The examiner., 1886-02-27
WATERBURY.

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 WATERBURY.
 A number of families have removed to Seymour to be employed in the Wooster Bros. Rolling mill. Some report As high as 175 families. Suffice it to say that truck loads of furniture are seen daily, moving toward the depot, which is not very en- couraging for householder or merchants of this city.
 The New Haven News Waterbury cor respondendent is giving out the campaign plan of the republicans for the fall of 1886. We are pretty sure that when Munson, Cowell, Turner & O. get the machine in running order in this section they won't make the News the sole repository of party secrets-not much.
 March 4th the General T. F. Meagher club will give their annual banquet in honor of the patriot Robert >EmmeI. Several speakers will be present. Every lover of human liberty has soft spot in his heart for Emmet, and despise the methods which brought him to his death. The world has but a few Emmets. Let the name of the patriot be rightly commemorated.
 The German Concordia society gave last week their regular masquerade. Judging from what those present tell us, we should say that the entertainment was very enjoy able. The managing committee, however, were too thoughtless and forgetful of their duties, and blundered to the last degree. As specimen it need only be said that, as usual, "complimentary" tickets were sent the members of the press, and the afore- said members, upon repairing to the ball with their wives, found no seats whatever prepared for them, nor any place provided among the regular attendants. This was wrong. The press did not ask for tickets. If necessary the representatives of the press could pay for them. If, however, they are sent as complimentary, they should mean a compliment not an insult. Next time a new committe will probably rectify this thing.
 We had occasion in more than one i'm stance to call attention to the raise last fall in the mayors salary, and to suggest to Mayor Boughton that, if he has proper re- gard for the workingmen and taxpayers, he will not draw the increase. He has not yet done so, but still it looks as if there was "a nigger in the fence" somewhere. Usu- ally the bills of the city are paid monthly. All the preceding mayors have drawn their pay at each monthly meeting of the board of finance. For some unaccountable reason Mayor Boughton has allowed his January bill to run over." Was it inadvertence? We can hardly think so, for every one
 
 not the true reason-(we put the question: that the mayor still expects to cling to the increase, and, in a moment when the watch dogs of the treasury are sleepy, nab his pay at the rate of $1 ,000? Far from us be the thought of doing His Honor injustice, even by insinuation, but every official will bear watching when the Mighty Dollar" is at stake.
 The New York Sun of last Sunday pre- sented half column of Waterbury news, headed with, Waterbury, the place where they do not have any strikes; and gave the information getting now so hackneyed that the workingmen of Waterbury owned their own homes. This talk is all very well for people who do not inhabit the homes of the workingmen themselves, which careful examination of the Sums correspondence column will convince the casual reader is not the case, that he is ev- idently Litchfield county man. They who occupy these model homes will see the demon of Q mortgage that overhangs with black wings these houses, will see the tax bill covering the property with an envious grasp, while the capitalist pays upon a much lower valuation, and at the present day will see the tenant obliged to look else where for work he cannot find here to sat- isfy, first, the demands of interest and taxes, and next, the support of the family. When he has turned his eyes upward and finds that many of Waterbury's citizens have no work to strike for higher wages from, then he will not wonder that there is no strikes in Waterbury.
 It is too bad that some men take more after the animals than the 'image of their Creator" With all his ability Daniel Web ster was said to look like a lion. Tilden is certainly the embodiment of the fox, but the past week Jean Jacques has shown a tendency to the lower order of animals, (which has made converts to Darwin in this non-scientific city), by exemplifying the characteristics of everyday swine. Some years ago the city had freshet. Dr. Jac- ques' cellar was flooded. Phoenix No. 1 pumped it out, and as a reward for several hours of work, small cask of beer was set up. The boys of Phoenix wanted to "make an honest penny" for the benefit of their company, which is a credit to the city. They secured, at great expense, the talent ed actress, Maude Granger, and she has played here all the week in the City hall Jean Jacques ehns the Peoples theatre, a sort of horse-stall, box eater enterprise | "down the road :" and he at once advertised heavily "Mugg's Landing" to beat the Phoe- nix boys. Competition may be just in ordi- nary business, but when a home organiza- | tion-a local fire company-which protects property and gives to the municipality its services, seeks to help it's own exchequer, this competition from resident is out of place, ill-timed, and not to be forgotten. As the captain says in Pinafore. '"Why, damme, it's too bad" Jean Jacques made mistake. The Phoenix boys play Frou- E'rou this afternoon and evening, and they should have full house.
 When it became known to the public how unpopular Alderman Ssxe had made him. self, as a natural consequence, many can didates for his official shoes presented them | selves; among others is ope=armed Edward Crosby, a Brooklyn gentleman. When we say one-armed we do not mean that he l was crippled in the service of his country, and that hv srch sarxica he would be en-