Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-07
CITY NEWS.

The Rev Father Fitzpatrick of Bridgeport is visiting his parents on Wall street.
 The Clerks association will give sOciable at City hall on Tuesday even ing, April 9.
 The Melchisedec Hebrew Sunday school will give an entertainment and dance at ConcOrdia hall tonight.
 Mrs Althea Benjamin of East Main street has accepted q position in the ladies department of the Credit Cloth ing company.
 John T. Coleman has gone into the hack business for himself. Orders may be left at GeddeS's drug store, Rarnes'S livery stable or at his resi- dence on Scovill street.
 Officers Byrnes and Hickey arrested | q man on River street this afternoon who was raising |. rumpuS at his home and soaring people in the neighDor- hood. He was suffering from the effects of liquor and will be taken to 1 the almShouSe.
 The talk of bridging the Naugatuck 1 river above Waterville is still being l discussed about town and for some | reason or other many who are opposed ! to the scheme seem to think that it
 
 what has been said to the contrary, | Waterbury will have to foot half tine expense. ''The idea Of q bridge over | the Nau@atuck river beyond Water ville.' said big taxpayer to-day. and l half the cost to be met by Waterbury while it is not able to pay it's portion | of the expense of buildin. a bridge | at Liberty street, which would be used l by thousands uailyH'
 yI,Ix ment are considerably worked up | over a rumor to the effect that a movement is on foot to increase their l hours of labor so that the shortest l time will be a stretch of ten hours. | It amounts to that now in some cases, 1 but it is not general and the men feel, and very naturally so, to-, that the ten ] dency should be in the direction of l shortening the hours of duty instead 1 of increasing them. It is so in every | walk of life, and the officers believe l that in case the thing is made to oper- ate the other way with them it will l tend to impair rather than strengthen the efficiency of the department. 1 Mayor Kilduff and eN-AIayor Bar ] low are in Hartford to-day attending | the hearing on the itinerant vendors l bill, which prohibits people from com | ing into town and doing business on l the public streets or from door to 1 door without paying somethin" for the privilege. It is needless to say that l all the merchants are ill favor of it, 1 but it is said that there is strong Op- position to it by many of the legis- | lators and it is thought that if the measure passes it will be by q very l close vote. At the present time some ! of the vendors are doing almost as much business as they would if they | were paying rent for stores and taxes | upon their stocl, and while this state of things continues the men who have to plank down several hundred dollars for rent and taxes will not be in it with the fellows who have TO expense for water rent, store rent or taxes and very little for help.
 An injunction has been issued by 1 Judge Cowell restraining Carl Engling
 Joseph Schmidt and Jacob Eaffen from interfering with and annoyir g
 Peter Hook, a. baker. st 75S North
 Main street. They have also been sued
 for $2,OOO separately by Hooks coun-
 sel, Attorney J. J. O'Neill. This in-
 function is the consequence of q good
 deal of trouble between Hook and the
 parties named, but what the source
 of the trouble is no one appears to l know. The accused are members of
 the Brewery Workers union and are employed at the Hellmann brewery.
 Hook claims that they have threaten
 ed his customers in various ways that
 unless they ceased dealings with him
 they would be injured in ways that
 they do not expect Also. that they
 have intimidated his work,nen and
 induced two of them to leave his enl-
 ploy and thereby embarrassed him
 and left his short of goods. He says they have threatened to Click" the
 husbands of women who deal with him. and in some instances threatened the wives also. They have employed
 every means in their power to injure his business and his family and made
 life for him hardly worth living.