The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-26
Ne Plus Ultra Yeast Company
Can Use No More Shaw Pond
Water Than is Allowed an 0rdi-
nary Citizen
UPPER MAIN STREET
RESIDENTS ARE HAPPY
While They Cannot Yet Get All
the Water They Need, Condi-
tons Are Not AS Bad As They
Were Before the Order Went
Into Effect

Special 10 The Spy.
Spencer. Nov. 25.-Last week the
water commissioners of the town is
sued an order to the Ne Plus Ultra
Yeast. Company of Spencer to stop
using Shaw Pond water. In accord
ance with the order no more water was
taken from the main that supplies the
townspeople with water than is allowed
any family in town. That much the
Yeast company is entitled to.
The effect the order would have on
the water question at Upper Main
Street has been anxously watched by
the townspeople and the water COM
rnissioners. The residents of Upper
Main Street say they have received
more water since the Yeast company
stopped using Shaw Pond water than
at any time within the last two months.
Still the ueopie living on Upper Main
Street do not receive as much water as
thev should. The water commissioners
attribute this scarcity of water to the
condition of Shaw Pond. AT the pres
ent time, there is not more than eight
inches of water above the main that
supplies the peeps Of Spencer with
water
Shaw Pond is situated at what is
known as Breezy Bend, about a half
mile from the Leicester line. Between
Shaw Pond and Spencer there are
manv hills and, in order to supply
Spencer with water from this pond the
main pipe has been laid around these
hills. and necessarily at times the wal
er has to run up hill. For this rea-
SON when the water is as low as it is
at the present time, there is not suffi
cient pressure to force the water to
the TOP of the hill at Upper Main
Street.
Some time ago. as was told in The
Spv. the water commissioners put in
stand pipe. or reservoir, near. the top CT
the hill at Upper Main Street. This
was intended to be used in case of
emergency so that if the water became
low as it is at the present time, the
residents at this part of the town could
nave something to fall back on. When
the water is drawn out of the reser-
voir in the daytime, it fills up again at
night when water is not used in the
lower part of the town.
This standDiDe is. at present, the
subject of much discussion, and many
of the Deople of Upper Main Street are
of the opinion that if the standpipe
We're taken awav the residents of that
section would have more water The
SDv maintained from he commence
ment of the trouble that the Yeast COM
nanv was in measure to blame for the
present water famine among the resi-
dents of Upper Main Street, and it is
believed that if the water commission
ers took the action a month ago they
took last week. the residents of Upper
Main Street would have had plenty of
water during the greater part of this
month. At present. the most plausible
argument as to the cause of the water
famine. is the low water in Shaw Pond
In view of a possible water famine,
there arrived TODAY from Boston a
steam pump which will be installed at
Shaw Pond and water will be pumped
from the pond to Spencer, if the water
commissioners consider such action
necessary
The town is now face to face with
the fact that it must soon do something
TO improve its water supply. The resi-
dents of one-half the town have water
and the other half have none all be-
cause the reservoir that supplies the
town is situated in such a position that
it cannot force water over the hills and
into the town of Spencer so as to sup
DIV all with water. At the last election
E>ore than 400 voters registered, and
vet town that can boast of having
1900 voters cannot say that it has any
where near satisfactory water sup
plv.
Since The Spy awoke the town to the
Injustice that was being done the resi-
dents of Upper Main Street, the matter
has been looked into pretty thorough
" and at the next town meeting the
town will become better supplied with
water. The nresent hoard of water
commissioners Dexter Billiard Mr.
Pease and Mr.. Craig, have looked into
the matter. and have decided that the
cause of the present water famine is
the scarcity of water in Shaw, POND.
It has been said that these men have
not taken action in the present diff
cultv in time This is probably so in
way, but they have been we'll in
formed hv the residents of Upper Main
Street as TO the condition of the water
suaysSy. and every time that thew re-
ceived complaint they have looked
into the cause of it. After looking into
the matter they have been satisfied the
fe2st company was using too much
water. and so the order was given in
due time to the Yeast company to re-
frain from using Shaw Pond water
Today thew started 70 work putting the
new numn in Mace for use in a case of
emergency. No one can say the water
commissioners have not done all in
their mower TO better the water supply.
For the past week 1t has developed
that the Annual Growl' of residents
of Upper Main Street has been heard
through the columns of The Spy. The
people living in that section of the
town are happy to think they will not
have TO "GrOwr' any more for the
present and that no one is to blame
for the present water famine but the
townepeople themselves.