Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-22
CITY NEWS

! 5 !. t5 < l A. P. Freed, a retired merchant, died
 in Boston. The deceased was well
 known in this city, where he was for
 merly engaged in business.
 l The Rev Father Joseph E. McCar-
 thy of East Main street, who was re
 gently ordained to the priesthood at
 St Sulpice's seminary in Paris, will say
 his first public mass on next Sunday
 morning at 1O:3O at the Immaculate I Conception church.
 l Tn all probability all the local Cath office churches and parochial residences
 in the city will be draped in mourning for certain period as q token of re- spect for the deceased pontiff, Leo XIII The Currans Dry Goods Go has already received the contract to deco rate the church and .rectory of St Pat rick's church. Decorator James Bo- Ian is ready to commence the work which will be begun as soon as word is received from the church authorities in
 Hartford. Decorator Bolan will also drape appropriately the other Catholic
 churches in the city.
 Tn last evenings issue of the Demo l crat there appeared an article to the l effect that a number of tools had been stolen from the Mulcahy school. The article also stated that the police were ] working on the case. This article must have frightened the persons who stole the tools,, or they must have sud denly become conscience stricken, for during last night they returned the implements. When the laborers went ] to work this morning they were sur prised to see the missing tools on the premises. It IS good for the thieves
 that they returned the articles for if
 they had been caught the case would
 have been hard pushed against them
 by the school authorities. The tools
 were owned by the city.
 l A horse attached bo q bakery wag-
 on belonging to the Brooklyn Lithuan- l ian Bakery Go was standing on Green
 street this morning. Ut was checked
 with one of those check lines with a l weight attached to the end of it. The
 driver was in house delivering goods 1 Suddenly an automobile in which Dr 1 A. A. Crane was riding came along l The horse prtcked up its ears, looked 1 at the automobile, then, frightened very much, it dashed at a mad pace | down Green street. The weight or
 check line had no effect upon it. From l Green street it dashed onto Riverside | street and along that street towards the center. All along the route pies,
 cakes and bread Were being scattered l in all directions. As the horse was 1 speeding along Riverside street the l wagon was overturned. The fop of 1t
 was badly damaged. The horse was
 stopped before any more damage was done.
 The WatertoWn road people were not
 unanimous on the proposition to lay
 out the street from Bunker Hill roe to ITyfngton avenue to width of sixty feet, though, to be sure the opposition
 was not very pronounced. "A. Fl. Wells
 would favor the project provided the street should bel curbed and surface hardened and but one trolley track aI- lowed in 1t. The mayor said the board
 was not in a position to promise any
 thing of the kind, adding that there
 might be four tracks there provided
 they said so at Hartford. Speaking
 along the same lines, D. W Mooring
 said that if the street should be worked to a uniform width of sixty feet at the expense of the public and the abutting
 property owners, the city should get
 something out of 1t In case 1t should be
 double tracked. He was aware that
 what was contemplated would be a
 benefit to the public and didn't think
 that after the people got good thing
 at their own expense they should turn 1t over to others for nothing. 'T assure you, replied the chair, ''that this board is in full accord with you on that mat ter, MT Mooring, but the trouble is that the people who foot the bills to lay out and maintain streets have very lft- tie to say as to what use they shall be put to- Much was said in favor of
 making an effort to save all the shade trees along the line and it is thought that this can be done.