Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-01
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Some Stray Leaves From a Reporters
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 When a member of labor union be- trays the confidence of his associates, some folks call him man who should be encouraged; but when this kind of tactics is resorted to by a director of some big corporation it is another thing. In this case the long tongued director is forthwith adjudged men ace to the institution and steps are at once taken to prepare a back seat and see that he occupies 1t. It all de- pends.
 A young lady who recently graduat- cd from one of the state normal schools was highly fattered by an of- fer of a position in country school which she received last night. The school committeeman wrote to her, saving that he would like to have her teach in the town which he represent ed. The salary was five dollars week and out of that her board must be paid The board is generally $2.5o a month, but 1t all depended upon the teacher. If her appetite was unus- ,ally large, she would probably have To pay more. There was one conso- III. might earn her board by living with the parents of the school children and by giving private lessons to the pupils after school hours. Up to press hour the offer had not been accepted
 tJust a moment, please said young woman to reporter as he was about to bow himself out, after telling him all he desired to know regarding her wedding notice. The reporter paused and the prospective bride re- marked that she wished to state that she hoped the notice of her marriage would not refer to her as a popular" employe of such and such firm, add ing that she thought 1t about the cheapest kind of remark that could be made of girl and hoped to be spared the humiliation of being put down as such a person. Tn fact. she said she would prefer not to have anything at all concerning the affair in the papers If dt was to go that way and refused to Iiberate the scribe until he promised that he would not make use of the ex- pression. There is good deal of truth in what she said. too, and the more one thinks of it the more he be comes convinced that the girl who didn't care to be paraded as one of the popular kind will be very apt to make just the kind of wife man wants.
 General Manager Sewell appears to be the most unguarded man who makes few remarks now and then on the strike situation. A few days ago he was quoted as stating that the company decided on January II as to what policy it should pursue with ref erence to the strikers and that it has not since receded from the stand ta- ken at that time and never intended to. In the same interview he criti- cised the strikers for not being advised by Father Slocum and the other min listers who sought to settle the differ ences between them and the company. I wonder how Mir Sewell reconciles these two statements. If the com pany outlined a policy at the outset and decided not to depart from it., what good could have come from an acceptance on the part of the men of any plan of settlement entered into be- tween them and the committee of min isters? Isn't this candid, though perhaps unintentional, admission that Mir Sewell was giving the ministers and others who tried to act as peace makers a game of jolly?
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 A great many people saw James McEvoy's home in Mohawk park de- stroyed by fire yesterday afternoon and everybody present so far as an ob- server could notice felt very badly for MT McEvoy and his family, but few offered anything more substantial than expressions of sympathy. We'll, it is a good thing to give a man a. kind word, anyway, even though you know 1t will not help purchase bread. But that's not what I wanted to talk about What I started out to say was that John w. Gaffney, the contractor, is a queer sort of fellow. He was at the fire and looked on without showing any visible signs of coming to tears and one would think that he was rath- CT amused at the way the fire roared through the fimibers During the ex- citement he met the owner of the building and reached for his hand re- marking in that modest way peculiar iy his own that it was too bad. But he didn't let 1t go at that. When MT McEvoy opened his hand he found that he was not penniless, after all. MT Gaffney had slipped two five dollar bills into his fist and then got out of the way so quickly that you'd think he thought the police were after him. Ev- adently he wanted to do good turn and at the same time conceal his iden- tity. The front part of his plan work ed like a charm, but the rear end of it went to pieces with the result that he got more advertising out of it than he could buy for ten times the amount of l1is donation.
 Not long since one of the most pro- nounced temperance men in Water bury, a public official whose name is heard as a possible candidate for may or on the republican ticket. was made the victim of a cruel joke by two friends. both of whom belong to the opposite political party. The men were oahino as q nonop1iffao frnnn anc