The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-30

able to win a boat race.
If precedent and inspiration count
for anything, Harvard should win
Saturdays bali game. Then she will
own New York for few hours.
A surplus OF ten or twelve millions
for June is calculated to make Uncle
Sam smile all over. 1t will lop off
about one-tenth of the years deficit.
It cost those two Northboro hackmen
$40 apiece to carry spectators to last
Sundays cock fight. The trip cannot
have been a profitable business enter
prise, and the sport must have lost its
favor by this time.
Admiral Sampson is allowed a
months leave of absence, but no date
is set for his vacation. He can go
when he gets ready, but the govern
ment will keep him busy as long as he
can stick to his post.
A smart colored girl who was valedic-
torian at the Lenox high school this
week, is going to the North Adams nor
NAL school to be fitted for teacher
Young women of her stamp are just the
kind needed for inspiration and service
in the south.
Springfield has at last shown a rea-
son why it should be on the map. BY
taking a series of hard falls out of the
Montreals, its ball team has raised
Worcester to the top of the Eastern
League. Springfield hasn't experienced
such glory as that since it ceased to be
Agawam.
With gifts to the college amounting
to million and a quarter in year and
an enrolment of $500 students, besides
an unusual number of victories in ath-
letics and intercollegiate debate, Presi-
dent Eliot must feel that the 3Oth an
niversary of his presidency has been
literally celebrated.
The United States district court de
cides that the New York Sun must lay
$4,000 for a yacht which was lost off
the coast of Cuba, where it was used
as a dispatch boat The risks were
great. and it has taken some ct the
New York papers a long time to bal
ance accounts for their war news SER
vice
Colorado's million dollar Iife-size
gold statue of an American girl in full
dress should give Europeans a grand
idea of the mineral resources of the
state, especially as the pedestal will
consist of layers of silver, copper, zinc,
iron and lead. Presumably the figure
will not be set up in the art building of
the Paris exhibition.
1t remained for the doctors and law
yers to start the project for mon
ument to the Worcester men who lost
their lives in the Spanish war. There
should be no question of success when
so worthy an object is proposed The
higher the purpose, the greater the
energy required and the more gener-
Gus the response must be.
municipal ownership of Detroit street
railways has hzzled out, probably
everybody will be just as well off, eX-
cept the gentlemen whose names have
been most intimately associated with
the deal Experts say it would take
six years to make the roads pay ex-I
penses with three-cent fares.
Something startling is to be expected
of Rhode Island people when they set
out to give the world tragedy, and the
Owen Mathewson affair satisfies all
reasonable expectations. Rum and
Rhode Island blood make as fierce a
| mixture as the northern states can af-
ford. According to the Providence
Journal, the local enforcement of the
law leaves much to be desired.
DIR. Finley of Knox college will con-
tinue TO claim distinction as the young
est of college presidents, and Henry
Mills Alden will go on enriching his
record of thirty years as editor of Har-
pers Magazine. A representative of a
religious paper is responsible for the
false report of a change of manage
ment, but news is not supposed to be
the strongest feature of such publica-
lions.
Col A. George Bullock. whose SIM
mer home is in Princeton, might natu-
rally be expected to take a lively iu-
terest in the development of Mount
Wachusett as a public park, and the
propriety of Gov. Wolcott's selection
needs no demonstration. The other
members of the first Wachusett park
commission arc Harold Parker of Lam
caster and Theodore L. Harlow Of
| Gardner.
Major Whipple of Adams, who led
one of the Second regiment battalions
20 Cuba. looks to that regiment as well
as the Sixth and Ninth to recruit the
company which he hopes to raise for
service in the Philippines. Presum-
ably he has found that it will be pos
sible to have his Massachusetts men all
/ aeeioued 10 a single command after on