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

David Shields Of watertown is spend ing his vacation with Mir and Mrs John Purdy of 957 Bank street.
 Mir and Mrs Maurice Fitzgerald of Riverside pa rk are securing the eongratu- lations of all their neighbors. It is a girl. Miss Jennie B. Adams of 24 North Riv- erside street has returned after a two months visit to friends in Troy, Albany and Saratoga.
 The funeral of Mrs Margaret Linehan will take place from her late residence. 15l Charles street. at S:30 tomorrow morning.
 Mary A. Kilbride. aged 25 years. died at the residence of her parents. Mir and Mrs Lawrence Kilbride. l4 Simon street, last evening. The funeral will take place at St Patrick's church at 9 o'clock to-mor- TOW morning.
 A resident of Washington avenue gave the reporter a grand calling down this morning for what he termed the neglect of the paper in not calling the attention of the road board to the condition of this street between the Washington avenue bridge and South Leonard street He said he has lived on that street for over forty years and believed he would 20 to the grave before putting his foot on a sidewalk in front of his own house. He said it was the strangest thing in the whole city to see street where huEdreds of people pass every Sunday to and from St Patrick's church. to say nothing of the number of people who pass there three or four times every day to the different factories. walk ing ankle deep in mud since the street was first opened and no sign of anything being done to put the place in passable condi- tion. He thought that last winter wit messed the end of all this. but from the looks of things at this time he believes the people will have to wade through the same old mud hole for some time to come. The man does not attend St Patrick s church and is not of the Catholic faith. | b ut he is willing to go in with the congre- eation in a fight to demand that a side ! walk be laid at this point before the bad weather sets in. He thought the same condition of things would not be tolerated on a thoroughfare leading to any other place of worship in the city. He was in- formed that we had repeatedly referred to the need of sidewalks along there and that others had called attention to it from time to time. He didn't care how often it had been referred to or by whom. the work was still undone and he wanted n standing article on the matter in the DEMOCRAT un- l til the city government would be forced into putting the place into shape so that people could pass through there in the winter time without the use of rubber boots and not get their feet soaked with slush. The DEMOCRAT has written up the condition of the streets in this section in a thorough manner. and the only thing foI the people to do if they don't care to wall through the place another winter in it: present shape IS to rise up en masse and present monstrous petition to the court of common council. asking that something ] Ina lOna with ina fOlara at Onca and EeRI talking about 1t until they get it passed Unless the property owners in a street show a determination to demand thsil rights there is little use of paper writins about them. There is not a street within the city limits where sidewalk is needeS more. Why not come up town and fgh for il?