Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-21
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 CANTERBURY is bound to experience a boom in the near future" said a well known travelling man the other day. t'It is manifest destiny. You may argue to the contrary, but this one thing holds good, that when city begins to grow and improve. it is either very young and new site, or the elder population have begun to drop off. Every city on the continent will afford the positive or negative view of this fact-either old men are living to con- serve the unbroken tenor of their business way, or the young men have stepped in their shoes to scatter the careful policy to the winds. and venture upon new schemes. Old men live to save-and young men to spend. A city usually passes through periods of thirty years of quiet progress, and then twenty years of rush. This comes from the fact that the twenty years of rush constitutes the early business lives of young men just come into inherited
 wealth, and the last thirty years marks the period of solemn thought and the desire for absolute security in the matter of gen. eral wealth. New cities are examples of places where conservatism has never been,
 because old men have not focked there to make their fortunes. Old cities when a p0TlOO O1 pIORE6SS COuucS upOA CACuI, Ahu1-
 cate that the fathers are dying off" The
 theory advanced by the speaker sounds
 reasonable, but it does not apply in any
 sense to Waterbury. It is easy to force a city's growth and fill it with an apparent prosperity for years with the reckless boomers methods, which have prevailed in
 SO many western towns. The old men of | Waterbury found it the wiser plan to make
 haste slowly and it can be truthfully said
 that most of the younger generation are
 chips of the old block.
 | A NEW money order system will go into effect July 1st by which large and small sums can be transmitted by letter with safety and at rates much less than at pres | ent. Orders of $2.5O or less can be had for 3 cents, and orders for larger amounts up to $1O0 at rates graduated up to 30 | cents. The schedule of fees for the new
 money orders has been reduced to the | basis now charged by the various express | companies for transmitting money, and l will be as follows: For $2.5 or less, 3 | cents; s2.50 to $5, 5 cents; $5 to S10, 8
 cents; s1O to s2O, 10 cents; s2O to $50, 12 | cents; $50 to $40, 15 cents; $40 to $50, IS
 cents; $50 to $60, 20 cents; $6O to $75. 25 | cents; S75 to Sl00. 30 cents. The present postal note gives no security to the sender as anybody can get one cashed by simply signing his name to it and presenting it for payment at any postoffice authorized to pay postal notes.
 THE Connecticut league is in @ state of innocuous desuetudo. None of the clubs have financial backing and the utter collapse of the whole scheme seems unavoidable. As matters stand
 the clubs will remain in the swim just as long as they meet expenses. Here in Wa terbury the excitement of the days of 1886 is conspicuous by its absence. The cranks cannot be induced to shake off their lethar- gy and the management is sadly wanting in tact. Already there is considerable dis satisfaction expressed because the news concerning the local team is directed to one paper, while the others are expected to advertise the game free. This has caused considerable dissatisfaction and IS short sighted policy that will surely prove fatal.