Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-26
BROOKLYN BRIEFS

Misses Mary Lawson of Bank street is visiting friends in Shenan- doah, Pa.
 The Fourth Wards won yesterday by defeating the Second Wards by a score of 9-4.
 Miss Margaret Brazel of Lafayette street is spending q two weeks yaca- tion among the Berkshire hills.
 Mrs F. F. Ryan and daughter, Alice, of South Leonard street, have returned from a weeks vacation at Savin Rock
 Mrs T. Brazel and Mrs J. Gabriel of Lafayette street have returned from Savin Rock, where they spent the past week.
 Mrs Martel and children of Wash ington avenue and Miss Ella McCar- thy of James street have returned from Savin Rock.
 A months mind mass of requiem will be celebrated at St Patrick's church tomorrow morning at o'clock for the late Patrick Grouden.
 The Misses Margaret Brickley and Mary McCarthy have returned to their homes i'll Ansonia after short visit with the Misses McKenna of South Leonard street.
 -Gertrude, the 9 months old child of MT and Mrs Thomas Coss of South Wilson street, died yesterday morn ing. The funeral tok place this after noon, with increment in the new St Joseph's cemetery.
 John Carroll of the firm of Mori- arty X Carroll; John Foley, bartender at Horrigan's saloon, and John Holo- han, an employe of the wire depart ment of Holmes, Booth & Hayden, are enjoying a few days outing at | Sayin Rock.
 --The Lafayettes won another s l yesterday. This time their victims were the Crescents It was only after a stubborn uphill fight that they won | by a score of 13-12 This makes their | 14th victory out of 15 games. Tier nan and White was the battery for the losers, while Commerford and | Temple officiated for the winners l 1.-The Jacob Mitchell Outing club 1 enjoyed a days outing on the sound yesterday. The party consisted of Jacob Mitchell, Marcus Hellman, Hen " Kellner, Charles Schmidt, Peter Kaiser, William Bumper Rudolph Ringenberg, Charles Leff1er,, Louis Heater and Louis Puff. The party left l this city on the early train for Bridge port, where they arrived safe and sound and immediately boarded sail ing smack which was in waiting. They sailed for about 10 miles and then went to Block Island. They captured numberless fish Of all kinds, So the president of the club ayers, and that it is now in Hellmanss cold storag gte buildings and will be keptsonn ice lntil the date of Chris Dqnphysss bake, ia; cob Mitchell also says that although there were no five pound bass in the string. yet there were some beauty blue fish.
 The residents of South Brooklyn are somewhat scared over the fac1 that there are a number of typhoi6 cases in that section at the present | time. In fact there is small epidem lc and it is feared that the number oi cases will grow larger. A well-knowI person, who is fully conversant witt l the situation i'll South Brooklyn, tolt q Democrat reporter to-day that there were humber of cases of typhoid fever i'll that section. He attributed the cause of the cases to the water ii the wells: He said it Is polluted b, lucl uIdfudgG 11FOfl IH0 SlQe hills. E1t said that there is no drainage sysen ill that section and that the impur, water from the side hills flow at ran dom, carrying with it refuse and dir and oftentimes finding it's way int, the wells. It would be of vast benefi to the health of the community of tn town health officer would pay visi to these wells, inspect their surround ings and examine the water. It migh be a safeguard against the breakin, out of any more cases. There are al ready five cases of the disease there
 James Lynch of Riverside street ha a rather peculiar experience yesterda
 in the lots between the Naugathc
 river and the gas, house. where he Ina
 been cutting grass on and off for th past week. The weather; has not bee
 good for having and Mir Lynch Ina ] been obliged to make several trips |
 the place in the hope of saving tn
 crop from rotting He thought h would have q look at it yesterday morl
 ing and when he came near the tid piles which he had collected so as I . keep it safe from the rain until
 would be fit to put into the barn, , was mortified at seeing mans leg l.