The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-13
WANT POLO LEAGUE,
Emmets andSt.J John S
May Enter Into
the Scheme.
THIS IS A FAVORED DISTRICT.
James H. Blake is Engineer
Of the Plan for the
Winter Sport.
THIS IS A FAVORED DISTRICT.

Clinton, Oct. 12.-James H. Blake is
doing all he can to encourage the for
nation of g local polo league. His idea
is to have the teams in the league play
before the big games in which the New
England league teams will engage. Mr..
Blake has had a set of handsome med
ais prepared. The most expensive will
go to the team that wins the greatest
number Of games during the season.
1t has not been decided what organiza-
tions VII. furnish teams to the local
league.
| THE EMMETS ARE WILLING
to put team into the contest. ST..
| Johns Temperance Society may fur
nish a team. Michael O'Malley, a
Burditt hill boy, is confident he can put
some strong men into the lists to repre-
sent the Burditt Hill Athletic Club.
Wednesday and Saturday evenings are
dates continuously assigned to Gin
| ton.
WEDNESDAY IS PAY DAY
in the shops. Saturday the people are
out of doors amusing themselves. Mi
chael O'Malley is on the reserve list
of the Springfield team, National
| league. Both the Springfield and Hart
ford National league players are COM
| ing to town to get into practice before
| they omen the season. Certain i'm
provements will be made in the lighting
of the rink. One side of the rink will
be devoted to those paying admission.
The seats in the other side will be re-
| served.
ARE INDIGNANT.
The road commissioners and Super
intendent of Roads Loren B. Walker
are indignant with the board of county
commissioners who came to Clinton
Yesterday to inspect the new Boylston
road, which is to be foisted upon the
town if the commissioners elect, and
did not inform the town. Engineer
Fl. A. Miller had the commissioners in
tow. and told them his idea of the
road. Emerson e. Stone. chairman
of the board. inspected the road some
days ago. The other members of the
board were prevented from being pres
ent at the time In view of his spe-
cial promise that the town should have
chance to make its views known to
the commissioners, the road commits
sioners feel they have been sighted.
There is a probability the town will
ask the commissioners to name a day
when the requirements of this place
can be heard.
CREATED TROUBLE.
Ann Mcnamara gave Court officer
Brown plenty of trouble to control her
ebullitions of rage, in district court, this
morning, while her daughter a comedy
young woman sat among the Specta-
| tors in tears. Mrs. Mcnamara lives
on West street She was arrested this
morning on a warrant sworn out by
her neighbors, whom she reviled and
threatened to thrash. She was too
drunk to be tried, and the case against
her was continued until tomorrow
morning James Casey was before the
court, fresh as a morning glory, except
| for a red and iaded look about the
eyes. He was fined S. for being drunk.
Casey is employed as a teamster by
Moulton & O'Mahoney.
A PARTRIDGE DINNER.
officer John L. Stoebel had partridge
for dinner today The bird came to
! him at 542 this morning, by dispense
ton of providence as it seemed to Mr..
| Stoebel. Stoebel was at the depot
making his early morning round, when
gray thing dropped to the ground at
| the place where the Boston and Maine
and the New York, New Haven and
Hartford cross He picked the thing
up and found it was a partridge, plump
and fat. In swift fight, it had hurled
itself against a telegraph wire.
MORE WATER PROVIDED.
Supt. Thomas Burns is adding to the
water supply by boring artesian wells
in and about Spring basin. He received
| the idea while in Nashua. The Clinton
water supply is derived from a water
shed in Sterling. The basin from which
the supply is drawn is a small affair,
with small storage capacity. Supt
| Burns has known for some time that
water was being lost by percalation
| through the sand underneath the res
| eryoir He intends to stop this loss
! Yesterday he drove two wells Thc
| first we'll was put down 81 feet; the
second, IS feet. Water is gushing from
both at the rate of 200 gallons an hour
and will run day and night. At inter-
walls Mr.. Burns will sink other wells 20
this substratum, by which means he
will eventually turn all the water into
the basin.
FIR. PATERSON WORSE.
Rev. FIR. Richard J. Paterson is worse
| this evening His death may take place
within a day or two, or it may be de-
| layed for months. But the chance is
| that exhausted nature will soon give
| up the struggle.
| officer ]. ]. Mitchell will take his va
| cation next week. officers Greene and
Smith are enjoying theirs now.
| Henry Eckstein died at his horne on
| Haskell avenue yesterday, He was 70
| years old. He is survived by his wife
and four children.
| Andrew l.. Madden has accepted rat
rick H. Fadgen's proposition to run
| $50 yards. Madden wants the purse 70
be 500. Fadgen is to give four yards
The men will meet in Worcester to fix
! the preliminaries Saturday.
Clinton firemen will go to Lancaster
! Saturday to see the Lancaster firemen
| struggle for the silver trumpet which
is offered to the speediest hose COM
pany