Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-22
CITY NEWS.

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 Thomas Sydes. a member of the St Thomas l.. and D. society, has accept- ed n position as clerk at the Water vile hotel
 Visitors to the Buffalo Pan-A American exposition will find the Democrat on file at the International Paper com pany's Graphic Arts building.
 Mrs Frederick Goodwin entertained a number of her fiends at her home on State street last evening. A pleas ant time was enjoyed by all present.
 Miss Susan Spencer has traded the large brick building on the corner of North Main and Cooke streets with c. Fl. Cables for n large piece of real es- tate situated in New Haven. Miss Spencer bought the building from k. B. Rice for $35,000.
 Mrs. Cassie N. Brooks, aged 25 years wife of Herbert A. Brooks of 54 East Clay street, died yesterday. The funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon at 80 o'clock The re- mains will be taken to Ansonia for burial.
 All persons who have canvass books on the diamond ring which is being canvassed on for the benefit of the St Thomas l.. and D. society. are request ed to hand them in tonight, when q meeting of the committee will be held. The drawing will take place in q few days.
 At meeting of the Blues and Pur- pies at the St Joseph T. A. society's rooms yesterday afternoon, Captain James Dolan was elected chairman and Patrick Cayanaugh secretary. Cap tains James Dolan and Henry A. Hay den were appointed to look mp some design or emblem which the members of both committees would wear as em- blematic of the sides which they rep resent. Plans were adopted whereby the canvass. for new members would be continued in q more systematic manner. 1t was voted to meet every two weeks in the rooms and in this manner it is expected the good work will be continued. Everything looks encouraging and no doubt the com mittees will surprise the members of St Joseph's T. A. society with an ava lanche of new members The mem- bers of the Purples are confident they will be in the lead after the next meeting, while the Blues are equally as confident that they will be in the lead.
 The funeral of Horace A. Nettleton took placer Saturday afternoon from the family residence on Ridgewood street, with services at the house by the Rev. Dr. Davenport and interment in Riverside cemetery. The bearers were w. D. Quigley, l.. Platt and John Stephens and W. A. Spencer, repre- senting Wadham post, G. A. R., and Henry Powers and Isaac Morse from Excelsior council, O..U. A. M. Among the out of town mourners in attend ancei were Mir. and Mrs. Joel Futile, of Seymour; Mrs. Walter Mix, of Yalesyille; Mir. and Mrs. William French. Burt French and Dwight French, of Derby; MT. and Mrs. FL dridge Wallace, of Wallingford; MT. and Mrs. Edgar Wallace. Of Prospect; Mrs. Fanny Wallace of Cheshire; Mrs. Edgar Jeralds, of Prospect; A. N. Farnham, John K. Nettleton and George A. Lane, of New Haven: the Misses Susie and Nave Wilcoxson, of Stratford: Miss Leila Wallace. of Prospect; MT. and Mrs. K. A. Perry, of Bethany, and MT. and Mrs. Samuel Morris. of New Haven. Mayor Kilduff. City Clerk Ryan, Comptroller Russell and other officials attended the funer- al.
 A part of the old Steele block in the rear of Marcus Hellmann's hotel on Grand street, came down yesterday with crash that almost scared the wits out of the neighbors. The He'll manns were at dinner and some of the family. thinking that the boiler in the cellar had exploded were about to rush into the street when Mr. Hellmann looked out through rear window and aftor surveying the situation informed his family not to be alarmed. Parts of the structure are still standing and some one in authority should order them torn down. There is good deal of resort about the place and if the rickety remnants of the building are permitted to remain there until they become too feeble to support them selves and collapse. the chances are that they will crush some one or prob ably many persons, to death. Repre- sentative Lilley is interested in the property and some of his constituents think that a committee should be ap-' pointed to wat upion Mr.I.illey and ask him to see that this whole place is cleaned up Children make practice of playing school under the old struc- ture and perhaps the heavy rain of yesterday was responsible for the ab- sence of the scholars when one of the walls gave out.