The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-03
WALLINGFORD HAPPENINGS
YORK OF THE FLOODS SEEN ON
 ALI SIDES.
Damage i'm and Out of the Borough Signs of spring-The Borough Grand List Summary Personals, Etc.

List Stu mmHry -P Personals, Etc,
 The flood of Friday night was the greatest on record, on the plains at least. From all sections come com plaints of flooded cellars and of damage done thereby. On the corner of Cherry street and Hall avenue the cellar of J. w. Lanes store was flooded for the first time since the building was erected over thirty-fve years ago. At 10 o'clock Friday night Cherry street, north of hall avenue was almost raging river and was flooded to the depth of over two feet in the roadbed and for a dist ance of 1000 feet the water was eight inches deep over the sidewalks and rushing with great force through the yards and gardens in the vicinity to the old gully at Washington street, which has recently been stopped up from its usual course to the late. The result was that good sized lake was formed with water from five to fifteen feet deep and only the fact that the rain stopped and consequently the water subsided pre- vented the old course of the gully and probably part of Washington street
 
 on Cherry street and vicinity was the highest on record, and a like situation of affairs was experienced on Meadow William street and vicinity, as we'll as South Colony street and other portions of the borough. Only the prompt action of T. F. Daly and a few others in get ting out at midnight and banking up in some places and shoveling out in others prevented several of the cellars of bus mess blocks on Center street being flooded Morse, the baker, claims he was damaged fully $500 by the water getting into his bakery and storehouse. Other claims for damages will be made from different sections largely caused by the failure of the authorities to have the gutters cared for and cleaned out when they should have been The bor- ough may have saved a few dollars by not doing it's duty in preparing for the flood while 1t had time to do so, but in the end 1t may prove to have been ill- timed and expensive an attempt at economy.
 The terrific rain storm of yesterday morning did hundreds of dollars worth of damage to the streets of Walling- ford. On Saturday the warden had men at work turning the current of water from melting snow off Cherry street in to Silk street and across Washington to 1 the lake near the Brass companys shops. When the rain fell yesterday this temporary waterway did not suf- flee to carry the water away fast l enough and in short time space | from ten to fifteen feet wide and six | feet deep was cut in Cherry street for | a considerable portion of the way. The | greatest damage, however, was done on | Silk street That portion of the street which is between Washington and | Cherry streets. was washed away en- | tirely to a depth of from four to seven ! feet onto a vacant lot near by. It is thought that at least five or six hun dred loads of gravel will be necessary to rebuild the street and place 1t in it's former condition. For the present a temporary foot bridge for passengers will be erected about midway between the two streets. Farther on below this point the water again crossed Silk street and another deep gully was cut in the street.
 There is strong evidence that spring is coming as within a few days we have had thunder storm, hand organ on the street, and book beer
 The board of selectmen will hold it's regular monthly meeting to-day.
 MT, and Mrs. John T. Jerralds are home from Washington, D. c.
 The total number of tramps lodged here during February was 2S9.
 Miss Bonnie Bartholomew of St. ! Louis and Miss Charlotte Elsey of San Francisco, who have been the guests of Mrs l.. M Hubbard, started on Satur- day for their homes in the west.
 A suit for divorce has been brought by Isaac Fl. Ives of this place against his wife on the ground of desertion. Mrs. Ives is now living at Rocky Hill, having left MT. Ives in April 1899. They were married in 1896. The case is re- to the superior court Tuesday, April 1.
 The snowfall here last month was .hirty-th inches with a precipitation # 5.58 inches the rainfall being .82, making the total precipitation at $40 nches. The snowfall for February 1901 was AS inches with precipitation Of .5S. The rainfall was or making the total at .65 inches. Assessor Thomas J. Kennedy has just l the borough grand list for 300. The figures are as follows:
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