Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-24
CITY NEWS.

HOlIudES.
 Mir and Mrs P. J. Winters of Tor rington, are visiting the Misses Wal lace of Wolcott street.
 Free turkey dinner served at Thom- as Ferris'S saloon, corner of River and Liberty streets, tomorrow.
 Eddice HurIburt, aged S6 years, died yesterday at her home, 45 Waterville street. The remains will be taken to TOrrington for burial.
 John Thompson of Dublin street is detained at his home with severe attack of pneumonia. MT ThompSon's condition was critical Saturday night but is somewhat Improved to-day.
 The remains of Fred, the 4-mOnthS- old child of NIr and Mrs Fred HersOn, who died yesterday at the family resi- deEce at Main street, Wateryille. was taken to Stamford to-day for burial.
 Ti:is is delightful Christmas weather so much So that OvercOatS were dis cardtd to-day and people walked about town attired in light costumes. giving q kind of Fourth of July appearance to things i'll the center.
 Mrs Alice Kelley. aged 70 years, died last evening at the Waterbury hospital. The funeral will take place Wednesday lIlOlIitlit- II U U tiOtk iIoll tue ISSltlSltNt of Mrs SamCul Snagg to the church of the Immaculate Conception.
 The general committee connected with St Patrick's fair held a meeting yesterday afternoon and completed tie plans for the fair. The Lyceum will be handsomely decorated with flags and bunting by Decorator Adams. The hoy minstrelS also held a very success ful rehearsal yesterday afternoon.
 Cynthia Dudley. aged A years. wife of Sanitary Inspector Harry Moses. died Saturday afternoon at her home in SimOl-svillP. She had been a sui ferer for many years and tried almost everything. even to q change of eli mate. for the benefit of her health, but nothing gave much relief. Besides her husband she leaves two children, Har old and Renah. The funeral took place this afternoon, with service at Hall Memorial chapel and inteTment in Riv- erSid1 cemetery.
 Mayor IZilduf arrived home Satur- day night from the south. where he had been in attendance on the cOnven- ton of the League of American Munlcl- palitieS as the representative of the city of Waterbury. He enjoyed the trip very much. but was rather sur prised at the chilly weather there at this season. He took light overcoat and when he reached Charleston he found that an ulster would have been much more appropriate. At no time during his stay there was the weather as warm as it is here to-day. lie was much pleased with what he heard and saw during the trip, and states that while the south is q great place to live in. still place in the old New England states is much preferable to him.
 Last Saturday afternoon Attorney John J. U'Neill, as commissioner ot the estate of the late Elizabeth titZ- gerald, held a hearing on the claims of Mrs Dan DWyer Of New ofk.5 Mrs DWyer is the wife Of Dan Dwyer, John l.. Sulliyan's spaIring partner, when he was in his glory. She claimed that about four years ago while she was very i'll and near to death she had S40O drawn from the BoWery bank. This sum she divided with Mrs Fitzgerald ill two equal portions, thinking ti,o, she herself would never. live to spend her own share. She recovered, after long illness, only to find that her old friend Mrs Fitzgerald, had gone to her last resting place. Some time ago Mrs Fitzgerald died in an asylum for the insane. Mrs DWyer had not the Bowery bank book with her and could not find it: she was under the impression that after she drew all the money entered on 1t she burned 1T. De cision was deferred.
 More than 300 persons attended the !. NJ. c. 4. meeting at Jacques opera house yesterday afternoon and listened to a stirring address by William Blaikie, Well-knOWn lawyer of New York city. The meeting was opened by an orchestra prelude which was followed by singing of appropriate hymns. Secretary Ross then offered prayer, at the conclusion of which the Rev Dr Anderson read selections from the chapter of Joshua. Isaac B. Clark then delighted his audience with two vocal solos of a high order The Rev Dr Anderson then introduced Mr | BIaikie as the speaker of the day. MT i Blaikie is an interesting speaker, plain. | accurate and frank ill his statements. 1 He handled his topic, ''Secret Sins of 1 Young Men," without gloves and made a favorable impression with his audi l ence After his very entertaining and | instructive address, Mr Biaikie was | heartily applauded. Many persons. after the meeting. went up on the stage and shook hands with him. | that pamphlets bearing upon the sub l feet of which Mir Blailie treated in his l address could be secured free at the
 Y. NJ. c. A. office. These pamphlets,
 which contain very interesting read i ing. were written by Rev r. B. Meyer | of London, while Rev pr Theodore l.. Cuyler of Brooklyn wrote the introduc- | ton.
 Saturday afternoon q crowd of youngsters went out towards Pearl
 lake for the purpose of bringing home l Christmas trees, and rambling about in
 that neighborhood they discovered q | large pile of wood near the roadside, l which men had hauled there during I the past week or two. They conclud- | ed that it would make a good fire, | and after picking up q lot of leaves | and placing them under the wood, | match was applied and in few sec l onds the biggest blaze ever seen in l that part of the town was in progress and the young rascals who had start | ed it were scampering in all directions. It is said that the names of some of the boys are known to the owners of 4l,o wood hut tbpv will lo