Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-09

ened and made a public thoroughfare. the street cut into Loetfer's land so far that he had to move his house. He claimed something over $1 900 damages. Quite Q number of representative property owners of Brooklyn are witnesses in Loefflers | favor.
 Joseph Mcdonald and Cornelius Kelly were the only prisoners in the box this morning. About l o'clock this morning Officers Mccarthy and McNif found both of them asleep in Brennan'S ba n on Pleas ant street Kelly was drunk Both said they had been given permission to sleep there. Judge Roet sent Kelly down for thirty days for drunkenness and sixty days for vaSrancy. Mcdonald was given sixty days for vagrancy.
 Tonight the great fair of the tinted Courts of Foresters will open in the City hall The committees in charge have worked hard and faithfully and provided many amusements and novelties. Courts Hellmann and Fruitful Vine will have charge of ike fair to night. and the opening will be an suspicious one. The hall has been beautifully decorated. Barrett and Phelps, hand and head balancers. and Will son Tesier. slack wire performer. will provide the stage entertainment.
 The residence of Mir and Mrs Charles 2 scene of A brilliant gathering last night. The rooms were handsomely decorated with a great variety of Pottrd plants and the party danced and made merry regardless of the fierce storm that ragged outside. Mrs Jackson was assisted ln receiving by the Mesiames Thomas F. Jackson and John II kuduff. Dillane's orchestra fur niShed the music Supper was served at II o'clock. Among those present was Miss Jane Holohan. daughter of Honor able Maurice F. Holohan of New York. She made a flying trip to Waterbury to visit friends prior to her marriage to Gen. eral Aure of Milwaukee, which will take place on tue 26th of this month.
 The Southern New England Telephone Co is now comfortably situated in its new building 2S6 Bank street The operating room Is situated in the rear of the bulld- ing and is we'll appointed for this line of work, being lighted with several large win dows which look upon weird piece Of scenery. There is good light from those windows. said MT Sperry this morning to A DEMOCRAT reporter, but the scenery is not very attractive" The op- erating room is 32 by 4S feet. The ap- paratus is all new and the company expects to be able to give better service than ever before There are eleven lady and two gentlemen operators and glance at those human uaeniiI2as enniI2s as theyS u e5y sss s and assESrT | questions from all parts of the city with tbe utmost possible speed will convince the most casual observer that they are the busiest set of workers in the city. The main offices face Bank street and are fitted up to e respond with the style and Archi- tecture of the structure.
 At l 30 this morning Patrolman Hayes discovered smoke issuing from the build | .L .Ey ~ al The building is occupied a savings bank. shoemaker shop. tobacco store, paint shop and boarding house. The paint shop WAS in the basement and tt was here that the fire originated. Mir Seneca, teller of the bank, and Antonio Mardo. of New York city, were asleep Tn the second story when the fire broke out The New York man sInelled the smoke and awoke his companion and both jumped to the street and were caught in a cushion softer than velvet which Providence had benevolently prepared for their reception In their ? haste to get out of the burning building the men dld not take time to raise the window sash and Tn coming through their hands and arms were lacerated with the broken glass The jump was made in their night clothes. They were taken into the Way side Inn. By this time the police officer had sent in an alarm and No and ? com pAnies were pouring water into the paint shop in the basement. The flames were quickly subdued The fire stared among A lot of paint and varnish cans and was fast eating its way through the whole building The damage to the bank prop = erty will amount to about S25. no insur- ance The paint shop was occupied by David McKenna. He loses considerable stock. John Martzel who conducts & shoe shop over the paint store, came of safe and is mending shoes as usual at the old stand,
 The cold wave had detrimental effect on : the town meeting called for last night, so much so that there was not many of the old time town meeting orators lR evidence. At o'clock Town Clerk E H. Belden call ) ed the meeting to order and read the call L. I. Munson was elected chairman and before he had time to get a good look at the audience Edward McGrath moved to adjourn for one week. Selectman Pinney asked if the hall could be secured for that 1 date. Janitor Loughlin said the next available date would be Monday, Febru- rary Is. Selectman Brooks said the reason the board desired action at that meeting vas that in the event of the two mill tax mentioned in the call being voted it could be made out with the regular rate bill and = collected without additional expense. 1 Would the eighteenth be too late to get it in with the regular taxes" asked chairman 2 Munson. Il hardly think so, said Mayor KIlduff. that will give them time enough to make out the rate bill" Mir McGrsth then made his motion to read February r IS and the meeting adjourned to that date. There were about seventy-fve or eighty persons present. but they kept coming in and If the meeting had remained Tn ses- sion half an hour longer there would have been 8 full house. The only amusing in- cident of the meeting was the collapse of n one of the seats bringing three prominent citizens to the floor with crash. The hall was decorated to the queens tasto for the big FOresters fair. which opens to- night and many who braved the storm would much prefer having remained an hour or so to listen to a few crisp speakers before | returning home. but there was a quiet movement on foot to adjourn without doing any business and the movers carried theiI Point On the way out one of them remark. ed: That was nipped in the bud just . right
 Fined For Using Salt.
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