The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-13
MATTER MAY GO
TO The COURTS
Residents of Main Street Hill,
Spencer, Claim Yeast Com
pany Is Using Water That
Should Go to Them
LAST APPEAL MADE
TO THE COMMISSIONERS
If Something Is Not Done at
Once to Remedy the Trouble,
Residents of That Locality
Threaten to Sue the Town or
the Company

Special to The Spy.
Spencer Nov 12.-For the past two
months the water supply of Spencer
on Main Street Hill has been the
cause of much complaint from the
citizens of the town who live in that
vicinity. During that time the resi-
dents have been unable to draw water
through the faucets In their homes
after 7.30 o'clock in the morning. This
state of affairs is due so they say, to
the Spencer yeast factory employees
1t is claimed the factory officials waste
more than half the water that should
be used by the residents of the town
of Spencer.
The people who have the grievance
against the Spencer yeast factory and
the water commissioners of Spencer
are now wrought up to such a state
that they are ready to do something
more than make complaints to the
water commissioners of the town.
Today the townspeople appealed to
The Spy to explain the conditions
Water for the whole town of Spencer
is furnished from Shaw Pond, and be-
fore the rain of today the pipe that
supplies the town with water was not
more than one foot under the surface.
The following residents have banded
themselves together and have decided
to enter one last complaint to the wa
ter commissioners of the town, and if
the trouble is not remedied then, they
will try and make themselves heard
In another manner. These people all
live on upper Main Street and have
been without water after o'clock
every morning for the past two
months They all have families and
thorn q inc h.
water by the faucet-that is, they are
paying the town so much a year for
every faucet that is in their homes.
They are: George Dunn, Charles
Foley, George Davis, W. J. ellis,
Brigham Green, Judge A. w Curtis.
William Searles, Frank Drury, Mrs
d. Bemis, Hon. J. d. Avery, H. B.
Morse, Eugene Browning and James
Power
The Spencer Yeast Company, it is
claimed. uses all Shaw Pond water,
and it is said that in more than one
instance they use more than is nee
essary to carry on their business.
After the yeast is prepared they take
the waste matter and. by mixing
water with it, they make a kind of
preparation they sell to farmers and
it is used by them as swill. Seventy
five per cent of this swill is said to be
Shaw Pond water.
The water commissioners have said
that as soon as they get their pumps
started the people living on Main
Street Hill will have plenty of water.
The people are tired of waiting, and
now they propose to do something
more, and unless the matter is settled
right away, they will not pay their
water bills, they say.
Hon. John G. Avery and William
Searles said this morning that they
must have water ard if they don't
have it quickly, they will sue either
the town or the yeast company for
damages. This is the first time
trouble of this kind has occurred on
Main Street Hill and yet one of the
papers in town calls the complaints
made by the residents the annual
growF' of the residents of Main Street
Hill
The citizens believe that when the
water in Shaw Pond is as low as it
was this year, the rights of the people
should be looked after before the in
terests Of the Spencer Yeast Company.
1t is true that it is valuable industry
to the town, but more valuable still
are the interests of more than 20
families who are affected by the pres
emit water famine.