Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-06-30
AS YOU LIKE IT.
Stray Leaves From q Reporters Note
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rock, q suburb of New Britain, and New
ington, distant about four miles, is the
only part of his whole run that he breads.
During his many years, service number
of persons have been struck and killed by
his engine and in each case the accident
occurred on this short section of the road
He had just put on steam to make up
time the other evening when as he round
ed curve the two unfortunate girls were
seen on the track a short distance ahead.
Engineer Mulligan whistled and reversed
his iron steed, but the girls did not move.
He closed his eyes to shut out the awful
sight and in an instant the shock told him
that the poor victims were in eternity.
The engineer is big-hearted man and
wept when telling of the terrible happen
ing.
ApRopos of this an engineer spoke to the
writer on the strangeness of the different
manner in which animals are affected by
steam locomotive. Dogs will run and
bark at the wheels, leaping about, but sell
dom get hurt. Horses will race ahead of
the engine on the line, and sometimes will
run half a mile before they can be driven
off. Oxen can hardly be persuaded to get
out of the way, while calf will sometimes
stand on the line and stare at the locomo-
tive in blank establishment until taken by
the ears and dragged away. Sheep are the
most stupid. If one attempts to cross in
front of the moving engine, the enPineer
may make up his mind for an accident for
the balance of the drove insist on getting
| over or dying. Hogs pay very little atten-
ton to an engine. They seem to regard
it as something quite out of their line and
not in any way concerning them.
JUNE has long been distinguished as the
month of roses and weddings, and the
present month is fully upholding its repu-
tation in that respect. Dozens of young
and happy couples who are not deferred
by the hard times and who see better
things in the future, daily stand before the
| altar and make their mutual vows. Last
| week was a great week at the court of
hymen.
THERE is one source of danger to the
| health of the community that should re-
ceive the attention of the board of health.
1t is the sale of decayed fruit which is
| being carried on. More than one sign
can be seen calling attention to bananas
| for ten cents a dozen, and other kinds of
fruit proportionally cheap. A glance at
the fruit explains the reason of this cheap
ness. 1t is black, decayed, rotten and
dangerous to eat, and hence its cheapness.
No one who knows anything about the
danger that turks in it would touch it but
it is bought and eaten, principally by
children who are lured by the tempting
| offer of one or two bananas for penny,
and who are not aware of the risk they
are running. Dealers should not be so
| grasping as to snatch the pennies from
little children and give them rotten fruit
to eat, but if they persist in doing it the
board of health should step in and put a
stop to it.
| A FEW words to those who contemr late
| taking the civil service examination for
the postal service. The question of the
| candidates politics will not enter into con-
| sideration, rs all alike will receive an i'm
partial treatment, their papers being ex-
amined, graded and certified wholly with
out regard to their political views. or to
| any consideration save their efficiency as
shown by the grades they obtain in the ex-
animation. When the result of the exami-
nation is known the eligible list will be
published. Applicants tor the carrier ex-
animation must be over twenty and under
forty years of age, except honorably dis
charged from the military or naval service
by reason of disability resulting from
wounds or sickness incurred in the line
| of duty. who shall be preferred for ap-
| pointment to civil offices provided they
are found to possess the business capacity
necessary for the proper discharge of the
d ties of such offices. Such persons are
released from all age limitations. Appi-
cants for clerk examination must be
eighteen years of age or over.
E. C. Colby, clerk in a South Main
street shoe store, has appointed himself a
committee of one to kill off" the DEMO
GRAFT. He is a living example of the adage
that fools rush in where angels fear to
tread" Whether he does not like the pol
itics of the paper or is an A. P. A. walk
ing delegate, or is inspired by common
meanness the writer does not know. but at
any rate he never loses an opportunity to
tell merchants that the DEMOCRAT has a
circulation of only six hundred and that
money spent for advertising in it is thrown
away, or words to that effect. Ordinarily
no notice is taken of such an asinine
statement, as the DENoCRAT stands on its
own bottom. Its columns possess great
worth, as the most successful business men
of the city can testify. But when argu-
ments of this kind are used to prejudice
recent corners to the city against the DEM
oCRAT, just a word will not be amiss.
Captain" Colby places our circulation ut
six hundred. Of, the seyenty-fve or more
boys who deliver and sell the DEMOCRAT
six daily deliver more than that number of
papers. Our pressroom is open and any
merchant who wants to satisfy himself
that the circulation of the DEMOCRAT is
from 1900 to $500 daily is invited to
call any day between / and o'clock. II
| would be folly to waste more space on
such croaker.
The meeting of the district committee
was very harmonious last night, the only
little interruption being when the reporters
present were told that it was unnecessary
to publish certain things. Several OF the
members said they knew the reporters
present were careful in that respect. MI
Hart, however, said that they were not al
ways careful, as he could testify. AS this
remark was made for the benefit of the
DEMOCRAT representative, who had irri-
tated the gentleman by giving
meeting, which Mr. Hart did not
wish the public to know, the reporte,
replied to Mr. Hart that he had always de-
liberated carefully as to what he would
publish. Mr. Hart said again. that it was
not so. The reporter replied: The mem.
bers of the board who know of the article
in question will bear me out in this mat
ter" Mr. Hart knew this and again re-
piled: II have the right to my OWE
opinion" The reporter did not doubt
this and told him so. but also re-
minded him that his opinion was moi
necessarily correct. The trouble with MI
Hart is that he speaks be fore he thinks
and makes statements that may sound al
right but look ridiculous in print.
| WORLD OF SPORTS.
Won der Abe made a great mistake il