Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-29
AS YOU LIKE IT
some Stray Leaves from Reporters

Some Stray Leaves from a Reporters
 Note Book.
 This is the season of the year when the bachelor does not envy his more or less fortunate brother. the benedict. What bliss must fill the heart Of every husband at this season of joy and or beautiful millinery, when his other half gently reminds him of the fact that she has purchased one or the lat est imported creations in the millinery line. Husbands should not grumDle, for the Easter bonnets are said to pc very fine and rather high priced tnls season. The As You Like 1t man hopes that the weather gods will favor the members of the gentier sex to- morrow so that they can sport thelr Easter bonnets and gowns.
 
 To a Waterburian who is accustomed 10 seeing heavy horses draw the Ire engines, steamers and other parapher- nailia of the fire department, the horses used in the same department III the park city appear very light. Tn comparison to the horses used here they seem like race horses. They would never do for the department in Waterbury for they would never pull a steamer up any of the hills. That is where the park city has the ad- vantage. Its main streets are paved with asphalt, in general way the city is level, there is hardly q grade sleeper than that on East Main street from Brown to North Elm street, SO that it is at once evident that it's fire depart ment does not need heavy horses. But nevertheless race horses do not look well, under a fire department steamer.
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 The Naugatuck train leaves the same end of the Bridgeport depot, but not the same place as formerly. The row of seats that divided the maIn tracks from the Naugatuck tracks has been removed, also all the tracks but one on the east side of the depot. Where the tracks were and all the land west of them is torn up and eV- erything is in the confusion generally caused by a small army of workmen, comprising engineers, bridge builders, laborers, masons, carpenters and every craft peculiar to the business Of build ing railroads. Huge piers have been built out in the river for one of the most magnificent bridges ill the coun- try. Beds for two or three new tracks have been laid all along the east side with great wall about i've feet wide between them and the old tracks. For about q mile out of Bridgeport, going north, the east side of t:le road is covered with .Moy&1aeIl, all Of which means that the ConsoA- dated Railroad company IS spending piles of money on a system of railroad ing that will be without comparison in the country.
 The Consolidated railroad company is making considerable progress in the long promised improvements on the Naugatuck branch. About four or five miles below Derby a large force of men have widened the road bed sufficiently for another track or two, half dozen steam drills are constantly plugging away, temporary tracks run in all dl- rections and two or three work trains are daily employed removing scores of cars laden with sand and stone from hills to holIoWs. A spectator from a passing car window is given an idea of the immensity of the contract that is under way. Along the line shanties and sheds dot the hillsides and the moving work trains, the pulling engines and the scores of men, geSturlng and shouting to each other, the tap" tap of the steam drills give the scene quite a busy air. The meadows between East Derby and Derby proper are ready to receive the bed for another track, the foundation for the trest1e work being now laid. But from Derby north, not an inch of ground has been disturbed so far, so that it will be years before this city will feel the proposed Improvements.