Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-20
CITY NEWS.

meet tonight at 8 o'clock.
 The big safe which for years has occGpied a conspicuous place in the lselectmen's office, is soon 70 he removed to the office of Comptroller Russell.
 The firm of Rankin & Luddington of London, England has gone into the hands of q receiver. Frank Ludding- ton of this city had large financial in- terests in the business.
 The subject of the lecture to be giv- en at Friendly league hall Thursday evening, .sThe Care of the Body and First Aid to the Injured,' is of most practical importance in a factory town like this where slight accidents are constantly occurring which require prompt attention and intelligent care, and it is hoped that there will be a large attendance of the members and also of their mothers, sisters and friends.
 A big crowd of the city fathers will attend the opening of the entertain ment to be given in St Mary Magdalene hall. Oakville Thursday night for the benefit of Father Traynor's par ish. An interesting program will be rendered including addresses by prom inent citizens. Most people from this place will make the trip on the trolley ears, but some will reach there in teams.
 It was said to-day that nothing de- finite would be done in the machine shops regarding the petition of the machinists for shorter work day un- til Mir Fulton of the Farrel Foundry and Machine company returns from Europe Some of them don't know what to do. They have no particular objection to the shorter day and yet they show a disinclination to comply with the request.
 All members of Court Falcon For esters of America, are requested to ar- tend the meeting of the court tonight. After the regular meeting there will be a meeting of the Woodchoppers. at which number of candidates are to be initiated. All those who have been proposed for membership in the Wood choppers and all members of the court who desire to become Woodcheppers are especially requested to attend; also all choppers of other cabins are invited to attend.
 ". c. Kleinecke, grand secretary of the Foresters of America, to-day re- ceived from the Grand court very handsome pair of silver mounted ebony gavels, for presentation to Court D. B. Hamilton of this city, These gavels were won by Court 1J B. Ham, ilton in a contest with all the courts of the state for increase in membership during the past six months The grand secretary will attend the meeting of the court tomorrow evening at Grange nall and present them to the court.
 The hand organ man has put in his appearance about town. The represen- tative of the profession that showed up here this morning had horse at- taehed to his music box and turned the crank himself while his side part ner, a lady, passed the hat around When this wandering musician visit ed in Waterbury last year his machine was propelled by a miserable looking old pony He had a nice horse to- day. This shows that he has had pretty good luck since he was here | before.
 The will of the late Bridget Heey was approved by Judge Lowe in the probate court to-day without protest. Testatrix left few bequests of $100 each to George Hoey and Bridget Cur ran of New Haven: to the Rev J. Cum ningham of St Bridget's Roman Cath l olic church in Chesbire or whoever may be pastor of that church at the time of her death; to Right Rev Bishop Tierney; Vicar General Synnott; Rob- ert Mulry and James E. McCabe of (x1-- A o116 N01lf fn n of Waterbury. The balance goes to Frank Hoey. James E. McCabe is nominated executor.
 The American band will give another popular concert and dance at City hall Thursday evening of this week which will in all probability be the last one As usual an attractive concert program will be rendered preceding the dance which will include Leader Fulton'S new Hungarian March" The over ture Paragraph ILL" a selection from the. opera A Runaway Girl,' a char
 acteristic number by Sousa, entitled 1.-The Coquette,'' MoSZowskis famous serenade and the beautiful idyll At the
 Old Grist Mill. the descriptive number
 will be '.The Hunt in the Black For
 est" the ..Tipperaly March, will also
 be played by request. A dance pro gram of 9 popular numbers will fol
 low the concert. The dance program
 will be especially interesting and has
 been carefully selected. The entire band will be in attendance.
 The annual report of John J. Cor
 bett, state secretary of the Catholi,
 Total Abstinence union, for tue tern ending December 31, 1901, is out. I
 shows a total membership of 6,202 a. lagainst 6,434 in the previous report
 While this looks like falling off, stil
 it should not be regarded as such
 During the past year several new tenn
 perance societies have been formed il t Connecticut, but so far none of then
 has joined the union. These new or , 1 ganizations drew from the older ones
 so that while Mir Corbett'S figures show
 a decrease in membership the missin;
 ones are not lost to the cause of tenn perance. In this city St Thomas so
 ciety took in in the neighborhood O
 fifty from St Joseph's and it is no
 unreasonable to conclude that simila conditions exist in other towns. Tn total cash in the treasuries of the q
 societies affiliated with the union
 S23 f35 To an iucraaSa of nearly %5