Waterbury Democrat., 1902-02-05

ing be erected on the green for the burned out storekeepers has not met with popular approval. One reason is that such buildings would mean the extinction of the handsome elm trees which are not yet in the heyday of their youth. They are about sixty years old and the erection of frame buildings would mean heating by large stoves, which would end the lives of the beautiful cathedral arches which the trees now form in the winter as well as the summer season.
 The Waterbury Business college has secured three large rooms in the '. NJ. c. A. building. with new furniture and several new Standard typewriters. New pupils can enter 1t any time. School will be resumed Monday.
 Paul Asheim was one of the unfor- tunates who had to suffer when his safe was opened. It was single door and when opened not a bit of the contents was safe All were destroyed and among the losses was $450 in money.
 Judges Root and Peasley are settled in their new offices. those which were until recently occupied hy Tax Col lector Thams in the Odd Fellows build ing. Jud"e Peaslev saved good deal of his library and other effects. but Judge Root lost quite number of val uable papers.
 Louis ]. Fox. a member of the Wa tertown fire department. lost his badge while returning from the fire early Monday morning. It Is thought that he lost ih on the Watertown road. If anyone should be lucky enough to find it. they will kindly return 1t to Mir Fox. His naDle is engraved on the back.
 Colonel Dewitt. the famous pho- tographer, who is known from one end of the state to the other. and who is now located in New Britain. Is in Wa terbury getting ready to take photo graphs of the ruins. A curious fact is that the colonel has the negatives of all the buildings that were burned. taken some years ago.
 Attorney c. E. Meigs. one of the heirs of the Meigs estate, which lost one large building on South Main street, is still unable to say what the loss to his family will be. The insur- ance does not come within one-half of the cost of the old building, and as building material has advanced won- derfully during the past few years. it is difficult to say what a new build ing will cost.
 Anxiety has been felt for Henry Cone and family. who lived on the top floor of the building occupied bv Davis < Nye on the ground floor. MT Cone and his people are we'll They had a close call escaping only with q few articles of clothing. MT Cone got burned in the left eye. but the injury received immediate medical care and is all right now. The family is now staying at 5S Center street.
 Mrs Henry Stickles and three chil- dren, who occupied the tenement on the second floor of the Schlitz Bros building on South Main street lost ev- erything that was of any value. They succeeded in removing q few of their belongings. but these were stolen by yandals. The family carried no insur- ance. They are consequently in desti- ute circumstances. but are being cared for by friends. The flames had seized uDnn the building before the family left their tenement.
 One of the Imaginable incidents in connection with the fire took place near Brook street on East Main street Monday. An Italian with a pail of beer. in trying to pass down Brook street. ran up against a militiaman's s bayonet. The mans dark face became one huge smile. of surprise when he Iii There was no th0rOughfare that way. only over the soldiers bayonet. Tn vain the man with the growler tried to go through. A few minutes later he tried to get down South Main street with the same result Still later he showed up at the Seovill street side of Brook street and again he was ID against the bavonets. Tn short. this man had a terrible time trying to get the pail of beer to his friends. and he succeeded only by climbing the fences in the rear of St Patrick's hall.
 Perhaps the busiest office in the city during the progress of the fire was the Western Union Telegraph company. managed by w. A. Sawyer. From the manager down to the messenger boys all were tired out when t1ie excitement had died out. The corps of boys that were used to deliver errands were stopped from that kind of work and were kept busy delivering messages all over the city. There was no let up from the time the fire started until last night when business became a little. more quiet Express wagons and other vehicles were pressed into service to deliver the many messages that were coming from people in all parts of the country. It seemed. said Manager Sawyer as though every person ill the city who had relatives in some other place. received a mes sage of inquiry. Notwithstanding the unusual rush of business, Manager Sawyer and his corps of operators and messenger boys delivered every mes sage sent in quick time.