Waterbury Democrat., 1902-06-30
CITY NEWS.

The board of public works will meet tomorrow afternoon at o'clock.
 The board of agents of the Bronson library held a meeting this afternoon.
 The Hodcarriers' union will hold a meeting in American hall, Grand street at 7:30 tonight
 About an inch of rain fell here yes terday From about o'clock in the forenoon until evening the rain kept coming down.
 At 8 o'clock tomorrow morning there will be an anniversary mass at the Immaculate Conception church for Finton J. Delaney.
 In the last line of the poem com municated Dy MT Wallace in Saturdays issue the word land should have been printed instead of bard.
 The St Mary T. A. society will give a lawn fete at the home of Miss Annie M. Byrnes, 1277 East Main street to- night. Admission is by invitation only.
 The pastors of the Hartford diocese and all the clergy who did not attend last week are making retreat at Holy Cross college, Worcester, this week.
 The petition circulated by the law yers' stenographers for q half holiday Saturdays during July and August has been signed by all the members of the fraternity and beginning next Saturday noon the agreement will go into eff feet
 The firm of Rice & Mackie was dis solved by mutual consent to-day and The business will hereafter be conduct ed by Robert Mackie, who will pay all bills and collect all debts against the firm. He will be located at 49 Bene- dict street.
 About fifty members of the Concor- dia singing society and their friends left on the 10:50 train this morning for Seymour to attend the annual meeting of the Connecticut Saengerund The prize singing contests were held this afternoon
 In an interesting summary of what vacations the members of the class of 1902 of Trinity college will enter, the Hartford Globe says that Joseph Baird Crane of this city has accepted a position with the General Electric company of Schenectady, N. Y.
 Two of the homing pigeons belong ing to c. Jessell and Arthur G. Hull of this city, which were let loose at Reids- vile, N. C., Saturday afternoon at 4:10 o'clock. reached here fifteen hours and twenty-five minutes after being liber- ated. The distance covered was 300 miles.
 The aluminium department of the Scovill Manufacturing company played q game Saturday afternoon with nine representing the Welsbach burner de- partment of the same factory. The former won by a score of 33 to 10. The victors say that they put out the lights of the Welsbach burner fellows.
 Margaret, the three year old daugh- ter of MT and Mrs Captain Tisdol, died at the home of her parents, S2 Pearl street, Saturday evening, after a short illness. Funeral will take place from the house tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be in Pine Grove cemetery.
 The funeral of James Harold, the six year old son of MT and Mrs Michael Scadden of Hickory street. took place Saturday afternoon with interment ill St Joseph's cemetery. The bearers were Martin J. Campion, Raymond Coughlan, John Campion Michael Wall, George Geraghty and John Dwy- CT. There was a large number of floral tributes
 The employees of the machine and seamless tube departments of the Randolph-Clowes Go played a game of baseball on the Rye lots Saturday af- ternoon in which the mechanics came out with flying colors to the tune of IT to F. The principal feature of the game was the twirling of Foreman John Phelan, who made IS seamless tube men fan the air.
 A class of about 40 boys and girls received their first communion at St Francis Xavier's church at the 9 o'clock mass yesterday morning. The girls were attired in white dresses and wore wreaths, and the boys wore black suits. In the afternoon at yes pers the girls were received into the Holy Angels sodality and the boys in- to the Temperance cadets. Rev Father Curtin administered the pledge to the class to abstain from intoxicat- ing liquors till they have reached the age of 21.
 1ue funeral or William Duffy took place Saturday afternoon from his late home on West Main street to the I'm maculate Conception church where ser vice was read by the Rev Father Brod- erick. The bearers were William Dee gan, Keron Peters, Patrick Finnan. Theodore Knapp, John Coffey and Pat rick O'Brien. The floral offerings in- cluded a pillow from the family; wreath from w. T. B. club; cross, Hattie and Roselle Caffrey; bouquets. Mrs Cullen, Mrs Finn. Katie Deegan, Tile and Liz zie Dixon; sheaf of wheat and roses, Annie Towle, Nellie Harley, May Joy and Nellie Casey The remains were taken to St Peters cemetery, Danbury, for burial in charge of Brown X Crane.
 James Byrnes of Bishop street and Miss Nellie C. Hayes of 630 East Main street were united in marriage at the Sacred Heart church at S:30 o'clock this morning by the Rev Father Fitz- gerald. John Hayes was best man and Miss Mary Byrnes was maid of honor The bride and maid of honor were attired in beautiful gowns of white Persian lawn with lace trim mings. The bride carried a white prayer book, while the maid of honor carried a bunch of bridal roses Af-