Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-14
AS YOU LIKE IT.
Some Stray Leaves From Reporters
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some Sefay Leaves From MepOTGeT
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 Some of the boss masons are humor- ists. One of them wants to know why lthiS strike was not started last winter when there was little or nothing doing in the building line. This is ill line with the remarks of the woman who told her daughter that she thought it a very foolish thing to go sleighing in the real cold weather and told her to tell the young man to put 1t off until summer.
 { Many thought it would be difficult to give a successful dance in Water bury after the City hall could no longer be secured for such purposes but the few festivities held in other places the past month under the heading of barn dances prove that the dancing public will not miss the hall. Where there IS a will there is a way and so long as Waterbury has young people they never will come short of lots of places in which they can dance and make merry. The barn dances of Curran $ employees and Company G were the most successful affairs ever held in the city and such novelties are now all Il return to the old way of doing things, resumption of the kitchen dance, where there is always more fun to the square inch than crowd could have in the finest hall in the country.
 Some of Sheriff Gillette's friends abandoned him when they learned that he threw up his hands without making a fight against Senator Tracy for place on the republican state central committee. For at least week prior to the date set for the con- yention Gillette's friends never tired telling about Wills pluck. They knew he would not cower before the ma chine, but would stand right up to the rack until the last gun was fired. But it seems that MT Gillette concluded that discretion was the better part or yalor and knowing what it means to run counter with the big fellows he retired from the race much to the chagrin of a large number of local republicans who were bound to push him to the front. It is now being noised around that Gillette showed no signs of quitting until somebody whis- pered to him not to get the state ma chine after him else he would soon go 10 the D4OCK d ld 1SlSHSy 1dSAIOA duu when the sheriff heard this he prompt ly threw up the sponge and Senator Tracy marched to victory without op- position.
 'swe don't intend to do anything next Tuesday night" said one of the master builders 'That's where we drove our peg and we'll start from that of fofr hiring a brass band to herald the fact to the public. You mark my word for 1t that the day is not far distant when you will see a notice to the effect upon the office door of all the principal fac tories in town stating that no union men are wanted. When the big fel- lows do this then 1t will be an easy matter for the little ones to follow suit. They've got to in order to hold their business. Nobody feels this more keen- iy than the manufacturers. The Dus1- ness they have here naturally belongs elsewhere and unless it Is closely safe guarded 1t will soon go. Think of men doing business where they get coal for dollar ton and everything else in proportion, while here they have to pay the highest penny for everything and then keep up a continual warfare with their help It was the absence of labor troubles that made Waterbury what 1t is and regret to say that labor upheavals are now composing her ruin. The situation is serious for people who cannot pull up their stakes and move out in a hurry and l think we owe 1t to ourselves to make one bold stand to protect ourselves. We ought to have the cooperation of every working man who wants to make ,,e,.r,, Q n o,,+ home in Waferh111~v and un. less I mistake my guess we can find enough to come here to fill the places of men who prefer to walk the streets rather than work unless they can hold both ends of the stick"