The Worcester spy., 1899-07-04

most frowned upon, but there are
! others that will equally bring the of
renders to punishment. Last Fourth of
July the boys secured Chesnut hill and
Cedar street, tearing up the plank
walks, removing the gates and destroy
i ing loose property wherever they could
| find It, They piled UP half dozen
! elothes-reels In the yard Of jeremiah
Flske and they yanked up many rods
of board walk.
Tonight, about midnight, crowd OF
youths were engaged in tacking up
| board signs bearing the words Trouble
Junction" They had Is or 20 of these
signs in their possession and the town
will be we'll marked with them tomor-
| row morning.
| Miss Margaret Madigan of teomin-
ster has been engaged as organist fot
st. Johns church to fill permanently
ton of Miss Nellie O'Grady. Miss Mad
igan presided at the organ yesterday to
the satisfaction of everybody who at
Tended any of the masses.
And now the special committee on
police station, which first recommend
ed to the town plan of repairing the
oiu snack used for police station, has
discovered that it will need more money
vet to complete the job The commit
tee held a meeting this morning and
developed the fact that the building
encroaches eight inches on land owned
! Dy Walter r. Dame and John w. Nc
Namara4 This means, as nearly as the
committee has formulated the plan to
meet the new obstacle, that the east
wall must be torn down and rebuilt
| The committee will meet next We'd
nesday to decide how much money it
1 will be safe to ask the taxpayers for
this time, or to take some other action.
III the committee was not committee
| in whom everybody has confidence, 1t
would be thought that there is some
thing strange in the maneuvring that
has induced the voters to appropriate
as much money for repairs to the old
building as would suffice to build an
entirely new one of the same kind. In
the first place it was represented that
the repairs could be made for $780,.
Then 1t was discovered that the $500
promised by the metropolitan water
board would be needed. Finally, the
committee decided that the town would
have to appropriate $1,000 in addition,
which brought the total sum to nearly
$4,000. If the east wall must be torn
out and rebuilt, the building might as
we'll be torn down altogether and a
new one put in it's place.
Conservative men estimate that with
$4,000 brand new building of the same
SIZE ana type OF the Old building can
| be erected, if the town will be content
with that. 1t seems to many people
+, here, as it has from the first, rankest
folly to waste the money in repairs.
| II request for more money ever
comes into town meeting, there will
be trouble to burn, is the opinion of
well-informed persons here.
Richard Burns, who has charge of
the large battery of linotypes in the
office of the Bridgeport Standard,
bridgeport, Conn, is visiting friends in
clinton. Mr.. Burns is a Clinton boy.
He was formerly connected with the
fire department here. He was fore
man of Torrent Hose Company, the
swell company of the department.
I The Turner Brass Band will give a
band concert at Turner Hall, tomor-
row afternoon at o'clock.
| DR.. George j. OFT will leave tonight
for Bar Harbor for few days vaca-
tion.
Miss Lizzie Hestor of Beacon street
is at Cape Ann Beach on vacation
| John McLauchlan of Lowell is visit
ing friends in town.
| Miss Eliza and Miss Catherine Joyce
of Nashua street are visiting friends
in Worcester.
The class of '99, Clinton high school,
took a class ride today to Wachusett
Mountain.
| James, a young son of James Munroe
of Beacon street, fell from a tree near
the stone crusher, in the California
district, Sunday afternoon. and, strik-
ing on his back, was rendered uncon-
scious. DIR. P. T. O'Brien attended him,
and tonight he is resting comfortably