The examiner., 1886-07-24
WATERBURY.

WATERBURY.
We are glad to announce that tn.
masons as we'll as carpenters quit work a.
FIVE o'clock on Saturdays. This shows
what benefits labor can rightfully secure
if united and reasonable. The EXAMINER
is glad to have helped to bring about this
real reform.
Ministers and lawyers are having theil
vacation, after telling fbs all the year
through, but editors and carpenters have
to work the year round and hardly pay
| their living expenses. A clear conscience,
though, is better than week at Manhatt
an Beach, and an honest life discounts q
month at Newport.
Lake, the druggist, has on exhibition a
mammoth grasshopper. labelled as 'Found
on the farm of A. w. Lake" 1t is about
three inches long and is fat enough and
frisky enough to fight tom-cat, success
fully. Lake has, he tells us, some choice
building lots left in the vicinity of his farm,
which he is now prepared to dispose of at
| low rates, owing to the crop of elephantine
grasshoppers which present indications
promise. A couple of these "insects," of
like proportions with the one in his store,
would furnish 9 heavy meal for the aver
age spring chicken.
One of our respectable German citizens,
Mr.. Heiser, recently had little difficulty
| in the Police Court. 1t seems that he and
a fellow countryman, one Otto Neitsch,
married two sisters. Neitsch works in the
Watch shop, and a few days since, while a
boss in the same shop, Meerlander, was
pleasantly chatting with Mrs. Neitsch, her
brother in-law, Mr.. Heiser. reprimanded
her. AS a result the police court COM
plant. Herr Heiser is one of our most re-
spected German citizens, and Judge Brad
street recognized his good character by
finding at once not guilty.
THE EXAMINER is friend to all honest
working horses as we'll as working men and
it again calls attention to the shameless
way in which the lazy drivers of lumber
teams ride on their loaded wagons up our
steep hills. We should like to see agent
Quigly of the Humane Society arrest some
of these rascals as we trust that the po-
lice court would give them good sized
fine. The lumber companies, however,
could stop it if they really tried. Let them
discharge every driver found guilty and
the practice would cease, and every lover
Of horses would rejoice. A patient horse
may know more than you do even if he
cannot talk back.
The police justly claim that they ought
not to be held accountable for the awning
nuisance, as the matter is under the con-
troll of the street department. The street
inspector Bronson, has full swing in the
matter and we hope he will see to it that
they don't swing SO low. We fully realize
that our city officials need "shade' and we
are not surprised that as election day APP
proaches they like to keep every thing,
even our streets, "shady.' Still, these
low awnings are nuisance, and though
when he passes them, the tall mayor may
be willing to ''stoop to conquer" there are
those in the community who pay taxes and
have right to walk erect upon our streets.
Some months ago THE EXAMINER dis
cussed the merits of the case of ex-Alder-
man Smith VS.. General S. w. Kellogg. At
the same time suggestions were thrown out
that, in our judgment, Mr.. Kellogg was in
the right and would win. We said the
same thing in the Kendrick divorce case
Our predictions have come true in both in
stances Last week the supreme court of
the state decided in General Kellogg's favor,
thus upholding Judge Phelps Judgment last
Thursday. Mr.. Kellogg is certainly to be
of his own church and his own political
party. His fortunes were safer in the
hands of strangers than Gin the house of
his friends" Like oil in water, the right
will always come out on the top.
Mr.. Lester E. French has recently been
appointed a boss in one department of the
American Flask and Cap company. Hardly
had he been installed in his new position
when horizontal" reduction of wages
took place. Whether he is responsible for
this or the company which he serves THE
EXAMINER man does not know, nor is it i'm
portant. The fact remains that the cutting
down of wages is, in this instance, peculiarly
unjust. Girls who have worked there for
Mt Of oh nd
themselves reduced to 81 per week. Every
thing else Is in like proportion. This does
not allow enough for the ordinary needs of
humanity. The laboring girl can not pay
for board, room rent, fuel, washing, and
clothes, on any such allowance. Even from
this point of view it is unjust. In the case
in point it is more than unjust-it Is OPP
pressive. The peculiar nature of the work
in this establishment makes it peculiarly
dangerous to life and limb. The liability to
explosions in handling gunpowder, and in
filling caps and cartridges, entities the young
women who are compelled to engage in such
hazardous employment to the utmost consid
Grafton. It is to be hoped that the company
will look at this thing fairly, and restore
wages to living rates.
The recent trial of the Metropolitan Life
Insurance company against Drs. Melon
aid and O'Hara, and Superintendent Nc
Hardy, against Golf and James f. Lurmy
has caused a big fiutter in the community.
This connection arises from the fact that
hundreds of policies are held in this city in
this and other companies by poor people,
who, from small earnings and wages, pay
irresponsible and tricky insurance agents
weekly premiums on the lives of friends
and relatives. These people now are dis
turbed because they fear If loss occurs