Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-05-12
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 i A PROMINENT business man asked the reporter to-day if he knew what was being | done with the carloads of Italian workmen that are being brought in here every other l night It would seem, he said, that these men are being worked in by stealth and shipped to different points around the town unknown to the local workmen. He knew of three carloads of such men that arrived at the Naugatuck depot this week, and instead of letting them off there the train was run as far as Waterville where the men were unloaded. He did not pto- pose to say that there is anything wrong about this, but would like to know what people mean by trying to have citizens be- l lieve that such is not the case. A boss Italian called on one of the contractors the | other day and offered to furnish him all the help he wanted for $1.12 per day, agreeing to boss the gang for nothing, stating that he would deduct the twelve cents day from each mans wages for his own services. tP 1 sffsr tgt bG- ~ssspa
 A CORRESPONDENT suggests, now that the base ball season has opened, that it would be good idea to get together as many as possible of the old league team of 1884, and once more see the champions who y The writer says he would like to see q game between the old fellows, assisted by a modern battery, and thinks that they might make the present Waterburys hustle. Kennedy, Phelan, Altman. Mag ner, Guest, Mellon and Burke of the old guard are now in Waterbury.
 Ar the meeting of the water supply com- mittee last night City Engineer Cairns brought up the matter of taking action to secure the city against damages for water that would be diverted from it's original course on account of the city reservoir. The question seemed of such importance to the board that the city attorney did not wish to say what should be done in the premises until after he had talk about the matter with the engineer. He thought that the matter should be attended to at once and said that he was not aware until now that the city would be held respon- sible for damages on account of any diver sion of water along the line. He said if the water rights could not be secured at terms satisfactory to the board. steps should at once be taken to condemn such streams as had been done with land for right of way. He thought if such action had been taken before the sewers were built the city would have avoided the $25, ,OOO suit it now has on hand with the Platt Mills Go.
 THE announcement that Colonel Inger- soil is to lecture at the Jacques opera house Monday evening makes timely a little anecdote that has never been printed although it's date is that of the almost for gotten ''star route' trials in Washington. The late Judge Wiley presided over the l Co1nno1 a{ counsel for the defense. It was but in ac- cordance with human nature that so ortho- dox Presbyterian as the judge should , | frequently clash, during the course of the , trial, with the brilliant and fearless az. nostic. Frequent were the occasions of
 which the judge availed himself to gratify , his personal antagonism to the amiable
 but doughty colonel. The colonel, his patience aided by natural good humor and by watchful care for the issue, did not avenge himself in court as hls wit and opportunity would have enabled hlm tc
 do. He bore with no show of resentment the countless annoying interruptions
 reprimands and threats of fine for con.
 tempt. Naturally he had his feelings in f private. One day, after long session during which the judge had subjected the colonel to more than the ordinary amount of irritation, the colonel left the court and
 walked toward the hotel with two of his
 friends. Behind him and unseen by him |, walked the judge, who also was accom- panied by friends. Engrossed in conver,
 sation on the trial the colonel did not no. tice drayman's mule that stood close to , the curb of the sidewalk. As the colonel
 was passing this animal, the vicious beast
 made spiteful lunge at him, attemp. ing to snap his arm. The colonel saved his } flesh by suddenly jerking his arm away. At the same instant he wheeled quickly around and thus rebuked the malevolent mule:
 You damned brute, what court are you judge off"
 The colonel then passed on without see- ing Judge Wiley, who stood for a moment agbast. looking mechanically at the hum. ble animal with which he had been invol- untarily associated in the coloners mind.