The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-06-26
WATERBURY,.


always holds out a kindly and benevolen
hand will truly miss her presence.
Two chicken thieves were sent to jai
on Tuesday by the police court and Their
are two more to follow, we are informed
1t is worse in this latitude to rob hen
roost than to despoil the taxpayers, ant
the Field street bridge may take a coo
100000 with impunity but the chickens
must be protected at all hazards.
Judge Webster and Gen. Kellogg ar.
"away down in Maine" fishing with party
of friends. QuidniEe says they take int
the woods canned goods with lots of salt
and smoked fish, but this is probably
malicious, they are experts enough te
notwithstanding the numerous bites OF
mosquitoes and sand flies that abound in
| that region.
The English society known as the Sons OF
| st. George give their first annual sports and
pastimes in true English style, Monday,
July 9th, at the Waterbury base ball
grounds. The entertainment will b. in
charge Of George Hosker, Jr., and he is an
experienced hand. If the public can not
get amply repaid in enjoyment by attend
ing, it will not be either Georges fault or
that of his deserving society.
Even exchange is no robbery, and there
fore nothing will happen our young lawyer
who brought home another mans horse
from New Haven the other evening. But
he has had to promise supper to his
brethren of the bar to keep them from con-
doing with him. It was really a good
joke for the young barrister is quite near
sighted and did not dream that he had not
his own Bucephalus until he had the fast
trotter installed il his barn in Waterbury.
A ''Blue Beard" or "What you call him, %
from this city, recently had a chance, as
the train from Boston. This "Iago,"
whether he manages shop or not, ought
to be ashamed of his lack of decorum On
the trip the lady met some friends of the
K. of l.. who talked to her on the Labor
problem" The Waterbury capitalist for
got that he was only a ''common" man in
the presence of true womanhood. He en-
deavored to talk with her, but met with a
merited rebuke.
James G. Britton, of Hartford, spent
Monday night very enjoyably in visiting
Washington assembly 1861, Knights of La
Dor, of Waterbury, and entertained the
members by his experiences as delegate to
the recent Cleveland convention. While
here he was the guest of The EXAMINER
man. At breakfast Mr.. Britton remarked
the absence of butter from the table.
When informed, however, that THE EXAM
INER man found it life and death struggle
even to get bread without the butter, he
took in the situation and kindly said CAN
right"
The New York strike on the 3rd Avenue
horse railroad and the rest, have at last
reached US. Contagion is the popularity
of all epidemic diseases. The other day at
4:3O all the drivers, conductors, switch
men Eyes, even the horses) on the Water
bury Horse Railroad struck for higher pay
or something or another. AS result bust
ness is entirely suspended the whole length
of the line. The community is wild,-
not over the suspension-but over the
question, ''Is the horse railroad to be one
horse or tago horse 9" The strikers are de-
faint and defy both E. G. Lewis and ex-
Senator Turner.
''Honor to whom honor is due" Last
week a number of the employees of the
Waterbury Ring company circulated pc
tition asking for an allowance of nine hours
work on Saturdays. Every one signed the
application except two persons-one, a
farmer, who, after he gets his hay in, ex-
poets few hours work at the factory, and
the other, one George Roberts, (not the fire
commissioner who has his hands full with
Terror No. g.. The result of the applica-
David S. Plume said at once, eyes, if the
rest of our officers will agree" But the
good work did not end here. The Plume
and Atwood Manufacturing company, of
which Mr.. Plume is treasurer, at once,
without petition, adopted the same rule for
their hands. Such conduct is liberal and
just. The other manufacturers of Water
bury can well afford to follow this prece-
dent. Working men appreciate every
kindness shown them. They do not belong
to the aristocratic class, who, like Wander
bilt, can say "Tho public be damned"
They themselves form the bulk of the pub
lie, and they cannot be expected to desire
their own destruction eternally. Mr..
Plume and his associates have acted the
honorable and manly part in thus listening
to their request. It was not demand-it
was petition. The result shows that we
have one or two manufacturers in Water
bury who have an eye to humanity as we'll
as dividends.
The EXAMINER man does not take much
stock in baseball a profession. 1t is
good sport, but Chimes" and 'scores" and
"umpires" and "foul-tips" are below the
average decency of the American Republic.
We may be wrong, but this is our honest
belief. Take an example, For the past
few weeks. every decent journal in the
State has been filled with the doings of the
mines" of the Hartfords, Waterburys,
Jersey Citys, Newarks and what not
Who, in the name of conscience cares for
all this It gives the journals of the day
only chance to cell up" 1t is about on
a par with the cartoons on Cleveland's
marriage and the Kendrick divorce. Any
thing, the rule is to make up column.
The bulk of decent people in the United
States do not know 3rd base from 1st base,
and they do not care whether the pitcher
stands before the catcher or behind him.
Least of all do they remember how the
umpire decides. Journalism has reached a
low ebb when 1t fills its columns with such
trash, even if it happens to have as votar-
les the Waterbury American and Republi-
can. The time will come when no respect
able journal will give more than a line to
the so-called ''national' game. However,
as it is to-day, men get salary and rep
utation by it which they do not deserve.
The main. question with the ten year old
boy on the streets is "Who leads the
league?" Men of business and influence,
however, are meanwhile ignorant of the
fact that there is a league at all for any
purpose, except the Brass Association and
the United Gas company, ETC., for the
dividing of dividends. Of course Fred.
Brown and Guernsy Parsons and Tom
Hayes takes interest in these minor mat
ters; but, with the great public, this repu-
tation interferes with the reputation of the