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Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-30
THE LORD MAYORS MATCH

The little mile-square City of Ton. don. says correspondent of Frank Leslle Popular Monthly, in the April issue of that magazine, holds itself aloof from and independent of the great metropolis of which it is the heart. It is even inclined. to think that the king might properly be styled King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the City of London.' The king is not allowed to enter this naughty little city of London or his soldiers to march in the streets thereof without permission of the Lord Mayor. So it has always seemed to the Lord Mayor that when a new monarch comes to the throne the city should have an independent voice in the matter. That was why the present Lord Mayor fingered to receive the King in person after all the other officials except the members of the Privy council had withdrawn.
 Exactly the same thing had happened when Queen Victoria ''acceded.' as the official phrase has it. On that oo- caSiOn the Lord President of the coun- cil caused the Lord Mayor to be eject ! ed before the Queen entered the rOOm And now again this precedent was | strictly followed. for the Duke of Devonshire, observing that the cty's
 chieh magistrate remained behind, | promptly stepped up to him and re- | Quested him to retire. It was a try ing moment for the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor. for if he meekly went 1 out the implication might be that a king could come to the throne whether | the city liked it or not, and in any
 event the dignity of the Independent
 Square Mile would receive q sad blow.
 But the Duke of Devonshire was firm
 and the Lord Mayor was a little un- certain. and so out he went
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-30
HEARD IN PASSING

The trouble between Boss Platt ana Governor Odell is precisely that be- tween General Kitchener and General De Wet-a difference of opinion.
 Emperor Billy is talking in "a way to indicate his belief that absolute monarchy would be an improvement on the present arrangements for the government of Germany, but that sort Of talk is about century behind the times.
 We don't believe that Tom Platt is interested in the scheme to boom Governor Ode1l as New York's candi- date for the presidential nomination Tom Platt never forgaye. a man who upset plan of his.
 Congressman Tawney has been fa1-. ing out in meeting against Mir Me- h1nley's filling up the St Louis ex- position commission with political lame-ducks. Hit him again Jim! You are on the right trail.
 Why should the Ohio republicans ob- ject to the arranging of their state campaign ticket at the white house, months ahead of the convention ? Haven't they always submitted to the same kind of bossing?
 The would-be Philippine locters have thelr heads together trying to find a way to get around the law prohibiting the granting of public franchises in the islands, and it is said that members or the administration are helping them, Great IS the greed of loot. but greater IS the power of the people.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-30
WATERBURY FIRE ALARM.
A--Cor South Main ana Orand sts. 6--Scovill Manufacturing Co. (P). a.-Cor Bridge md Magill StS,

A-~Cor South Main ana Urand stA
 6--Scovill Manufacturing Co. (Pl.
 e.-Cor Bridge and Magill sts.
 7.-Exchange Place.
 12.-Rogers & Bro. (P).
 13 Cor East Main and Niagara sta 14--Cor East Main and Wolcotr I'd. 15--Cor High and Walnut sts. 16--Cor East Main and Cherry sts. 17--Cor East Main and Cole sts. 23-Bufton Street engine house. o4--Waterbury Manufacturing Co. (P) oh- Cor North Main and North sts. oR--Cor Buckingham and Cooke sts. 27--Cor Grove < Prospect Sts. oS--Cor Hillside avenue and Pine st. a9.- N. Willow bet. Ridgewood and
 Hillside avenue.
 s1.-Cor Bank and Grand sts. So-Cor Riverside and Bank sts. A--Cor West Main and Watertown I'd R5--Conn. Light'g & Pow. Co. car eG--Waterbury Brass Co. CP). 37-Cor Cedar and Meadow. sts. Rs-Cor Grand and Field sts.
 4o-Cor South Main and Clay sts. 4e-New England Watch Co. (P). A5-Benedict & Burnham Mfg Co. P) 46-waterbury Buckle Go. (P). 47-Cor s. Main and Washinton sta 61-Cor Baldwin ana ltlVer StS. k2-Cor Franklin and Union sts. E3-Wat'b'y Clock Co. case fact'y (P. k4-Cor Clay and Mill sts.
 56-Cor Liberty and River sts.
 57-No~5 Hose House.
 58-Cor Baldwin and Stone sts. f62-Cor Doolittle alley and Dublin st. 7o-Cor West Main and Willow sts. T4-Cor Johnson and Waterville sts. 162-Cor East Main and Welton sts. 212-The Platt Bros &s Co. (P). 913-Hammond Buckle Go. (P). 214-Wat'b'y Clock Go. mvt fact'y P). o1G-Cor North Main and Grove sts. 251-Cor Round Hill and Ward sts. o61-Junction Cooke and N. Main sts. 272-Grove. bet. Central & Holmes avs ais. N. B. Telephone Co bldg. (P). R12-Cor Bank and Meadow sts. 813-Randolph & Cloves. (p) R14-Plume and Atwood PJ. 315-American Ring Go P). 316-Electric Light Station (P). 21e-Holmes, Booth & Haydens Pl. 3o1-No 4 Hose House.
 2o3-Cor Wash'S'n ave and Porter sta eo4--Cor Charles and Porter sts. eo5-Cor Simons st and Wash'g'n ave a71-City Lumber and Coal Co (P). 4i2-Tracy Bros P). 451-Steele & Johnson Mfg Co .(Pl. 6a2-Cor Baldwin and Rye sts.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-30
SEVEN SAW THE APPARfFI0N.

What Is the most remarkable story of n vision or apparition ever known in Yonkers is told by seven persons. who solemnly declare they saw a mi raculous vision of Miss Julia Murray in room adjoining that in which she lay dead.
 One girl, on seeing the supernatural appearance, dropped to her knees to pray, second fainted and third ran through the house calling other per sons. Four came in time to see the full vision, while others reached the room only in time to see luminous eff feet on the wall. which was where the vision had been last seen. brilliantly and mysteriouslv illuminated.
 In words they hold sacred these per sons affirm they saw a spectacle of magnificent sp]endor. As the wit nesses are well known in the city their story has caused tremendous stir. Miss Murray died Saturday. at her home. l54 AshbNrton avenue oo- rosite St Iosenh's Catholic church. Miss Murray was one of the most poD- ,'lar vonno women in the northern section of this city. and several of her friends stayed over nirht at the ho1,se. The body was in the Darlnr. where some of Miss NTurrav's friends sat throneh the night. others being scat, tered throroh the house.
 Miss Katie Kane of Brooklyn. a cousin of Miss Murray, about half mast four in the morning started tn 20 through the bedroom in which Miss Murray died. She suddenly stopped. My God she cried. ''there is Ju- l lia''
 1 With this exclamation she dronDcd to her knees. and. covering her face with her hands. commenced praying. Miss Nora Smith. of % Palisade ave- nue. was near by. She looked where Miss Kane had nointed and then faint ed. Miss Rose Kcarns. of St Joseph's avenue ran into the room. screaming. William Murray. brother of the dead girl. and Mrs James Corbals, of 134 Ashburton avenue. ran to the room and they. too. saw the vision. Misses Rose and Winnie NcCowar also saw it before it faded.
 Descriptions of the vision hv each of the witnesses agree to the minutest details. Each person was seen indi- ivdually and at different places bv a correspondent this morning. They describe the vision as q representation or picture of the dead girl showing the head and part of the body. sur rounded by a halo or cloudlike effect. A simple white gown. which seemed to lose itself in the clouds. was the clothing: the hands were crossed on the breast from shoulder to shoulder. the features were very distinct On the head was q wreath and hanging from one hand was d rosary Start ing at corner away from the parlor the apparition seemed to move slowly along the wall in the direction of the parlor. the arms unfolding Arriving at the corner of the room nearest the parlor. the figure slowly faded away, according to all the witnesses. leaving the bright cloud light on the wall for some time. It is estimated that the vision lasted for from three to five minutes. The entire party stood spell bound until the strange light had faded aWay.-New York Herald
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-30
LIST OF PATENTS.

Following is the list of patents granted to New England inventors the past week: W. ]. Baulieu, Bridge port, acetylene gas machine; E. il. Blossom, St Johnsbury, Vt, railway car; D. B. Bullard, Bridgeport, turret lathe; H. G. Davis, Norwalk. bottle capping machine; E. R. Fellows Springfield, Vt, rack generating ma chine; H. F. Hammond, Waterbury, combined auxiliary gauge and clamp for paper cutters; A. Herbert. Man chester, N H., hand tacking tool; D. J. Kelsey. New Haven. draughtsman s protractor: F. E. Newton, Franklin, N. H., knitting machine needle: E. A. Rusden, Hartford. cloth holder for ten tering or stretching machines: c. F. Sanborn, Meredith. N. H.. ticket hold CT for railway cars; J. NJ. Smith, Olney- villc. Providence. R. l.. ball cock: !. Swan. Seymour. Conn. die for making chisels; r. W. 'rillinghast. Edgewood. R. l., pneumatic tire; J. A. 'rraut, New Britain, gauge; II. K. Wood, Hartford. meat chopper.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-30

There has been so much humbug about various acts of the Mckinley administration that it was a little difficult for Mckinley to do anything in that line striking enough to cause more than passing comment, but the bit of humbuggery attached to filling the vacancy on the civil commission caused by the recent death of Com missioner Brewer was q cOrker. Of course, it has long ago been made ap- parent that the professed admiration for civil service reform by the admin istration was scant and hypocrisy of the worst sort, but nobody supposed for an instant that MT Mckinley would appoint a civil service commis- sioner who had 8 public record show ing him to be ill favor of killing the civil service commission. Well. that
 is precisely what Mir Mckinley did.
 Ex-Representative w. A. Rodenberg,
 of East St Louis, III, who was this
 week appointed civil service commis- sioner on the 17th day of February, 1900. only little more than year ago, voted, in the house, against mak-
 ing an appropriation for the civil ser vice commission, with the full knowl-
 edge that the appropriation was to be refused, if the necessary votes could | be secured, for the purpose of killing the civil service commission and the | law under which it acts. Now, MT | Rodenberg is . civil service comm1s- sioner and. unless the senate should l refuse to confirm his nomination which is not likely, will draw S3,5UC
 a year salary and a liberal allowance for expenses during the remainder o1 I the Mckinley regime; and he has llad
 the nerve to say in a published, inter l view that he had always been frient
 of civil service reform Such humDu2 I is disgusting.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-30
A WOMAN OF BUSINESS.

Mrs Hetty Greens daily life is more that of q manual laborer than of n merchant-prince. She rises early in her cheap little fiat in Hoboken, x. J., spends few minutes upon q light breakfast, and hurries to the ferry. She is almost the first person to arrive at her, office in the Chemical Bank. on Broadway. Here she labors un- til after dark.
 Her rise in the financial world was very swift, and yet it did not appear to attract public notice for several years. Before the public was aware of the fact, she had become a banker railway director, stock operator real estate, investor and capitalist. Her success led many people to believe at first that she was but a figurehead for shrewd, unknown speculator. Not until she had defeated many groups of hostile financiers and pre- datory promoters did the world realize that she was new and potent factor in the banking community.
 Her greatest achievement so far as the public is concerned took place in 1899. when she lent over million dol l lars in cash in a single operation. The money market was tight, the need of 1 the borrower great, and only one Wall Street magnate, Russell Sage, was supposed to be in a position capable of furnishing the ready money. Imag- inc, therefore, the general surprise l when the poorly dressed Mrs Green came forward and took up the loan with the Quickpess of an auctioneeI
 seixing a half-heard bid. Frank Les
 He's Popular Monthly for April.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-30
\ BATTLE ROYAL.

The calf having nursed sufficiently and feeling his baby legs tired of the weight they had not yet learned to carry, laid himself down. On this the COW shifted her position. She turned half round and lifted her hecd high. AS she did so a scent of peril was borne in upon her fine nostrils. She recognized it instantly. With snort of anger she sniffed again; then stamped a challenge with her fore hoofs. and leveled the lance-points of her horns toward the menace. The next moment her eyes made keen by the fear of love, detected the black outline of the bears head through the coarse screen of the juniper. Without q seconds hesitation, she flung up her tail; gave d short below and charged.
 The moment she saw herself detect ed. the bear rose upon her hind-quar- ters; nevertheless she was in meas ure surprised by the sudden blind fury of the attack. Nimbly she swerved to avoid it. aiming at the same time a stroke with her mighty forearm, which, if it had found it's mark. would have smashed it's adversary,.s neck. But as she struck out, ill the act Of shifting her position. q depression o1 the ground lIlEeN llSl pAA-AGA- OtAAuA>S The next instant one sharp horn caught her slantingly in the flank tip ping it's way upward while the mad imDact threw her upon her back. Grappling. she had her assailants head and shoulders in a trap. ant her gigantic claws cut through the flesh and sinew like knives: but at the desperate disadvantage of her position she could inflict no disabling blow the COW. on the other hand. thougl mutilated and streaming with blood kept pounding with her whole mas siye weight, and with short tremen dous shocks. crushing the breath iron her foes ribs.
 Presently, wrenching herself free the cow drew off for another batter
 ing charge; and as she did so the bea hurled herself violently down thu slope. and gained her feet behind dense thicket of bay shrub. The GOV
 with one eye blinded, glared around
 her in vain. then in panic or mothe
 terror. plunged back to her calf:-C I q n. Roberts, in Frank Leslie's TOP
 ular monthly for April.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-30
What to do with Aguinaldo, now that he has been captured, is greatly puzzling the administration.

More croOkedness in Cuba! Only a little matter of s4O,OOO, but doubt as to who got it is giving some prominent friends of the administration a bad case of ShiverS. A stockhOlder of the Havana Gaslight company has filed charges saying that q person of in- fluence had collected $4O,OOO from that company for securing 90 per cent re- ductiOn in the tariff on the crude petroleum used for the manufacture of Illuminating gas. The war depart inent is said to be Investigating the charge. There are some sensational stories going around about this case. which may or may not be true, and there are some known facts. About the first of the present month the president issued an order reducing the exclusively for making Illuminating gas in Cuba, from $1. 40 per 100 kilOs to 70 cents, and the order was official ly promulgated in Havana on the 18th luSldIl. Hat OEtleE NiS lSSueu OH llle recommendation of Governor Leonard Wood, endorsed by Secretary Root. There the known facts end. General Wood. of course. should be able in the explanation he has been asked to make by the war department to say why he recommended that reduction, and the gas company Stockholder should be made to tell to whom the 1000 was paid. Meanwhile there that Neeley's stealing of Cuban postal funds may be petty larceny compared with other crooked financial work over there by Americans.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-30
A CURIOUS YANKEE NOTION.

There are few people who know that letters and pictures can be sent bv telegraph. Indeed, niney-nine persons in hundred imagine that such a thing cannot be done. But they are mis- taken. You can send your photograph from New York city to your friend in San Francisco and get his letter of thanks within the space of q single hour. Nor will the letter you receive be mysterious series of dots and dashes. but will look exactly as your friend has written it. It will be in his personal handwriting: not in the handwriting of telegrapher If your friend fails to dot an 'i,'' you will re- ceive it without the dot If he under lines. word, crosses out another, puts capital in the wrong place, you will see the latter with all these peculiari- ties.
 The. apparatus that makes possible such wonderful feats is called by the . Inventor the ''telediagraph" Consult the older words telegraph" "tele- gram" and "telephone"; the new term i is their second cousin.
 The telediagraph is not mere promise made by an over-enthusiastic inventor. By the middle of this month 1t Will have been in commercial opera ton for whole two years. Why, then, do so few people know about the invention? Simply because the in- ventor saw fit twenty-four months ago to give the exclusive use of the ap- paratus to a syndicate of six Ameri- can newspapers for the period of two years. On the 10th of April that time will have expired. and the picture. telegraphing machines can be installed in every telegraph office in the world
 Frank LeSlie'S Popular Monthly.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-30
KII|bAlL School s Music

Instruction in Piano, Singing, Organ. Violin, Harmony, Musical Kindergar- ten, Mandolin, Banjo, Guitar. Comet and Sight Reading. School of Danc- ing md Department. Taught by a Faculty unsurpassed for its excellence.
 Ensemble playing free.
 Free admission to Recitals, Concerts and Lectures.
 $5 for a tenn of ten private piano lessons. .-.
 Register now for all departments.
 Students received daily.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-30

"With respect to the now enormous
 ;ssues of industrial stocks floating on
 the market says Banker Clews in his
 weekly letter, they differ very widely
 from the prospects of the railroad 'in-
 yestmepts. Some S2,50O,O 100000 of
 sound and honest ; industrial invest
 ments which have rarely seen the open
 market have been suddenly converted
 into S5. .O0O.OO 900 of issues, the larger
 part of which is ill common stock, lia-
 ble at any moment to be thrown upon
 the market. The result of these con-
 tenn largely upon a speculative founda-
 ton. At the. saine time the manage
 n1ent of this vast amount of business
 has been subjected to untried methods.
 about the outcome of which, there can
 be no certain estimate. The whole
 movement is .a stupendous experiment,
 undertaken as much from speculative
 impulses as. from sound business mo-
 tives. And this immense volume of un-
 certain issues is to find its market in Wall street. The effect upon the stead fer securities of the railroads must at least be disturbing, and the morale of speculation can hardly fail to be low cred Events have so far fulfilled the views which I.expressed and published fn my letter of October 19 last. then sald:, The present outlook only rep. resents inc general confidei1c4 in Mi McKinley's re election; but when his leieGtIan ghajl have been Announced f2Auf prospective years of 'tiie. greatest E ptusperity for this eonntfy that any E Fl flon has @xer Wimelt NH tslrnisl l1sr
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-30
An Apri1 Fool Joke.

A faded purse upon the pavement lay To tempt my greed. but was not bs.
 eulled. [ pasase 1t by. for this vas All-Fools day. passed 1t by and noted, as smiled. Thst Jones, my stupid ce.ghbor, followed
 me. fingered near and was again Q child. { saw him stoop, and. from behind my
 tree, shouted April Fool:" ard felt the
 thrills Which, years agone. had marked my boy
 ish glse. Ah, how the dimming eye with moisture fills As memory brings back that April dayI The purse was full of twentydollar bills, And Ne1Ehbor Jones went smiling on his
 way! IN, Y Life.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-30

Whsn syeu want team or hack, 8o
 fos tfn's. >. '. |
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-30

and I expect to see for i -.prclonged period the most active markets Wall street has ever enjoyed. The eyes of the world are upon this country-upon it's vast resources that are being deyel- oped by such resistless energy as builds Russia's Trans-Siberian railway and Englands Atbara bridge. The moral force of our people will com mand the markets of the world.'"
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-30
The Last Chance

am authorized to sell premises No POP Bank street. for the sum of $1S,- O0O. The property is next south of the rink, that being the property, it is naid, . syndicate has formed to pur- chase. This offer is good for the first conner.
 Inquire at D. Fl. Tierney's Real Es- fate, Fire and Plate Glass Insurance. Contract. Court and Fidelity Bonds. once, No 167 Bank street.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-30
Crop. I. Porto Rico.

Oranges and bananas reach a deli cious perfection in Porto Rico, and frosts are unknown. The cultivation of various crops has increased enormously since 1896. averaging fully so nar cent. all around. The cultiva- ton of cane has increased 25 per cent; of coffee, 25 per cent, and of tobacco, 300 per cent.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1901-05-31
CaballOS lilipQtienSeS

Los norteamericanos recaban
para su patria ell <honor> de haber
producido ell caballo mas pequeno
del mundo, deuominado <Sixpence, !,
que no mide mas que sesenta cent?
metros de altura, 10 que es 10 mis-
mo, que es menor que un perro de
Terranova de regulares dimensio'
nes.
Apesar de las pretensioues yam
quis, resulta, sin embargo, CUE
sSixpence no goza con iusticia del
singular privilegio qye aQuellos le
atribuyen, toda vez que en- Paris se
esta exhibiendo un caballo de cua'
tro amos, que nide no mas que Sc
senta y seis centimetros de alzada,
10 cual no obsta para que su consti'
tuci6n sea perfecta.
Dada In circunstancia de que los
padr 80 del mindsculo caballo fueron
ponejis irlandeses, considerados co
mo los enanos de Ia rsza caballar,
parece que el case presente. con
ser muy notable, no es ell dnico que
Sc ha dado
En- cambio, y en- sentido contra
rio, puede afrmarse que 10 era nm
perro de Terranova que posia el
eminente doctor Charcot Ell animali
to media noventa centimetros de al
tura
Era un embri6n de perro y Sc
podia llevar en- ell bolsillo del chale
CO
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1901-05-31
LA DANA DE
LAS CAMELIAS,

Esta antigua obra de Dumas
hiic, inmortalizada despues por Yer
di, con su far, ,c partitura sTravia-
ta,, fu6 2 6 gida por Luisa Mar
tinez g.. Ara su benef 10, con-
sumlendi. : hermosa velada de ano
che.
A pessr de que esa obra, de exa.
gerado corte romantico, es mry CO.
nocida de nuestro pdblico, lleno es'
tie, sin embargo, el coliseo. y allf pu
ai"'Csa observar 10 mas selecto y dis
tiob~-.c dc "a sociedad de San Juan.
La bcuefciada trabsj6 admira'
blemente, bordando su papel con de-
TALES magnfficos que justjfican su
excelente escuela dram atica, conmo'
viendo al auditorio su antojo y ha-
ciendole sentir Ia emoci6a estetita
con extraordinaria facilidad.
Flores, cintas y palomas, AFRO
jadas con profusi6n al palco esceni'
co, fuerop a demostrar q Ia sobresa'
liente actriz. todo ell aprecio y esti'
maci6n en- que Ia tiene el pueblo de
Puerto Rico.
Los demas artistas, completaron
ell cuadro, cumpliendo su deber CO.
mo buenos
La pieza final eiFuera!., vino
acertadamente a ealmar la tension
de nuestros nervios, mitigando los
sacudimientos del drama, con los
chistes de buen genero que brotan
tan expont$neamente de la pluma
del famoso sainetero don Ramon de
la Cruz.
A la una de la noche, Gqu6 tar
de, amigo PugaD fbamos camino de
nuestra casa. tufando de calor, pero
muy complacidos por la agradable
velada que scababamos de pasar.
Para ell saoado, Ella locura de
amor,, de Tamayo, que es una obra
magistral, digna del talento del gran
dramaturgo.
iHasta ell sabado, pues!