Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-22
CITY NEWS.
There was no city court this morn

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 The American band promenade con cert and dance at City hall tonight
 Special forecast for Connecticut Fair tonight and Friday; light to fresh I southwest winds.
 The Teamster's Fraterna1 union will hold an important meeting In He'll mann's hall on Sunday at 2:30.
 The Merrimac club will give an ex- cursion to Hanover Park on Decoration day. The train will leave Waterbury at l D. m.
 Senator Kennedy and family are expected home from the west this evening. They have been absent a month. The senator was a delegate l to the convention of the Independent Order of Foresters.
 J. Edward Jones, past grand master of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows of this city, was one of the guests of the convention of the I. o. O.. F., held in New London during the past few days.
 Dr Wooster of Washington, D. C., will give a lecture to women and girls on .'The Care of the Human Body and First Aid to the Injured" this evening at Friendly league hall. Members of the league are urged to attend.
 Robert E. Atwood of 5S Cooke street was thrown from his wheel last evening just as he had emerged from the yard of the Waterbury Brass Co, where he is employed; and received bad bruise on the ankle. Another wheelman collfded with him and knock ed him to the ground. He was attend ed by Dr McLinden.
 Mrs Minnie A. Steinmeyer, aged 6S years, for several years matron at the Day nursery, died last evening at the home of her daughter, Mrs Louis I. Storm, B Johnson street She was woman of fine character and it will be hard to fill her place at the nursery. The funeral will be held Friday with interment in Huntsville.
 There was a large attendance at the evening performance of the Goodrich circus last night. The show was fair ly good, but not up to the standard of previous years. In fact the entire cir GUS is not half as good as 1t was last year There is hardly sufficient num-
  As to the horses, they are not a very fine looking lot.
 ! The German Catholic Sick Benefit | society elected the following dele gates last evening, William H. Siefen, | Valentine c. Hahn and John F. Schel1, l to represent the society at the 10th annual state convention, which will be held in this city June 21 and 22. l The committee having the arrange ments in hand reported progress. The program has not been completed, but l will be fn a week, when it will be an nounced..
 The owners of bad sidewalks on | Burton street have so far paid no at tention to the notices that have been sent from the municipal authorities. One particularly dangerous place Is on 1 the property of man whose standing in the community is quite prominent. There Is a hole in this mans sidewalk about foot deep. Law abiding neigh bors fill it with dirt from the street, but when the dirt dries it is blown away by the wind and therefore is as dangerous as before.
 The board of examiners appointed tC examine plumbers desiring licenses me- in the City hall yesterday and elected Thomas F. Lawlor, president of tht board of health, as chairman. James Robinson was chosen clerk. Building Inspector A. 1. Chatield and Jame: | Robinson were chosen a committee tt investigate the forms, application, eer tificates and methods of examination The meeting was adjourned until mex Tuesday evening, when the member. will meet in City hall annex, when date will be fixed for holding the exam ination.
 Representatives of the police depart mentS of the cities and boroughs o the state met at Savin Rock yesterday and formed a state association whicl is to be similar to the State Bremen; association. Twenty-Five delegate: were present. Lieutenant Redgate O. Bridgeport was chosen president; ex Captain J. J. Landrigan of Meriden secretary, and Detective Cowles O. New Haven, treasurer Fifteen vice presidents and an executive committe, with representatives from each plac, were chosen. Captain Hunt of Bridge port, Detective McGrath of New Ha ven and Captain Landrigan of Meride1 were chosen a committee on constitu ton and bylaws. The object of tn, association will be to cooperate In DO lice work and social acquaintance. Wa terbury was not represented at tho meeting, although it was reported a the meeting that this city would com, In later
 In his report of the work of tn Law and Order league the past yea Secretary Thrasher finds fault witt the practice of settling cases out O court. This way of disposing O cases has hampered the work. might be remarked that 1t always ha been stumbling block to a successful carrying out of criminal work. II Waterbury sas we'll as elsewhere pros ecutors are many times too anxious to get through with certain cases and the result is settlement ant that is the end of it. For example says Thrasher, there was the noll, abuse-the practice of nolling com plaints on the payment of costs, thu allowing the offenders to evade rec ords of conviction, and. ofttimes, tt T escape penalties and forfeitures whicl the law says shall follow conviction A 1111{, rx{+ &1<t~