The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-16
SHORT OF FUNDS.
The Highway Depart
ment Has One Cent
to It's Credit.
PLANS FOR EVENING SCHOOLS.
The Winter Term VIII Be-
gin Monday, Octo-
Der 2.
PLANS FOR EVENING SCHOOLS.

The city highway department wants
money and wants it badly.
After paying bills for the past month,
City Auditor John B. Bowker finds the
munificent sum Of cent is left for use
of the street commissioner
The street watering assessments,
which are coming in at present, are
sufficient to pay salaries of employees
of the department, but if the larger
bills are to be met, a new appropriation
is imperative.
Nor is the street department the only
one short of money. The public build
ing department finds itself with a bal
ance too small to attempt anything like
an extended stroke of business, and if
additional work is contemplated sew
eral departments will require additional
appropriations or transfers of some
sort.
In view of this condition a move of
some sort may be anticipated at Mon
day nights meeting of the city council.
Public evening schools begin the win
ter term Monday, Oct. g. Sessions will
be held five evenings in each week,
Monday to Friday inclusive.
The location of the several schools
will be: English high school, Belmont
street, Lamartine street, Valley Falls,
Shrewsbury street, Webster square,
Quinsigamond, Providence street, Dix
street, Chandler street, GAINESVILLE
Grafton street, Abbott street, Canter-
bury street, NEillbury street.
The evening high school is for ad-
vanced pupils only, and Will be under
the supervision of John ]. Riordan
Certificates of admission may be Sc
cured at the office of the superintend-
ent of schools, room s, city hall, be-
tween $40 a. m. and p. m, and every
week day evening from Sept 25 to Oct.
7. The schools are open to all, male
and female.
The regular grade teachers meetings
for music and drawing will be resumed
Sept. IS. All meetings to be held in
room u, city hall, at 445 p. m.
These dates have been set for the
Sept 10; grade 2, Thursday, Sept. ii;
grade 3, Tuesday, Oct. 8; grade l.
Thursday, Oct. 5; grade vs.. Tuesday,
| Oct. 10; grade 5, Thursday Oct y:
grade Z, Tuesday, Oct. II; grades 8 and
3, Thursday, Oct. 10.
Each teacher is expected to bring the
new Outline of an art course" and in
grades where drawing is taught. the
desk drawing books used in the
school.
officials of the water department re-
port decided improvement in the con-
dition of water at Quinsigamond village
and South Worcester. Several samples
taken yesterday show a decided con-
trast to water taken from the same To-
Icality day or two before The improve
ment may be attributed TO the cooler
weather and the thorough flushing of
hydrants which has been carried on by
the department
A special meeting of the aldermanic
telephone committee appointed to con-
slider the petition of the Worcester
Telephone Co. has been called for Mon
day afternoon at 4 o'clock.
The call is the result of a letter re-
Gently sent Alderman Brannon by w.
p. Searls in which the latter asked that
the committee grant a conference with
four stockholders of the company. The
men named are Edward p. Curtis, T.
S. Johnson, A. 3. r. Sprague and J.
Russell Marble.
Members of the board Of health feel
that the mild epidemic Of scarlet fever
Is nearly spent. But two new cases, and
those of a mild nature, have been re-
ported for several days.
The parks department will begin work
Monday laying out the mall at Cromp-
ton park. On two sides malls have al
ready been constructed, and the third
side to be built is that along Albion
avenue between Quinsigamond avenue
and South Harding street There will be
a double row of trees, Norway naples
from the Newton hill nursery, which
VIII be planted % feet apart with a
pathway between The work will prob
ably take month.
There will be meeting of principals