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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-03
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Chief brennan VIII Try to Connect East
River Victim With Missing Foreman.


Miss L. L. Whipple, of 70 William
street, had a conference with Chief of
Police James NJ. brennan yesterday
afternoon, as a result Of which the
chief will endeavor to find out definite
~ whether or not the body of a man
found in the East river, New York, is
that Of John II. Slocum.
Slocum, it will be remembered, dis
appeared from this city last May and
since that time nothing has been
learned regarding his whereabouts.
MISS Whipple is a daughter of Mrs.
Perkins, with whom Mr.. Slocum made
his home previous to his disappearance,
and since that time she has been trying
to locate him.
Some weeks ago she wrote the coro-
ner of New York city, asking if any
bodies had been found in that city
answering the description of Slocum.
she received reply few days ago
from the keeper of one of the morgues
in that city, that the body of a man
answering her description was picked
up in the East river May 81, and re-
moved to the morgue at the foot of
East 18th street.
She wrote another letter asking for
further information, and as she re-
ceived no answer, asked Chief Dren-
nan to write and make an endeavor to
obtain the picture of the man in ques-
ton, which is on file at the morgue
Mr.. Slocum was employed 25 years
as foreman at C. s. Goddard & Sons
shoe factory, and last spring, when
some changes were necessary, he was
discharged. He worried about this a
good deal, and dependency is thought
to have caused his action
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appraiser, any buyer, any seller, ever
take any other mode than that taken
by these witnesses? Are you going TO
take any other course? Are you going
to bring in damages at the entire mar
ket value of the property? 1t not, are
you not bound to make first such a re-
auction as Mr.. Stevens, and Mr. Lamb
and Mr.. Pitkin and the others make?
Now we hope to be able to point out
some errors in the plaintiffs process of
getting at these damages, but first let
us test its trustworthiness by seeing
wherssit leads.
we have taken in round numbers
l-lO0 of the water shed. If the whole
were valued in that proportion, we
should get value of $13O, 100000 to
Sl5o ,0oO but, of course, the water
over.
You are men of affairs and YOU have
not lived in this world with your eyes
ana ears shut. Have you ever known
manufacturing property bought or sold
or assessed or valued at rate TO
which this estimate of water power
would bring it, except when men were
swearing to damages against a town
or city?
Here are nine unused privileges on
this stream, ell whose valuable water
power Is in much demand, according to
my friend who opened the case, seven
OF them never touched from the be-
ginning of the world, the other two
once, and now long since abandoned
and given up, and~if we have correctly
footed up Mr.. Shedd's and Mr.. Aliens
ngufes' they are damaged by sub
stfactlng this easement of S2S3. 600
Isn't there flaw in this reasoning
somewhere? They say motive power,
whether generated by water. steam or
electricity, is worth at least $50 and If
taken, 1t should be capitalized at g per
cent PS'
NOW, the water power in use in this
state in 1885 was 17S,00O horse power
ana fraction. Annual value at $50
pei morse power would be $500, 900
capitalized at per cent. s276 900 900
me total real estate is SILT, 1856. 900,
so that more than one-eighth of the
value of the real estate of Massachu-
setts IS in water power. But we ought
not to take water power only. The
ehtire motive power used in manufac-
turing in 1895 was in horse power
6sl'Oi6 at $50 per horse power, would
be worth $S455 700 capitalized at 2
per cent, 81, 151, 7S0, 000-one-haI Of tbe
entire valuation of the real estate of
the state. This doesn't include unde-
yeloped power
Mr.. Goulding here objected to the
Introduction of figures taken from the
assessors books or several of the towns
in the state, and Mr.. Hoar yielded the
point, without opposition, as imma-
material.
Now, let us see if we run up against
any decision of the supreme court bear
ing on this principle OF capitalization,
IN affirming this principle or in apply
ing 1T. | think we can find a principle
that solves the difficulty, il there be
difficulty. 1t is this In estimating
values, you are TO get the result AFT
fected by everything that enters into
human expectation or affects human
desire.
At this point the hearing was adj
Journed until this morning at 9 80
/ o'clock.
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TO the whole would bring out a result
greater than the value of the whole If
the Stevens grist mill privilege, twenty
two acres Of land and the water power,
isn't worth $4,000 all told, then to call
the 100 horse power worth $50 year
and capitalize it at per cent and bring
out a result of $167000 or at per cent
and bring out a result of $125,000, is
not a correct way of getting at its
value, Is It? And If that is not the
correct way of getting at the value of
the whole 100, it is not the correct way
Of getting at the value Of part of the
100, Is It?
A number Of our experts declare that
after estimating the cost of horse
power. they found that to capitalize
il would make damage exceed value
Of the whole estate, so they reduce the
damage TO reasonable proportion to
the value OF the whole estate. This is
much criticised, but would any sane
man take any other course? The court
tells you In substance to do so. Would
any jury, any court, any assessors, any
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THEIR BEST WISHES.
The Good Members of Pilgrim Renew
Their Loyalty to Or. Lewis.

' -NYN''J " w. LeWiS.
The annual New Years reception to
Rev. DR.. and Mrs. Alexander Lewis by
the congregation of Pilgrim Church
was held last evening, about 400 being
present. The church vestry and din
ing parlors We're tdstefully decorated
with evergreen, and a marked featllre
or the pleasing arrangements which
had peen made was the harmony of
the music from q score of music boxes
stationed at various points in the hall.
DR.. and Mrs. Lewis received on the
platform in the front OF the large hall.
and were assisted in receiving by the
deacons. After the large host had been
presented to DR.. and Mrs. Lewis, John
M. Russell, as chairman of the COM
mlttee OF the evening, delivered a warm
ana appreciative address OF welcome to
the pastor and his wife, reviewing the
work of the past, aid congratulating
them on its success.
DR., Lewis replied for himself and Mrs.
Lewis, thanking all In few felicitous
words for the well wishes of the par
ish. In Pilgrim Hall were the refresh
ment tables, presided over by the
young ladies Of the church. Mrs. Hor-
ace Hobbs had charge Of the refresh
ment tables in Pilgrim Hall, with the
assistance of Mrs. j. NJ. Russell and
Mrs. w. 0. Bement pouring lemonade
at the lemonade tables.
Al the ice cream table We're Mrs.
John Briefly Mrs. J. Edgar Dickson
and Mrs. Emma Plimpton The fair
mattresses were Miss Mollie Dyke Miss
Grace Joslyn, Miss Jessie Ward Miss
Jessamine Dickinson, Miss Hattie Dunn,
Miss Sadie Bishop, Miss Bertha M.
cooper, Miss Jennie Myers, Miss Edith
Brieriy, Miss Carrie Pickford, Miss
Briggs, Miss Jenne BrasCn.
Among those present We're: Mr.. and
MIS- John M. Russell, Mr.. and Mrs.
George +. Orr, Mr.. and Mrs. Horace
Hobbs, Mr. and Mrs. w. O Rement
Mr.. and Mrs. Stetson, Mr.. and Mrs
George A. Putnam, Mr. and Mrs. Lorlng
Goes, DR.. and Mrs j. l. Lindsay. Mr..
and Mrs. John Briefly Mrs. ]. Edgar
Dickson, Miss Emma Plimpton, Mr..
and Mrs. George Putnam, Rev. and
Mrs. c. III. Covell, Mr. and Mrs. w. w.
Fletcher, Mr.. and Mrs John Brierly.
Dr. A. ii. Shattuck, DR. and Mrs. Mas
on, Mr.. and Mrs. w. f. Fletcher. Mr..
and Mrs. Frederick Knight, Mr.. and
Mrs, G. Fl. Mitchell, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
r. Dickinson, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Glea-
son, Mr. and Mrs. r. S. Shaw. Miss
George Bancroft, Herbert Larkin,
George Fields, Frank Dyke, Tyler Gale
Mrs. Sarah Duckworth, Miss Ella Com
ms, Robert Smith, Burt Grover Miss
Bertha Cooper Miss Nellie Brown,
Miss Jennie Brason, Chester Parker
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Mitchell. Miss IN :
liza Robbins, Miss Nellie Wiley Miss
Grace Wilson, Miss Florence Stone.
Miss Carrie Raymond, Miss Alice
Hobbs, Miss Alice Sanderson, Miss Net
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Y ALUES
Is the Mooted
Question.
KETTLE BROOK CASE
Senator Hoar Begins His
Argument for the City.

After 40 days of listening to evidence
in the famoug Kettle brook cases. to
say nothing of the time spent in view
ing sites, arguments between the mill
owners and the city, were begun in
common council chamber yesterday,
Senator George F. Hoar opening for
the city.
The commission, consisting of Hon.
William Whiting of Holyoke, George
q. Evans of Lowell and E. C. Bumpus
Of Quincy occupied the space in front
OF the presidents desk and heard the
opening argument. There was a large
attendance for this litigation. most of
those present being directly Interested.
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water power, besides special cases
which amount to several hundred thou
sand dollars more.
Let us see what is the precise thing
we have done. They say we have ta-
ken certain quantity of power which
they measure by horse power. That
is as we insist, not true.
The plaintiffs counsel says we have
taken so meny horse power at each of
the privileges, and so we must pay the
market value per horse power. No
matter how much he has left or what
advantage he has got for supplying this
power. That he says, If understand
him, is his good fortune and not the
city's We must pay the market value
of power at that place.
Butt we respectfully submit that the
fact is not as he states It. We have
not taken any power whatever. His
right as far as we are concerned with
1t. is not a right to power. His right
is to have q quantity Of water enter his
premises from above, to be discharged
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Young children, to avoid

Young children, to avoid
m araSm us, Scrofula, or
ricketts,, and develop healthy
tissues, bones and teeth, need
fats sand hypophosphiteS. DR..
w. Gilman Thompson,
Prof. Materia Medica and
Therapeutics, in the Uni
versity of New York, asserts
that Cod-liver Oil is the
best fat for the purpose.
SCOTS Emulsion is cod
liver oil partly digeSted and
combined with hypophoS-
phiteS, it gives children
material for rich blood,
solid flesh, bones and teeth.
soc and SI.oo, all druggists.
SCOTT q BOVINE, Chemists, New York.
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OF the manufacturer accustomed to
measure these values under responsible
tiles imposed by the management OF
his own affairs and the management OF
the affairs of others, who is not to be
misled by logical or metaphysical sub
tleties, who knows that in dealing with
questions of value that, after all, they
can only be answered by inquiring what
men will give and what men will take;
what men can afford to give and what
men can afford to take, in managing
the practical affairs of life; who knows
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DEATHS.

NOYDs-ln this city, I'd, Martha Moves.
beloved daughter of Edward c. and
Bridget (Kiely) Noyes, yrs. mos. %
days.
Funeral from parents home, Hanover
street, this CTuesday) afternoon at 30
o'clock. Relatives and friends are in
vited to attend
WILIIAMs-In Holden, I'd, Louisa G..
wife of the late Albert G. Williams SO
yrs. II mos Is days.
Funeral services at the residence of her
daughter, Mrs. William H. Fairbanks,
Thursday, at 2 o'clock p. m.
Louisa. daughter of Levi II. and the late
Ellen M. Stearns, 20 yrs 2 mos. days.
McDONNBLL-In this city, %, Martin
Mcdonnell.
| Funeral from his late residence, II Mill
| bury St.. Wednesday morning at 9.15.
Requiem high mass in St. Johns Church
at 10 o'clock. Relatives and friends are
| invited to attend.
| CORBIERE-In this city, LIST, Della A.,
widow of William A. Corbiere, 80 yrs.
Prayers at the residence Of her sop. T.
T., Corbiere. IS Kendall street, Tues
day, at 2.90.
CLEMENTs-In this city, Dec. 81, Caro-
line r. Clements.
Relatives and friends are invited to at
tend funeral services at the parlors of
Old South Church, Tuesday at 2S0 p.
m.
Ll2COMB--lD LnlS city "a, nathaniel >.
Liscomb, So yrs. 3 mos. % days.
MOoRE--In New Bralntree, LIST, Emma
A., wife Of Horatio Moore, AZ yrs. -
days.
funeral services at her late home, Jed
nesday, at II a. M Relatives and friends
are invited to attend. Burial at Rutland,
Mass.
TILLINGHAST--In this city, 3D. Arba j.
Tillinghast, 81 yrs mos "a days.
Funeral services at his late home, Is
Wachusett St, Thursday at 10 a. m.
Relatives and friends are invited to at
tend
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The petitioners were represented by
Blackmer & Vaughan and Frank T.
Goulding, and Henry w. King appeared
for one petitioner. The city was repre-
scented by Senator George +. Hoar, Col.
w. S. 3. Hopkins and City Solicitor Ar
thur P. Rugg. There are so petition
ers who claim a damage of about 81
100000. The city acknowledge DANA
ges to only about $l59,000 at the high
est figure.
Senator Hoar began his argument at
PIP o'clock. He spoke without Interrupt
ton until $50 o'clock. The arguments
will continue today. Mr.. Gouldjng will
probably reply for the petitioners and
then Col. Hopkins will make state
ment for the city.
Senator Hoar said in part: l am
to speak for the city of Worcester. But
1 am sure that l speak FOR everybody
concerned in this hearing when l say
that we all count ourselves fortunate
in the tribunal before which we argue
this case.
We need for an Intelligent dealing
with these grave problems, first a clear
understanding of the law of the COM
monwealth, and the capacity to apply
it, which only experience can give. We
need the rare skill and training of the
engineer Without it we can scarcely
stir step.
We need, it is quite 0rtant as
the others, the soU PSI ii sense
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The city took the waters of Kettle
brook an affluent of the Blackstone,
on the 21st day of June, 1895. The wa
tiers of the stream so taken, and the
little river of which it was an affiuent
pass some so factories On their way
to the sea. The owner of each of these
factories is here with a craim for
damages. .ss
Both sides are agreed in general as to
the fundamental facts. They differ as
to the deduction from these facts.
They differ in their estimates of the
value and they differ still more as to
the law to be applied. These are cases
| in which we have to deal with market
values Market values depend upon
| the judgment of men. The desire to
| sell and the desire to buy, from which
results market value, are controlled by
| the opinions of men. And we differ
| perhaps more than in any other matter
as to the weight which ought to be
given to certain opinions and to certain
classes of opinion.
| 1t is the duty of the commission to
| estimate in money, the damage to the
property owned by each of the petition
ers by the taking by this defendant city,
June q, 1895, of the waters of Kettle
brook, the stream on which some of
| them are situated.
| The plaintiffs case, as I understand it,
is this You have taken from US a GER
| tain quantity of water power, which we
were entitled to have come to us by
that stream forever.
Second that power was available to
US for 906 days in the year.
Third, we are entitled to be paid for
that the market value of horse power
in that neighborhood without regard
to the local condition at the mills which
you deprived of 1t.
Fourth, it was worth $50 year or
more per horse power
Fifth, in some cases its satisfaction
has diminished the value of the rest
of the stream because the small guam
tity left is useless for power, and be-
cause the proportion of the polluting
matter to what is left is so large that
it is spoiled for other manufacturing
purposes such as washing and making
steam.
Sixth, we are entitled, as of June 81
1895, the date of taking for this perpe-
tually annual injury. to a sum of mo-
ney which will afford in the future for
ever with reasonable certainty an in
come in money equal to this annual in
jury.
Seventh, the income from the most
secure investments is now three pei
cent or less, therefore this annual dam
age should be capitalized at three pei
cent or less. So for every three dollars
Of annual injury we ought to have a
hundred dollars or more Of present
- damages.
Eighth, the damage so ascertained as
estimated by our experts amounts to
an aggregate sum estimated variously
from little more than 81, 100000 to a
little more than $1,S00,000 for the mere
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sephlne Reed Miss Pearl Thorne. Rob.
err Smith, Fred Richards, William
Fletcher Leslie Duckworth Walter Da-
Wis, Walter Larkin, Fred Richardson
Capt. Howard X. Hobbs, Walter r
Wheaton, Miss Mollie Dyke, Miss Grace
Joslyn, Miss Jessie Wood Miss Jesse.
mine Duckworth, Miss Hattie Dunn
Miss Sadie Bishop, Miss Jennie Myers
Miss Ella Briefly, Miss Carrie Pickford
Miss Briggs, and Miss Jennie Brasnn.
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and the pains and aches and WEAKNESS left
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what the buyer thinks, what the as
SCISSOR thinks, what Che investor thinks,
and who can bring all logic to the prac-
teal test of the reasonaOieness of it's
results.
1 shall have nothing to say about the
magnitude of the burden sought to be
imposed upon a municipality already
burdened by heavy debt and heavy
taxes. shall have no occasion to warn
you against supposed sympathy for the
individual who is contending with a
great corporation.
Since I first became acquainted with
this class of cases there has been a de-
cided change in them. In the day when
was first at the bar, the dockets of
the lawyers used to be full of mill cases
in which some one had taken a stream
that flowed the land for mill purposes.
Now it is that the streams are being
taken for other and more important
public purposes. There has not been a
complaint for flowing land for more
than Is years. There were three others
under the mill acts which were dis
missed, during that time.
This points to one of two things.
Either the water of small streams has
become less useful for manufacturing
purposes in competition with steam OF
the water power in New England is ali
taken up. l will make one or two
suggestions that will tend to satisfy
you that it is no longer profitable to
make developments of the water power
on small streams or to build mills tC
use it.
The steam power used during the
past year in this state was 617,1
horse power, that Of water wheels
1884 horse power.
The number of water wheels in use
during t. year diminished 81 per cent
the number of steam engines increased
40. % per cent. During all this the cost
of steam power, which is the measure
or gauge of this whole matter, has beer
constantly going down. Hasn't the
worth of water power gone down, il
the cost of steam has gone down
Where in 1870 they used 20 or 81 pounds
of steam per horse power, we have now
got down to II or Is. You can put
steam power where you have a min6
to; water power must be used in one
spot.
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BANKS.
WORCESTER COUNTY

NATIONAL BANK
8 F o t r. st.
Street Floor)
Interest allowed on special deposits
subject to check.
STEPHEN SALISBURY, President.
JAMES P. HAMILTON, Cashier
G. w. MACKINTYRI. Asst. Cashier
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Beautiful ParlOr Lamps.

On Tuesdays and Fridays in December
the Hall of the Worcester Gas Light
Company at $40 Main ST., will be open
to the public for the inspection of
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-05-25
COLLEGE PERSONALS

The Yale Alumni Weekly of yesterday
has the following Yale personals:
90 S.--H. w. st. John read a paper on
| Interest Rates" before the American
Actuarial society in New York on Nav
| 49,
'5S-Robert NJ. Galloway was elected
a director of the United States Rubber
company at the annual meeting on May
49,.
63-Mr. and Mrs. George st. J. Shelf
field have returned to their home, Twin
Elms Farm, Attleboro, Mass, after So
journ abroad of nearly two years.
'67-Professor William Fl. Goodyear
lectured before the Brooklyn Institute
of Arts and Sciences, Friday. May 49, on
Jerusalem of To-day and Yesterday"
81 S.--Professor w G.. Mixter of the
Sheffield Scientific school has contribu-
ted an article to the Journal of Science
for May entitled "On Some Expert
ments With Eudothermic Gases"
'1--Isaac H. Ford is living at his old
home Northeast, Md.
I'll. Harry Hoffecker's only son will
enter Philips (AndoveD academy next
fall to prepare for Yale.
~ S.-Charles L. Johnson of New
Haven was elected director Of the Uni
ted States Rubber company at the an
nual meeting May 16.
70 S.-Professor d. w. Herring. C. E.,
of New York university, has been en-
gagged by McClures Magazine to make
an expert examination of the possibli-
ties of liquid air. His article will APP
pear in the June number.
~ IT l., IoI
electrical stereopticon to the Yale Clas-
steal club.
'74-Daniel r. Howe was elected treas
urer of the American School for the
Deaf at the meeting in Hartford, May 49,
&c. d. Waterman arrived from
Europe, May II, and spent the two fol-
lowing days in New Haven before re-
turning to Detroit, Mich.
'74-The marriage of Miss Elma Hix-
son to Professor C. w. Benton, of the
University of Minnesota, will take place
at Fergus Falls, Mimi, May 20.
'7S-Tudor S. jerks has an article in
the current number of the Century
Magazine entitled "Intercivic Humor."
10 S.-N. T. Bacon, with his family,
sailed for Europe, May 10, for an alb
sence of five or six months, on business
and pleasure combined His address
will be care Solvay & Gle, Brussels,
Belgium.
'S0--Walter II. Buell., at present prin-
cipal of the School of Lackawanna,
Scranton, Pa, will resign his position at
the close of this year to become profess
sor in German and English at Hotch-
kiss school, Lakeville, Conn.
'S4-Charles M. Walker has resigned |
from the board Of aldermen in Chicago, |
and his appointment as corporation
counsel was Immediately announced by |
Mayor Harrison, SO l.. S., recently re-
elected.