Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-14
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Stray Leaves From Reporter's Note saHx Book. lu hEcs{G, ,,-.;7s HDITHERE will be meeting ofasthe stock sAhlders of the proposed neWhcoffee house "Wednesday night when finaF hrfahgeqn will be made. The fund of $3 QUO <has been secured There arsaEfeighty- one shareholders and the company expects to be able to supply board and lodging at cheaper rates than any others house in the city. How this can be accomplished and make the coffee house self supporting is something which is puzzling the brains of the promoters of the scheme. There is no desire on the part of those who have sub scribed to the fund to make capital out of the undertaking; the most they hope to be able to accomplish is to furnish a respect able lodging house and give good meals to those who are not able to pay the price asked at the regular boarding houses. It is said that in other places where houses of the same kind are in operation the charge is fifteen cents for lodging, meals averaging about thirteen cents. This would be $3. .64 week, about fifty cents less than the cost of living in some of the very cheapest places in the city. And then the likelihood ofa few of the patrons leaving board bill behind them must not be overlooked, for no matter how we'll dis posed the management may be there will be those who will endeavor to impose, upon them, as is too frequently the case with poor people who have not @ capital of months rent on hand, much less $3. .OOO. If the committee can secure the services of some one to manage the house who can make it self supporting at this price he will be a marvel as household economist and will cause some of the boarding house bosses of the city who have been charging $6 or $7 6 week, and then saying there is no money in the business to wonder where they are at. ~
 IN our mail yesterday was note. un- signed, written in a delicate, feminine hand, as follows: MT Democrat: 'Why does the average groomsman look so su- premely miserable?"
 That is a pretty question to aim at bachelor. And yet, come to think of it, it is deeper than appears on the surface and should not be treated lightly. The fact is, custom has made the bridegroom an in- conspicuous character. Although he is 8 very important parsonage in the play, no one ever gives him a thought except to re- mark that he looked very awkward, or all, too, and this may account for the de- spairing look mentioned by our core spondent and probably is an outward indi- cation that he knows what an insignificant creature he is. Now, this is. very wrong in him and ought not to be indulged in so | much as it is. It may influence other young men to shun the ordeal. The
 bridegroom ought to look radiant and happy instead of acting as if he were going to the block. Possibly he does not realize all that is in store for him-or. perhaps that is just what he is thinking about. THE New Britain Herald predicts that
 the A. P. A., having swallowed the re-
 publican party in that city, and routed the l democrats, will turn it's attention to Wa
 terbury. If it does it will be the begin
 ming of the end of the organization. The
 democrats of Waterbury have a way of getting together when a sectarian issue is
 raised. The republican leaders know this
 and fully realize that coalition with the
 A. P. A. would mean disaster. And to
 their credit be; it said many of the promi-
 nent republican leaders are opposed to the
 oath bound organization on principle.
 Judge Cowen is probably as staunch and true a republican as one could find in a
 days travel. Ha is an intense partisan
 and does not try to conceal the fact. But 1 the judge will never allow his republican.
 ism to be absorbed by the methods of the A. P. A. He is reported to have severely
 rebuked a member of the organization who
 asked him to join the order, and to have
 recited to him the words of General Grant '.AI secret, oath-bound political parties
 are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which first bring them together.
 No political party ought to exist when one
 of it's corner stones is opposition to free
 dom of thought and to the right to worship
 God according to the dictates of ones own
 conscience, or according to the creed of any religious denomination" No, the A. P. A. will not create much of stir in Wa | terbury.
 A correspondent writes: 'I have been greatly interested in reading the articles printed in the DEMOCRAT this week in ref | erence to the question as to who was the | first president of the Catholic Literary as- sociation. The. meeting was held in a room of the old school building which stood oh the site of the present St Patrick hall and was made up of about fifteen or | sixteen young men, mostly altar boys at the church of the Immaculate Conception. Dennis J. Connor, one of the brightest Catholic young men of that time, was elected president.
 RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT. | The Aldermen Meet And Pass Resolu- tions on the Death of MT Barnes.