Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-22
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some Stray Lssvrs From Hcporter's
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 Note Book.
 Some of the members of the semi centennial committee were discussing the question of an exhibit after the session Of Thursday night when one or the party remarked that if such feature should be included among the exercises he knew the brush factory would cut quite a dash. tfYes," chimed in another. ssI bet it would give a sweeping exhibit We'll don't know about that" said the third man, but I think it would give the best of them a good brush"
 perhaY,s 4he tersest and most effec- five election speech ever made was that of John Peel at Acerington, when at last, and after the most urgent so- licftation, he was induced to address there the electors of northeast Lan- cashire. Men of Accrirrgtun, if you are so backward in coming forward, we shall all be behind as we were be- fore" The only delivernnce conpar- afYle with FFds in terseness and effec- tfveneas was the sermon of Dean , swift's, which, taking as its text, "He that givetl1 to the poor deTdetil to the
 
 ren. if yom like the security, down with the dustr'
 ssT had q good laugh on one of my friends the other day" said sober faced citizen in Bank street cafe. He is man worth about $50,O00 and usually carries roll in his pocket. We met opposite the entrance to prominent cafe and after few re- marks about the weather or something of that sort he invited me in to have a cigar was in hurry at the time and declined the offer and was in the net of passing along when he repeated the invitation and like the man of tnde- cision that have ever been, turned about and went in. The gentleman or- dered q glass of ginger ale for himself and 8 cigar for me and then stuck his hand into his pocket and pulled up what thought was a handful of si1- yer. The man looked at it and then turned pale and hung his head like a person that has heard something which meant the ruin of himself and his family. He had come out without his money and didn't know what to do. I wasn't sure that had any myself, but after felt quarter in the corner of my vest pocket breathed easier and enjoyed my friends discontinue. had been in similar box myself and it did me good to see a wise man caught in the same trap"
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 Waterbury came near losing half a dozen of its prominent citizens at the state parade of the A. O. H. in Harte lord, and all on account of the cussed- ness of the New Britain fellows, who got their backs up because they learned that Waterbury was ahead in everything, even their float being pro- nounced superior to the one represent ing that town This set them crazy and they kept growing madder and nfadder right along until their tempers got to white heat and then nothing was too hot or too heavy for them, and with. a view to making trouble they set fire to their own float directly in front of a carriage containing sew era1 prominent Waterbury folks, in cIudfng Father Traynor of Wafefvflle and Contractor William MeGrath. The Waterbury men scented danger at the first appearance of smoke and tried to make good their escape, but in 30 doing MT McGrath had his coat singed and Father sEraynor came with in an ace of falling victim to the fire fiend. Some people say that the fire was purely accidental and was the re suit of a stray spark from one Of the Hartford engines and while there may be some truth in this, stfn you cannot get Waterbury people to believe it. It is probable that the matter will be brought to the at&en ton of the county {. .~SS@n 4H, SNTRTV brethren in New Britain were in no way responsible for what looks ike nefaTAous scheme to take the lives of innocent men.
 It is not very often that a case of a man asking a police officer to arrest him occurs. ThetAs You Like it Man witnessed such case, however, during the past week. It was during the ear ly part of the week. It was about 2 o'clock in the afternoon and Officer John Sullivan was on duty fin Fix change place. A man approached him. Frfs, condition and appearance denoted that he had been ifnblbing freely for more than one day--in fact for more than two weeks, as 1t was later ascer- tained-and consequently he had lost his position fn a large nlanufa ct1Ir- ing concern He was therefore feeling in very gloomy spirits. He imnfedi- tely asked the police officer to arrest him. On being refused, he begged pfteously to: be arrested. The police officer told him that he could not ac- cede to his requests. Then the man said ttat he would break window or steal some fruit and then there would be cause for his arrest. He started to do the latter, but the frrrit dealer saw him and made him drop the fruit. then the unfortun man approached Lieutenant Dodds and agafn begged to be placed under arrest. Next the dis contented individual approached Chief Egan at his office and made the same request Of him. The chief told him that the police station was no hospital few minutes later the man in com pany with 8 police officer went to see Superintendent Doran of the board of charities Here the man was question