The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-08
Bids for New School
Building Opened
in Boston.
The AWARD TO Be REFERRED.
School Board Will Be Asked
To Pass Upon Merits
of the Offer.

Clinton, Aug. There was meeting
of the subcommittee that has in
charge the bids on the new school
house, this afternoon. The meeting
was held in Boston at the office of Ar
chitect Bateman.
Judge John W. Corcoran and DR.. C.
NJ. Bowers were present. Several bids
were received, including two from local
! bidders, but the committee determined
to say nothing about the result until
the award should be laid before the
meeting of the school committee
This is the second time the bids have
! been opened. The first time all the
| bids were too high, and new ones had
! to be asked for. There were two local
| bidders on a previous occasion, and the
same number this time.
The local bidders are the Clinton
Wall Trunk Company and Horace H.
Lowe.
| Mr.. loves bid was prepared under
| circumstances that reflect great credit
| on his pluck and endurance. He was
| hard and fast in bed as the result of a
| trolley car accident that broke one Of
1
| up.
1t is said that the lowest of the first
bids did not come within several thou
| sand dollars of being within the appro-
| priation.
| The town has appropriated $4,000 for
| the work, which the committee finds
no more than enough for an eight
room building, considering it is to be
| erected on one of the most pretentious
N ont OF 70 md
| on the common.
| AS usual, there are people in town
| who decry the amount of money that is
| to be spent upon the school building
Some people have expressed themselves
IN favor of cheap looking building
| that would cost between $4,000 and
| $40, 600. But the sentiment Of a major
ity of the people fayors a substantial,
! handsome building.
| Perhaps the imminent row in base
| ball circles, the mutterings of which
| have already disturbed the hitherto
| happy relations between the business
and the professional men, will be post
| poned.
H. b Merchant, who was manager Of
| the business mems team, until he
turned the team over to the care of
| Henry 7. Mcknight, thinks that the
professional men should have another
| chance. He realizes that there is some
| justice in DR.. Bastian's statement that
| the professional men were confronted
| with hard proposition when they met
a circle of professional and semi-pro-
fessional base ball players in the in
| field.
Mr.. Merchant thinks IL was a mis-
take to let O'Brien into the game, be-
| cause O'Brien was not business man,
| and was a magnificent player. But he
! thinks the error was as much the error
| of DR.. Bastian as it was Mr.. Nc
knights. DR.. Bastian agreed to the
| arrangement, as Mr.. Merchant is in
| formed. putting Milo M. Bemis into the
professional mems team by way of
| trade.
But Mr.. Merchant believes that all
the Ill feeling that has followed the
| game can be allayed by playing a sec
| ond game, and taking a few precau-
| tons regarding the makeup of the
teams such as might have been taken
| before, if little extra forethought had
| been used.
In brief, the proposition Of Mr. Mer-
chant is to play a second game on the
same grounds.
To charge an admission fee to the
game and devote the profits to the hos
| pital or some other deserving benev-
| olence.
To have the makeup of the teams
mutually submitted by the manager of
each team to the manager of the other,
| with the agreement that no business
| man who has played professional base
ball within one year prior to this time
shall be eligible to play on the bust
ness mems team. and that no profess
| sional man shall be eligible under the
| same conditions.
In this way it will be possible to pro-
| cure all amateur teams, that will be to
| the satisfaction of both sides.
Mr.. Merchant also proposes to get
| Billy Hamilton, the Boston player. who
is also Clinton man, for one of the
umpires. He would like to see a sec
ond game arranged under the above
| conditions, and well advertised, In the
newspapers and by placards and cir
culars.
Mr. Merchant said today that he was
sorry so much talk had crept into the
| newspapers, especially the article ir
which DR.. NJ. v. Bastian called Henry
I. Mcknight to account and the article
In which Mr.. Mcknight impaled DR.
Bastian on the prongs of his sarcasm
Both were merely bringing to theil
part of the work of arranging the game
the natural enthusiasm of young
man VINO wanted his own side to win.
Napoleon once said" said Mr. Mer.
| cAAealN L1AAS dlACtIOOD, IQaI Jne Lore
fought on the side of the heaviest guns.
1t is moro than equally true that tn.
victory in base ball is likely to go t.
the team with the best players. Thi:
, was the case Friday. Nobody is tC
blame. The business men happened t.
number few players who knew how
60 play the game better than some Of
the rest of us. Some in fact who coult
play extraordinarily WE'LL"
How about betting on the game p
was one of the questions asked OF Mr.
Merchant, by representative of Tn,
Spy.
We'll, the game was for the Y. M
G. A., and there wasn't supposed to d,
any betting. I didn't bet myself, al
though l understand bets were offered
to some of the friends of the bushes,
mems team, and might have been TAX
en-. | don't see why DR.. Bastian SHOULD
be blamed If come persons permitted
themselves to make a wager"
did the knowledge that bets ba;
, been made have anything to do witt
, the circumstance that the buslne :,
mems team was made up to VIM"
Il don't know. l was not managing
the team at the time when it was sal
J bets were made. Mr.. Mcknight would
know about that"
! There will be warm time in towr
, when the second game is played. TIL,
/ grandstand won't hold the people TIL,
charity that gets the proceeds will b,
fortunate.
Clinton is connected by trolley with
the rest Of the country to very salts
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