Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-10-08
YOUNG MEMS INSTITUTE.
The Annual Meeting Last Night and
Election of Omcers.

The Annual Meeting Last Night and
Election of Omcers.
The annual meeting of the Young Mems
institute was held last evening. The re-
ports showed the institute to be in very
prosperous condition, its patronage being
still increasing and its patrons well salts
fed. The attractions offered in books,
periodicals, newspapers, magazines, ref
erence works, etc., is kept up to a high |
standard, Pierce N. WEIGH was elected
director to serve two years, unexpired term
of the late R. B. Cowles. All the old d.
rectors were re-elected except E. P. Ar
vine who declined denomination. Ex-
Mayor Henry S: Peck was elected his sue
cessor. At subsequent meeting will elect |
officers.
ODD MIR. JOCELYN WATERS.
He Has Had a Great Many Adven-
lures, Which Have at Last Broken |
Him Down. |
from the New York SUM-
Jocelyn Waters was born unfortunate.
He is not yet sixteen years old. His faith |
er, who died in 1879, had been a stock
broker and had lost his all on Black Fri
day. His mother lived with two other
children at 191 Belmont avenue, Jersey
City, Through her acquaintance with
President Norvin Green, of the Western
Union company, her daughter had OBJ
tanned place in one of the departments
of the company. When Jocelyn went to
school ne fell one day and injured himself.
Several years after that he picked up a
strong telescope lens one day and at high
noon stared through it at the sun. His
mother noticed that the pupils of his eyes
we're dilated to twice their natural size,
and that the iris could hardly be seen.
She sent him to physician, but Jocelyn's
eyes never again resumed their former ap-
pearance. Then Jocelyn went to the West
ern Union company and was placed in the
auditors department as an Office boy. He
was then nearly thirteen years of age.
Mr.. Van Every, the auditor, sent him on
an errand to Brooklyn one day, remarking:
tBut I'm afraid you won't find your
way"
Jocelyn threw back his shoulders, and
with an expression of vast experience, re-
piled:
"What's the matter with askinga"
Jocelyn did not report for duty one day,
| and when he came the next day he said
| that as he was going home the night be-
| fore last he was sandbagged and robbed.
| at had headache yesterday" he added,
| as if sandbagging was an every day occur
| renee, "and SO I thought [ would stay at
| home"
| About this time he fell desperately in
| love with pretty girl who worked in one
| of the departments, and although she was
his senior by some eight years his heart
beat high with hope. He would write her
dozen notes day and drop them on her
/ opI NIT
sigh, would return to his work. 1t hap
pened one day that Jocelyn went up in the
| elevator with the idol of his heart, when,
to his great disgust, the elevator man pat
ted him on the head and said:
"Well, sonny, when are you going to
wear long breechesa"
Jocelyn just glared at him, but said
nothing. He read to himself the placard
in the elevator which said "Please re-
port all complaints against the elevator
man to Superintendent -" and ten
minutes later he stood in the presence OF
this superintendent, cap in hand, and said
"Sir, have come to complain of the ell
evator man. He is altogether too familiar.
He patted me on the head to-day and
called me sonny"
The superintendent said he would 'rlook
into the matter" Jocelyn answered
gravely: every we'll, sir. Please see
that you do"
A week after that Jocelyn was absent
from work for five days. When he came
back he said calmly:
'T was ruptured the other night The
crowd on the ferryboat trampled on me
and was confined to my bed"
Shortly after that the little fellow went
through the building and told everybody
that he proposed to give an entertainment
for the benefit of poor old woman il
Jersey City, in whom he had interested
himself. Jocelyn wrote out ticket
price twenty five cents, emitting the bear
er to admission to the auditors old room
to listen to a concert on the flute. HI
| printed great many copies of it on the
hectograph and sold nearly twelve dollars
, worth. The concert took place on a Sat
, urday afternoon after working hours
Jocelyn stood at the door and collected the
! tickets, and when the audience had all ar
, rived he mounted the platform, with
, cheap flute in his hand, and said:
, Ladies' and gentlemen, shall perform
NV Country tits of Thee and Nearer, Ny
God, to Thee"
, Then no performed. The audience
couldn't tell which he played first, bu
Jocelyn didn't mind that. Some of tn,
, men began to guy him and he stopped
playing and said:
"The gentlemen will please leave thu
room"
He said it SO seriously that they al
burst out laughing, upon which he said:
Ladies' and gentlemen, the Performance,
, is over. I shall soon give another concert
when l hope to do even better"
A little more than year ago Mr.. Var
Every came to the conclusion that Jocely1
ruptured himself and was sandbagget
with great regularity, and asked hin
whether he didn't feel too sick to worl
steadily. Jocelyn said he did, and after
J shaking hands with Mr.. Van Every and
doffing his cap to the pretty typewriter
he walked out of the Office.
A few days after that President Green't
Office boy handed him card ON which was
printed, evidently on toy press, "Mr
Jocelyn Waters" Mr. Green is a very
the names of all his employees. So he sale
, to his Office boy:
"Show the gentleman in"
The door opened and in walked Mr.
Jocelyn Waters and seated himself in the
big armchair. Mr.. Green was nonplussed
81 believe we have met BEFORE" said Mr.
Waters. 81 have come to present claim
against this company, Mr.. President.
was discharged without notice or explana.
ton, and believe months salary is due
me-"
MI. Ufeen, recovering from his amaze
ment, promised to investigate the matter,
and bowed his quaint visitor out of the
| Office.
That was the last they saw of Jocelyn
about the Western Union building. A
few days ago Jay Gould received letter
from Mrs Waters, saying that her son
Jocelyn was blind as the result of injuries
which he had received at the hands of
some of the boys in the Western Union
building.
To Sun reporter who called on Mrs.
Waters she said:
CATER he left that place he worked in
several other places, but was always fall
ing sick. He became very nervous and
gradually during the year he lost his sight.
He says that some of the Western Union
boys held him head downward over bal
ustrade and injured his spine, and that a
man held him head downward over dy-
namo and frightened him. Ho is so now
that he cannot move about, and l am
afraid he will die of paralysis"
Everything is booming for the grand fair
of the conductors at the armory next
week.