Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-26
CITY NEWS.

Dr Sargood, 2 Cuban. delivered an address on his native land before the Scientific society last night.
 Winfred Dupuis, ticket agent at heIth,s theater. Boston is enioyire q Week vacation with his parents on East Main street.
 The St Thomas Literary and Dra- matic club will give soncert and dance at their rooms on North Main street this evening. Walsh's orches- tra will furnish music.
 County Commissioner Charles Brew CT Will be in the new court house to- morrow morning from 10 o'clock un- til 12, to receive the applications of all those dealers who failed to appear the other day.
 The funeral of Charles A. Cole took place yesterday afternoon from his late nome on Johnson street with ser rlce at the house by the Rev MT Hannah and interment in Pine Grove cemetery. The bearers were Edward Cummings, Fred Faulkner, L. A. Ray mond and Cornell Northrop.
 The three boys who were arrested few days ago for unruly and ofTen- sive conduct in and about the Bishop street school were let off by the super intendent of schools as the teachers who complained of them refused to testify against them in the city court They have, however, been made an example of to the other pupils of the school. :!
 One would not know Chatne1d street now, such an improvement has been made. The street has been graded, sidewalks laid and everything appears neat and n2tty. Furthermore the residents q hn work performed by the city and are cleaning up their yards and fittin gup their property in first class shape in conformity with the other improve ments made.
 Martin Higginson, who was houud | over to the superior court yesterday on charge of burglary, admitted to l the officer on the way to the county l jail that he was guilty of the offence, l notwithstanding that he pleaded not guilty in the city court. Higgin- son told the officer that the goods he | was charged with stealing, a number or cheap rings and trinkets, could be | found under the bridge at the Meriden depot and after short search they were located as he had told.
 The funeral of Michael Mccormack took place this morning from the fam l fly residence on French street to the | Immaculate Conception church where | q mass of requiem was cclebrat ted by the Rev Father AIcGuane. The bear CTS were James Meagher. r. J. Kelly and Terrence Downey, representing the Senior Temperance society, of 1 which the deceased was the last sur ! viving charter mcnber Christopher Crowley, John Reilly and Peter Hap- l enny. The floral offerings included a l pillow lettered Father from his son, John McCorlnack; wreath, Miss Julia Butler; basket of roses, Miss Lizzie l Collins. The interment was in the family plot in St Joseph's cemetery. | The work Of putting down the as phalt paving on West MaiI street was completed today and the street will | be open for public travel to-morrow, The replacing of the granite timen- | sion blocks on that portion of Brook street which was effected by the wid- ening and deepening of the channel of Great Brook in that srreet will be al- l most finished tonight so that the street will be open to public travel sometime tomorrow or the following day. The North Main street paving is
 being pushed and. will soon be off the l hands of the engineering department Contractor McManus is doing some
 tall hustIin9 on the new channel for
 GIreat~ Brook at the junction Of Grand and Bank streets, but it is quite a big | job and twill take some time yet be.
 fore he is through with it. Contrac- tor A1eNdanus is drawing near the end of his contract for. the extension o1 water mains in different streets and
 if the weather holds out good. though
 we don't want it to, for a short time
 Contractor Kellner will ~haye complet ed his sewer contracts and then there
 will be a Hull in the labor market st
 far as the city is concerned until thu work of raising the dam at the Wig
 wam reservoir is taken hold of.