Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-25
CITY NEWS

The Journeymen Plumbers and Steamitters will hold meeting to- morrow evening at their rooms t0 transact important business.
 The Parker Social club will meet tonight at their club room, corner Pleasant and Baldwin streets, at o'clock sharp, for their trolley ride.
 A large crowd attended the prom enade given by the Military band last evening at the Auditorium Fine music was played and all who attend ed thoroughly enjoyed the dancing. Phelan, the tea man, and the band furnished the fan programs. J. E. Sandaford, the real estate man. has sold the lot corner of South and Lounsbury streets and has given thd contract to John Mraz to build three family house, cellar not let, for John F. Finnegan, who thus takes ad~ , vantage of extra inducements offered to the first six purchasers.
 Henry O'Neill is the sole owner of the Waterbury Plating and Electric
 works now, Joseph Bauby having re- | tired from the company. Mir O'NeilI will continue the business on lar 1 ger scale than ever. and has nut in {
 machinery for the manufacture lof chandeliers. He is fitting the new bowling alleys with all the chande- l Her fixtures
 The bimonthly drill of the police 1 officers was held in the City hall this | afternoon. Captain Bannon was in command. The members are begin ming to execute the different march ing movements with a smoothness and dexterity that show the careful ! military training which they have 1 received from the former officer in the regular army and in the militia. l The drills are being held in preparn-
 tion for the annual police and fire in
 spection which will probably be held l in October.
 The sisters and boarders at St Mary's day nursery on Cole street had an outing to-day at Thomas Kelly's The youngsters romped about in lhe grass, kicked at stray sunbeams. lis tened to the melody of singing birds and feasted sumptuously upon the best things at the Kelly homestead. includ- | ing a liberal supply of the bakers lolly-pops. The party made the frip i'll two of Alderman Blakesleeis hlr buses and was the happiest appearing crowd that passed through the center LllS 60ASOu.
 Harry s. Batche1der of this city. the we'll known football player, who has been conducting tobacco store in Reading, Pa since his marriage to Miss May Cassidy, was arrested short time ago on the charge of keep ing gambling house. 1t was alleged that he allowed gambling for cigars and nickels in his store. The trial took place this week and probable cause was found and he was held un- der bonds of $500 for the next term of the superior court. He spent some hours in Jail before bonds were SC. cured. His wife is also out on bonds on charge of embedding $S,OOO from dry goods store in which she was employed.
 With all his vigilance and hia faith in mousetraps, MT Atwood of
 the town store has found 1t necessary
 to fall back upon the cat in order to
 save his stock from the assaults of an army of mice that keep crowdiilg
 in upon him from unknown quarters.
 Mir Atwood tried various ways of I warding off the rats and mice, but all l to no avail and finally he concluded to
 employ the services of real mouser
 and brought in a handsome black fe- line that soon demonstrated that 1t l knows its business. The mice caught
 on and gave the cat wide berth so that while it is paying strict atten- ton to the duties assigned to 1t so l far it has not succeeded in finding much to do, the little jokers that took l delight in tormenting Mir Atwood be- I ing wary enough skip to other uuar- | ters, leaving the cat and it's master in
 full possession of all the good things
 they were wont to feast upon before
 pussy took charge of the place. The city fathers are finding the I work of elevating the Welton foun-
 tain bigger job than they supposed 1 it would be- The masonry was of the very best and as a result the whole thing is like one massive rock
 and when they get through with 1t
 they will find that it would have been
 about as cheap to have made a com
 mencement on the top to dig out the
 bottom A very prominent citizen
 who had something to do with the | erection of the monument, said this l afternoon that while they are at it
 he thought this business adminfstra-
 ton ought to decide to put nice
 basement under the fountain and fit I 1t up as public comfort station. He
 considered 1t an ideal location for l the much talked of comfort station
 and believed that money could be
 saved and public convenience amply
 satisfied in that respect by putting it
 there. The water used in the foun-
 tain could be made to do service in
 the station underneath and in this
 way more city water than would sup
 ply hundred families would be saw
 ed. He thought his idea well wor- I thy of careful consideration and
 wanted it passed along for the benc- I fit of those who want to meter every pailful of water citizens use in tilelr I homes.