Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-14
CITY NEWS.


 westerly winds on coast.
 The contents of the hack stable owned by William A. Mccarthy will be sold at auction next Saturday.
 Miss Margaret Grout of this. city left to-day to spend vacation with hel uncle, Loughlin Brennan of Boston. List of letters remaining unclaimed in the postoffice: Newrie ". Barnard, care B. J. Finnigan, T.. J. Daley, Chas Moore, Geo O'Loughlin, Mrs H. w. Page, Geo J. Reilly.
 The funeral of the late William Al bert Quinn took place from the family residence on South Willow street, not from Moriartys undertaking rooms, as inadvertently stated in the papers. The Merrimac club will give an eN cursion to Hanover park on Decoration day, May 30. The fare for the round trip will be 50 cents. The train will leave here at 1 o'clock in the after noon.
 The quarantine was lifted at Ward s flats to-day. It was maintained only while the place was being fumigated after the removal of the Bircie boy to the isolation hospital All the mem bers of the family were vaccinated when the cases were reported there several weeks ago so that the danger was by no means as great as 1t would if q case had been discovered in some i other building.
 Fire was discovered in the storeroom of the Hotel Savoy, East Main street shortly before nine o'clock last even ing. Box z, Exchange place. was pulled The firemen extinguished the flames but not before they had done damage to the amount of $l,000 Everything destroyed was insured. The stoferoom is on the rear of the building. The owner of the block Mrs NJ. \. Dougherty nor anybody else has any knowledge of the origin of the fire
 Edward J. Derwin, a son of William Derwin, died yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock at his home, 15 Sarsfeld street, aged 2 years, after a lingering illness. The deceased was formerly the fore man of the plating department in the factory of the Waterbury Clock Co, and an ex-member of Company G. Both his surviving brothers are in the army service in the Philippines. The funeral services will take place to-mor- row morning at o'clock from the house and at 9:30 o'clock from St Thomas's church.
 Superintendent OBrien of the bu- reau of water would like to meet the jokers who are making a practice of removing the drinking cups from the Melton fountain. Already three or four sets of cups and chains have dis appeared from the fountain within the past three or four weeks. MT O'Brien is getting rapped on all sides for not having cups there all the time, but he says that if they keep going and the board insists upon having them re- placed it would De cheaper to maintain a man at the fountain to pass water out to all who want it. The cups and chains are stolen during the night time The case of Leavenwol.th vs Lawlor was adjusted last evening. The fol- lowing are the terms of settlement: Each party valves all rights claimed In the use of the other party's prem ises. The right to pass over the stair way in the Leayenworth building will be maintained by both parties The stairway will be moved back ten feet The entry above the stairway will be decorated and otherwise improved. Certain oyerhanging projections to which objection was made will remain until one or the other of the parties orders their removal. The case will now be removed from the docket of the | superior court.
 The hearing on the Chipman will was resumed to-day. F. J. Wood coal and wood dealer on East Main street testi- | fed to having various business trans actions with MT Chipman He thought that for the past few years Of his life MT Chipman was not mentally sound. He was his neighbor for twenty years and presumed to know something of his habits. The hearing is getting to be very tedious. Even the lawyers are l showing signs of weariness. To-day
 was the sixth day of the hearing and the evidence was of general charac- ter. It was said today that there will
 be no defense. which means that the widow will not tell her side of the story at present at all events. No
 matter what way the decision of Judge Huntington goes the case will be appealed to the superior court
 4 large property owner along the line of the proposed trolley to Watertown talked on the question to-day with a 1 Democrat reporter, and while he ex. pressed the hope that the hum of the trolley will soon be heard along the highway from Waterbury to Water town. still he surprised the reporter by stating that he wanted to see the city 1 make it point to know who is going to bear the expense of removing the
 piers at the railroad bridge at Oakville
 before the company is allowed to make q move towards putting down it's rails
 He didn't care which did the paving the railroad fellows or the trolley com
 pany, but he was opposed to seeing the cost saddled upon the city. He is g big taxpayer here and expects the off
 cials will see that the public will nol get the worst end of what he calls one of the biggest games that took place here in some time. He said the city is up against the trolley and the steam railroad and that it was sure to get
 badly burned, if not eIectrocuted. 1u case it doesn't look out
 | Mrs Rhoda Barnes died last niobt
 at her home, 69 Abbott avenue. The funeral will take place Friday after noon, with service by the Rev pr Day. l enport Mrs Barnes was horn No