The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . rnrailroads with the Union station, was completed in 1876. 1876 was the year of the nations centennial, and Worcester enteredinto the spirit of the occasion with ardor. A grand celebration washeld July 4, and the Centennial oration was given by Honorable Ben-jamin F. Thomas, a native of the place, and a grandson of the patriotprinter, Isaiah Thomas. ADMINISTRATION OF CHARLES B. PRATT. Three terms — from January i, 1S77. to January 5, iSSo. In December, 1876, Charles B. Pratt,- Democrat, received 3,653 votesfor mayor to
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . rnrailroads with the Union station, was completed in 1876. 1876 was the year of the nations centennial, and Worcester enteredinto the spirit of the occasion with ardor. A grand celebration washeld July 4, and the Centennial oration was given by Honorable Ben-jamin F. Thomas, a native of the place, and a grandson of the patriotprinter, Isaiah Thomas. ADMINISTRATION OF CHARLES B. PRATT. Three terms — from January i, 1S77. to January 5, iSSo. In December, 1876, Charles B. Pratt,- Democrat, received 3,653 votesfor mayor to cast for Joseph H. Walker, Republican. The city debt in 1877 was $2,492,300. The expenditures in partwere as follows: Fire Department, $39,760; highways, $50,594: police,$45,289; salaries, $21,442. A Board of Commissioners of the Jaques Fund was constituted thisyear. The Board of Health was established. Mounted police were in service during the year. The floating island in Bell pond was removed at an expense of$2,758. *See sketch in Biographical Department. «rx. FRANK H. KELLEY. The Worcester of 1898. 59 The railrnad tracks on the Common were removed November 21, 1877. In 187S the debt was $2,509,200. The expenditures for schoolsamounted to $142,809: for highways, $50,982. The Winslow streetschool-house was built. Hope eemeterv was enlarged ten or twelveacres, and the remains in the Mechanic street Ijurial-ground mostlyremoved thither; 1,116 bodies were taken from the old ground. The construction of the Island sewer was undertaken, and $104,410expended. In 1879 there were 142 miles of public streets and 55 miles of privatestreets; 19 stone arch bridges, 16 wooden bridges, and 2 iron bridges;690 gas lamps and 756 gasolene lamps; expense of lighting streets,$27,298; ]] miles of main and distributing water-pipes, which had costwith reservoirs, etc., $1,250,000; water revenue in 1879, $73,296; sewer. The Island sewer was completed at a cost of $203, expens
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