Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-04-07
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TALKING about putting down crosswalks.
at the meeting of the road board the other
evening, City Engineer Cairns said: The
street inspector should be allowed the
privilege of exercising some judgment
about the price paid for doing this kind of
work There are some parts of the city
where a man can earn a days pay at this
work for the price agreed upon by the
board, but there are other places where he
could not IN enough to buy salt. Take
for example the crosswalk on James street.
The digging is easy and a man can get
along all right there at four anda half cents
a foot, but if you put him to work on the
crosswalk on Stone street at that price he
would sit down on the curbstone and weep.
There it is all rock and hard pan and he
could not earn anything like what a man
should get for that kind of work, no matter
how hard he might try. We put it at that
figure because we wanted to make sure that
the city was SAFE no matter how easy the
digging might be, for it is worth that any
where, and it is worth a good deal more in
some places. For this reason I think the
inspector should have the privilege of
making a little allowance when he sees
that the contractor is not able to make it
ly t.,ken by poor men who are willing to
do all they can to make it pay.
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4 slippery tongued fraud is making a
tour through Connecticut visiting people
Who he says. are heirs to large estates held
in chancery in England. He charges from
81 to So, according to the alacrity with
which his victims bite Mt the bait, for re-
eltration and pretends to be preparing a
list with view of bringing suit in England.
There are number of families in Water
bury who believe themselves heirs to some
of these alleged tied-up fortunes. Some
of them have already expended consider
able money in fruitless attempt to locate
the treasure.
ALTHOUGH the pile driver has been al
work over week in the cellar of the
Apothecanes Hall Co, the interest mani.
tested by the spectators in watching its
ready manner of putting out of sight the
different timbers placed within its reach is
not in the least abated. A large crowd Of
people congregate there all day and the
officers are kept busy in keeping the way
clear for pedestrians. Drivers of teams
have trouble in passing the place. Most
horses prick up their ears and rush by a
full speed and the wonder is that there has
not been some runaway reported from
there during the past week. To-day {
crowd of men almost came to blows abop
the weight of the big hammer. One MAI
claimed that he swung as heavy on
every day of his life, in one of the loca
factories. His friends laughed at the idea
and when one of the men at work on tn,
machine informed the crowd that tn,
hammer weighed $500 pounds they looked
at each other with surprise and tn
stamper thought he would not care to tr,
it with his foot in a stirrup and the powe
running at half speed.
Fishermen report trout scarce in tn
posted streams. The fact is most of tn
posted streams have been fished to death
as it were. The average fisherman is
reckless +'cuss' who likes the eXcitemen
of fishing on forbidden ground and taking
chances, and a warning notice only serv
as tip to anglers in search of good trou
streams. The Woodbury. farmers are u!
in arms against the trespassers this yea
and one Waterbury fisherman who was OIL
forbidden ground narrowly escaped beinI
riddled W tn buckshot the other day. H
was trying his luck in posted brook whel
the owner came tearing through the field
armed with a gun and preceded by strinI
of profanity that scared all the fish within
forty rods. The fisherman had beef
caught on private land before. and Away
succeeded in getting the best of the argu
ment, when he quoted the law in regard t.
taking the fish from streams stocked b.
the state. He was not prepared to argu
with an army muSket however and com
promised with the farmar for So Anothe
Woodbury. farmer discovered DR.. c. B
Nettleton of Derby fishing in poste'
stream on his land. He said nothing, bu
the next day Woodbury. officer went t
Derby and placed the doctor under arrest
All of which our friend Kelly should past
in his hat