The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-21

we remembered that there was a
| fail of about ten feet, and formerly
! there was a dam there, in Union street.
near what was the Vail chair factory,
| formerly known as the Court Mills pri.
| vilege. And at Vernon square there
was another fall and rapids Of about
eight feet formerly known as the Fox
/ Mill privilege, thus showing that there
was a fall in ola Mill brook of about
| is feet between Lincoln square and
| Vernon square.
There Is another fall or dam in Mill
brook near Cambridge street of sever
| al feet, that could have been made use
of and enabled the proposed new chan
mel for Mill brook to have been depress-
ed several feet more than is now pro-
aosed, and that would have enabled
the lowering of all the railroad tracks
several feet more and still have had
the bottom of the cut or channel in
to which the depressed tracks would
| have been placed, several feet lower
than was needed to abolish the grade
crossings of the northern roads by low
ering the tracks at least 20 feet at all
points, between Union depot, Lincoln
square and Garden streets
The plans herewith submitted show
the proposed new channel for Mill
brook, commencing at Vernon square
running it northerly through Green
street, Trumbull square, Trumbull
street, across Front street, through
Church street, across Foster street.
through Union street, to Central
street and Lincoln square, thence
| through Prescott street to Garden
street and the Washburn & Moen
mills
AT Central street the present Mill
| brook sewer is again met and the pro-
posed new channel will have to be con-
structed below the present brook by
carrying the present Mill brook from
Lincoln square to Central street in
troughs provided for it, while the work
of excavating it Is feet lower would
be easily done.
And when Lincoln square is reached.
continue the new Mill brook channel
lowered Is feet, below the bottom of
the present Mill brook, through Pres
colt street to Salisbury pond, or to Car
den street, so that the railroad tracks
could be lowered all the way from I'm
ion depot to Lincoln square and to
Garden street, and have the bottom of
the proposed new Mill brook channel
10 feet lower than the bottom of the
new channel proposed for the oepress-
ed railroad tracks, thus affording per-
rect drainage for the new railroad
channel into the new Mill brook cham
mel.
TRACKS CAN BE LOWERED,
Where the proposed new Mil brook
channel crosses under the Boston &.
Albany railroad tracks at Green street
the bottom of the new channel would
be 80 feet below the present steel rails
of the Boston & Albany railroad com
pany-and the top of the arch of the
proposed new Mill brook would be "a
feet below the rails of the Boston &
Albany railroad, or three to five feet
lower than is necessary to depress the
Boston & Albany tracks. So that the
engineering possibilities of lowering
the tracks can no longer be doubted.
The railroad tracks can be lowered
20 feet going out of the Union depot
northerly or westerly.-and the claim
often heretofore urged that it is inn
possible to lower the northern rail-
roads must be abandoned
1t can be done, and a thoroughly re-
liable, frst-class, experienced engineer.
Mr.. Lucian A. Thayer of Worcester.
who made the present Mill brook sewer.
and knows more about it than any
other man, and who during the past
ten years has successfully executed
great contracts in many cities, public
~ offers. over his signature. to build
the proposed new Mil brook channel
from Garden street or Salisbury pond
dam. to Vernon square, and connect
all the existing lateral sewers now
flowing into the present Mil brook
sewer, from Lincoln street Belmont
street Highland street and all other
streets entering the present Mil brock
sewer with the new Mill brook, for the
sum Of S511.000.
This enables all the railroad grade
crossings to be abolished between the
Union depot and New Worcester. and
between Union depot and Lincoln
square and Garden street, and all
streets to pass over the railroad tracks,
with no damage to estates that should
cost a dollar. This then becomes not
only, by far, the best plan but the
cheapest. This would remove Front
street and Mechanic street viaduet, and
who would feel sorry about that? They
have been a nuisance and an eyesore
for many years, and we not only do