The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-16
MORE STATE POLICE.
Metropolitan Board
Will Contribute
to Clinton.
CUPID'S WORK is PRODUCTIVE.
Many Weddings Scheduled
For the Latter Part
Of the Month.
CUPID'S WORK is PRODUCTIVE.

Clinton, June 15.-News has been re-
ceived here that the metropolitan
water board will give the town extra
police protection.
The news is in the form of a letter
written to the board of selectmen.
The letter says that the board has
voted to grant the town extra police
protection. The only question remain
ing is that of the form the protection
| Shall take. The board believes that a
mounted officer in the day season will
take the place of two day men, trans
ferred to the night season. If this
| alternative is adopted 1t is probable
that the water board will not be will
| ing to allow more than two men on
foot, besides the man on horseback.
But the letter leaves the question open.
The board is willing to consult with
the local authorities as to what man
ner of appointment of policemen will
| be best.
Chief Bates believes that four men,
to be regular patrolmen, in connection
with the existing force will be better
than anything that can be devised, ex-
cept even more patrolmen, and 1t is
understood that the water board is
willing that the town authorities shall
| have their way.
As has been said in The Spy al
| ready, Chief Bates really needs eight
more patrolmen. but will make shift to
do with four for the next few weeks.
The statement that the board has
voted to give the town more policemen
Is unqualified. The presumption is
that the vote is in accordance with the
| request of the Selectmen for four more.
The offer of mounted policeman is
regarded as merely a feeier to see il
that kind of thing will be acceptable.
II would be acceptable if enough reg
ular men were provided to enable the
! department to keep track of the illicit
| trade in liquor, in which service a
mounted man is Of no use at ALL
| A much better use of the horse Of
| Tered by the water board, Chief Bates
thinks would be to keep it to drag
vehicle to and from Burditt hill, to take
| the officers to their beats and home
again, and to bring in prisoners ar
| rested in that distant neighborhood
| This evening a heavy, refreshing rain
is falling here. There was a semblance
| OF rain in cloudy sky early this morn
| ing. Toward noon nearly every cloud
had been apparently burned away by
| the intense heat, but in the neighbour
hood Of o'clock the skies darkened
| once more, and at o'clock a rain was
falling.
The shower was slight and ftful for
the first hour, but from until o'clock
water fell in torrents. The farms, dried
and burned with the heat of weeks,
drank in the water eagerly Cherries
ripened more in three hours than thew
have done in three weeks before. The
grass will have grown half an inch be-
fore morning, if existing appearances
can be considered.
Many farmer was caught with his
hay on the ground, not even heape1,
Not one grumbles. The good to the
standing crop, to the fruit trees and to
the early vegetables is out of all proper
ton TO the damage done to the hay on
the ground.
The shower came just in time to save
many young fruit trees set out in
early spring These trees are many of
them dead. The balance would hardly
| have stood another weeks drought,
| The crop of native strawberries, it is
estimated, will be doubled by the rain.
This crop appeared to be a complete
failure this morning, but the beds have
| shown wonderful recuperative powers
since early this afternoon.
The potato crop, the only crop that
was enduring the drought at all, is also
immensely improved. Indian corn is
very backward. Farmers are estimat-
| ing that the stalks will grow more in
the next two days than they have in all
the time since the seed was planted.
Peas, beans, early tomatoes and all
stuff of that kind will be immensely
FASTENED.
The water fell so fast for the second
two hours of the storm that the ground
could not absorb it. 1t ran away to
swell the flow Of the Nashua river,
which has been nothing for more than
two weeks, since the current ceased to
run over the temporary dam The storm
affects all the towns Immediately sur
rounding. 1t was preceded by distant
thunder, but at its fullness was ae-
companfed by little or no electric de-
| monstration.