Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-27
BROOKLYN Br1Rr1

|
 William Grady of Bank street has ,.esp,eu a position at the New Eng land Watch factory.
 Henry Johnston of tbis d;str;c+ Who IS employed in Bristol, is detatned rom work this week owing to q severe attack of the grip.
 The condition of James Evers who Is at the hospital, is wonderfully inn proved and indications are that he will be back at his old work again in short time.
 Some of the residents of Riverside street have grievance and several oI them have been to Alderman D. J. Mahaney seeking for redress. The banks of the Naugatuck river on both sides, especially the Jackson street side. have been filled in, have been used as it were for q dumping ground TOT refuse of all kinds so that the bed or the flVer has been greatly encroach- ed upon and has been made much narrower than the bed of the mighty Naugatuck should be. Owing to the encroachment the residents of River slde street on the river side are be- ginning to fear that much damage will be done to their property if one of those spring freshets arrive during the next few months. People who have such q grievance should ask the board or pubic works to investigate the mat. ter and have it forbidden for the bed of the river to be encroached upon any more. It is hoped. for their own benefit. that they will make such q complaint and that the members of the board of public works will see the l justice of it.
 A prominent resident and business man Of this section stopped the Brook lyn Briefs man this morning and ask i ed him what did Baker Thomas Kelly have up his sleeve. The latter was sur l pflseu at the question and replied to the question by remaining silent The former then stated that his reasons l Tor asking the question was the un- usual activity which had been going | on about Mr kelly's property on Bank | and Riverside streets the past week or. 1 so. He said that engineers had sur | Veyed the property. photographers had 1 taken portraits of it and real estate agents and property residents in this section had been inspecting it. The reporter confessed that he was utter " unconscious of these doings. His
 informant then continued as follows: He heard that the Consolidated rail | road was thinking of purchasing it 1 and building q sub-StatiOn on the prop | erty when the union station is built on 1 West Main street. Whether there is 1 much foundation to this rumor. the
 business man said he did not know.
 but at any rate. true or false. ha
 knew Sub-Station in this section. if
 the union station is huilt at the West
 End. would be a vast benefit to resi-
 dents of the Brooklyn district One
 man in q iocular mood said that
 Baker Kelly was going to move the
 buildin@S out to his farm in Ouassa-
 paug. The Brooklyn Briefs man could
 not enlighten his informant on any
 of these points and the latter depart
 cd fully possessed of the idea that
 Baker Kelly has under consideration
 q vast real estate deal
 Are We going to put up that
 drinking fountain in Brooklyn this
 vear| asked Commissioner Whiting
 last night at the meeting of the board
 of public works. looking over his
 shoulder at his friend. Commissioner
 Nahaney. No one answered the ques-
 ton. but immediately the matter of
 sidewalks for Green street and Drawer
 street and the working to grade of Ed
 ward street was introduced by the
 mayor. followed by q request directed | to the engineer to move as fast as
 circumstances will permit with the
 work Of preparing plans for the relief
 from surface water in that section. If , 1neSe matters can De put tArOu9n uuf-
 ing the present year, then the only . unfinished big projects now in hand in the Brooklyn district will be the grade , and layout of Alder street. from Wash
 ington avenue to Sunnyside avenue. , the working of Sunnyside avenue.
 from Alder street to Riverside street. ,, and tho grade and layout of Riverside street, from Bank street to West Main
 street. Of course there are other
 things that demand attention and new , work will be cropping up from time to time, but these are the principal mat ters before the city at the present time. , No doubt the residents of South Will : son street are looking forward anxious :, ly to the day when they will have 2
 cross street from there to Alder street.
 and while nothing has been said about I this question for some time past, still , it is one of the things that will come sooner or later The trouble witt
 most people in reference to public i'm
 Drovements is that no one wants tc
 pay anything for them. This is com
 mon to property owners in all parts o1
 the town. so that no one need think x that he and his neighbors are differ