Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-07-11
BROOKLYN BRIEFS.

There will be a meeting tonight of the St Thomas cadet drum corps at the Lyceum. All members are requested to attend.
 The Misses Lizzie M. and Jennie Sul- livan of South Leonard street left this morning for Torrington to attend the Lizzie Knapp.
 Joseph McAuIiff. the Bank street hveryman, is enlarging his business having added several new horses and handsome new hack to his already splendidly equip ped livery and feed stable
 The funeral of Mrs Michael Hutchin- son took place this morning from her late residence. 167 Charles street. to St Pat rick's church where 6 mass of requiem was celebrated by the Rev J H. DuggAn The pallbearers were William Bannon, John Kelley. Alexander McDonald, James Col we'll and Maurice Keefe. Interment was in Calvary cemetery.
 The latest curiosity discovered around this section of the city is a sparrow with a full white neck and head. which appeared recently in company with others of that species in the vicinity of Protector Hoss company's house. A resident of this place declares that he remembers seeing the same bird when he was a boy attending the old Bank street school and says as far as he knows nothing had been heard of it for several years until it was seen in its old haunts on Bank street some time last week. He says it must be over thirty years old.
 For some time past Henry Ramp, the Washington avenue grocer, has been suffering good deal of annoyance from a crowd of young men xho make a practice of hanging around his doorstep and using language which they never heard at Sun day school or prayer meeting. few weeks ago some of them entered the store while the proprietor vas absent and sprinkled the goods on the shelves with some stuff which destroyed considerable stock. Last third of July night his store was almost blown out of existence and Mir Ramp was obliged to get out of bed and sit on the doorstep all night to keep his tormentors from setting the building on fire. He does not know what to do in the premises. If he speaks to them in a friendly way or threaten to have them ar. rested they jibe him the whole night long They are positive injury to his business and n source of great annoyance to passers by at this point. He would like to have the police take the matter in hand.
 The residents of South Brooklyn are anxious that n policeman be appointed in that part of the town. They claim that they have no protection from the lawless element that visits that section from all parts of the city. The place itself, they say. is fast growing to be quite populous and since the bridge at Turner's corner was opened to the public a large number of people pass through there on foot and in teams to and from Union City and Nauga- tuck. If any trouble occurs in the neighbcrhood. which there too frequently does. fer some people are not very particu- lar about their conduct when they aren't A safe distance from the reach of the police, there is no in authority to quell the dis turbanee and the whole village might be sacked before a messenger could be dis patched to police headquarters. Last night a crowd of young men in a canopy top wagon created considerable excitement around the bridge by trying to throw one of their number into the river. ana while several witnessed the frAeas and listened to the vulgar conversation. no one dared to go near them.
 Street Inspector Kelley will soon have completed a cTeditable piece of work on Bank street above the brewery. For years the residents of this part of the city sui fered severe losses on account of the dam- ! age done by surface water. Whenever there was a shower the gully which runs down the hill overhowed at Fifth street and there being no outlet the water went it's own sweet way. generally taking its course through the yards of the residents on its way down to Charles street or rushed down Bank taking the full width of the street in its course. All this trouble is now removed. Two catch basins have been built at this point and the surface water enters the sewer at the head of the street and serves a good purpose in its sweep through the sewer along Bank street. Flags are on the ground for two crosswalks, one at Third street and an- other at Fourth street, but the property owners hope that the city will not con- slider the work complete until walk is laid at Porter street. where one is needed as badly. If not worse, than at either of the other streets.
 The members of the South Brooklyn school committee have now a case on hand which promises to be of more interest to the people of that section at least than the | one which the water committee has been wrestling for the past two months. When the bids for building an addition to the South Brooklyn school were received it was found that the bid of s1 900 30 sent in by John Mraz was the lowest and the con- tract was awarded to him. The next lowest bid was l.25O. After the DEMO l cRAT containing the amount ot the ali fsrent bids reached its readers last night il is alleged that MT Mraz was surprised to see that his bid was so much under all the rest and forthwith called on Chairman Harty and informed him that he had made a clerical error in figuring on the job which amounted to about sIO0. It is said that the contractor claims that he cannot do the work for the price mentioned in the contract and it is doubtful if the com mIttee will agree to allow any more than the sum agreed upon. It is evident from all that can be learned that if the contractor does not agree to commence ths work at once the committee will call fol new bids and let the job to some one els, for it is imperative that the work should b' commenced at once so that the rooms may be ready for use at the opening of the fal term. The whole neighborhood is worked up over the report and a meeting of thu committed, which has been called for to night, is looked forward to with as mucl interest by the residents as was the b district meeting held in the City hall som' time ago.