Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-05-09
CITY NEm S.

MISS Mary zimmerman or heuOanK. M
j., is visiting the Misses Slater, Mrs
Brett and Miss Mamie Lawlor.
Architect Joseph A. jackson has fur
nished plans for a new brick school
building to be erected in Waterville.
Companies G and A will give full
dress battalion drill and sociable in the
armory Monday evening, May %. Ad-
mission will be by card.
Unity council, American Legion of
Honor, will be instituted this evening at
Hellmann's hall, Grand street. Members
of the order are invited to be present.
Attorney N. R. Bronson will not re-
tain the presidency of the town board of
health, and will resign next Saturday
morning at a special meeting held ten
minutes before the regular meeting.
There are advertised letters at the
postoffice for Miss Mary A. Young, Miss
Mary Fitzgerald, Miss Nellie L. Cole
man, Miss Bridget Callahan, Mrs
Francis Placket, George Lannon, N. B.
Bunnell and T. F. Farrell.
About seventy-fve Waterbury Red
Men will go to Meriden by special train
at 7:15 this evening to be present at the
opening of the trading post of the
Montowese tribe of that city. The
party will leave Meriden for home about
l o'clock.
The Barnum, Richardson company of
Lime Rock, Litchfield county, has con-
tracted with the Consolidated railroad
to cast all the car wheels of that road,
the contract taking effect the first of
May, 1898. This will necessitate the
company putting in considerable new
machinery and employing a larger
force.
The fifth annual convention of the
grand court of the Connecticut A. o.
F. of A. will open in Danbury to.
Mcdonald of this city will preside. D.
J. Griffin, first delegate of Court Lin
den, cannot attend the convention and
his place will be filled by alternate
John Devine.
Department Chaplain Henry D. Miller
expresses the hope that the clergy in all
the cities and villages in the state will
hold fitting services on the Sunday pre-
ceding Memorial day. He exhorts the
veterans and auxiliary organizations to
strive this year to make the day the
| best, richest and most appropriate of all
preceding Memorial days in the beauty
and solemnity of covering the graves.
Town Clerk Madden's mortality re-
port for the month of April shows the
total number of deaths to have been So,
divided as follows: Unknown causes,
8; scarlet fever, a; cerebro spinal men
nights, 6; diphtheria, /; whooping
cough, /; puerperal fever, l, phthisis, 2,
pneumonia, II; bronchitis, 4; all diseases
of the nervous system, 10; heart disease;
8; accident, 8; all other causes except
still births, 81; deaths under 5 years, %.
Owners of dogs, a few hundred of
them. seem to forget that the time for
licensing dogs expired May /, and
although the penalty for failing to COM
ply with the law is 81 and costs, the
number remaining unlicensed is enor-
mously large. Up to date only $50
have been registered, and yet there does
not appear to be any decrease in the
canine family. Violations of the dog
law should not be permitted, but should
receive the immediate attention of the
proper authorities.
The chorus rehearsal for the May fes.
tival will be held in St. Johns parish
house at Tao this evening. The last re-
hearsal will be held at IL o'clock to-mor-
row forenoon, with the orchestra Many
desirable seats for both afternoon and
evening concerts can yet be secured at
the briggs & Smith Co.'S store. The
only change in the program announced
IS the substitution of Arthur Friedheim,
pianist, for Miss Utassi, who was unable
to fill her engagement in this city. The
afternoon concert will begin at 2:45; the
evening at o'clock. All are requested
to be on hand early, so that they may
be assigned to their seats without con-
fusion or unnecessary delay.
The executive committee of the State
Firemen's association held meeting in
the council room in City hall to-day.
Chief A. j. Kennedy of New Haven pre-
sided, and there were present Chiefs j.
II. Elwood of Danbury, @. E Leonard
of Willimantic, Howard Arms of
Bristol, John S. Jones of Westport, T.
d. Bradstreet of Thomaston, Richard
Shaw of Meriden and S. G. Snagg of
this city. The only business transacted,
to be made public, was the fixing of a
time and place for holding the annual
state convention. 1t was decided that
the convention be held in Danbury on
August and 8. The party dined at the
Scovil house and left for their re-
spective homes on early afternoon
trains.
Local life insurance agents are re-.
ceiving circulars marked Confidential"
from New Yorker who makes a pro-
position that is, to say the least, original
and unique. After introducing himself
the writer comes right to business by
asking the insurance agent to assist him
in disposing of remedy to parties who
have been rejected by examining physi-
clans of insurance companies because of
kidney or liver troubles. The writer
processes to have for sale a medicine
that will temporarily place the afflicted
ones in such condition that they would
be accepted as first class risks by any in
surance company in existence. None of
the local insurance men have accepted
the agency of the nostrum, and if they
are wise, none will.
The committee in charge of additional
water supply met last night in the coun-
Gil chamber and listened to City Engi-
neer Cairns explain the result of investi-
cations thus far made concerning sites
for reservoirs, dams, etc, on the west
branch. A committee of three was ap.
pointed by the mayor to take steps for
the acquiring of land needed for such
works, consisting of j. w. Webster, F.
B. Rice and r. A. Cairns. The com,
mittee will start the business at once
At the request of the city engineer ar
advisory committee was appointed con
sisting of II. L. Wade and J. II. Hart tc
4.