Waterbury Democrat., 1902-12-05
WATERTOWN J0TTINGS.
Important Meeting To Be Held
 Next Tuesday Evening.
FOR FIRE DISTRICT RESIDENTS

Connecticut Railway and Lighting
 Co for Fifty Arc Lights Will Be Con
 sidered- May Be Placed in the Yicin-
 ity of the Fire Hydrants.
 The fire district meeting, which will be held on Tuesday evening for the purpose of deciding upon the question of entering into a contract with the C. R. & l.. Co. to light the streets which are within the district, is of great i'm portance and every voter who is inter ested in the welfare of the district should attend if possible. According to Revised Statutes of the State of Con- necticut, fire district may be organlz- cd for the purpose of establishing a public water supply system, and uni form way of eXinguiShing fires, Tor the purpose of street lighting and also for the purpose of establishing a syS- tenn of sewerage. The fire district in this town, when first established, had its charter drawn up containing only two of these clauses, namely, those Of establishing a public water supply sys- tenn and for the purpose of putting out fires. At a meeting held recently an amendment was made to that charter in which the clause for the purpose of street. lighting was inserted. Also at this meeting a resolution was made that a committee be appointed to con- fer with representative of the c. R. & l.. Go in order to enter into q con tract, the conditions of which were to be as follows: To obtain 12 arc lights of 1200-candIe power each capacity at S75 per light per year, the lights to be turned on at dark and turned off at 1 a. m.- This committee met and held a conference with the C. R. Sc L. Co.'S representative, and the conditions nam- ed above were agreed upon with the exception of the last one namely, that of having the light burn from dusk to l a. m. The representative thought that from dusk until 12, midnight, was a sufficient time to have the lights in operation for the price named. For this reason the extra meeting on Tues day night has been called in order that the committee may obtain con- sent of the district to enter into the contract proposed by the c. R. 6 l.. Co. At the last meeting held some of the voters thought that if 30 incandos- cent lights Of 20-candle power were Cb- tained they would evenly distribute the light through the town. the plan being to place one of these 90 over each hy- drant. and as there are only 51 hy- drants in town they would come out nearly even. But this plan of light ing would be inferior to the one pre- viCusly mentioned as the combined light of the fifty twenty-candle power lights would not equal the capacity of the l.2O0-candle power arc lights. The proposed layout fer the tweIve-arc lIOhfc c fa1lnIx-c. ir-f corner near the residence of Henry r. Dayton; second, one opposite the Kiel- ty grocery store; third, one at te Meth odlst church corner; fourth. near the residence of Mrs c. Hickcox; fifth, in front of Greenyille factory; sixth. at me corner near the residence of !. D. McGoWan; seventh, in front of NJ HemInWay & Sons silk factory: eighth. opposite the residence of Dr Jackson. ninth, at the top of what is known as Colgan's hill; tenth, on the Watertown Heights; eleventh. opposite Taft school and, twelfth, at the top of Academy hill. When the question of street lighting has been settled the next dues uon of importance to come before the pubic IS the need of a sewage system. the system of sewage could be es- taDhshed ln this town and the streets pe conVenlently lighted, the value of property and the general appearance of the town would be increased fTIIv 100 per cent. Although Watertown has always been considered as one of tbe heaithy towns in the state. this system or sewage would add greatly to the health Of it. Therefore although inc meeting next Tuesday evening will not De Tor the purpose of establishinr 2 sewage system. let every voter who feels it his duty attend and aid fn So. curing for the town one of it's longest felt necessities
 The local chapter of the Junior Broth erhood of tt Andrew held 2 reouIar meeting last evening with 2 good at- tendance. 4 debate was held an Ina question, Resolved. that the American colonies were justified in taking uD arms against England After consid- erable discussion the affirmative won. lt IS reared, however, that a little in dlVldual sentiment entered into the de- cislon- The debaters were: Affirma- tive, Gerald A. Cunningham and George A. Zeidler; negative, Charles A. Rogers and Frank H. Mattoon. The following committee was appointed to arrange for a mock trial, December IS: Eldridge N. Scott. Ernest N. Zeidler and Frank H. Mattoop The members expect to. give minstrel show some time in the near future. The case to be tried will be a suit for divorce between Mary B. Carter and Nicholas Garter.
 The members of the Watertewn Ath 1etie club are looking forward to a big time on December 31 when they cele- brate the third anniversary of their ex- istence. The club was organized a lit tie over three years ago through the eff forts of Eugene Purdy, Russell Nor thr0p, Michael flaming and a few oth- CTS. They first gave the club the name of @Boys' club" but later it was changed to 'sWatertown Athletic club. which name has been retained ever since Eugene Purdy was elect ed the first president of the club and he was succeeded by Russell Northrop. During last winter wrestling matches were held regularly every Friday night. in which some of the best men in the