Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-07-15
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Stray Leaves From a Reporters Note
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stray Leaves From . Reporters Note
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 THE experiment made by Brer Wana- maker, late postmaster general, in pos tai cards, proved a failure, and it has been decided to abandon the three sizes for single and reply cards. The size will be that used by the countries com prising the International Postal union. The ladies card, so called, hardly paid for the cost of printing. In the first place, ladies do not use postal cards to any great extent, and when they do they usually have so much to say that the larger cards would better answer their needs than the delcate little ones prepared for their use.
 ATTORNEY TERRY, who, it is pre- stunned, speaks hv the book, is quoted as saying that the Waterbury Traction Co will never submit to the two per cent restriction imposed by the court of com | mon council. This is in the nature of 8 threat, and evidently means that unless the city recedes from it's position the electric road is thing of the far dis | tant future; and as it is not probable | that the present city fathers, or for that matter any council that may be elected | in Waterbury, will give away the val uable franchise asked by the horse rail | road people in fee simple. it is not quite | clear where we are at. Let me suggest | that the city fathers and the railroad | officials get together before the relations | between them are further strained and talk over the situation. As the case afraid of the other. A little diplomacy ought to right matters. We want an | electric road, but can live without fl unless those who are backing the project show a willingness to pay a share of the taxes like any other corporation. On the other hand it is admitted that for some years to come those who invest their money in the proposed electric road will receive no dividends. There fore care should be taken that the con | ditions imposed be not too severe. II the two per cent restriction is excessive let us have the figures to prove it. The | railroad magnates will never gain their point by sulking or threats.
 THE absent minded man makes some | very laughable mistakes, surely. 1 have heard and read of his errors many 8 time, but case that came under my notice the other day was as funny as any of them. There is on South Mair street prominent business man wh' formerly lived on C. street, but foI more than year and half he has been living in another section of the city Last Thursday a messenger boy ap peared at the door of his former resi- dence with a note addressed to his wife The lady who now resides in the houst told tLe boy that no such person lived there, and suggested that he take it tC the store of the husband of the lady tC whom te note was addressed The boy opened his eyes wide. smiled anC said, Why, just came from the t pre it was MT - who has sent the note tt his wife" The boy was directed to the present residence of the lady. and h, meandered up the street whistlinl "AfteI the Ball"
 A SMALL fortune awaits the discovere of good building sand in the vicinity O the new reservoir at the Branch" In Iquestion of getting sand is a very per plexing one and looks as if it would he big item of expense Tn the constructing of the large dam.