Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-18
Grievances in the Democrat.

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 l ing tomorrow. The bus will be run 1 laundry.
 The trolleymen have nothing but kind words for Cashier Cummings, who received them yesterday afternoon ] when they went to the company's office when they called to return their badges. All could not get in at the same time and those on the outside whiled the time away by singing Tn the good old summer time" and the melody was so sweet MT Cummings was humming it before he was aware of his conduct, and 1t is said that he kept right along at it when some one reminded him of 1t.
 One of the strangest cases of boy, cotting ever heard of was reported to- day, when, it was said, young lady residing on West Side hill came near getting into trouble because she was accused of being seen talking with one of the strike breakers on the iron bridge She got from under the ban by assuring her friends that she was waiting for union bus when this fel- low came around the corner and en- gagged in conversation before she knew who he was. He wore no uni form and she was not aware that he was one of the car barn boarders until she heard it later.
 There are now eighty strike breakers in town, seventy-seyen at the car barns and three in boarding houses. There were five boarding out, but two of them became, known to the other roomers vn1 ttxxy Yanfxr n6 %N VA ~n f building with them and they were obliged to return and take up quarters at the barn. The whereabouts of the other three are not known just now, but they will be located soon. 1t Is said that many of the strike-breakers are sick and tired of life and the barn and are very anxious to get into board ing houses, but every place they apply some excuse or other is given as to why they cannot be accommodated
 The buses did land office business to-day. Some of the vehicles were crowded so that many were standing and in several instances fellows hung on behind A mule team came up West Main street about 10 o'clock this morning which must have had at least twenty-five persons on board. The committee in charge of tiEs feature of the strike claims that as soon as the snow leaves us and the roads are in good condition that they will be able to accommodate all who will want to ride. Plans for automobiles are be- ing pushed and in all probability these will remain whether the strike is sa.- tied or not
 nylAx lao q -1n new snow blow last night and came out of the scrape with gash in his l head which required about half dozen 1 stitches Farley was operating in the neighborhood of North Willow and l West Main streets and thoughtlessly pulled the "dog' without having con l trol of the lever, and before anybody knew what was up the Boss was fast l asleep. The lever took him on the top l of the head and knocked him senseless l and it was some time before he re- l vived. A physician dressed the wound and after the patient realized what had | happened he remarked that he must have had some ones good prayer else 1 he would have been a corpse. 1t was l the closest call Farley ever had during 1 his eventful career. He is about to-day with bandage on his injured cranium,
 and while he does not look much the
 worse for the thump, still it is evident from his conduct that he has had all l he wants of that kind of work and will be more careful in the future when he l gets hold of Waterbury dog"
 l A woman who rode on a trolley car to Waterville yesterday afternoon went
 into drug store where the conductor of the Waterville bus happened to be ! at the time. She wished to purchase
 something but before selling it to her
 the proprietor asked the conductor
 should he do so. The conductor looked
 at the woman and saw that she was an | invalid and that her constitution would
 not be able to stand q ride in an open ! bus on such day as yesterday. He
 immediately told the proprietor that it
 would be all right if he sold the woman
 whatever she wanted. The woman presented dollar bill in payment for I the article purchased, stating incl
 dentally that she had enjoyed a ride on l the trolley car on the South Main street
 and Waterville lines for nothing. She
 had presented dollar bill to both con- ductors and neither could change 1t. They are not used to changing bills. T They have few cash customers, the ma iority of the few people riding having l tickets which many persons claim the
 company are distributing frely to cer- tain persons.
 The Democrat is in receipt of a com
 munication from man who signs him.
 self Frank R. Fay, who states that he
 would be glad to write an article for
 the paper telling all about Boss Farley
 and the kind of goings on he noted at
 the car barn whilA he was there us Far
 ley's right bower. Mir Fay, who is
 now in New York, intimates that he has something to make known which
 would be greatly appreciated by the people of Waterbury. The editor of
 the Democrat has no use for such men as Mir Fay. He says that he pays re- Iporters for looking out for what is of
 interest to the public and that he pre-
 fers to trust to them rather than ac-
 cept copy from any of Boss Farley's
 ex-strike breakers. It seems Farley
 used Fay as long as he could be of any cn1.yrtan fn him md than navn him