Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-29
CITY NEWS.

The board of health will hold meeting this afternoon at o'clock.
 The board of public works will hold a meeting tomorrow afternoon at o'clock.
 Clerk of the District court Linford R. Root was in Hartford making his annual report of the business of his court at the Capitol.
 There will be a regular meeting of the board of directors of the Catholic Women's association in the association rooms at s o'clock tonight.
 Moriarty's night calls answered as usual at the store and at the house and 521-2 and 423-5. A call at any of these places will find us on duty for undertaking and funeral work
 Howard Titus, a small boy, was ar rested this forenoon by Officer M. T. Sullivan. Titus is supposed to have been implicated in many of the petty thefts that have of late been commit ted in the North end. The only one he is charged with at present is taking tobacco from Edward Morgan'S store on North square.
 The barber shops are making strong fight for early closing, and they ask the friends of labor to call early in the day if possible when they want work done. The union shops close Monday, Tuesday. Thursday and Fri day at s o'clock, Wednesday at 9 o'clock and Saturday at 12 o'clock.
 This is the week for meetings of the municipal boards. This evening the board of education meets. Tomorrow night is the regular date for the gath ering of the members of the board of public safety. All the other boards that have financial matters to be dis pensed of will meet before Thursday evening.
 James Lange and Arthur Fleming rode to Springfield yesterday on their wheels in three and three-quarter hours. They rode by way of the Southington mountain, and when go- ing down which they came near run ming into and damaging John Grogan, who was approaching them. Their next ride they propose to make to New York, which will be a double century. Both riders are members of the Ma tional Bicycle club.
 The funeral of Thomas McCann took l place from his late home on Vine street to the Immaculate Conception church yesterday afternoon at 2 | o'clock, and was largely attended. Rev Father O'Brien read the funeral ser vices. The floral offerings were many and beautiful. Interment was in St Joseph's cemetery. The pall-bearers were John McLinden, Matthew Lynch, Philip Happenny, Thomas Shearon, John J. Geraghty and John Fitzpat- rick
 The street department has erected fine fence on both sides of the Plank road near the Hamilton park. The fence was sorely needed in the place it has been erected, for on both sides | there is quite a depression, making travelling extremely dangerous in that locality. It takes some time for any municipality to get at all the little l places where danger turks on it's high ways, but when that time is reached an effective cure is always applied. It | will be some time before another fence will be needed to substitute the one put up on the Plank road.
 Among the full-page portraits of dis l tinguiShed men of the day contained in the magazine number of the Outlook | for August (the fourteenth annual ed I ANuNAOheAA lHOSG OI OOf- ernof Taft of the Philippines, the late John Fiske, Henryk Sienkiewicz from a painting by Polish artist), Presi- dent Hadley of Yale university, Presi- dent Draper of Illinois State university President Wheeler of the University of California, President Northrop of the University of Minnesota, President Remsen of the Johns Hopkins univer- sity, and President Gilman, late of the John Hopkins university.
 The summary process proceedings by John K. Gallagher against his ten ant, James O'Brien, were decided ia yorably to O'Brien by the jury in tke city court Saturday afternoon, after half an hours deliberation. This throws the expense of the proceedings upon the plaintiff, Gallagher. The yer dict was given, as the law required. to the side which had the preponderance of evidence. according to what one of the jurors said Saturday evening. Ii was for Gallagher to prove that he had leased his farm to O'Brien monthly and only his own statement supported that evidence, while O'Brien and his wife lcaimed that the lease was fol one year for $96, beginning October IS last.
 In alluding to the collection which will be taken at the Sacred Heart church on next Sunday, Rev Father Fitzgerald, acting pastor, made a few remarks in regard to the impure books and papers which are issued daily il thousands from the press. The speak CT said that this was an impure anC irreligious life; that thousands of i'm I pure. immoral books were sold at ou news stands. Sentimental and sugges tive stories are read without limit by our young people. The sensational ac counts of murder, murder trials ani suicides which appear in some news papers are not what should appear il family newspapers. Rev Father Fitz gerald concluded his remarks by pay ing lofty tribute to the Catholit Transcript and the good it is accom- plishing. As stated in the Demoera several months ago, the Catholic Tran script is now delivered free to ever, Catholic family in Waterbury. Ac cordingly collection will be taken il every Catholic church in the city dur ing the year for the Transcript.
 The funeral of Patrick F. Grouder
 took place this morning from his lat residence, 115 South Leonard street, t,
 St Patrick's church, where mass wa
 sung by Rev Father Gleeson It wa. | very largely attended Tharo rvo,.