Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-19
CITY NEWS.

Charles Dennison Kellogg will give his bird lecture.
 Exercises in honor of St Patrick will be held this evening at the Con- vent de Notre Dame.
 s. army i'll China has sent home a large Chinese flag to his people. who live on Hopkins street.
 The Elks' drill team for the forth coming minstrel show had q very sue cessful practice last night, under con- mand of Thomas F. Guest
 Miss Tyrrell. of South River street is operating on the typewriter in the office of Mayor Kilduff. in the absence of Miss Guilfoile who is having q short vacation.
 The new drug store at the corner of East Main and Wall streets is to be conducted solely by Joseph r. Fitz- patrick, the well known druggist F. $. Baribault will be ill no manner con. nected with it.
 Ten pigs of copper, weighing 2,OOO pounds were stolen last night from the factory of Holmes, Booth and Hay uen'S. Entrance to the premises was effected by removing q few pickets from the fence outside the rolling mill.
 General Manager Sewell and Super intendent Mansfield of the Connecti- cut Lighting and Railway company, left for Philadelphia this morning to arrange for the erection of q new power house to be built in the west end near the car barn.
 There will be full rehearsal of the drama ''Hoodman Blind' at St Pat rick's hall tonight at s o'clock. and every member of the cast is expected to be present. Not one member should be absent from any more rehearsals. for the principal work is how to come.
 The bureau of assessment met last night and effected organization. I. X. Spencer the new member of the board. was sworr in and Eugene Clarkin was elected chairman. It was voted to cite in property owners on Prospect stree< Church street and North Main stree. on March 29 to be heard relative to proposed public improvements in these streets.
 No doubt but the Assembly hall of the High school will contain a large audience this evening when Professor Marcus White. principal of the New Britain Normal school will deliver q lecture on Manual Training: This subject. always an interesting one, has been made more so by the sug- gestion in Superintendent Thinkers annual report that q manual training school should be established in this city for the benefit of the young men. Mir White is man of learning. lecturer of wide renOwn. He is well conversant with the subject on which he will dwell. The lecture will be given under the auspices of the Women's club.
 The forty hours devotion at St Francis Navier's was brought to q conclusion this morning at s o'clock, when q high mass was celebrated by the Rev Father Jordan. During ser vices q procession of the blessed sac rament took place. The musical pro- gram was of an unusual solemn and impressive character. The , o'clock mass was celebrated by the Rev Fath- CT Luke Lawlor of Windsor Locks. The services have been largely attend cd and hundreds of people from other parishes ill the city have visited St Francis Navier's during the past three days. Almost all of the parish ,ioners availed themselves of the op- portunity of gaining special graces and indulgences during the forty hours devotion and it is said that fully 1 100 people partook of the blessed sacra- ment.
 If this kind of weather continues a few days longer there will be lots of work for everybody that is able to take hold of what is going on out doors. The town and city governments will be doing something and the differ ent contractors will have all they can swing to. It is said that quite q good many buildings will be put up here during the present season and that as soon as the frost is out of the ground people in different parts of the town will commence excavating for the eel lars. This will be a God-send to peo- pie who have been idle for the past four or five months. The past winter was not severe, but there was very lit tie doing and in consequence large number of families found it difficult to keep body and soul together. It is said that teh number of callers at the town store the past winter was far in excess of the former year and consid- erably greater than the selectmen had