Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-11
BROOKLYN BRIEFS

Mfrs John Keefe of Washington avenue Is visiting friends in Meriden.
 Miss Mary Keefe of Alder street is spending few days at the seashore.
 Letter carrier Tomlinson of Wash ington avenue is enjoying two weeks vacation.
 --The Misses Margaret and Agnes Barry of Bank street are visiting friends ill Danbury.
 Miss Agnes Null of Albany. N. Y., is visiting her sister, Mrs Harriet Neu- gent of Summit street.
 Miss Katherine Shell, a nurse in q New York hospital is visiting at her home on Fifth street.
 The altar boys of St Patrick's church are becoming expert tennis players and daily they may be seen en- toying themselves on the tennis court at the side of St Patrick's church.
 Mrs Frederick Grettenback and children, Richard and Kittie of Porter street, Mir and Mrs Louis Rutishauser of Washington avenue and Miss Paul. inc Stage of Porter street have return ed from q visit to New Haven.
 William Brickel and John Casey the we'll known business men of Wash ington avenue. are fishing at Lake Quassapaug to-day. Accompanied by Fritz Laufert of James street Brickel went fishing to Quassapaug last Sat urday but their luck was poor. The popular groceryman claimed that Lau- fert was n jonah and it is to prove the veracity of this assertion that he went on fishing trip to-day. He and Casey expect to bring home the largest and . best string of bass that the people of this section have ever had the pleasure of seeing.
 Many residents in this section are complaining of the irregular visits paid 10 their yards by the men in the em- pioy of Garbage Collector Rigney At least two visits should be made to each yard each week in the summer time. But 1T what one hears is right there aren't two visits paid to some yards Ill three weeks. One resident or Porter street was waiting for about two weeks and half before he receiv- ed visit from the men engaged in the collecting of garbage This is q state of affairs which should not be permit l SSu " SAtot CoPCCldlly III lHlS WdTu l weather when sickness is so prevalent.
 It Is detrimental to the health of a nelghborhood to have the garbage can overfiowing. It is unsanitary. Men are being paid for collecting the garbage of the city and they should be made to collect 1t i'll proper manner.
 Thomas Finnegan's party of fisher men experienced the poorest of fisher- mems luck yesterday at Lake winni- peg. The entire party, about ten in number. including members of both | sexes, did not catch more than fifteen | hsh. They weighed about ten pounds. The we'll known agent for Fiegenspan's says that the large leather boots l Which Truant Officer Hurley wore were | a jonah. When the fish were about to nibble they would see the big clod boots
 hanging over the rocks and became
 scared. Truant Officer Hurley on the other hand says the fault is all Finne- l gan's. He was too busily engaged in talking with the young ladies and he
 and they made so much noise the fish | wouldn't nibble. The climax to the days sport came when on arriving home Bottler William Murphy, one of | tAC PoA DIOuSHL luc HSnefS IO Ills
 home on Green street There they con-
 menced to cook the fish, While Tru-
 ant Officer Hurley, the cook, was called
 away from his work for few minutes,
 the host captured the fish and had eat ] en every morsel of them before his act l was discovered. To say some of the 1 members of the party were mad is un- necessary. They did not even have 8
 tiny bit of the fish. which they cap- | tured after hard days work.
 While the city is gradually dispos- l ing of the water that runs down to the | lowlands from Town Plot, many think 1 it would be the part of wisdom to I make some provision whereby some of | this valuable water can be made to
 serve a good purpose before it empties | into the Naugatuck river. Enough de | lightful spring water dances down the | side hills of this district every day in
 the year to meet the demands of the
 people of this district and if properly 1 cared for it could be put into the I homes of the people as cheaply as 1t
 can be conveyed into the river A ! we'll just a trifie larger than the city I has built near Clark and Bank streets and let the water run from it into the city mains would come pretty near completing SUCH pldu dS WOulu ue required to save all this valuable water. l We hear q good deal from the board l of public works about the need of ] being sparing in our use of the Branch l water. and no later than last year a prominent resident of Washington ave nuc declared at a meeting of the alder 1 men that they could not get water, | enough for domestic purposes, and that as result of the scarcity of city water
 many good people in that <neighbor- | hood had not washed their faces in I weeks. And all this while barrels of the finest water in the world was hur- | rying on. to the Naugatuck river by | devious ways from Town Plot. Some one should get after the water board | with a sharp stick, and especially Com | missioner Mahaney, who ought to be 1 alive to the necessity of doing some thing along the lines we are talking about. If the city officials do not 1 think it would Spay to utilize the springs of Town Plot for domestic pur-
 poses, why don't they construct a nice fountain on Bank street opposite the | school building and have the springs
 run into it? In this way it would
 prove great blessing to man and | beast, while at present it is no benefit to anybody. The overflow could pass