Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-14
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IA Few Stray Leaves From a Report

A Few stray Leaves From heport-
 er's Note Book.
 Louis Reed, a Waterbury stone ma son and bricklayer, is the victim of a strange aff1iction. Last election day he was hurrying to the polls when he lost the power of speech and never spoke word for several days. Final ly he got better and thought no more of it until recently when he had an- other attack of paralysis of the tongue which lasted but a few hours. The next day he had another attack and now he goes through the experience almost every day. He says he can not account for the trouble in any way except that it is the result of an ac- cident he met with some time ago when he fell somewhere and came near being killed.
 Some three hundred and odd cats are maintained by the United States government, the cost of their support being carried as a regular item on the accounts of the postoff1ce department. These cats are distributed among about fifty postoffices. and their duty Is to keep rats and mice from eating and destroying postal matter and can vas sacks. Their work is of the ut most importance wherever large quan- E titles of mail are collected, as for ex- ample, at the New York postoff1ce, where from 2.000 to 5000 bags of mail matter are commonly stored away in the basement. Formely great dam age was done by the mischievous TO- dents. which chewed holes in the sacks and thought nothing of boring clear through bags of letters in night. Troubles Of this sort no longer occur since the official pussies keep watch. Each of the postmasters in the larger cities is allowed from SS to $40 a year for the keep of his feline staff. send Ing his estimate for "cat meat'' to Washington at the beginning of each
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 movement Is said to be under way for the establishment of suitable lodging house for women on a plan similar to that of the Salvation army shelter and Waysile inn. The good people back of 1t claim that the want of such an institution has been felt in Waterbury for several years past and that frequently women, apparently re. spectable, who are temporarily desti- tute and have no friends are obliged to remain at the station house. It Is hard to see decent woman obliged to ask For lodging at the lookup, but 1t Is very likely that inquiry from Chief Egan would show that such cases arc very rare. probably not an average Of ~.A-w a. AN. claim that a cheap boarding house for women would be patronized by many good people is not we'll founded It would have callers, to be sure, and the town would have more of the kind of women that would take up quarters fin such place than it has today While nobody cares to spend night at the police station, still 1t is not bad spot for one who can do no better, and instead Of opening up place for women 1t would seem that the end in view would be attained by having the police authorities find accommoda- tions outside the station for all de serving females who call upon them and state that they. have no place to stop over night.
 One of Waterbury's old time sports was talking about athletics and incl dentally remarked that half century ago or more William B. Frost was the best wrestler in New Haven county and that while he was in the business 30 to speak, nobody ever took fall . out of him. Sixty or sixty-fve years ago, he said, Frost and few of his friends went down to Naugatuck to see a wrestling match. but owing to some misunderstanding one of the principals didn't show up and young Frost was induced to take his place. He 1owned the first man and then others kept coming along until he reached the If. teenth man and after laying him out Naugatuek threw up the sponge. MI Frost was asked about this matter the other day and while he was reluc- tant to discuss 1t he finally admitted that there was some truth in 1t. He cot1ld wrestle bit. he remarked, in his day, and jump, too. One of the worst men that ever buckied into him was Michael Donahue and some other Irish man whose name he could not call tC mind was the only person that beat him in a back standing jump The contest was for m oyster supper and the affair was held in the rear of the SeoviTl Manufacturing Co.'S plant MI Frost was working in Scovill's at the time and went out from his work tC meet "the Trishman." "He was { very clever looking young fellow and cleared eight feet at the first trial and as soon as saw that told the boy. that the supper was on me"