The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-24
I. A N EW MAP
Burnetts of South
boro Preparing.
WILL BE A CONTEST
To Determine Rights Of
Valuable Estates.

Clinton, March 23.-Parker & Bate
man have practically completed work
on the detail map that will be used by
the Burnetts of Southboro in their con-
templated assault against the consti-
nationality of the act of 1895, relative
to a metropolitan water supply
This afternoon all that remained to
be done to the map was to broaden the
crimson line that indicates the course
OF the aqueduct. The map is II feet
long and 81 inches wide
1t includes the entire area of the
Wachusett reservoir and the territory
Icrossed by the aqueduct, as far as and
Including Southboro.
This map alone will doubtless cost
the Burnetts several hundred dollars.
IT. is compiled from other maps, prin-
ecipally from a map of the same ground
tthat is in the office of the metropolitan
= engineers in this town.
1t would cost at least $4,000 to make
the same map from actual surveys.
Indeed it is estimated that 1t would
lcost the state that amount to replace
The map in the office of the water COM
lpany If the material from which 1T was
compiled should be lost, together with
Ehe map.
The map the Burnetts will use will
fake up lot of space in the room &C.
rupied by the supreme court of the
United States, where it is destined to
be shown unless all signs fail
But all the features of the country
are so boldly designated that any eye
can see.
The map is fully colored, just as the
maps in school Biographies are. The
small, natural lakes and ponds are in
dicated in blue, Just the same as in the
hnn rnDi llIt ia
is laid in yellow, perhaps to indicate
what the Burnetts think about the
scheme under which it exists.
Progress of preparation for the suit
Is Watched with unusual interest
throughout this section.
Judging by the elaborate prelimina-
RES the Burnetts mean business.
The cost of maps, of collecting evid-
ance and of other things deemed ne
cessary to be done before suit is begun.
will, 1t is estimated, be several thou
sand dollars.
The constitutionality of the act will
be tested on the claim that certain in
habitants of the commonwealth are
Disseminated against for the benefit of
other inhabitants.
Particularly the people of southboro
it will be claimed, are being deprived
;. Of rights and property without due
compensation for the benefit of the
people of Boston.
The fight will be as big as the map
and several times as interesting. If it
should be successful, a scheme upon
which the state has expended 500, 900 ,00C
would get a very black eye.
Friday evening will be marked by a
number of events of interest, social OF
& otherwise. The business men of Gin
ton will meet Hon. John w. Corcoran
In the rooms Of the Clinton Business
Mems Association, to talk over the
legislative trip projected for Monday.
The belated picnic given by Franklin
Unity for the benefit of the Unitarian
Church will hold Bigelow Hall. There
viii be dancing to the music of a hurdy
yurdy, and lots of fun.
The Young Mems Republican Club
will meet in their rooms, in Greeley
block, to elect officers. AT 5. 30 O'Clock
Z IN the afternoon the Ladies' Relief So
siety will serve a public supper, which
VIII be followed by an entertainment.
The American biograph will show pic
cures of the pope in the evening.
The biograph held an audience in the
theatre tonight that was smaller than
expected, by reason of the storm.
The road commissioners are having a
little dihiculty with their apportion-
ments They discussed the question of
/ "a superintendent of roads and a super
intendent of sewers last night, but did
not reach any conclusion Loren r.
Walker, the superintendent of roads
has been slated to stay and slated to
go. until there is really no knowing
what win happen.
The selectmen will not meet before
their regular meeting, Monday Then
lone OF the uneasiness in police circles
will be relieved.