Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-28
CITY NEWS
The little captive at A. X r. Tea Go.

The little captive at X. X r. Tea Co.,
 Court Richard F. Phelan, F. of A., will hold an important meeting in Johnson hall tonight.
 The funeral of Charles W. Tompkins will take place from the family resi- dence OH Field street Sunday after noon at o'clock.
 The premises formerly occupied by the Waterbury Grocery company will be re-opened Monday morning by the Woodruff Grocery company.
 Gounod's sacred motet, s'Gallia,' will be rendered by the vested choir of St Johns church next. Sunday evening. Miss Wfgmore will sing the solo parts in the work. The funeral of Mrs Margaret Cough Ian will take place tomorrow morning at S:3O o'clock from the family resi- dence on Ayers street to the lmmacu- late Conception church.
 Thomas Foley. of Stone street. has been appointed q foreman under Su- perntendent Kelley. of the street de- partment, and will enter upon the du- ties of the position next Monday. MT Foley is a steady. reliable man. and there is every reason to believe that he will make a very useful employe of the city.
 Evidently the city is passing through a spasm of morality for this morning again. making the fifth in succession there was no occasion to hold city court. Only one name was put on the slate at the police station since last Saturday morning. That was put on last evening aud he having q good record he was discharged when he slept off the effects of his over-indul- gence.
 The funeral of Thomas O'COnnor | took place this morning from bis late | residence on Meadow street to St Pat 1 rick's church. where T mass of requiem was celebrated by the Rev Father | GleeSon. The bearers were Charles Sweeney. Thomas Hurley. Joseph Me Kiernan. Thomas Healey. John Cava- naugh and Michael Cavanaugh. The interment was in Calvary cemetery. The floral offerings included pillow from the family.
 It is understood that the Boughton property on South Main. South and Lounsburv streets will be cut up into building lots this summer and offered for sale. This will be apt to help out residents of Southview street. who have been lookin" for q suitable con- nectiOn with South Main street since they located there. It will make q l great change in the appearance of that neighborhood and will be benefit to all the property in that section.
 The Elks will hold an important re- hearsal tonight at the lodge rooms. l and it is expected that every member | will be present. Scott Snow will be down from Hartford and he will put the whole first part through their busi- ness. There will not be many more rehearsals in the lodge rooms. for Pc 1 lis 1heater has been engaged for re- hearsals hereafter. The St Josephs society is now using that theater for I the performance of 'HOodman Blind" l but the rehearsalS for that entertain ment will close on Sunday. April '. 1 The E,lks will then have it for three Sundays, April 14. 21 and 2S. They | will also have the theater for two or three Sunday evenings and one or two week evenings. All should be present then tonight and get q line on what is going on.
 The item in yesterdays Democrat regarding the annoyance people are put to on account of the conduct of
 
 the police officers will take the hint and enforce the ordinance covering i this matter. No man has q right to allow his dog to worry teamsters or pedestrians, and families wno show no disposition to call off their dogs when they see them snapping and snarling at people who have occasion to pass by l their houses should be taught a lesson, line law Is very plain upon this and 1 if it is not enforced the public knows l where to place the responsibility Dogs 1 Will bark and rush onto the streets when anything unusual happens no matter how much their owners dislike to have them. but if dog be made to understand that it is no part of his business to jump at horses noses and snap at the heels of every one that goes by he'll soon begin to show his training and will be of more use to his owner. while causing no trouble l whatever to others
 sometime ago people who had shade trees about their homes fool, :, l pride in caring for them and regarded them as something which they could not we'll afford to be without and in consequence anyone caught ipiurjns Q them was handled in q manner thai l Kept him in mind of the offense for the rest of his life. But it is different now. Nearly every owner of property in town who has q tree in the walk opposite his premises wants to see it cut down and while the city is mak- ing hard fight against such a course still the trees are disappearing and un- less public sentiment changes upon this question almost all the umbra- geous elms will have disappeared from the thoroughfares of Waterbury in- side of ten years. Various reasons are assigned for the crusade against large trees, but the principal one is the fear of limbs falling during heavy winds. During the past five years the city has been asked to remove a number of trees. but in no ease has the request been complied with unless investigation showed that the public