Waterbury Democrat., 1901-11-26
CITY NEWS.

Go l.. Hibernan Rifles, will meet
 tonight at s o'clock to begin the drill
 season.
 John Parker of 154 Baldwin street was removed to the hospital to-day oy advice of Dr Donahue. He is suffer ing from pneumonia.
 Miss Elizabeth Hutchinson and Francis Bergin were married this
 morning by the Rev Father Kennedy in St Thomas church
 ]. E. Duhaime and Miss Louisa Beaubien were married this morning at 7:3O o'clock at St Ann's church by the Rev Father Senesac.
 There will be meeting of the Gae- lie football team this evening ill Hi bernian hall to make final arrange ments for the game i'll Bridgeport Thanksgiving Day. All are requested to be present.
 Mrs Minnie Buck has entered suit for final divorce from her husband, Roswell. Attorney O'Neill represents the petitioner, who asks for the GUS tody of her one minor child and that her maiden name, Donaldson, be re stored to her. The defendant is q commercial traveller residing at 91 Ab- bolt avenue The grounds for bring ing the suit is intolerable cruelty.
 Manager Legge of the St Thomas Cadets junior football team requests every member to report for practice tonight at o'clock. The juniors will play the Watertown Center school dis trict team on Thanksgiving day in this city. They have already defeated the team by the score of 12 to o, but the Watertown youths have asked for q return game to retrieve that defeat.
 Harry Knopf, student at Yale col lege, stopped i'll this city for short time to-day while OH his wSy to Bes- ton to attend the funeral of relative. Harry played guard on the Yale fresh
 man team this season and made q fine record. He was going to play with the Yale Consolidated team i'll their game with the local High schools at the Athletic field Thanksgiving morn ing, but he will not be able to do so now. He says that Bradford Web ster has become q fine punter and will surprise the local players He states that ..Brad'' is going to bring d crack erjack eleven here. 1t will contain several candidates for the Yale fresh men team and other strong players. Barber, Parker and Nuhn of this city will also be i'll the game.
 The Patrick Sarsfield club held an anniversary celebration of the Man chester martyrs last night at their rooms in C.. X. l.. block. Speeches songs and recitations of a patriotic nature were delivered by different members commemorative of the occa- sion, but the most important and soul stirring of all was an address in the Gaelic tongue by Professor T. Doyle of the Gaelic school It was some thing novel for Waterbury audience and we believe the first time we had the pleasure of listening to such treat in this city. The Irish people of this city are missing q grand opportunity by not attending the Gaelic class ses- sions and giving the movement to pre- serve the language of their fathers the support it deserves.
 The funeral of John Purdy of Wa tertown took place to-day from the residence of his son, John Purdy. jr, at 10 o'clock. The Rev Father O'Don- nell ofticiated at the house, which ad- joins the cemetery, after which the remains were taken to the burial plot by the following old friends of the de ceased: Thomas Shields, Patrick DOnegan. John Coliigan. John Keilty, Keiliy, Michael Dunn, Frank Mcdonnell. Thomas Mccarthy, Thom- as Mcdonald, Michael Loughlin. Among the floral offerings was beau tiful violet wreath from John Shields: bunch of chrysanthemums from John r to,,, < f James, cemetery, Watertown, Under taker Moriarty of this city being i'll charge. The deceased leaves three sons and one daughter, John Purdy of Watertown, Daniel Purdy of Litchtield Patrick Purdy Of Waterbury, and Mrs John Shields of Watertown.
 It looks now as if the building ordi- nance will be passed this year and thus put Greater Waterbury in posi- 1 ton to start off in the building busi- 1 ness fully equipped to deal with this question. And it is an important one. | judges claim that Water l bury has some of the worst fire traps | in the state, and feel somewhat fear- l full that some day well have dread !! full lesson of the folly of allowing peo- ple to put up three and four story | without some supervision | nn the part of the authorities. After 1 the passage of the ordinance, what 1 then? Why, the thing wouldn't be l any use unless we had someone who | knew how to carry out it's provisions ill l a proper manner, so that the passage 1 of the ordinance means the creating of q new office which. in the opinion of those who know a thing or two about the kind of man needed to fill such q position should not receive less than $2, 800 or $3,000 a year. Who'll fall in for that berth? It is said that the man has already been decided upon and that when the public hears who he is everybody will be pleased and will wonder that he did not stand out for bigger salary,