Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-04-29
The @enncrat,
CITY NEWS.

Mary Green, of this clty.-Hartford Times.
 T Phoenix Fire company are making great preparations for the cele- bration of their fortieth anniversary on the evening of Monday, May 6.
 Remember the centennial sociable at Music hall tonight. Hallam will fnr- nish music and Prof Futile will prompt. A good time is guaranteed.
 George M. Condit, aged 57 years, died of consumption at his home on Hill street yesterday. His funeral will take place at D. m. tomorrow.
 Ticket Agent Sackett of the Naugatuck division sold over 100 tickets to New York this morning. The total number of tickets sold up to two o'clock was over $50.
 Louis Meyer is Ill town to-day and re- ports that the Tennessee Transportation company, in which several Waterbury capitalists are interested, is doing large business.
 The 6:05 train out of Waterbury this morning was a through train to New York and was much appreciated by the large number who went to attend the centennial celebration.
 At St Ann's bazaar this evening Bar celona Council K. of c. will assist in a body. A noteworthy feature of this evenings stage programme will be an ex- hibition of drumming by Master Louis Platt, only 6 years old, pupil of drum major c. E. Pardon
 Louis James and Marie Wainwright finished their joint starring engagement Friday night in Baltimore. Hereafter they will be seen separately. Marie Wainwright sails on April 30, alone, on the City of New York. the bridal state Df al hox for her.
 dress to large audience at the M. E. church last evening. He spoke upon Responsibility and the whole blame of the liquor traffic rested with the voters and not with the saloon keepers. This evening he breaches at the Grand street chapel.
 While coming up South Main street Saturday evening a wheel from one of Norton's hacks rolled off and the horses : started to run. The driver held to the lines and stopped the horses before any hack was lady, who was more fright ened than hurt.
 All arrangements for the opening of the fair of Evangeline circle, c. of F., at City hall tomorrow evening have been completed. The attraction for the first night will be a drill by sixteen ladies under the direction of Captain M. J. Colloty. Thursday evening:Co E, Hiber- nian Rifles will attend the fair in a body. A club of fifty employees of the watch factory invested one dollar apiece in the Louisiana state lottery this month and now the subscribers are kicking because only one of the tickets drew prize and that paltry S15. The amount of busi ness done by the lottery in this city is astonishing.
 Notwithstanding the law which com 'pels children to attend school who are under fourteen years of age, 1t IS true that there are quite a number under that age who are employed in many ot the local factories. Widowed mothers and parents who are both poor and ill depend in a great measure upon the small wages their children earn for theil existence, and a rigid enforcement o1 the school law would place many fami lies upon the charity of the town.
 The death of Willard Perkins leaves M J. Tinkham of South Main street tn. fattest man in Waterbury and withou much doubt one of the heaviest men il the state. hast Friday MT Tinkhan dropped a nickel in the slot and h' weight was registered at 3004 pounds His weight is constantly increasing, al
 
 exercise. It is strange but true that it il only within the last fifteen years that M Tinkham began to wax fat. When ht was in the war he was one of the light est men in the company.
 The first annual concert and sociabl given by the Rogers & Brothers Benevo lent association, which was postponet from Friday night because of the in clement weather, was held at City hal Saturday evening and a pleasant night sport and enjoyment was the result led the grand march of 100 couples an( the F dances were pleasantly enjoye until the approach of the midnight hou warned the dancers that Sunday was i sight. The Amphion orchestra delight ed the merry party and gave excellen satisfaction, while 1. Uffendale a prompter sustained his claim to tha honor by his work as master of ceremo nies Henry Duggan of Dublin stree was the lucky winner of the gold watc offered as a chance prize to each pull chaser of a ticket.
 The Chinaman who conducts washe near the Monitor engine house on Ban street has been subjected to much ar noyance lately by small boys who COT gregate in the rear of his laundry an throw sand through the windows. Yes terday afternoon the proprietor wit several of his fellows started to build lath fence to keep out the boys. For while the occupants of the Italian board ing house in the next yard watched tn celestials al work, but finally they dec ded to stop the Sabbath dissertation an ordered the Chinamen to stop worl One of the latter retaliated by hittin an Italian on the head. For time thel was confusion. Chinamen, Italian sticks, hatchets and other weapons bein pretty we'll mixed up. No one was xii ed and the row was stopped before tl arrival of the police.
 The queer antics of Pole who W; indulging in his first horse car ride mao fun for the passengers on a Bank sire, car yesterday afternoon. He boarde the car in the Brooklyn district ar