The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-14

to cross over road in the air. That
 there will be some discussion and some
 criticism on the plan is probable. It is
 to be hoped there will be no distressing
 friction. Derby has been praying for a
 new depot, and now that she is to have
 it, what matters if all the surroundings
 are not in perfect accord with the wish
 of a few? The Shelton viaduct was
 thought at one time to be very un-
 comfortable travel bridge We have
 become used to it, and so in this ln-
 stance even If the horse puffs a little,
 or the electric car speeds less swiftly,
 or the pedestrian pants some in trying
 to walk a high bridge, what all this
 physical inconvenience when we are to 1 have a depot and the nuisance of a grade crossing Is to vanish!
 The two years of tempest in the city
 councils of Ansonia came to a quiet end
 Monday night. and at the next session
 of the board the newly elected mayor, | Alderman Charters, will hold the gavel. i This official received a handsome vote.
 and 1t Is quite evident that the people in Ansonia want a change. It is up to him now to prove his qualifications for the important charge. The delicious remarks of the newly chosen mayor show him to be man who does not desire to nurse past differences. In few days the political plums, and they are many, will fall, and then, with all the offices filled, Ansonia will be de- lighted greatly if the new administra- ton excels It's predecessor.
 The Woman's Choral club, local singing society which has for two or three years done much to stimulate a relish for classical music, has com- menced the season of rehearsing under the baton of Professor Kelley, of Yale.
 The taxpayers of Derby seem to have felt the effect of the law passed at the ] last assembly and have submitted their lists to a larger degree than heretofore. Probably the ten per cent. additions will be very few. In other years sever al owners of property have been con- tent to let the assessors tack on the penalty and say nothing
 The unfortunate scrap in a school | room In Ansonia between a girl who | wouldn't mind and her teacher has end ed in the expulsion of the scholar and 1 suspension of judgment in the city | court. It Is the first occurrence of the | kind that has been heard of In this To- cality. 1
 Special services have begun in the Shelton Methodist church. One of the evenings is to be devoted to an illus trated lecture on 'The Parables of Our Lord" stereopticon reproducing some European masterpieces in art.
 Next week in the Derby Methodist church an unusual exhibition is to be given, the proceeds to go to defray the expenses of repairing the parsonage. It is not fair, as such church entertain ments generally mean. It is patterned after the idea of the Pan-American ex- position, and there are to be various ex- hibits from manufacturing firms such as food products, confectionery, house. hold articles and pictures. These are 1n sale, but in addition these are such novelties as moving pictures The and "The Upset House" to attract the dimes. Dr. George l.. who owns a very valuable l collection of stuffed birds and animals, indian relics, prehistoric curios and Egyptian specimens of art, has consent d to show these in room called "The Museum" This promises to be draw ng card, as the curosities are pro- ( bounced to be very fine and this is the { nly time they have been exhibited In $ public.
 At the conclusion of the evening per- l ormance Thursday at the Sterling s Opera House an opportunity Is to be [ iven to any Derby amateur artist to {