The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . ace. The Worcester Gas Light Company was formed June 22, 1849. Gaslights were used in the streets later in the year. ADMINISTRATION OF PETER C. BACON. Two terms—from April 7, i*5i. to January 3, 1S53. Peter C. Bacon, the Free-Soil candidate in March, 1851. was electedby a vote of 1,134 over 466 for Isaac Davis, the Democrat; 160 forWarren Lazell, Citizens, and 420 for Charles Thurber. John W. Lincolnwas the Whig candidate in December, 1851. During Mayor Bacons term the Thomas street school-house wascompleted at a cost of $1
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . ace. The Worcester Gas Light Company was formed June 22, 1849. Gaslights were used in the streets later in the year. ADMINISTRATION OF PETER C. BACON. Two terms—from April 7, i*5i. to January 3, 1S53. Peter C. Bacon, the Free-Soil candidate in March, 1851. was electedby a vote of 1,134 over 466 for Isaac Davis, the Democrat; 160 forWarren Lazell, Citizens, and 420 for Charles Thurber. John W. Lincolnwas the Whig candidate in December, 1851. During Mayor Bacons term the Thomas street school-house wascompleted at a cost of $13,500, and new school-houses on Pine streetand Blithewood avenue were built, costing respectively $1,600 and$1,800; the aqueduct was extended into Chestnut and Elm streets; an * Peter Child Bacon was born in Dudley, Massachusetts, November 11, 1S04; wasgraduated at Brown University in 1S27, and practiced law at Oxford and Dudley beforecoming to Worcester. His reputation as a counselor was justly founded on his knowledgeand sound judgment. He died February 7, JOHN S. C. KNOWLTON. The Worcester of 1898. 25 engine-house on Carlton street was erected, and the floating bridgeover Lake Quinsigamond, over 500 feet long, was planked anew at acost of $1,100. Hope cemetery at New Woixester, comprising fiftyacres, was purchased for $1,855. The city debt was increased $3,088 in1851, and $6,928 in 1852, bv necessary and justifiable expenditures. Under the charter of the city in 1848, the municipal year began thefirst Mondav in April. In 1850 an act of the Legislature providedthat after the vear 1851 it should begin the first Monday in Mavor Bacon served only twenty-one months in com-pleting his two terms. It was his good fortune to welcome thedistinguished Hungarian patriot, Louis Kossuth, who visited the cityApril 26, 1852, receiving here as he did throughout the country agrand ovation. Kossuth rode in procession to the Common, where hewas introduced to the pe
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