Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-03-11
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 THE writer pleads guilty of being in I directly responsible for the strained re lation between members of the board of | road commissioners. In a conversation | with a member of the board about | municipal affairs in general the matter | turned to the cost of making and main | taining roads, and figures were given to \ the writer which, if correct, would | warrant the adoption of a different | policy in regard to crushing stone from | that pursued last season. Comm issioner | Kelley declares that 1t cost the city 1411 | for crushed stones, delivered in Water bury, while Commissioner Coughlan ! maintains that this figure is excessive, | the actual cost being only $1 ,243 per | ton. Each is terribly in earnest and MT | Kelley answers the question why he did | matter before now, by saying that not | until a few weeks ago did he know what 1t cost per ton to crush the stone, ! and he calls public attention to the ! figures now not to find fault with what had been done in the past, but to stimu- late the board to profit by the experi- ence of the last year. The writer stated the case of Goth sides, and yet no satisfactory conclusion has been arrived at. It is to be hoped that the board itself will take hand in the matter at the next meeting and let us know where we are at.
 IT is very annoying to be obliged to sit through performance at the opera
 house without a program, especially kwhen a play burdened with the double jointed Russian names in stMy Official Wife' is on the boards. There
 was paucity of play bills at the enter
 tainment Wednesday night and hap pened to be one of the late corners, of which there were many who were de- knied the pleasure of reading KeHy's kpoetic effusion between the acts. The cost of an extra hundred or two of pro- kgrams would be a mere bagatelle com pared to the satisfaction of knowing that all were provided. Let us hope that the kofficial programmer will stick a pin here.
 A BILL which if passed will do away
 with what is known as "suit'' clubs,
 was introduced in the legislature yes
 terday by Mir House of Manchester. It
 provides that any person who shall
 form any club or association for the dis kposal of goods, wares of merchandise, the same to be disposed of by lottery. kdrawing or chance, or who shall solicit
 any other person to join or associate Together for the purchase or acquisition of any goods, wares or merchandise in any such manner aforesaid, shall be fined twenty dollars, or imprisonment not more than six months or less than thirty days.
 SOME people have queer notions as to 1. khow newspaper should be conducted, land peep into an editors book of notes hwould reveal many phases of human mature. "Keep it out of the paper" is a Vstereotyped request, when Git" refers to
 reason for complying with the petition |, Ibe given it is very often con. 8 Iplied with. However, when the r pardoned one asks Chow much | Hit costs" after an item of this nature is killed. the newspaper man :. feels like doing the one who would 5 Rmake of him blackmailer, great bodily ,- hinjury. If a piece of news is sup ' pressed it is not for money considera ! kronage. Always remember this wher .' hyou approach the news factory. Int s Hman who thinks a paper cannot be TUT a without his support ought to go off anC ,- Nstay awhile; when he comes back h' if will find that half the people didn' d know he was gone and the other hal a didn't care cent. The man who call o the editor names and stops his pape a will invariably borrow his neighbor' Q paper, or sneak around the corner ant ,s buy copy from a newsboy as ex-Gov if ernor Bulkeley has been doing since h. " "stopped" the Hartford Times ant o Courant because they did not submi o proofs of matter in their columns for hi ;Ss kapproval. The readers of live news ,e hpaper are not of one mind, and whel ro you see an item that grates on your sen 70 abilities remember that perhaps a. pleased a thousand others.
 AT recent apron and necktie sociabl IS in Concordia hall a young lady iron r. Brooklyn was so enamored of a certaiI r. young gentleman that she would talk -e no chances of having anyone else for 8, Ipartner. Her plan was to give thi a lyoung man a necktie to match he d Iapron, and then she would place in tn l. box a tie of some other color. She tol' 1t her companions of her proposed trick ?. however, and they resolved on a counte 70 trick. The envelope which was to b' ot lplaced in the box was marked with he is name without her knowledge. The frs l" part of her arrangement worked like D. charm, and she stood in her place in tn le Igrand march with the gentleman of he
 choice, chatting pleasantly, when tn of lparty who had drawn her tie, properl, l. countersigned, walked up and claimed n her. There was no way out of it an' le Ishe had to go with the "mean, hatefu