The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-16

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meeting Of the alumnae of Smith Col |
lege last week, developed incidentally |
the fact that the graduates of women's
colleges do not look upon the women
graduates Of coeducational institutions |
as the real thing" in college women
and they don't want to admit them to !
their club. A college women's club was
organized some time ago and 1t is now
seeking charter, and the Smith alum |
nae are very much afraid that this or /
gan1zation may pre-empt the name of
College WOmen's Univ ersity club. One |
of the Smith College graduates said |
that many of the women in this rival |
organization We're not graduates of col |
leges but of high schools. "They come" |
she said, from high schools or seminar
les or coeducational institutions"
Among the latter are Cornell, Wesley
an and through their anneXes, Harvard |
and Columbia. If a womens university
club is established in New York it may
easily keep out seminary and high |
school girls by adopting the require
ments for membership of the mems
University Club, but when it comes to
excluding graduates of coedueational
colleges it might be a more difficult
matter The Smith graduate says that
the young women who receive diplomas
from coeduca tional colleges have moth
ing of the true college spirit" 1t might
be difficult to define the true college
spirit and perhaps the goods could make
out a good case for themselves If they
had the opportunity The Cornell girls
are well represented at all contests in
which their college takes part and they
would probably assert that they had |
lots Of college spirit.
1--WE waste a tremendous amount of
time in the course of a year" said
statistician. Have you ever stopped to
think of the time that is lost in travel
ing in trolley cars, railroads and the |
like. 1t is tremendous. Suppose we fig |
ure just a little on it. Take business
man who lives in the suburbs, or what |
we might call the suburbs, and works !
here in the city The general movement /
of residents now seems to be toward /
the suburb. Suppose it takes him half |
an hour to get to work. That is a fair |
case also. That means he spends One |
hour on the cars every day. That is |
six hours a week. not counting sun |
day, and it is 313 hours in year. That !
is nearly half of the entire month spent |
in riding to and from business. But no
man works "a hours day. Suppose |
he works the regulation eight Then he |
has spent 80 days out of the year get
ting to and from work How much of
year used for merely getting to work
and going away from it. Then, if you
take and count up the people going to
and from their labor and figure up the
amount of hours wasted" But I fled
! at that point and left the statistcian to
| figure alone.
| A rather unique situation has been
| developed in the steel rail business that
| ie 10 nf NcfI hi ont
| where the good luck of the New Haven
road in having made a contract for
| rails at very low price some months
ago was being talked about So great
| has been the demand for old rails, not
| only from the smaller roads that are
| in the habit of buying secondhand
| rails, but from the mills as well, that
| the New Haven people have been able
| to dispose of all the old rails they
| have taken up and replaced at a price
| actually in excess of that which they
| paid for the discarded rails the ex-
| cess in some cases reaching So per ton.
| These old rails are actually bringing
more than the company is now paying
for the new rails being delivered under
| their contract made some time ago
| for delivery this year. One of the d.
! rectors of the road was quoted as au
| thority for the statement that there is
! still in use on some of the branches of
| the road rails that were made in Eng
| land and first laid on the New Haven
roadbed about Is years ago.
In looking over a file of the Thomas
| Massachusetts Spy or Worcester Ga
zette' the other day, I was struck by
| the strides made in the newspaper
| business during the past century. The
| number for Jan. 1, 1900, contained Just
about one-quarter column of advertis-
| ing, made up of little notices saying
| that John Smith announced himself as
prepared to carry parcels between Wor-
ceSter and Boston at so much per
pound. Or somebody living in what is
now the busiest part of the city had
lost COW, and advertised for it's re-
turn. In the photographic" news there
were accounts of battles and happen-l
ings which have become ancient history
now. The operations in Egypt by Ma
poleon were told of, and the European
condition discussed The domestic |
news contained accounts of consign- I
ments of slaves going from one state to
another, and of the establishing of new
stage routes. The statement that cow
ing to the press of other news, several
advertisements and foreign articles
would be left out until next week, "
would be startling if it should appear
today, but Isaiah Thomas seemed to
think nothing of it, for he published |
just such a statement An editorial in |
the issue for Jan. informs the people |
that it is too soon to begin campaign |
ing, especially after the death of |
Washington, and that tells a great deal
of the political methods in vogue at |
that time, when the candidates were
self-announced and rode from place to
place, stump-speaking, 1t is an adj
dition to ones education to read old
newspapers, especially when they are
of a past century.
One of the prettiest sights of Wor-
cester in the evening is the view from |
the highest point of Vernon street. |
You stand and look over the vast eX-
panse of the city, with electric lights
glimmering in every direction. Some /
of the lights verge on a blue tinge, I
while others made by gaslight are of
a pale yellow Down on the many |
tracks of the railroads that pass
through Worcester are the red and /
green signal lights, while in nearly ev-
cry house in the early evening are
faint shafts of light that tell of quiet
firesides. while J. who speak of this I
beautiful constellation of artificial |
stars, am out on night duty.
And again l remember that in the /
daytime the view is not so lovely, and
many of the houses from which CLEAN
the pleasant lights at night are squat |
id in the morning light
Even so, it will pay anyone who cares |
for the artistic, to forget what / could |
only too we'll remember, and gaze long
at the panorama before him, until a !
sneeze recalls him to the fact that it's |
cold out there on the hill, and he We're
wise to HE him home.
Clinton Boy Missing