Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-02-15
CITY NEWS.

april Foor at the opera house this
evening.
Mr. and Mrs Thomas McGrath, 1,065
East Main street, are the happy parents
of baby boy.
Special meeting of the legal voters of
the center school district at 8 o'clock
this evening in the district court room.
The Misses Connors of No 915 South
Main street will hereafter have their
dressmakiug rooms at GO Bank street,
over Ellis book store.
The Consolidated road officials are
considering the advisability of reducing
the tariff on bicycles over the various
divisions of the road in the spring.
Weather Prophet James j. Vaughn
predicts storms for February 18th, 22d,
and Goth. Also for March I'd, 9Th, 9th,
11th, 10th and Gath, and says 1.-THE storms
will be accompanied with heavy rains"
There are advertised letters at the
postoffice for William Provost, Michael
DAILY, j. Walsh, r. j. Wolfe, William
Reynolds, Miss II. r. Williams and Miss
Venie Bayard.
Mr. and Mrs Jean Jacques were made
happy last night by the arrival of a
baby boy, who has already been named
in honor of Manager Jacques father,
the late DIR John j. Jacques.
John Fitzmaurice was arrested yester-
day while at work at Holmes, Booth &
Haydens, by Constable Brzezinski, for
non-payment of military tax. He was
threatened with removal to Jail and
settled for So.
Thomas Duff and Miss Mary Nc
Donald were married at the church of
the Immaculate Conception last Thurs
day by the Rev Father Kennedy. The
best couple were James A. Phelan and
Miss Katie Maloney.
Rev j. A. Mulcahy will repeat his
illustrated lecture on the "Passion
Play" recently delivered at Sepple's
opera house, WATERFOWL, on next Fri
day evening, for the benefit of st Johns
church. Several Waterbury people will
attend.
Frank P. Brett and Linford F. Root,
the commissioners on the insolvent es-
tate of Frank J. Emmett, filed their re-
port in the probate court this morning
Preferred claims amount to 1888. 10 and
common claims S2,252 %. The amount
of assets is $46S70.
DR. A. A. Crane, who has lived in
Hawaii and knows, corrects the New
York Tribune's pronunciation of the
name as heretofore quoted. He says it
is Hah-wy-ee, instead of Hay-wy-ee;
the accent being on the second syllable.
Patrick Mitchell of this city, who at
tempted suicide on February I in the
Compton house in New York, BIZ
asphy Xiation, pleaded guilty to the
otfense before Judge Cowing in the gen.
eral sessions yesterday and was sent to
the penitentiary for six months.
The following board of directors was
elected at the annual meeting of the
plnp1a ~ oo,>.
pany yesterday: L. j. Atwood, d. S
Plume, E. @. Lewis, E. NJ. Burial, w.
s. Atwood, Aaron Thomas, Thomaston;
r. II. Swayze and @. II. Tucker, New
York. This officers of the company
were then chosen by the directors as
follows: President, L. J. Atwood; secre-
tary, r. II. Swayze; treasurer, D. S.
Plume.
The dedication of the Odd Fellows
home at Fairview in Groton was the
occasion of grand lodge officers meet
ing in Bridgeport Monday afternoon.
The event will take place April Goth,
being the anniversary of the establish
ment of Odd Fellowship in this country.
Gen George NJ. Roadway will take part
in the dedication, as the commander of
the Patriarchs Militant. On Friday
evening of this week the grand lodge
officers will organize Israel Putnam
lodge at Putnam.
A map of the West Side Hill school
property, the land adjoining which it is
proposed to buy, and the street lines,
will be shown at the meeting of the
center school district tonight. The
building encroaches on property belong
ing to the Waterbury Savings bank, for
which 81 900 is asked, and the question
is, is it better to pay the price or cut off
portion of the building and perhaps
in addition be made the defendant in a
lawsuit. The district committee are
anxious for large attendance at the
meeting tonight, in order that the case
may be thoroughly understood and de-
cided on its merits.
Tickets for the lectures to be given in
the opera house by Mrs Lydia Mount
| ford, for the benefit of the hospital, on
the evenings of February %, "a and 25.
| are finding a ready sale. The subject
| of the first lecture will be: "Bedouins of
the Desert" This will be followed bv
"Homes and Haunts of Jesus" Mrs
Mountford has been enthusiastically re-
| ceived this season in Boston, Spring
| field, Hartford, New Haven and New
Britain. The impression made in New
Haven was so favorable that she gave a
| second series of entertainments. Mrs
Mounttord was born and brought I'D in
the city of Jerusalem. She speaks Eng
lish, French, German, Russian, Arabic
and several other Oriental dialects.
w. II. Rubey has just completed for
John ID. Fruin the finest marble tile
floor in the city of Waterbury. The
floor is laid in Mr. Fruin's wine room at
4oS west Main street and stands as a
sample of exquisite workmanship, of
which Mr. Rubey may be justly proud =.
The marble blocks are six inches square
and of three colors, red, white and blue,
so lnterspersed as to form UNIQUE
squares and figures. 1t is smooth as
glass and may be easily cleaned, is free
from dampness and all disagreeable
odors and adds wonderfully to the ap-
pearance of the surroundings. Water
bury people contemplating a beautiful
and lasting floor need go no further
than Mr. Rubey's workshop, 242 Bank
order.
After short drill last night. under
second Lieutenant Halpin, Company G
held its annual meeting. The re1ort