Guided by such wise counsel and unquestionably inspired in very large measure by the advice and example of Corcoran. Walsh started to carve out his own political career. The great Wachusett Dam arfd Reservoir. an extensive engineering project which now furnishes metropolitan Boston with water was under construction at the time. Thousands of laborers were employed on the project and many of them were recent immigrants of Irish. Italian. and German stock who had been put to work under a form of the "padrone" system. They lived in barracks and shacks situated on or close to the project and worked at various tasks ranging from ordinary pickandshovel work to granite setting or mechanics.
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