Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-18
CITY NEWS.
ocRAT "wants" pay,


 morning on a short business trip.
 Battalion drill at the armory this evening. Guard mount will begin at 7:45. Robert Irving, baby boy, gladdened 2 the home of Mir and Mrs Otis Betts this morning.
 The case against Marcus M. Gilbert, who was taken to Wolcott yesterday, was continued until this afternoon at 2 o'clock. The committee having charge of the proposed temperance campaign in this city have decided not to bring T. E. Murphy, the temperance orator, here until fall. No business was done at the meeting of the common council last eve ing ex- cept to adjourn until next Monday even ing. The bills relating to the water supply it is expected will be passed this | week. It has been decided by the manager to secure as many of the members of the old "Inside Track" company as possible, in which Mir Bryon made his greatest success before he secured "The Plunger." In this case the company will be one of the best on the road.
 Thomas Kearsley succeeds E. NJ. Humstone as general master mechanic OI the NeW EuSldHu IdllIOduy entering upon his duties this morning. Mir Kearsley is an able railroad man having been superintendent of the shops of the Philadelphia & Reading railroad. | H. M. Loomis, late junior partner in the firm of R. l.. Burr & Go, publishers of the Holland County Leader of Rock vile has accepted position on the staff of the American, and began his new duties to-day. Mir Loomis will be remembered as former reporter for the Republican.
 Rev L. w. Holmes and wife, who are about to remove to Cannon, Conn, where Mir Holmes has peen assigned as pastor of the Methodist church, ten dered farewell reception to the mem- bers of St Pauls church, at the resi- dence of Horace French, 34 West Farm street, last evening.
 Benjamin Winchester, father of W. w. Winchester, a former shoe merchant ) on East Main street, is an inmate of the New Britain town home. He will be 90 years of age if he lives until June. He is the son of a sire who fought in the revolutIon. MT Winchester is in very feeble health at present and will hardly survive much long CT.
 The local branch of the Connecticut Indian association met yesterday after !, noon at the residence of Mrs o. F, Chapin, 35 Fairview street. A commit tee consisting of Mrs F. E. Castle, Mrs D. F. Webster, Mrs Jesse Miner, Mrs A IS. Chase and Mrs c. F. Chapin was ap pointed to arrange for some kind of ar Entertainment at the early fall meeting
 During the month of March Genera Superintendent E. B. Baker of the Southern New England Telephone G Q metallic circuit. With this change Q more than one half of the 6,000 sub scribers of the telephone company art now served with metallic circuit . lowing to Mir Bakers work the Southern New England Telephone Co is said tC have a more perfected service than any other telephone organization.
 The Brass City drum corps, the Ger
 man band and L'Union St Joseph mad, short street parade last evening before the opening of the French fair. Another
 big crowd gathered in the hall for ar evening's amusement. Beaulieu anC ISynnott presented their laughabl, Ispecialties and Cadot's balancing feat.
 were as clever as usual. No 5,96S wa
 the ticket winning the door prize.
 Fifty-nine natives of sunny Italy reached the confines of the city las
 evening on the o'clock train after hay
 ing spent the winter months in the land of the grape and olive. Last fall these  M earnings, to spend the good American N dollars they had dug out of our public
 works among friends in their own coun try, and are again with us to accumu
 late another pile. No taxes, no interest
 in public matters, mere birds of passage
 they come with the first breeze of the , warm spring and are away at the ap o proach of frost and snow,
 Last week it was announced that - MaRN Nk.r.s hS~,~ . A. | greatly advanced in price and now tho ] statement is made that boots and shoes are also to be higher. The leather trust v which includes 75 per cent of the manu J lecturers and is backed by $75. .000. 900 s has advanced the price of leather, anC k the boot and shoe manufacturers vii l. have to follow suit A local dealer saiG II yesterday that he did not think any oi j the shops would shut down tempo
 rarily on account of over production This was done about a year ago. Int
 retailers will probably have to advance
 their price for fall goods.
 Secretary Lindsley of the state board of health will venture no conjecture about the fate of the health bill that il
 now before the legislature. He ex
 plained yesterday. though, that the bill
 if made Q law, will not affect New Ha
 ven, Waterbury. Bridgeport and other PAaSco having ClIy CnhEleESS tndG lC VII
 affect only the towns lacking the inner
 municipal wheel of a charter. 'Tht , bill, he said, provides for the appoint ment of eight county officers-one fol each county-and for a subordinate Id officer in each town that has no charter D. All the county officers, it is suggested should be lawyers. How this sug st gestion, however, will be treated by tht
 general assembly, is a topic of mucl doubt to the advocates of the bill Tn,
 town officers should be men of wisdom in sanitation"
 Subscription tickets for the May
 music festival are going with a rusi
 and those who have not yet bough
 would do we'll to do so at once or they
 may be left. A special train will be TUT to Torrington after the evening concert Seventy subscription tickets have al ready been disposed of in that place Naugatuck, also, will be we'll repre- sented. The chart for the exchange o HzA a