Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-05-31
CITY NEWS.

Special forecast Tor Recommendations
and shoWery to-day. fair on Friday;
stationary temperature, northeast shifting
TO northwest winds.
republican caucus will be held at City
hall at S o'clock tomorrow night to attend
the convention of young republicans at
New Haven, June 6.
The selectmen. constables, grand Jurors
and justices of the peace will meet next
Monday morning at 10 o'clock to elect
Jurors who will serve for one year from
September next.
l.. J. Farrell. clerk of the city court of
New York, is visiting friends in Water
bury. Mr. Farrell is well known here,
having been some years ago clerk for the
Maher Brothers, undertakers.
The DIR Plat residence on Grand street,
which has been one of the old landmarks
of the town, is thing of the past. The
place is now level with the earth and soon
a handsome block will be erected on the
site.
Court Stephen ]. Meaney A. o. F, of A,
will hold gala night next Friday evening
at G. A. h. hall. 1t is the sixth ami
versary of the court, and the members are
making great preparations for the event.
All local Foresters are invited.
Miss Madeline Fiore and Vitro Pevri-
clio were married this morning at the
church of the Immaculate Conception, the
Rev J. J. Downey officiating. The best
couple were Miss Marie Carmalia Man
cini and Antonio Bochichio. The bride is
a daughter of Special Officer Charles A.
Fiore of Baldwin street.
The stone crusher will be started up
next Monday morning at West Cheshire.
A faET hay at work there
the past week or so and several others will
be added as soon as the stone crusher is in
operation. The street inspector expects
to be able to begin shipping stone by the
latter part of next week. The top dress
ing of Canal and Leavenworth streets will
be the first place attended to.
The adjourned meeting of the district
committee which will be held to-Light
promises to be of more than usutl inter, st.
Bids VII be opened for the -four a ton to
the Washington school and re contract
for heating the same will also be awarded.
1t is supposed that the system of heating
now IN the Bank and Clay street schools,
which has given such satisfactory results,
will be adopted.
All persons liable to pay taxes in the
town of Waterbury are requested to bring
in list of all their taxable property owned
by them on the first of March, 1894. All
ito neGlec.iDg to lring in their lists
must nave ten per cent added and forfeit
their right of appeal before the board of
relief according to law. The assessors will
be in session daily from June l to July l,
at the council chamber, City hall. Office
hours, 10 to II a. N. to and I to p.
m.
The Traction company has pushed the
work of re-laying the rails on South Main
street as far as Jefferson street, where the
work will rest until after circus day. Here
the new rails will lie connected with the
old ones and the men set to work filling
the bed so that the cars will be run as
usual on Saturday. South Main street
would have been completed from Manga
tnck 10 Exchange place by Saturday night
had it not been found necessary to discon-
tinue the work for couple of days on ac-
count of the visit of Barnum & Bailey's
circus.
Major Walter Fitzmaurice of New Lon
don. president of the Catholic Total Absti-
hence Union of Connecticut, has issued a
circular to all officers and members of the
union regarding the parade of the various
-OrIetIes in New Britain, June Is. He
urges each subordinate society to appoint
an aid to the grand marshal and also an
aid to- the county dire ctOrs, who will act as
marshals for their respective counties
Almo,t all the societies have voted to
J arade and Major Fitzmaurice desires all
to 90 50, so as tussmake the parade the
biggest demonstration for total abstinence
ever held il the state.
Tracy Brothers have now well in hand
the work of restoring the Connecticut
building of the Worlds fair, piece by
piece, on its new site, near New Haven,
and in all probability it will be in finished
condition by August l. The foundations
al laid. and last week the upper stories
were begun. The undertaking is more of
a difficulty than many suppose. To trans
port the building 1 600 miles it was neces-
sary to dismantle it completely and save
thu pieces. There was no tearing or
ripping. but each board was taken off after
the nails were drawn. The dismantled
building filled eight cars. An accurate
system OF marking was necessary to denote
where each piece should go, and this was
done by the foreman, the same man being
in charge of the work both in Chicago and
here.
The selectmen were kept busy all day
hearing applicants for work on the town
roads, who want to earn part of the S10,-
600 appropriation. One applicant at
time Is allowed before the board The
work is being done on practically the same
plan pursued by the committee in charge
of the former appropriation. Among the
questions asked are: Name of the person,
residence, how many in family, who are
working, if any, how long since the appli-
cant had work and whether he owns prop
erty. Each mans name with the above
questions answered is inscribed in a book
by Clerk Belden and from these names
will be selected for the first week fifty of
the most deserving. They will be put to
work repairing roads out of condition
The price per day will be determined by
the selectmen as the vote passed at the
town meeting does not stipulate the amount,
The fifty luck ones will be notified by
postal cards and will be set at work Mon
day morning.
Contractor Henry Kellner was asked to-
day what he thought of the action of the
sewer board in reference to the matter of
asking the contractors to pay home labor
at least so a day. He said he approved
Cf it. If the contract had been awarded to
him he could afford to pay 81 so a day to
the poorest man he would employ and
81 60 and S1.75 to men who were worth it. |
He said that there is not man in town
who is willing to work at that kind of
WIN WHO IS not worm Sl.oO a day ana no |
contractor 6Gu Is under that amount. He |
thought if every man got as much as he IS
worth, some would receive 81 a day. The |
employer, he said, is very quick to see
how much man is worth, but does not |
care to go beyond a certain price no mat
ter how much the man might be worth. |
If he is not able to earn the market price |
be is soon brought down to where he be- |
ongS. Mr. Kellner said he never offered a |
man less than $3.50 day. The average |
wages of his help is 81 .65 and there is no
rouble in finding plenty of good men in
his town at that price.
The Waterbury base ball club will con-
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