Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-05
Deputies Have An Easy Time
 Keeping The Peace.
RUM0R OF MORE PISTOL SHOTS

RUM0R OF MORE PISTOL SHOTS No Disturbance Last Night to Speak of-The Lights Went Out Early and Were OutsLate- Union Auto is the Talk, of the Town Strikers Issue
 Daily Statement and Make Few Denials.
 The report of three pistol shots were heard on lower South Main stret this morning, but nobody appeared to know anything about it. The deputies are having fat time strolling about the l streets. They. while their time away looking at the display of spring goods in the show windows and admiring the handsome women seen in all parts of the town. They claim that they never saw their equal before, so you see no matter what some folks may think of Sheriff Dunham's deputies 1t must be admitted that they are good judges of what goes to make true womanhood. The first of the union mems autos
 made it's appearance on the public streets of Waterbury last evening and was greeted with shouts of delight along the route from Exchange place to the end of the line on Bank street Some of the officers forgot all about the new vehicle and miStook the cheers as evidence of disturbance, but after they learned what it was they breathed easier and allowed everybody to give full vent to his feelings at sight of the automobile bus. It did a good busi- ness during the evening and had all it could attend to this afternoon. Two of these running regularly would be all that public convenience would require except when people are going to and from their work when four or five would have to be pressed into service. If everything turns out as the strikers expect autos will be operated on all the streets now used by the trolley cars during the present month. If they do this and maintain a satisfactory schedule and make the fare the same as the cars then the whole trouble will
 be over and people can take their choice.
 1 There was no disturbance worth
 mentioning last night. Most of the lights went out early in the evening and the city was in darkness until this
 morning. Some claim that this was ! due to cutting of the circuits, while others say that it was because all there was left of the cartoons from the night before were not sufficient to keep the
 lamps lighted any longer. Anyway, l it was dark, but people are becoming accustomed to that and don't mind it quite so much as they did at the com l mencement of the trouble But it is | a fact that people feel worse over the lights than they do about the trolley service and everybody is anxious to see thit end of the trouble adjusted and so long as it can be without passing upon the merits of the difference be- tween the rolleymen and the company l it would sem that it ought to be fixed up and let us all see where we are go- l ing.
 It seems that the public is of the opinion that all the linemen in town
 are on strike. This is a mistake. l There is no trouble anywhere except
 between the trolley company and its trimmers and linemen, all of whom are out. There is nothing the matter at
 the Western Union office, the American
 District Telegraph company or the
 telephone office, and as these have
 much to do with the poles and wires l about the city, they do not like the idea
 of being booted at and called scabs. One of them told a reporter day that while they are union men and in sym pathy swith the strikers they have no grievance against their own employers Constable Booth, who is escort for the non-union trimmers through the Brooklyn and Abrigador districts, says he will write book about his adven- lures after the strike is over Tn the territory named there is not half dozen whole globes and no matter how rapidly the broken ones are replaced 1 the new ones are in smithereens very soon.
 The injured trolley men at the hospi- tai are getting along very we'll and 1t is expected that they will be able to re port for duty in week
 About II o'clock last evening the en- tire north end was thrown into dark ness. But as the light for the past week has been very poor, in some places there being none at all, very few noticed the total darkness. The company believe that the, wire was cut at the junction of Pine and Bishop streets.
 It was said to-day that Manager Sewell accused man of shooting at one of the cars on the WaterviIle line last evening, but the story could not be verified. One hears so much about shooting these times that he is pug zled to know what to believe and what to take with big grain of salt, to say nothing of alleged doings which any body can see are pure fabrications.
 The strikers executive committee gave out the following statement this afternoon:
 'Once more, on the fifty-fourth day of our strike. we report to the public That a11r~ men ara cta y,nh1u fo