Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-23
CITY NEWS.

The board or puDllc WOfRS tO-nlSnI at s o'clock will hold meeting.
 The funeral of Sophia Carroll will take place Wednesday morning at 7:45 from her late residence to St Patrick's church. Interment in St Joseph's cem- etery.
 A months mind mass of requiem will be celebrated at the church Of the Immaculate Conception Friday morn- ing at S o'clock for the late Mrs Han nah Higgins of Bridge street.
 l.. R. Carter. the real estate and in- Surance man. will.soo commence the erection of two two family houses on West Main street. partly opposite the West Side. hill school. The contract for the mason work has been awarded to Gaffner x Martin.
 Judge Cowell, as conservator of Ann Comber, recently deceased, filed his final report today with Judge Lowe in the probate court. It shows deceased's estate to be worth s. 39G.55. out of which the conservator has paid $356.69 for legitimate ex- penseS.
 Mrs Edwin T.. Lathrop will enter tain the members and friends of the Friendly league Thursday evening, April 25th. by giving them "An Even ing With the Artists" This promises to be one of the most delightful of tine many such talks that have been pro- vided at the league this year.
 The Foresters' general committee met last night and elected the follow ing officers: Chairman. E. T. Gaugh- an; yice-chairman. John J. Seifen; financial secretary, James Connolly: recording secretary. John Maroon; treasurer, NJ. J. Carney: finance com citee, Charles Bagley, James Fitzger- aid and D. F. Kelly.
 About fifty employees of the Water bury Buckle Go attended the requiem mass at St Francis Xavier's church this morning for their former shop mate. the late Annie Brady of Bald win street. Evidently the buckle shop girls do not let go of their friends when death calls them away. They follow them beyond the great divide.
 May A. Strong and Charles r. Gran miss of Bridgeport. administrators on the estate of the late Norman Gran- miss, filed a supplementary report to- day in the probate court. According to the document the estate has in- creased considerably in value since = 029.13.
 Tomorrow at s D. m., at the Salya- ton army hall the last of the series of stereopticon lectures will be given, the subject being 'iThe Salvation Ar my At Home and Abroad" Over sev- enty views will be shown, illustrating the slum, rescue. social. children and foreign work. Admission will be ten cents. Children with their parents free.
 The Woodtick horse question is still unsettled and 1t is likely to remain so until Attorney Russell gets tired of feeding the two animals. Judge Lowe, counsel for MT Blewitt. from whom one of the horses was repleyined, has denied all the allegations in the com plaint of the attorney for MT Sherman, which means that the battle is going to be q hot one.
 The storm has done considerable damage on the town roads, and as soon as the weather clears up the se lectmen will be obliged to employ some men to fill in the holes if they do not want to run the risk of law suits for damage to people who can- not well avoid tumbling into them. The road leading to the bridge that spans the Naugatuck river directly south of Riverside park in South Brooklyn is badly gullied, three or four feet deep of earth for distance of ten or fifteen feet being swept away.
 A surprise party was held at the home of Miss Katherine Ferris, 213 River street, last evening. Among of hn piano selection by Frank Dee and Liz Zie Connor: solos were rendered by Miss Katie Ferris, Bernard Cludy. Sadie Phelan and Thomas Quigley. The hit of the evening was a cake walk by Miss Irene O'Rourke and Ed die Fitzgerald. Among the out of town guests were Miss Lydia Barry. Bertha Carroll, Kittie O'Connell and Ada Shelley. all of Derby. Supper was served at q late hour.
 The Star Social club gave an enter tainment in their rooms on Baldwin street last evening. The exercises in- cluded songs by Messrs Gleason, Mo- ran. Doyle, Carroll. Kinnerney. O'Brien, Doolan. Blanchard. Hodson. McGinn, McNally and the Sonora brothers. There were reeitations by Messrs Degnan and Campbell, duets DI AGSSIS ttilSi V Slllll a solo by George Doran. Mir Shea treated the meeting to an exhibition of club swinging. The Sacred Heart drum corps attended in q body and rendered several selections in charm ing manner.
 At the meeting of the Patrick Sars- field club last night the committee in charge of the arrangements for picnic and games to be given by the club on the trotting park on Decoration day reported that things look bright for an unusually large attendance and that the program of exercises will be one of the best ever seen in the city. It will include Gaelic athletic sports such as football matches, running and standing jumps, hop-step and leap. gig and reel dancing, hurling and dear only knows what else. The committee is made up as follows: William Moher. I. J. Sheehan, Michael Carroll. Edward