Waterbury Democrat., 1902-06-14
AS YOU LIKE IT
Some Stray Leaves From a Reporters Note Book.


 Note Book.
 Some of the women folks who call at the assessors office think the board is made up of pretty inquisitive fel- lows. While trying to find whether or not one of them had a piano at her home, Mir Clohessey was cut short by being asked if he didn't want to make a note of her baby carriage which was In the lobby. She declared that it was coming to that and wanted to know how long people would stand this kind of business.
 The Catholic Summer school, now Just ten years old. has accumulated property worth S3O0000 This is rep resented in the splendid grounds at Cliff Haven on the shores of Lake Champlain, and cotta ges, most of them erected by Catholics of different cit ies that now number twelve. Atten- dance beginning very small at New London. where sessions were held III an opera house, has increased year by year until it reached five thousand last season. That was a gain of above 1000 over the preceding sea son With the growth ill at tendance there has come one quite equal to it in social attractiveness. More and more people of means make Cliff Haven their summer outing place. The school opens on July 6, this sea- son. to continue into early September. The courses will be i'll history and literature. and some attention will be paid to Mexico and especially the re- markable administrations of President Diaz. A feature of the courses this season will be one on the general sub- ject of ..The Theory of Being" given by the Rev John 1T. Driscoll at re- quest of the board of studies.
 Tn local paper a shorr time ago there appeared all account of mar riage which did not take place. One of the principals ill the supposed mar riage was q local young man, friend of the As You Like It Man, and lie gained much notoriety from the ar ticle. He was showered with con gratulations from many friends and it was a difficult matter for him to explain to his friends that the account of the marriage was q joke. And the worst of it was that he, himself, was the perpetrator of the joke. The story. told by the young man, is
 
 ing one afternoon at the Naugatucl1 station with lady friend from Dan bury. Just before the train pulled in a friend of mine met us at the station. Feeling in a jocose mood, I told him to congratulate us, that we had unit ed for better or for worse. He was surprised, yet he congratulated us sincerely. He asked me the former name of my bride and I gave him a fictitious name. Just then the train pulled in and we boarded it and were soon out of the Brass City on our honeymoon, so my friend thought The next I knew tII..cre was full account of the marriage in one of the papers, and though I was somewhat angry, I realized that it was my fault I will nevermore jolly about being married, for it is too serious q natter The As You Like It Man agrees with him.
 One of Waterbury's old time citi- Zens told q reporter to-day that he is disposing of his property as fast as he can and that after he gets it off his hands it will require good deal of coaXing to get him to put any more money into real estate. The conditions they are trying to bring about here. he said are exactly the same as some of the people in the old world have been fighting to rid themselves of for centuries past and Waterbury has con- tributed generously from time to time to help those on the other side save themselves from the vicious system that has beggared thousands and scattered them all over the world They want to tax property. he said for what it can be made worth instead of at what it is worth. The assessors will tell you tear down that small building and put up q costly one and then your property will be worth more. They say this is going to help the poor man, but if so fail to see it. If it does the assessors must be hold ing something in reserve that they have not yet told us about They must be going to furnish people of limited means the funds necessity to make these improvements. The reporter ad- yised the man to wait until he sees how the change will work before pass ing an opinion on it. but he wouldn't listen to this and dismissed the aues- tiOn with a remark to the effect that he knew it meant an increase in our rate bills and that by far the larger number of property owners in Water bury could not meet the added burden. It is evident that the gentleman has q false notion of this>w1Iole matter. 1t is generally admitted that the small property owners have been paying enough and that when others are com pelled to pay in proportion to what they own the load will be frightened on those who have been shouldering more than their share of it.