The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . r Harringtons administrationthan for manv vears previous. About $800,000 worth of propertywas acquired bv the citv during the years 1890-92, in addition in theordinarv increase in the building of graded school-houses, etc. Thisincluded the English high school, the ncM Public Library building,and the Colton estate, which was purchased as an addition to the CityHospital. ADMINISTRATION OF HENRY A, MARSH. Three terms — from January 2. 1S93, to January 6, 1896. Henrv A. ;Marsh* was elected mayor in December, 1892, the Demo-crat
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . r Harringtons administrationthan for manv vears previous. About $800,000 worth of propertywas acquired bv the citv during the years 1890-92, in addition in theordinarv increase in the building of graded school-houses, etc. Thisincluded the English high school, the ncM Public Library building,and the Colton estate, which was purchased as an addition to the CityHospital. ADMINISTRATION OF HENRY A, MARSH. Three terms — from January 2. 1S93, to January 6, 1896. Henrv A. ;Marsh* was elected mayor in December, 1892, the Demo-cratic candidate being James E. Estabrook. In 1893 the vote for was practicallv unanimous. Webster Thayer was the unsuc-cessful Democratic nominee in 1894. In 1893 the valuation was $83,748,600; the tax rate, $, and theamount of taxes assessed $1,148,450. The expenditures in variousdepartments were as follows: Schools, $369,109; highways, $170,120;Fire Department, $128,963; police, $111,177; street lights, $79^057; See sketch in Biographical HENRY A. MARSH. The Worcester of 1898. 71 City Hospital, $29,589; the net funded debt of the citv November 30,1893, amounted to §2,505,974, showing a decrease of $94,929 duringthe year. The sinking funds on the 30th of November amounted t(.)§1,548,998, a net increase of $141,1 15 during the year. The seventeentrust funds amounted to $321,035. The new charter of the city, the outcome of a strong recommendationby Mayor Marsh in his inaugural, was granted by the Legislature in June,1893, and was accepted bv the voters at the city election distinctive feature is in the separation of the executive and thelegislative functions of the government. There was included in it asystem of minority representation in the Board of Aldermen, and theestablishment of a board of liquor license commissioners. The ques-tion of minority representation, which was strongly opposed, was againsubmitted to the voters at the Sta
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