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Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-18
2R00KLYN BRIEFS

"A special meeting of Protector Hose company will be held tonight at $ o'clock. Every member is requested to attend.
 "A large congregation was present at St Patrick's church last night and heard the Rev Father Ramon of Lake vile deliver an able discourse on "The Life of St Patrick"
 Owing to the breaking out Of smallpox on Charles street the schools in this section were closed this morn ing, and will remain closed until after the Easter vacation
 Several scholars who were vac- cinated by homeopathic doctors were sent home from the schools in this sec ton early this morning before they were closed. The pupils were told that they would have to be inoculated. One little boy felt rather incensed that physician should accept money from him for vaccinating him in manner which was not accepted by the school oflciais. Shortly after he was dis missed from school he went to a drug store and called the homeopathic phy- sician on the telephone The following was the substance of the conversation which followed: Hello! Hello! Is this Dr Hinckley" "Yes" "The teacher said 1 wasn't vaccinated right " and sent me home this morning." What's thaty' Me and my brother were vaccinated by you and the teach CT this morning sent Us home because We weren't yaccinated rightly. Will you vaccinate us rightly" .I don't vaccinate any uprSOn Inv inocu1atinor vaccine in their arms" "Will you give us our money back then?" 4sWell you'd better go to the Boys club and they will see that you are vaccinated ill the arm." The boy hung up the re- ceiver and went away mumbling that if he weren't vaccinated at the Boys club he would get his money back. Be- fore that he had said that the home opathic physician gave him number of pills to take each day. My mother used to give four pills a day. used to throw away three of them and take one.'
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-18
WATERBURY's SEWAGE RIGHTS,
Hearing in Hartford Yesterday Before
 Judge Case

JuUSG 1dS6.
 The application of the city of Wa terbury and it's board of public works for the appointment of I committee to assess the proper damages to Platt Brothers < Go and the Platt Mills company because of sewage from the city of Waterbury which is emptied into the Naugatuck river, came before Judge Case in chambers session in Hartford yesterday afternoon on de- fendant's motion to dismiss. Judge Henry Stoddard appeared for the de- fendants and Colonel l.. +. Burpee and John F. Kellogg of Waterbury for the petitioners. The defendants in the action have mill privilege on the banks of the Naugatuck, two miles be- low the center of the city of Water bury. On April g, 1901, under q judgment of the superior court. the city of Waterbury paid the defend ants an amount decided by the court to have been the damage done by the sewage of the city up to that time. The city has five years in which to provide some other way of disposing of the sewage, but it is liable for damages until the sewage is taken from the stream As the officials of the city cannot agree with the Platt Brothers and the Piatt Mill company, they asked for q committee to award damages to the owners of the. mill privilege. Judge Case reserved his decision on the motion.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-18
BOARD or HEALTH
Voted to Use All Means to Compel Ex-
 ternal Vaccination.

ternal Vaccination.
 The board of health met last night, President Lawlor presiding, and all the members being present.
 Health Officer Kilmartin reported as follows: There are twenty-two cases of smallpox with their origin in eight places: Wayside Inn 1, Salvation Army barracks 5, Mccarthy block 10. LaWlor block 1, River street i, Mill street 1, Baldwin street 1, Washington street l, Charles street 1. All cases but those in the shelter and the Way side Inn can be traced to the Mccarthy block. There are twenty at the isola- ton hospital. All but two are doing well. These two are very sick men, one of them critically so. The two pa- tients not yet at the hospital will be taken there this evening. All eight buildings are quarantined and all in- mates have been vaccinated except one or two on Baldwin, River and Wash lngton streets. It is almost impossible to tell to what extent the contagion has spread. The condition of seven in mates of the Mccarthy block shows that they all had the disease and re- covered from 1t before the first case was discovered Smallpox has been in that block since January r. and was not reported to the board of health Thorough vaccination will do more to stamp out this disease than anything else. It has assumed very serious as- pect. It is almost getting beyond our control. Of the twenty now at the hospital only four were ever vaccinated and they have only cases of varioloid or very mild smallpox. I would ad- wise the closing of the Washington and Bank street schools and possibly the Porter street school. It might be well to close every school in the infected district.'
 It was no surprise to the board to hear that the disease existed in the Mccarthy block as far back as last January. At the time it was reported, Dr Frost, who examined the cases With Dr Kilmartin told q Democrat reporter that some of the people i'll the block had the sickness, but were con- valescent. Last night Dr Frost said he was of the opinion that the situation warranted q medical inspection of every house in St Ann's parish
 It was voted that all manufacturers and managers of large stores be re- quested to use such means as they deem necessary to compel employees to be vaccinated. It was also voted to require all vaccination to be by ex- ternal inoculation. This gives the homeopathists a slap square in the face.
 A committee consisting of Mayor Kilduff, President Lawlor and Dr Frost, was appointed to see that all school children are vaccinated, and to provide means for the inoculation of those who are too poor to pay; also to consider the advisability of ordering q medical inspection ill certain districts and to consider the removal of quaran- tlnes The question of closing the schools was left ill the hands of the health officer.
 Mayor Kilduff attended the meeting and explained many things in connec. tion with the epidemic and how it is being fought.
 The board then adjourned
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-18
The WaterDuryArt Store
PICTURE FRAMING.

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 when you have picture to be fromed of course you want it framed ;n the best possible manner All fran1ing done by us is satisfactory in every detail and this statement IS oroved every day by people who, hay- inp given us trial, are now convinced that they cannot get better results anywhere in the city. Large line or Mouldings for your selection.
 New Whittemore bldg, Bank. cor Grand
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-18
A. 0. U. w. PROSPEROUS.
Hartford Writer Says It Is On 1
 Sound and Sure FS0ting

Hartford Writer Says It Is On
 Sound and Sure Fsoting.
 A Hartford gentleman writes as fol- lows to the Hartford Times in an- swer to an article which appeared in that paper:
 My attention has been called to an item in the Times of Tuesday which is so far from the truth that it should not be permitted to go uncontradicted. The item referred to says that the A. o. U. w. lost 25,000 members last year, due, it is claimed, to the intro- duction of the step-rate plan of insur- ance.' This is news to me and I believe I am fairly cognizant of what is happening in the A. o. U W.
 '"The A. 0. U. w. throughout the country in it's forty separate jurisdic- tions made | handsome increase in membership last year. It has over 425,000 members and is constantly in- creasing. The Jurisdiction of Massa- chusetts, comprising all yile members i'll the New England states, is undoubt- edly the foundation for the item and, yet, what are the facts? January, 1901, there were about 59,000 mem- bers ill the Massachusetts Jurisdiction. In July the members in the states of Maine and Rhode Island were set apart and November 1 Connecticut, with some 12,O00 members, also with drew. Therefore, while it is q fact that the Massachusetts jurisdiction lost nearly 24,00O members, it is not true that the A. 0 U. ". at large or even i'll New England lost the number referred to. 1t is simply a subdivis- ion into four jurisdictions of what was comprised in one jurisdiction.
 '"The A. O. U. w. ill the jurisdiction of Connecticut is on sound and sub- stantial basis and has, l firmly be- lieve, an era of the greatest prosperity before it. The classified plan of as- sessments adopted by it has the en- dorsement of most eminent actuaries and is received with the greatest fa- vor by the membership almost with out an exception.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-18
CHILD THE SOLE HEIR.

The recent death of Mrs Miles T., Cummings in Litchfield wipes out the entire branch of one family and leaves the bulk of a large estate to a little child. Mrs Cummings was the daugh- ter of the late Edward Bristol of New Haven, who died ill December, 1900, leaving an estate estimated at S20O,- 900. The estate was willed to two daughters and a son. Elias The lat ter died in June, 1901, q daughter in December and the other, Mrs Cum mings, q few days ago. The grand son and heir is son of Elias Bristol
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-18
COLCHESTER SAVINGS BANK.
An Order Providing for Payment of
 30 Per Cent to Depositors.


 30 Per Cent to Depositors.
 Hartford, March 1S.--Edward M. Day, representing the Colchester Saw ings bank. and George K Kendall and Charles II. Noble state bank commis- sioners, appeared before Judge Case at the county building yesterday morning. Mir Day moved for modi- fication of the order now in force against the bank, which restraints 1t from paying out more than 15 per cent to depositors in q year. He asked that the order be amended so that the bank can pay out 30 per cent to depositors during the coming year. The state bank commissioners made no objection and said that the officials of the bank had conducted the business in very satisfactory manner. The order now ill force against the bank does not ex- pire until March 24, and after that date the new order will become opera tive.
 The first restraining order was is sued by judge of the superior court i'll 1897. Because of the business de- pression in Colchester there was run on the bank. The bank had sufficient assets to meet all liabilities, but a continued run would have made it ne1 cessary to dispose of many of the as- sets at q big loss to the bank, and the bank commissioners at that time were of the opinion that an order restrain ing the bank from paying out depos- it's should be made. The order is- sued ill 1897 restrained the bank from paying out any money for year. In March, 1898, the order was amended so that 10 per cent could be p1Ad out, and the order of March, 1899, provid- ed for q similar payment in that year. The payment was increased to 15 per cent by the order of 1900, and a 15 per cent payment was made under the order of 1901 Under the order passed yesterday, which will take effect on March 24, depositors will be entitled to 30 per. cent of their deposits.
 The bank is solvent and has assets to more than pay depositors. The ac- tion was taken in 1897 to prevent a sacrifice of the assets. Many of the assets are loans on real estate and could not be realized on readily. At the time the original restraining order was passed the bank had more than S2O0,00O on deposit and when pay- ments are made under the order rsaae by Judge Case yesterday there will be less than S70,000 remaining, There is no danger that the deposit tors will suffer any loss because of the temporary embarrassment.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-18
DENIED BY PRESIDENT HALL.
Consolidated Road Will Not Use New
 PennSylyania Station

President John M. Hall denies the published story that the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad will use the new station of the Penn- sylvania railroad at Thirty-third street, New York. 'That report is not true,' he said. Tt is a mistake, for there is no such agreement in ex- istence, and there has been no talk and no thought of such plans, either for the present or the future It is true that we have talked with the Pennsyl- vania road officials about connec- tion between our system and their own by way of the Long Island rail- road and the proposed bridge over Wards Island leading to our systems freight yards at Port Morris. That has no connection with the new sta ton of the Pennsylvania system in New York city"
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-18
New Dress Goods
 for Easter.
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usassqsaaas ssat1u Tn our south window is shown a good selection of the new weaves and shades pre- dot1inent for spring.
 Fashion authorities have de- cided in favor of light, sheer clinging fabrics for the coming season and light sheer cling ing fabrics, twill be-that is settled.
 The names of the most popular of these c1inging fabrics are Batistes, Nuns yelling, Twine cloth, Canvas cloth, Wistra1 cloth, Eolinne, Al batross, Crepe de chine, Elm press crepes and Grenadines these coming in all wool, also il silk warp.
 The shades are exquisite and very much different from those of other seasons remark constantly heard around the counter being how much prettier these dress goods are this spring than in other years. Our Stock Is Complete. Both in black and co1ored, our stock of dress goods is complete from the lower priced lines to the highest class nov cities, nothing being missing to fill out the thoroughness for which our dress stock is famous. Some of the Special Numbers
 Are
 AS inch whip cords in the
 newest shades, castor,
 biscuit, reseda, and
 Navy blue, value 75c
 Special 59c As inch Wistra1 cloths, a
 very stylish fabric, regu-
 lar $1.00 quality. As
 a special 75c 46 inch all wool Empress
 crepe cloth in lhe new
 est shades. Special 75c a yd 46inch silk finished French
 Batiste, a beautiful silk
 CT sheen effect exquisite
 shades S1.00 46 inch all wool Crisp and
 sheer Nuns Yelling in
 the prettiest of shades $t yd AS inch silk Warp Eo1ie-
 enne, asheer siikenfabric
 in ten of the most
 beautiful shades $1.25 a yd 46 inch silk warp fabrics
 of various thin kinds in
 lovely shades. S1.5O and 8 These goods come in black as well as in co1ors.
 LanSdOWnes. 40 shades showing in
 stock SIPS a yd
 Broad Cloths.
 This beautiful fabric will be as popular as ever. We have 1t at $1.00 to $4.00 a yd in co1ors, and as high as $500 a yd in blue.
 Scotch Suiiings.
 For tailor made suits.
 A beautiful line of exclusive patterns in imported suitings for tailoring.
 A Special Bargain. 46 inch all wool chcviot,
 navy and black, value
 59c, tomorrow 39c yd The CuTTan
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-18
Our Stock Is Complete.

Both in black and co1ored, our stock of dress goods is
 complete from the lower priced lines to the highest class nov cities, nothing being missing to fill out the thoroughness for which our dress stock is famous.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-18
COUNTERFEIT MONEY

Is not half so harmful as counterfeit medicine. If you buy your drugs and medicines of Us you are sure to get the
 best. Fitzpatrick's pharmacy, East
 Main and Wall streets.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-09-03

Truth, it is said, is stranger than
fiction We believe Clement is now
a convert to this doctrine, or will be
when he remembers how on Tuesday,
while in this city, he gave in his pri-
vate car an illustrated lecture on ply
siology to a Journal reporter to ex-
plain chow it happened at Brattle-
boro." The scribe sees him now re-
Ginning upon the luxurious cushions
of the Grand Isle, tracing out upon
his own anatomy the workings of the
"old stomach trouble and describing
his emissary's "deranged nervous sys-
tenn" to the supposed edification of
the smiling reporter, while the rev.
erend gentleman confession that he
was simply drunk was at that moment
standing in cold type in the Journal
office.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-09-03
CURIOUS SOURCE OF DANGER.

Recent statements made at the Re-
publican campaign headquarters in
Washington indicate that the leaders
are feeling some apprehension at the
outcome of the fall elections, and from
a curious cause. They say that the
very widespread prosperity is likely to
prove a menace to Republican success,
for the reason that the people are all
unusually busy and many good Repub
licans are liable to feel an unwarrant-
ed security, leaving it to their Repub-
lican brethren to go to the polls and
vote. Experience in past years has
shown that this apprehension is not
groundless 1t has not been unusual
for the Democrats to poll ninety per
cent of their vote in off years while
the Republicans polled but seventy
per cent. With Mckinley or a Roose-
welt at the head of the ticket, there
would be no such danger, for every
Republican would be proud to go to
the polls and cast his ballot for such q
leader, but with only a Representa-
tive, or at most Governor, to vote
for, there is danger that the full Re
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-09-03
EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS.

Washington, Aug. 2S.-The war de-
partment has received cablegram from
General Chaffee at Manila. reporting the
occurrence of a series of earthquakes on
the Island of Mindanao.
Twenty persons, Moros, were killed by
falling walls. The Americans in the vicin-
ity escaped and no reports of any injuries
sustained by the soldiers on that portion
OF the island have been received. The
uphraval occurred in the section of the
island near Camp Vickers, which is now
the headquarters OF, American forces sta
toned at MindanaO.
General Chatfee's cablegram says the
mountains and rivers and other streams
were considerably disturbed and much
damage was done. The extent of the
damage. however, was not reported. The
date is not mentioned in the despatch
This is the first serious earthquake in that
country since its occupation by Americans.
General Chatiee also cabed that the
military situation in that section remains
quiet and unchanged. No attacks have
been made on the American forces at
Camp Nickers since the last report, which
was cabled eight days ago,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-09-03
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CUES.
TON.
Letter from Hon. B. F. Fifeld.

Editor Daily Journal. You have
asked me whether it is competent and
constitutional for the Legislature to
submit the question of "liccnse" or
ono license" to a popular vote.
l can best answer that questionsby
saying that long prior to the passage
of the present liquor law, that is-to
say, in 1916, a license law was passed
in Vermont. 1t provided
1. That no person should sell liquor
without a license.
2 That the question of License or
no license" should be submitted to
the people annually, and if the ma
jority voted for license" then the
county judges should license whom
they pleased, and on such terms as
they pleased but if the vote was no Ii
cense", then the county judges, should
issue licenses only for the sale of liq-
uor for medicinal and mechanical
purposes, something like our present
prohibitorv liquor law. The act took
effect from its passage. This act was
held constitutional by the Supreme
Court in 1919, in the case Of Bancroft
" Durham, 2l Vt r. p. 456.
1t would seemlnot difficult to frame
a new law on the lines of the act of
1916, so far as the present question is
concerned, and so Leave the constitu-
tionality of the law beyond dispute.
Yours truly,
B. f. Fifield.
! toOO
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-09-03
CONGRESSIONAL APPROPRIA-
TIONS.

The appropriations of Congress have
a peculiar charm for those who inter
est themselves in figures, The session
of Congress recently closed provided
for the expenditure of $500, 624, 496. 80.
The details of appropriations by bills
are as follows:
Agricultural, S., POS, $50; army,
$S1, 730, 1856. Al diplomatic, 81, 957, 925.-
so; District of Columbia, S8, 544,
469 81; fortification, S7,29S, 955; In
dian, So, $50, 1928. 10; legislative, $685.
1896, 6Sl so; military academy, S2,627,-
324 AZ naval, $7S, $50, 1868. 49, pensions,
$139, S42, $50; post office, Sl3S, 416,-
59S. rs; river and harbor, S2l, III, 442;
sundry civil, $50, 1853, 1863 49,; deficien-
cies, S2S, $50, 007 30; miscellaneous,
50, 1922, 795. 13; Isthmian canal act, $780,
1870, 600. TO- permanent appropriations,
1922, 921, 220 Total, $500, 624, 496. 90.
In addition to the specific appropria
! tions made, contracts are authorized
to be entered into for certain public
works requiring future appropriations
by Congress, in the aggregate sum of
1862, I'll ,4S5. 50 These contracts include
$21 069 800 for additional ships for the
navy and for permanent improvements
of and increased facilities in certain
navy yards; Sl5, 943, $50 for additions
to old public buildings, and the con-
struction of new public buildings i'll
various cities of the country $3S, 1856,
harbors; $50, 200, 600 for the recon
struction of old and erection of new
buildings in the military academy at
West Point, and $780, 600. 600 for the
construction of an isthmian canal
OF the me- total of 1921 new civil
officers and employees authorized, only
92l are outside Of postal service. The
number Of salaries increased is 725.
A comparison of the total appropria
tions made in the last session of Con
gress for 1903, $500, 524, 1876 50, will
those of the preceding or short session
of the ffty-sixth Congress for 1908
$3.50, 1888, 757, 80, shows an increase o
$40, 285, 800. SO. In this amount are in
cludedincreased appropriations for TIN
department of agriculture, 1926, $40
for the diplomatic, District of Colum
bia, legislative, executive and judicia
and naval service, $1,706, 9Sl. IA
for the military academy, 81, 854, $40, "a
for the postal service, ga, 633, $40
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-09-03
EDWARD JUDD.

Middlesex, Vt, Aug. %, 1902.
Editor Daily Journal In the death
of Edward Judd, which occurred on
the oath inst Middlesex loses one of
her oldest citizens; and though his
had been all the way "a life among
the lowly' it is worthy of more than
passing notice. Born in Ireland, so
long ago that all record Of his birth
is lost, he was married and raised
family there. Some of his children
emigrated to this country about 1855.
His first wife dying about that time,
he came, following bis children to
America, some forty-five years ago
and later, married widow Nichols
by whom he had one daughter, born
nearly forty years ago. Surviving both
his wives and all his children he has
lived all alone for the last twenty or
more years and must have been, at his
death, nearly ninety years old and
possibly more. Strong, honest, in
dustrious. faithful and full of cour-
age, he had lived long and strenuous
life. peace to his ashes.
William Chaplin.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-09-03
ROCKEFELLERS' PURCHASE.

Paul Smiths, N. Y, Aug. 60
Agents who are representing William
Rockefeller have purchased for cash
the 5000 acres, including Meacham
lake and the property of the Meacham
Lake Hotel Company. Including
this purchase Mr.. Rockefeller will
have a park of 10000 acres which
cost him about $500, 600 exclusive of
the buildings which he has erected.
Meacham lake is a mountain resort
about twelve miles northeast of Paul
Smiths. The hotel contains about 100
people i'll the summer season, and
there are several cottage sites leased
to Mem Workers.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-09-03

To "A Constant Reader" we would
say that in our Judgment Mr.. Clement
could be proceeded against on the
charge of attempting to obtain money
under false pretences, if he should
persist in trying for the governorship
of Vermont, inasmuch as the citizens
of the State expect value received
when they elect man to any Office.
If you are anxious to learn more about
the statute governing such cases we
would suggest that you consult law
yer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-09-03

What might be termed strenuous
racing occurred at Brussels, Belgium.
on Wednesday when sixty-onc COMPETE
tors rode eighty-one miles, in an in
ternational military race from Brus-
sells to Ostend. Several Of the horses
dropped dead from exhaustion or
were shot by their riders, Inc mount
of the winner died a moment or two
after the victory, having covered the
distance in six hours and twenty min
utes.