Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-02-24
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THE reorganization committee of the
New York j. New England road has re-
ceived large number of communications
from security holders, expressive of their
willingness to cooperate with the commit
tee in its work. Information concerning
the actual financial condition of the prop
erty is now being gotten together as rapid
ly as possible and the committee will soon
issue a formal statement, showing exactly
what the company will need in order to get
it into good shape once more. Then a
plan of reorganization will be formulated.
1t begins to look now as if the road was at
last in fair way to be permanentlyalifted
out of its difficulties and put into the hands
of men who will manage it in a business
like way With reorganization that
shall accomplish these results perfected,
the company's securities will cease to be
footballs for the spectators, and the prop
erty will obtain the development to which
its location and business are rightly en-
titled.
MAYOR kILDUFF and the democratic fire
commissioners are certainly playing in
luck. Had the disastrous fire on South
Main street occurred while Assistant
Beecher was acting as chief what large
and yociferous crop of II told YOU so"
crnnks would have sprung up. 1t would
have been the opportunity of a life time
for those republicans who for two weeks
had been unable to sleep nights for fear
the town would burn up. And what howl
they would have raised! Indeed, some of
them did raise a cry, not knowing that
Chief Snagg had been reinstated and was
in charge of the department at the fire.
Assistant Beecher would probably have
been just as successful in combining the fire
as Chief Snagg but for his reputation and
the sake of the democratic commissioners
it is we'll that fate interviewed rs it did
No argument that could be made could
convince the republicans, had Mr. Beecher
been in charge, that Chief Snagg could not
have confined the fire to one floor
THE visit of Judge Wheeler to Water
bury this week was memorable one
There were twelve prisoners. Two were
released one received a sentence of two
months in Jail and the other nine were
committed to the state prison tor terms of
from one to nine years, thirty three years
in the aggregate. The sentences imposed
seemed severe, yet no fault can be found
with Judge Wheeler, because he was con-
sistent aud tried to make the punishment
fit the crime in every case. But the fact
that a boy is sent to prison for long term
of years because he was found in a
neighbours hencoop brings wildly to
mind, and the comparison must make JUS
tce hide her head, that men here in Wa
terbury who are known to have Glen
thousands by trlckery and false bookkeeping
have been allowed to settle and go their
way or have escaped with a light sentence
The practice of compromising felony is
becoming too common and the states at
torneys rather than the judges are to blame
for it. If one man in a position of trust
steals from his employer and is allowed to
go free by returning part of his i'll gotten
goods. or through influence the example
may lead others to crime. The purpose of
the law is not so much to punish for the
crime committed as to prevent the COM
mission of similar crimes by others.
WEATHER PROPHET FOSTER writes to the
DEMOCRAT from away out in St Joseph
Mo- as follows: One of the most severe
storm periods of recent years will prevail
over the United States and Canada from
March to April -. In many parts of
the country unusually heavy rain or snow
will fall and floods may be expected.
Seven principal low barometers, or storm
to east during the period mentioned. Tor
nadoes may be looked for in those parts
frequented by these destroyers. Temporal
ture will go to great extremes and frosts
will damage early crops far southwark.
Electric storms will precede and severe
cold waves follow some of these blows
Those crossing the continent from March
to IL, - to Is, IS to "a. 25 to % and
April to should be carefully watched.
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY O'NET.I.'s beauti-
full penmanship is unique and original. 1t is
hard to describe the hand and much harder
to read it. 1t reminds one of his young
days when he scratched senseless nothings
on slate or paper. But it differs from
that in one respect. in that it usually con-
tains, when translated, more than senseless
scribbling. This morning in the court
room Attorney O'Neill was given $50 by a
client who asked for a receipt. He received
piece of paper on which were innumer-
able lines crossing and recrossing each
other at random. The client gazed on the
paper for several minutes and then looked
up to address the attorney, but he
had fled. The client then passed the
paper around the newspaper men and court
attacks and begged that they tell him what
it meant. Each had a different version
of the matter. One said it was used as
blotter and had become blurred. Another
said that it was childs scrawl. Another
thought that it prospective steno-
grapher's first attempt at short hand. The
client in the meantime was getting anxious
until there arrived on the scene brilliant
classical scholar, who pronounced it
receipt written in Greek and signed John
O'Neill.