Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-07-25
BROOKLYN BRIEFS.

Miss Nellie MAhaney and her brother Andrew. are spending their vacation at Milford.
 Miss Mollie MAhAney has returned home after a three weeks visit to friends in Ansonia.
 The members of the Brooklyn Athletic club are making extersive preparations for big clam bake to be held on the Me Graw farm. Town plot. next Sunday.
 John Mulcahy deserves the thanks of all who find it convenient to pass through Jackson street. He has put the sidewalks in passable shape and done other repairs on the street which pedestrians and dri- vers of teams greatly appreciate.
 Edward Crosby has just returned from trip to Quassapaug. where he says Land lord Richardson has the largest bass ever seen Tn the state, in his ice cooler. It is said that the big fellow was hauled in by the Rev J. W. Richardson. who is sum- moring at the lake. but Mir Crosby says he WIS told that Kelly the baker had the fish in tow Sunday, when he met with an acci- dent that prevented him from landing it. He says the bass belongs to Kelly by, righ if he did not catch it he at least disabled it and left it an easy prey for someone else. A resident of Clark street asked a re- porter to-day why the name of that street | was omitted in the comprehensive report of proposed public improvements in that vicinity published in the DEMOCRAT the other evening. He said the residents of Clark street wish to see the street extended to the city line. running parallel with the proposed extension of South Wilson and Bank streets. The is room enough he says, to continue the street between the othsr two and leave sufncient space for building lots between all these thoroughfares. He accused a member of the road board of writing the letter and said 1t was done in the interest of the property owners in the l other two streets. This is not true. No member of the road board either wrote or caused to be written the srticle which has occasioned all this talk. It was written at the office and was not printed in the in terest of any particular man or set of men. Clark street runs up to MT Mahaney's house and can be continued as far as necessary, whenever the city deems it ex- pedient. The opening of the other streets will not in any way interfere with thIs work. The article was written as a matter 1 of news.
 The raia made by a gang of tramps on Michael Harty's saloon in South Brooklyn Sunday night emphasizes the need of a policeman in that part of the town and confirms all the DEMOCRAT has said in reference to the abuses to which the peo- pie are being subjected for want of proper police protection. This is only one of many such acts that have occurred in South Brooklyn within the past year. The place is a regular rendezvous for tramps and loafers from all parts of the country and the amount of damage done the resi- dents of this place by this lawless element during the past year is astonishing. Pota- toes have been pulled. cabbages uproot' d and oarried away. chickens stolen and in one instance a mans goat was carried of and a barbecue beld in the brush not far from the house of the owner. One of the policemen says the most formidable gang for miles around can be found down there. They are armed with bolts picked up along the railroad trnck and seem to be utterly indifferent to the presence of an officer. He said he came upon a crowd the other day seated under the shade of a tree. Some were mending their clothes others repairing umbrellas and a few wer' briskly engaged in preparing dinner. con sisting of chicken and other edibles. evi dently stolen from the neighbOrs- I'm people are afraid to incur the disFleAsur' of the gang by entering complaint to thu authorities.