Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-11
TO OUR PATRONS.
The Evening Democrat is now 1ocat- ed in its. new building, 71-73 Grand street, first door from Bank street.
CITY NEWS.

The eyelet department of the Man han factory will begin running over time until 9 o'clock tonight.
 The class in sharthand at the c. W. A. will meet tonight at o'clock and the penmanship class will meet Thurs day night
 Last evening the firemen stationed in the Burton street house elected Frank heeley president and Frank J. Hollywood secretary and treasurer Of the newspaper club.
 Mayor kilduff left yesterday after noon for Charleston, $. C., where he will represent Waterbury at the con ventiOn of the League of American Municipalities which will be held there on December 13, IL and 15.
 The funeral of the late Michael Pace will take place from his late residence on South Main street tomorrow morn ing at 9 o'clock with service at. the church of Our Lady of Lourdes and inIerment in Calvary cemetery. During the Christmas holidays members of the alumni of St Mary's school will give q short drama in the Music hall of the school. The play which has been selected is 'Fabiola, dramatized from Cardinal Wiseman'S book of the same name.
 Miss IT. Margaret Beard. principal of the Montgomery, Ala. Industrial school delivered all address before the Mission circle of tie Second Baptist church yesterday afternoon. Her dis course pertained pricipally to tine work among the negroes.
 The members of the Burton street engine house will petition the board of public safety to allow them to put in q punching bag. II they succeed, the fremcn of the other houses through ouc the city will petition likewise. for they have practically no exercise what ever.
 Abraham Lincoln camp. s. of ". held a meeting last night and elected the following officers: Captain. J. <. ! GalIa gher first lieutenant. J. $. Lnych: second lieutenant. $. L. Turner: mem bers of the camp council. Edward ! Croft. Nathan Czamanski. C. l.. Ioom- is. Jr: representatives to division en- | campment. $. l.. Turner, F. D. GOodall:
 alternate, C. Lynch.
 | A letter from Private Joseph Mona ; ghan to his sister, Mrs James Grant of Pine Meadow. dated at the i'm perial palace. Pekin. China. gives d i brief description of the palace and says tn" empress dowager'S bedroom is i filled with fine clocks, some of them of ] Waterbury make. He is member of
 the Ninth United States regiment and
 is on guard Ut the palace.
 HenGrickcn council. K. of C.. held a
 meeting last night and elected these officers: Grand knight. T. F. Conway: ! deputy grand knight. (. r. Mcdonald: l recording secretary. \. l.. Hess; finan- ] cial secretary. James NJ. Lynch: treas
 urer. Dr J. l.. Egan: chaplain. Rev T. l II. O'I,Cnnell; warden, Harry Ramon: ! chancellor. w. II. Moncgan; lecturer. l George C. Kilduff: inside guard. Frank ! T. Reed; outside guard. J. J. Phelan:
 trustees, John J. Riley, D. c. Sullivan ! and James Madigan.
 Another one of those delightful re- 1 captions for which Professor Bailey s 1 pupils are noted, was held last even-
 ing at his academy hall. It being the
 closing lesson of the Monday night class the gentlemen took it on them ] selves to make it a merry one. and
 invited q large number of friends to | take part in it. After the last num- Der and been repeated for the happy l dancers, all departed thanking the
 members and wishing them future | success. Refreshments were served.
 Joseph N. Begnal of North Leonard i street has been appointed foreman of
 the sewer department and entered
 upon his duties this afternoon. Mr
 Regnal is a son of the late Alderman
 Michael Begnal of Riverside street.
 and one of the best known men in the
 Brooklyn district. There were several
 other good men after the job. but of
 course but one could get it and Mir
 Begnal happened to be the choice and
 it seems to be believed that the ap- | pOintment will meet with general aD-
 Droval.
 The following are the officers of the
 Naugatuck Valley Poultry association
 President F. J. Chatfield; vice-presi
 dent, Richard Preusser; secretary. J
 b. McGowan; treasurer. Henry Baum
 gartner: recarding secretary. W. C
 Bon; superintendent. D. B. Wilson. The association will hold an exhibit in City
 hall from January s to January 10
 The affair will be managed by Super . intendent Wilson. A. F. Pierce o1
 Winchester, N. H.; H. $. Ball. oi Shrewsbury, Mass; F. F. Field, Som
 CTS, Conn, will act as judges. l A well attended meeting of the l alumni of the Waterbury High school t was held last night in the High school building, President Carmody presid ing. Enthusiasm and zeal marked the , doing of those present, all of whom l were eager to assist in every way pos , sible in making the annual concert l and ball on New Years night in the ? City hall an elaborate affair. Ii was : deemed advisable to appoint a com , mittee of fifteen to work in connection , with the executive committee in ar
 ranging the details for the affair. The
 committee consists of the following
 The Misses Jennie Culhane. Sara Me . Donald Helen Kaiser, Myrtle North TOD, Clara Livingston, Edith Sander
 son, Elizabeth Wagner, Myra Nelson
 Lillian Kirschbaum and Loretta : Hayes and Edward B. McElligott
 John B. Grady, Michael J. Noonan Frank K. Spellman and James A
 Mcdonald. Tonight there will be an
 other meeting at which every graduat,
 of the school is requested to be pres
 ent. At this meeting various sub-com