Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-10
BROOKLYN BRIEFS.

Miss Sadie Spender of North Leonard street is spending her vacation at Seaside park.
 Miss Mary Dooley of winsted is the guest of Miss Mamie Murphy of Bank street.
 Mir and Mrs Yaulkman of Torrington are visiting the family of Mir and Mrs Charles Bickel. .024 Bank street
 Mrs Michael Begnal of Riverside street is visiting her daughter. Mrs J. H. Judge of Bridgeport
 The Misses Lizzie Begnal and Mamie English will leave tomorrow for A two weeks vacation at Litchfield.
 F-The Misses Emma and Mary Farrell of 12l Charles street have gone to Washing ton, D. c. to spend a few days with friends.
 Arthur J. Lawlor, the two months old child Of Mr and Mrs William H. Law Tor of 119 Washington avenue. died to-day from cholera infantum. The funeral will take place at o'clock to morrow
 The police are making a iiligent search after few young men who were seen around Railroad Hill street last night. They were strangers and are believed To be travelling firebugs who have been burn ing barns all through the state.
 The case of Maurice Keefe of Charlss street vs Michael Mcdonald of the san @ street, which was to have been heard be- fore Justice Pierce to-day. has been with drawn. Mir Mcdonald made some excava- tions in his lot which the former claimed caused some of his loam to fall into Mr McDonald's land. He accordingly brought suit for slO0 damages. but for some reason decided not to push the case.
 A large crowd was attracted to the corner of Porter and Bank streets about 10 o'clock this morning. when a collision be- tween two dump carts resulted in one of the carts being lifted into the air and the horse and wagon turned upside down ID the road The driver escaped by jumping out just in time to save himself from a serious accident. Apart from a few scratches on the horses limbs there was To damage.
 John kenney of Railroad Hill street, who conducts a saloon in the vicinity of the scene of the fires that occurred last night, came uear being out more than either of the two men whose barns were burned. MT kenney has a we'll stocked store and some time ago in anticipation of a raid on his place put up stout bars across the windows So that when thieves broke the glass in the windows last night all they could get at was about a hall pint of whiskey and the same amount of Madeira wine which stood in two small bottles in the window. the window rods being too close to admit the larger bottles being drawn through. Mir Kenny says he does not begrudge them what they got and says if they asked him for something he would have given more than they sue ceeded in getting themselves. What they did get was only sample.
 Referring to the item in Wednesday nights issue of the DEMOCRAT in reference to the condition of Washington avenue 8 member of the road board said that the board did not need to be told that side walks should have been laid at the place mentioned several years ago. but that the board was reluctant to proceed with the work in the face of such determined oPpo- sition as has been manifested against the work by some of the property owners in this street He said the board was being openly criticized on account of the amount of money that has been spent in the third ward during the past year. Everybody knows that the improvements being made there are badly needed. but iDasmuch as a great many of the people object to the put ting down of sidewalks it leaves the board open to criticism to be doing this work in opposition to the property owners and leaving work undone in other parts of the town where the people are willing to have them 20 ahead with the work. He said the biggest public improvement ever in- auguratd in any part of the town was got ten mp by the road board on behalf of the property owners of that street and was being a'ried through against the expressed wish of the taxpayers in the other wards and was postponed not because the board was afraid of the adverse criticism which it received but because the residents of that street showed an open hostility to the work. He thought if the people who find it necessary to pass through these streets would turn their criticisms towards the property owners of the street they would be nearer the guilty parties than they are when the criticisms are aimed at the city government.