Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-05-27
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THE health authorities are to be COM
mended for the efforts that are being |
made to give the town a thorough |
cleaning before the advent of warm |
weather. 1t is big undertaking, but |
will be successful, if people who believe |
that cleanliness is next to godliness only
cooperate with the authorities and
compel the careless and slovenly ones to
at least obey the laws pertaining to pub
lie health. Sanitary Inspector Moses,
particularly, should be assisted in his
work. Back yard nuisances are comS
mon in Waterbury and are among the
most prolific causes of disease. The
city ordinance, if memory serves me,
provides that garbage shall be kept in
covered cans. This order is openly vio-
lated in hundreds of instances. The
writer has in mind one instance where
cases of typhoid fever and malaria can
be traced to an uncovered barrel into
| which garbage was dumped and which
| rain and summer suns converted
into an abominable mass. The sanitary
| inspector when appealed to caused the
nuisance to be abated, but hardly had
his back been turned when return was
| made to the same disgusting state of
| affairs. If there be any virtue in the
law governing nuisances the writer is
going to find it out during the coming
summer in the case in question, unless
| there is a radical reform. If you know
of a nuisance notify Inspector Moses.
| Your neighbor may not like it, perhaps,
but self preservation is the first law of
nature and the enmity of a neighbor
who is at home among filth is more to
be desired than doctors and under
1 takers bills. This may be putting the
case little strongly, but it is the only
remedy.
THERE is nothing in the wide wide
world SO touching as pretty
young lady's confidence when she
approaches a crowded horse car.
It may be so full of men and
women that the outside layer has
to be tied on with a string, but that
doesn't matter. She trips up as sweet
as a rose-shes got to be or the snap
won't work-and gives one mute, APP
pealing look at the masculine crowd.
|, 1t settles the business, at least it did in
|. ond particular instance, on Bank street
the other day. Every man rose as one
and offered her a seat. She picked
out the best one, sat down in such 6
! way that she occupied two, thanked the
, donor, and paid no further attention tC
anybody. She simply sat there the res
, of the trip with nothing on her mind
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A NEW law in regard to marriage Ii
censes goes into effect July 1 and is al
improvement upon the present go-as
: you please system. 1t provides that tn
license will not only be compelled t.
o Ipay, but also to leave his 0
her autograph, not necessarily for pub
s LEGATION, but as a guarantee of goot
faith. Heretofore applicants for
: license have been sworn, but no recor'
has been made of the oath. Under tina
: system minors could take oath that the
had attained the proper age, but if tn
+ question was afterwards raised ther
It was no record of the oath, and tn
a registrar had no protection. When tn
r the new law goes into effect the form O
l. the oath will be printed on the marriag
q license, and the applicant will be com
> PEELED to sign it. In this manner tn
b person making false statement as t
any of the questions asked by tn
|, registrar, can be convicted of perjury
% The fee for a license after July will b
IS 81 instead of fifty cents.
g THE resolution making an approprit
- ton for an investigation by the stat
board of health into the sewer problem
IOL ChS ANduSdGuCh FdllSy LII
with an unexpected obstacle in tn
}. house, on Wednesday. 1t had pr.
viously passed the senate. Which leaG
}" the Ansonia Sentinel to observe: Whe
taken up in the house Mr. Gum move
3 to strike out the appropriation, an
e almost before the redoubtable Sax
knew what had struck him the motto
rs prevailed. In support of his motion NJ
r. Gum expressed, in effect, the sentimer
II that if Waterbury wanted to find out il
r sewer possibilities it might put up til
1t money and do it of its own accord. A
amended the resolution now goes bac
D. to the senate and it is believed will t
n concurred in. The next time Waite
d bury sets out to test the ''selfish" dispt
r sition of its neighbors it might prof
q ably abar don ''the still hunt idea an
'r confer with them in an honorable wa
= about those undertakings that affeo
d their material interests. Men, like an
II mails, may be led to water, but it
n sometimes difficult to compel them
r drink of it.