Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-29
CITY NEWS
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l Adn eler IdyiOr, I. Il. Murray anu
 George Zinn, committee representing
 the city of Hartford, was in Waterbury
 yesterday Hooking up information on
 the water question.
 The meeting of the board of public
 works which was to have been held
 last night was adjourned until Thurs
 day night. This course was made
 necessary Non account of the absence
 from town of Commissioners Blakeslee,
 Chesson and Mahaney. It is believed l that MT Blakeslee will be home on l Thursday.
 Harleigh S. Hill of North Main
 street and Miss Margaret Canning of
 Ayers street were married at 10 o'clock l this morning at the Immaculate Con- l ception church. Father Broderick per- 1 formed the ceremony and celebrated l the nuptial mass. James Canning was best man and Miss Catherine Lawrence was maid of honor.
 l The home of MT and Mrs Frederick T. Dixon on Round Hill street was the scene of much merriment Monday night
 when large number of neighbors and | friends gathered together to observe Mrs Dixon's birthday An interesting musical and literary program was rem dered, including selections by Percy
 Stanson and members of St Johns quartet
 Clerk Root of the district court has written his friend, Sheriff Gillette that while he is enjoying himself in the woods in Maine, the weather there is not as pleasant as it might be. MT Root and his wife have been away two weeks and during that time the weather and they have not been on good terms. It has given them it's cold shoulder and threby made things rather unpleasant especially at night. The middle of the day is generally pleasant and the fish are in good biting mood. Mir Root hooked a few good ones. He says in his letter that one night while making for camp he was scared almost out of his wits by what he supposed to have been a bear but
 which turned out to be a young deer.
 The authorities ought to do some thing with the dogs in the north end of the city, particularly on the north end of Bishop street. Last evening they kept the neighborhood in a state of constant alarm. No one could pass without dozen CUTS barking at him, and one man would have been badly hurt by them had not assistance been given him. Something he was carry ing in a bundle in his hands attracted the dogs attention to him and in mo- ment there seemed to be a dozen around him, barking and snarling. When the man made his escape the dogs turned upon each other and the uproar they made drew everybody's at tention. There seems to be enough dogs in the north end the taxes from which would keep the street in repair for a year, provided they are all li- censed. But the chances are that cent was never paid for any of them. The sewer department is endeavor- | ing to put stop to the business of | throwing rats and other offensive mat | ter into the sewer basins, but the work goes on all the same, so that it is noth- | ing unusual for the men who clean the 1 basins to find in them rats, pieces of meat and other offensive smelling mat | ter that often forces them to crawl to 1 the surface to get a little pure air be- | fore they can complete the job. There | Is an ordinance covering this matter, but | few take any notice of it. It is bad enough to hurl dead rats into the | basins, but 1t is worse to make them 1 receptacles for the carcasses of dogs and cats. Most people offend against | the ordinance without bestowing a | thought upon what they are doing. If | they would stop for a moment and con- sider that human beings havelto go into | these basins and fish out everything 1 they find in them, perhaps they would | manage to look up some other way of disposing of things they have no use 1 for about the house. The business is 1 indulged in all over town and is a great nuisance to the sewer department, espe- 1 cially in this kind of weather.
 1 Some one is doing a good deal of ex- l plaining in the papers regarding the
 delay in repairing the water main on
 Baldwin street at ScovilPs bridge and
 curiously enough the board of public
 works is made responsible for every l thing. Now as a matter Of fact all 1 the board of public works had to do 1 with the job was to refer it to~a com mittee consisting of Mayor Kilduff,
 Superintendent O'Brien and Engineer | Cairns with power to act It is but
 fair to assume that the committee did
 the best it could, but even so it should not be wondered at if people who havc
 been managing to get along without
 water in their tenements since the
 break occurred several weeks ago are
 out of sorts once in a while and
 thought it ought to be pushed faster
 supposing a night gang be put on. The
 insinuation that work is held back so
 as to enable certain men to get more
 than their share of what's going is
 nothing more than a part of the com-
 plaint that accompanies every allega-
 tion of the kind, but if such things
 were sifted to the bottom they would
 be found to have but few if any foun-
 dations in fact, so far as the city
 boards are concerned. But what mat
 ter about this? The work was finish
 ed to-day and everybody in that part
 of the town has an abundance of good
 water and twelve or thirteen pounds