al ; o'clock. the reg
ular hour. Mr.. Bowker himself was
in his office busily engaged every night
until well along towards midnight.
Every month from the first to the mid
die of the month he has at least three
young lady clerks.
The extra work is caused by monthly
bills coming in, which he desires to
audit in order not to delay pay day
which comes ON the 10th. Heads Of
departments, however. cause consider
able inconvenience by carelessness in
not getting their bills in as soon as
possible. The average amount OF bills
each month ranges from $165. 900 to
5000, 900, and it is too much to ask any
official to audit that amount in three
or four days. If the task proved too
great and the bills could not be audited
there would be considerable fault find
ing with the necessary postponement
of pay day until later in the month.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-22
WAS ONLY A CENSUS MAN
But Residents Of Lake View Thought He
Was a Crook and Notified Police

Somebody threw Chief Of Poles
James M. brennan into scare, day
or two since
A resident of Lake View sent word
to the police chief that a young man
was making a round of that district
asking questions OF heusekeepers, some
Of which were relative to births in the
family during the year. a.af
Chief brennan at once concluded
subject of the institution on the hill
near the lake had escaped, or burglar
best place. Had ne telephoned the Of
flee OF the city clerk instead OF the Office
Of the Worcester Iunatie hospital, he
would have received the Information he
sought, fN
A census Of births In Worcester the
last year is being taken for city rec
ords, as is customary at the first of the
year, and the young man whose de-
scription was furnished the police Ia
L.. G.. Daudelin. Mr. Daudelin was in
the home OF Chief brennan himself
this month, asking the information he
sought elsewhere. Mr.. Daudelin had
no knowledge that he was regarded as
either "a lunatic or q robber until a
resident of Lake View called his at
tention to AN article IN The Spy yes
terday telling how Chief brennan had
telephoned DR. Fl. M. Quinby, asking
II any inmate Of the hospital had es-
capped Mr. Daudeln was on the look
out for policemen all day, while he
piled his vocation In Lake View, but
ne didn't see any
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-22
ANOTHER MOTIVE.
City Council See Manual Training Ghost
in Proposed Oxford Street Schoo,-house.


Alderman Thomas j. Barrett chair
man of the joint standing committee
on education, has issued call for a
meeting of the committee Wednesday
evening at 745 o'clock. One of the mat
ters which will come before the com
mittee is the communication from the
school committee relative to an addi-
ton to the Grafton street school. An
other matter is the Oxford street school
controversy, which continued for sew
,eral months last year, and which bids
fair to do the same this year.
The city council committee does not
consider the school committees request
should be granted on account of the
enormous expense. The lowest esti-
mate is $4,000 for school house and
land, which the committee thinks too
great. There is feeling also that the
request is not actuated entirely from
motives which have been urged openly.
There are members of the city council
who fear the project in the minds of
the most ardent supporters of the Ok
ford street school is to ultimately have
the building devoted to manual train
ing. AS the project now includes the
condemnation of the Oxford street
school house for school purposes, 1t
would hardly be a proper building for
manual training.
On the other hand, the school COM
mittee members who have given the
project careful consideration are COM
ing to the conclusion that a school
house farther west On land Which can
be bought for much less money. will
satisfy the needs of that locality.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-22

Sooner or later it will be necessary to
discontinue supplying water power for
elevators. It is too costly for the, city
as the practice is injurious to the pipes.
Water is not compressible, and every
time the elevator is used the column of
water acts as hammer on the pipes in
the street. AS the water is turned on
ana shut off instantly there is an i'm
mense force to the blow and the strain
on the pipes will sooner or later make
itself felt.
The department is in hopes that own
ers OF elevators will regulate the diff
Guilty of their own accord. The use of
electric elevators is growing and that
may entirely supplant water as the
power. If it does the officials of the
water department will not be dis
pleased.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-22

open for indoor tennis and basket ball
and regular work Is done In both Since
the vacation a. class has been formed
to go to the Brookline swimming school.
The students who are on the rowing
sport have regular Indian club prao-
tiee, while the lake Is frozen over. The
Indian club work Is varied by out-of-
door running when weather permits.
Great stress is laid on nyglenic dress
ing by the instructors so that the ath-
letlc work of the winter season is OF
real benefit to the girls and at the
same time no end of pure fun and
frolic .1lA ra2rfttt
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-22
". H. SWEENY \ CO., 4l3 MAIN ST.

it makes its annual appearance just at
ter the Kendall street robbins have
made their first shy salute after their
return from the south. 1t continues
through the January thaw. the Feb
ruary freeze, the March blizzard, and
the April shower, waxing and growing
ever more delicious, until it merges
into the homemade strawberry short-
cake of May and June. 1t is as full Of
hope and promise as the pepatica and
arbutus, and it is not less welcome
than they. A blue bird is nothing to
it as a harbinger In comparison with
it the January sale is delusion and
a snare. What the oyster is to winter
that the shortcake is to summer-an
epitome OF the season."
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-22
REAL ESTATE VALUES.

The board of assessors will start in
their work on real estate valuation in
earnest tomorrow morning. In few
more days the new member, Arthur H.
Burton will make his final report to the
annual meeting of the Masonic Mutual
Relief Association and devote his en-
tire time to the work of the office. The
work OF the assessors for the present
VIII consist Of estimating values of real
estate from plans which are contained
IN one BOOKS OF the board. The board
will not leave the office to place yal1las
on buildings until spring.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-22
BUILDING PERMITS.

Three building permits were issued
at the office of the superintendent ~
public buildings yesterday
W. f. Phelps VI. H. q L. n Hall.
TO build a two-story dwelling house,
2S by 81 on Ferdinand street, near
Lowell.
NJ, L. & J., \. Hail for themselves.
to build q twO-story dwelling house,
26 by 81, ON Ferdinand street near
Englewood avenue.
w g. Warden, NJ. l., 4 l.. ~ HAL.
TO build a two-st0rY dwelling house. "a
by 36, ON Ferdinand street, near
Lowell.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-22
AFTER KETTLE BROOK.

The water department has several
matters under consideration, but action
on all will be delayed until other things
affecting the department have been dis
posed of. The department has for a long
time had in contemplation an agree
ment in regard to more equitable water
rates for manufacturers, but nothing
can be done in this line until after the
settlement of the Kettle brook cases.
Another matter which the department.
would like to see changed is the use of
water as motive power for elevators
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-22
TO SPLIT UP A MILLION.

Mayor Rufus B. Dodge Jr, has com
pleted his task of slicing the estimates
OF heads Of departments, which were
handed him several days ago, and the
amended list will be submitted to the
city council tomorrow evening. Con-
siderable cutting was, necessary. The
amount OF money which can be appro-
prlated tomorrow evening is based on
ene TAX levy which is $1,165, 3O9 20. The
corporation tax returnabIe from, +be
commonwealth is about $135, 1000,
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-22
THE CoMMrTTEE On FrNA Nc,r,

The joint standing committee on
Inance OF the city council viii, hold its
hrst meeting Tuesday evening unless
the grade crossing commission inter
feres by asking the city council for .
JOINT session. The business Of the com
m Ittee is the salary and appropriation
city council - eils
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-22

ana many property owners who desire
information to Which they are entitled,
are unable to secure it except at great
inconvenience. on account of the en-
forced absence of members of the
board
CHAIRMAN Parker says, however, that
II new member is added to the board,
his presence with the other assessors
Will re. necessary, as he will have to
vote on the valuation as well as the
othefs. A clerk in the office could give
sucn information as is required as we'll
as a member of the board. Then, too,
there will be a saving of expense for a
clefk VIII not require the salary that
another assessor will
NO objection to the report of the com
inlttee on legislative matters has been
heard. Everybody who has made an
eiIoft to obtain information concerning
the proposed change in the matter ofar-
Management of the voting lists has come
10 the conclusion that it is a good thing
1t Will make work lighter for the regis
tfarS, will greatly assist political organ
lzauons, and will also save money for
the city. 1t will also make the task of
election officers easier
The plan has been tried in Boston,
and has proved a success. The COM
Hmissioners of elections of that city,
When asked about it by the registrars
OF voters, replied that it is far superior
to the alphabetical arrangement in ey-
cry particular.
Presumably another attempt will be
made to call up the reports relative to
giving the street commissioner jurisdic-
ton in the opening of streets for what
ever purpose. The matter is on the
table in the common council now 1t
came before the board of aldermen in
the form of two reports from the COM
mittee on ordinances, the majority re-
curing series of permits, and the
minority requiring but one, and subse-
quent notification to the street COM
missioner regarding the work. The
minority report was substituted by
the board of aldermen, but when it
went to the other board for concur
renee, the common council laid it on
the table. An unsuccessful attempt
has since been made to take the mat
ter from the table.
Mayor Rufus B. Dodge. Jr., will send
to the city council the revised estimates
of the heads of departments. Some APP
preparations asked for have been cut
considerably. #E
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-22

ed the building of high, tight fence
around the nest. Oh said the farmer,
that is not necessary; our cats ard
dogs will not harm them, as they have
Tor a long time run about with the
chickens, and feed with them from food
thrown from the doorstep Col. Goss
adds: Il am confident that if man were
as friendly to the birds as they are to
man, they would soon become thorough
~ domesticated." Man is not thus
friendly to the birds because he is in
some way blind to their good. .sMore
servants wait on man than he'll take
notice of, " as George Herbert expressed
it,
Now, with this note about the paint
ed bunting, a summer bird of southern
Kansas, / must close: THESE birds of
rich and almost unrivalled plumage,
lnhabit the thickets and edges of wood
lands; they are very shy, but not rest
less or timid, and are much priced as
cage birds This is more on account
of their beautiful dress than their song,
which is low, melodious MARBLE, much
inferior to that of the canaries.'' The
head and neck OF the painted bunting
are ultramarine blue, except a, narrow
stripe from chin to breast, which is
Vermilion red
These accounts and hundreds of
others are afforded in the volume which
Crane & Co. of Topeka publish, and
which I have Just been reading.
49, Il. r. @.
Fall River, Jan. IS.
On Thursday evening, Feb. 2, in Hor-
tlcultural Hall, will be given an enter
talnment under the auspices OF the
Thursday Club. The program win be-
gin with the presentation of Ave or six
of Austin Dobson's Proverbs in por-
celafn," the cast to be taken by mem
pers OF the clubs and others whose
well-known ability in such matters as
sures the success of the undertaking.
This will be followed by a dance.
Ilckets. at 81 for the first part alone,
the stores of Steinert & Sons and Put
nam, Davis & Co. as well as of the
members of the club The proceeds
will be divided between two Charities
of the city in which every one is much
interested-the Day Nursery and the
District Nurse.
Fraulein Katrina Won Volght will
give the first in a series of German
talks Tuesday afternoon al O'clock
at the house of Mrs. P. w Moen The
subject will be Goethe and His
Friends" Other talks to follow will
be upon Selected Tales" (by the ia
vorite authors of the Empress of Ger
many; Johanna Ambrosius" (by re-
quesD; Goethe and Schiller" and
"Heine''
Miss Won Voight, who is a very sue
cessful teacher of German, numbers
among her references Senator Hoar,
the Germania Verein, the German
Evening Club, Mrs. lockwood Hoar,
Rev. DR.. r. S. Storrs of brooklyn. N
X; Dr. Luquer Bedeor, N. z; Mrs.
Charles G. Washburn, Rev. DR.. Alex
ander II. Vinton, Mrs. J.. ~ Moen and
Professor G.. H. Haynes aud Prof w
L. Jennings of the Worcester Poly
technic Institute.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-22

Asked what was the most unimpeach-
able witness TO the coming of spring
Peterson replied, with frmness "A
Star lunch room strawberry shortcake.
Suffused with whipped cream. and
drowned with a circle of scarlet berries,
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-22

Beginning Saturday Morning, January 21st
Everybody that something for almost nothing COME
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-22
FAGOTs.

In autumn, as the wear comes round.
CThe seasons fall without a sound).
by SLOW and stealth En ashen hue
comes on the green, comes on the blue.
The sticks | burned beneath a larch
The first bright day of tawny March.
Gave out their heat and fell away
Successive into rose and gray
Thus covertly, and term by term,
Like as the year, l grow infirm;
Thus spend my substance like the fire,
And like the last cold ash expire.
Philip Henry Savage.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-07-12
#Dally except Sunday.

Trains Nos 81 and SO connect ct Blacksbxrg
with trains on the Gaffrey Division. Traia
No % leaving Shelby at 80 N, connects at
Blacksburg with train No 36 on the Southern
Ry, going North, with twenty minutes for
transferring, etc. Passengers leaving any
points on this line between Shelby and Blacks
burg can 90 to Charlotte, N. c., and return the
same day, having three hours and twenty ave
minutes for the transaction of business ia
Charlotte 1t connects also with the VestibSle
on the Southern going South, and connects at
Torkville, S. c., with the North bound train..o
the & n " r r, with thirty minutes margia
for transferring, and connects at Reck Rii
with train Nc 33 Oh the Southern Ry, going
South, with ample margin Of time for trans
ferrirg, etc. The best connection this train
makes at Catawba Junction with the S 4 L,
going North gives eleven hours lay over; going
South. twelve hours and forty'tbree pinates,
but nearly all the lay over is in daylight
Z l. C r +, for Chester, with a lay over Of q
den, S c., with the Charleston Division Of tbs
Southern Ry. for all points South.
Train No 50 leaving Camden at y 0S u,
going North makes close connection at Laa-
caster, C, with the / 4 II r, for Chester,
C.. Connects with the S A L, at Catamoz
Junction. both North and South, with a lag
over Of about six hours. Connects at Rock
Hill with train No 81 on The Southern Ry.
going North. This gives lay over Of FIVE
hours in daylight at Rock Hill, which will
prove pleasure to passengers. Makes con.
nection at Yorkyile with train on the c
r p, going South, and makes close connec-
tion at Blackshurg with train No u on tie
Southern Ry, going North Also with the
Vestibu!e train on the Scutkern Ry, going
North.
Train No II, leaving Blacksburg at 10
NJ, will get passengers from the South from
train NJ SO ..on the Southern Railway for sG
poiuts between Rlacksburg and Marion, c,
and will connect at Marion, N c, vita the
Southern Ry, both Eas, aad West, Train Nc
u, leaving Marion at IS, after the arrisas OF
the Southern Ry train from the West. makes
good connection at Blacksburs with the Sc&th
ern Ry in 10th directions.
SAMUEL HUNT, President.
A. TRIP, Superintendent.
S. B. LUMPKIN, Gen'l Passenger Agent.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-07-12

There is q littlo story going the
rounds regarding the reward given the
soldiers. Il is said that in battle the
privates occupy the firing lius, the cor
porals are ooe yard 10 the rear Of the
privates, the sergeants are Eve yards In
the rear of the corporals. the lieu.enauts
twenty-five yards in the rear of the
sergeants. the captains l25 yards 10 the
rear of the lieutensnts, the majors 200
yards 10 the rear of the captains, the
colonels 500 yards in the rear of the
majors, the geBerals 5000 yards 10 the
rear of the colonels, while the CON,
maodiug general is at Washington,
D. G. After the battle the commanding
general gets SO per cent of the glory.
the brieadier general J per cent. the
colonel ! per cent; other commissioned
officers get the balance. while the
privates get talked about on the Fourth
of July.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-07-12
Atlantic Cotton Oil Company

Circulars have been issued nnder date of
July 3, announcing the formation of the
Atlantic Cotton Oil Compsuy, capital One
hundred thousand dollars, with general
Offices at Somter, S. C, with the following
directors and officers Directors Perry
Moses, A j. China, Horace Hardy, Marion
Noise, Richard Manning, q. D Barnett
aud A. c. Phelps; Officers: Perry Moses,
President horace Hardy, Vice President !;
A. C. Phelps, Secretary and Treasurer; C..
G. Fishbnrpe, Assistant Secretary. The COM
pany has bought the properties of the Sumter
Cotton Oil Company at Sumter, S. G, and
the properties Of the Marlboro Mill Company
at Benaettsville, S. c., and Gibson, N. c..
The new company is under the same manage
ment as the old Sumter Cotton Oil Company.
This is guarantee of success for the new
company. The stock of the old Sumter Oil
Company has beea hard to buy at two for
one.
The mill at Sumter, S. c., will be increased
to sixty tons daily capacity: new mill o.!
sixty tons cspsci,y is now being erected at
Bennettsville, S G, Mr.. A. c. McFall, man
ager, and the mill at Gibson. N. c., will be
re.modeled and the capacity made forty tons,
with Mr. ". T. Mckay, manager. This will
give the company daily crushing capacity
of one hundred and sixty tons of seed.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-07-12
AGAINST THE CRAZE.

1t gratifes us to see some earnest,
firm southern newspapers against
miIitariem and imperialism rakiDg
McLaurin, the South Carolina sena-
tor who is hot for a change Of gov
ernment by change of policy. His
foolish, reckless declaration in hie
advocacy of the republican fad OF
imperialism, that "the statesmen who
doubts or faltels is 6emagogue !;
the Christian who doubts or faiters is
a traitor to his God and his religion"
is not to be overlooked by any sound
democrat who believes still in a
republic in which all citizens have a
voice in the government. So false
and blundering is the McLaurin out
burst of demagogueic and destruc
tive froth that it provokes comment
and rebuke The Houston Post has
these plain direct words in comment !:
"There are hundreds of public men
in this country today opposed to i'm
perialism whose names will be immor
tai on the pages of history as statesmen
and patriots long after this elusive
senator has been forgotten, and there
are thousands of men and women all
over this broad land who oppose this
war of rapine and bloodshed that are
models of Christian intelligence, and
whose fidelity to God and humanity
would be assurance doubly sure
that no such epithets as those used
by Senator McLaurin will ever fall
from their lips. Their hearts are
sick of this useless bloodshed, and
they want these people to have civil
and religious liberty
"Tne senator is mad-stark mad. !"
Wilmington Messenger.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-07-12
Implements Wanted
For TiIIing Soil.
That is the Request Progress
i've Cubans Make.

HabaDa. July 10.-Tbe board Of
agriculture of Puerto Principe has
appointed Senors Cardenss aud Laaces
committee to visit Washington and
ask for an appropriation for the province
to enable it to purchase farming imple.
menss.
The Marzanilla rural police have
captured Robinson Arito. az escaping
outlaw
At Bayamo, 5000 men are waiting
payment. About 1000 weapons have
been delivered to the mayor At
Bojucai two armed men hailed Julio
Angulo, owner Of the plantation Santa
Rosa, and ordered him to open the
door Of his house. He hesi,ated or
refused and they 6sed twice through the
window, whereupou be complied. The
men were Maxine Rodriguez and
Antonio, who escaped from BoNcal Jail
last month they bound Angulo.
searched the house, secured $5l0, aud,
having ordered him to bring an addi-
tional $500 to a spot designated within
an hour, under threst to return and kill
him, they left with the planters horse,
rife and machete.
A short time afterward the same men
practically repeated the performance on
the plantation GuUales. belonging to
Fermin Diaz. There they obtained
ten centimes. They went next to the
adjoining farm, the property OF Jose
Gonzales, where they secured $40 and
various articles of jewelry, finally
disappearing untouched by the bullets
fired from the raided houses after their
departure.
The mayor of Alquizar hss asked
Gov. Gen Brooke to cease sending
ras;ons to that point and to expeud an
equal amount 10 the purchase Of
farming implements in order that our
people may earn their livelih ood instead
of being dependent upon aims whose
regular arrival tends to encourage
7agraucy and to destroy self-respect.''
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-07-12
In the New Army.

Congressman Norton is in the city
today. he says that the postofice at
Lake City will be reestablished in a
short time. Mr. Norton has recently
called upon the president in reference
to army appointments. As result.
he says. Col. Henry T. Thompson,
late of the Second regiment, will
receive an appointment as captain in
one of the regiments to be raised.
This State is to have lieutenancy
and this appointment is to be given
either to Mr.. Bristow. Mr.. Woods or
Mr.. Davis, each of whom were off
GERS in the Second regiment.
The appointments have about mar
rowed down to these gentlemen, but
there are others who may get places.
Record. July s.