Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-06-21
BROOKLYN BRIEFS.

The Traction Co commenced tearing
up the old rails at the end of the track on
Bank street this morning.
MIR and Mrs William Fl. Lawlor of
179 Washington avenue are receiving con-
CALCULATIONS to day. 1t is a boy.
The DEMOCRAT has a larger circulation
in the Brooklyn district than any other
paper. Advertisers should stick pin
here.
The funeral of Mrs Maria Wallis
took place from her late residence, 222
South Leonard street, at 3 o'clock this
afternoon, with services at the house by
the Rev DR. Davenport and interment in
Riverside cemetery.
Someone posted sign on the electric
pole in front of Bossidy's drug store offer
ing reward of 50 to any boy who would
climb to the top of the big iron pole. A
few minutes after the notice was put up
the place was literally thronged with boys,
Several of them worked hard to earn the
reward, but none were able to accomplish
the feat.
The reporter had talk to-day with
Daniel Chapman, the well known 'busman,
now living on Highland avenue. Mr.
Chapman drove a bus in Waterbury for
over thirty years and was an old hand in
the business long before any of our present
hackmen were known in the community.
The first hackman in this city Mr. Chip
man remembers was Captain bradley, who
afterwards conducted a saloon in Ex-
change place and who, during the no Ii
cense year in Waterbury. was one of the
two men who were successful in getting a
license. Mr. ChiPman is 20 years of age,
and until very recently enjoyed the best
of health. There is not a man or woman
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any length of time that has not had a ride
in dan" Chipman's omnibus.
Major Spencer was in n reminiscent
mood last night and gave few friends in
the aldermanic chamber a few interesting
points of primeval Waterbury. Talking
about the new road which has recently
been built between the Naugatuck river
and Railroad Hill street, he said it run
into place at the south end the name of
which was not known to dozen men in
Waterbury. At the lower end of Railroad
Hill street, he said, there used to be a large
pool of water known to the first settlers of
the town as "Ponderson's hole" so called
because a man named Ponderson had been
drowned there. Mr. Spencer also stated
that the first house built in the town of
Waterbury stood at a place then known as
'Stedhalrs brook" on North Riverside
present site of the Waterbury hospital.
Timothy J. Brennan of Isl Charles
street has grown tired waiting for the
sewer and in order to put an end to the
trouble about surface water which has so
long existed between himself and his
neighbors has decided to build cesspool
that will fill all the requirements of the
place for the next twenty-five years. The
we'll is the largest ever constructed in the
city and is capable of holding seven thou
sand gallons of water. 1t was originally
intended to use hogsheads for receptacles.
but enough could not be obtained and
through the influence of Sanitary Inspec-
tor Moses the proprietor succeeded in get
ting fifty old rails from the Traction Co,
which will be nsed in the construction of
the cesspool. The sanitary inspector says
it will be beauty. but says he does not
know what will become of people living at
the east side of it if ever it should break
loose. 1t would drown some and others
would be suffocated. But it is a good deal
of hardship on Mr. Brennan to be put to
all this expense, and then as soon as the
sewer is ready he will be obliged to con-
meet with it.