Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-27
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CITYsNEWS.

Pearl of Savoy" at the opera house this evening.
 The Rev w. w. Bowdish returned to New York last evening.
 F. l.. Blanchard editor of the New Britain Herald, was in town to-day.
 Work has been commenced upon the cellar Of the new Clay street school house.
 John NJ. Kellogg, the South Main street piano dealer, is confined to his house by illness being threatened with typhoid fever.
 w. Ii. K. Godfrey, agent at the rail- road station at Naugatuck, will resign April 1. He will be succeeded by Ed ward E. HotchkisS, who has been chief clerk in the office.
 John Mccarthy, who resigned his pos ition as car inspector at the Naugatuck yards to go to Colorado, has returned after an absence of three weeks. Mir McCarthy did not like the country and will again take up his residence in this city.
 The marriage of Miss Helen A. Nor ton, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Nathaniel R. Bronson, of this city, took place at the home of the brides parents Mir and Mrs H. l.. Norton 653 Bedford avenue, Brooklyn, last evening. Mir Bronson is a member of the law firm of Terry & Bronson and will reside with his bride at 24 Pine street
 Gatfey's shorthand school will begin its spring term Monday, April 1. The school is situated in the Hoadley build ing, 49 Church street, New Haven, Conn. Over 100 young ladies and young men have been graduated and placed in re- sponslble positions during the past year. Now = the host fin,a fn send for catalogue.
 John (. Bradley, Richard M. Everit, W. A. Ensign, w. H. Dougal, Edward E. Branley, Nathaniel Stiles, James G. English, H. T. Sperry and Samuel E. Barney, committee of the members of the Lancasterian School association, will meet in a few days to decide on ar engagements for celebrating the birthday of John E. Lowell, April 23.-New Ha- ven Palladium.
 Speaking of the danger from fire in the new theatre of Jean Jacques at Birm- lngham the Ansonia Sentenel says In the Waterbury theatre of Jean Jacques, above the stage. automatic sprinkle1s are hxed and there is water pipe to which hose is always attached, so that in case of fire a stream can be turned on immediately. A fire escape should also be built on the north side of the building leading from the galleries to the ground
 At the special meeting of the road board last evening the matter of sweep ing the paved portions of Bank and South Main streets was discussed at length and Inspector Colley received some well deserved hard knocks. It was finally decided to let the work by contract, the city's sweeper to be used. Bids will be received on or before April lo at p. m. The city engineer was in structed to furnish the city attorney with proper grades for both approaches to the Baldwin street bridge. In regard to sidewalks on Martin, Baldwin and South Elm streets, ordered several years ago but which have never been laid. there was considerable discussion but no action was taken in the matter
 The Youn:, Folks Friend.
 A pleasant faced old gentleman. who looks as if he had forgotten as much as some people know about editing news papers, comes over from the peaceful shades of Newark HOW and then to mingle in the busy metropolitan whirl of which he was once an important figure. He is Noah Brooks, long time an editor of the Tribune, a conspicuous journalist in San Francisco during vigiiante times and one of the most popu- lar writers for children who weld Quills today. MT. Brooks is tall. well built man: his white hair has thinned out on top, his eyes keep their light. and his short, white side whiskers and mustache give him a venerable appearance. He is well over sixty and carries his age like major. As editor of The Newark Ad- vertiser AIr. Brooks continues the active intellectual work which has char acterized his life. He has given that Journal-onc of the oldest in the coun- try, by the way-a standing it was un- likely to get otherwise. Besides, in St. Nicholas and such periodicals, where one looks for the lighter touch and tho finer fancles, his name is always welcome, not only to the editors, but to hundreds of the little ones who have learned to look forward with eagerness to his stories for children.-New York World.