Waterbury Democrat., 1902-04-15
CITY NEWS.
The board of health will meet at

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 The members of the Merrimac A. c entertained number of their friend! at theif club rooms last night.
 Mrs Thomas Fallon and Miss Alice Taylor of Piainyille have returned tt town after a visit to Mrs Fallon's sis
 ter, who is the sister superior of tht | Dominican convent of Our Lady Stal of the Sea at Saratoga, N. Y. l The second semi-annual subscription concert and promenade by the Scorchel Athletic club will be held In Leaven worth hall on next Thursday night Tickets have been selling rapidly and there is sure to be large attendance
 An entertainment and sociable vii be given at Concordia hall tomorrow night by the Waterbury Vaudeville club. There should be q large attend ance as the entertainment Is i'll the na ture Of benefit for Charles Steinley who was seriously injured short time ago.
 The following class officers have beer elected by the pupils of the eightt grade ill Miss J. E. Arthur's room iT the Crosby Grammar school: President Eugene Sullivan; vice-president, Miss Maud Henderson; secretary, Francis Bowes; treasurer. Miss Mamie Ryan The class colors are Harvard red md white.
 The Elite Whist club met last night with Paul Galipeau, 97 Cole street. Sixteen games were played and after very hard work the prizes were given
 ls follows: Ladies, first, Mrs l.. Tru- dell: second, Miss NJ. Nforeau: hooby, Miss D. Leblanc: gentlemen, first L. Trudell; second. L. Moreau; consola- ton prize, James Galipeau Cali peau's orchestra furnished the music
 The first grand fair of the Merrirnac A. c. will be opened i'll the City hall tomorrow night. 4 fine stage program has been arranged for each night A feature of the fair will be the voting contest for the most popular base ball team in the Greater Waterbury Ama- teur base ball league. The winner of the contest will be presented with nine handsome base ball suits. It promises to be a hot race.
 Boys started a fire last evening in two houses in course of erection on Farm street and few workmen who happened to be on the ground at the time had hard job to save the build ings from being reduced to ashes. The houses belong to c. E. Hoadley and are being built by c. 4. Ketchen. Be sides the damage to the buildings about S25 worth of paint belonging to the Ziglatzki-AGarks Co was destroyed.
 A very pretty wedding was cele, brated at 6:30 this morning at the I'm maculate Conception church, when Thomas J. Keefe of 426 North Main street and Miss Charlotte O. Coen of 29 North Elm street were united in marriage by the Rev Father McGuane. The groom was attended by William Uffendale and the bride by Miss Cath- erine Falvey. The bridal pair left on the 10:50 train for New York on wet- ding tour.
 The Foresters of Americas general room committee met last night and elected their. officers for the ensuing year: Chairman. D. Kelly, Court Wolf Tone; vice-chairman, NJ. J. Car ney, Court Vigilant; treasurer. J. J. Mcdonald, Court Shields; financial sec retary, James Connolly, Court s. !. Meany; recording secretary, E. l. Brandely, Court Champlain; auditors, J. Bagley. Court Oregon; E. Lyons, Court Falcon: NJ. Smith, Court He'll mann.
 Miss Clara A. BrZezinski. who was q teacher at the Kimball conservatory of music, which has just gone out of cx, istence. will continue to have a studio in room 14 in the Citizens bank build i,1rp x,I twill r1ln To all of her pupils and any new ones. Miss Brzezinsh is talented young lady and an accomplished instructor of piano and musical Kindergarten classes. She was one of the most pop ular teachers at the Kimball conserya- tory of music.
 Already preparations are being made to hold in this city the largest drum corps carnival ever given fn New Eng land. The carnival will be held at the Waterbury driving park on Saturday afternoon and evening, June IA, and it will be under the auspices of the Sacred Heart drum corps. One of the features of the carnival will be a long street parade, i'll which there will be about fifty drum corps. The American band will furnish music for the danc. ing at the park and Prof Pole will be the prompter.
 An alarm from box No summoned the fire department to George A. Full ler's saloon on Scovill street this morning shortly after midnight The fire was extinguished in a few mo- ments and Chief Snagg thereupon made the usual investigation. He found the fire to have started near or in the till under the bar. He en- tered a complaint with Officer NJ. T. Sullivan and Fuller was immediately arrested and locked up. An account of his case appears under police court head in another column.
 Prof Bailey spoke at length last even- ing to his many advanced pupils of the adverse criticism heard lately by Yir- tuous-minded people at the many i'm modest positions assumed by some of the dancers nowadays, who think it tbe proper caper, not realizing how offen- sive 1t is. It is simply a vulgar fad and may be justly termed ''bear and kangaroo embrace" Such positions are not assumed by those in polite so- ciety, much less tolerated in legiti- mate school where the graceful art is taught.
 It was a pity the Hill Street Im- provement club didn't appoint a dele gation to receive the board of public