The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-09
HAPPENINGS IN DERBY.
s. 4. R. HISTORIC TABLES AND
 SHORE OUTING.

At the April meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution Tuesday afternoon attention was called to two tables of historic value: one, the Hum phrey's. stood in front of the presiding officer; the other, the Riggs, was used by the secretary. The chapter voted to have a shore outing" in June. At the May session the annual election is to occur
 This Friday evening the Womans club gives the last of the three enter tainments for the season, it ping a con- i cert, and one of special merit. These afternoon meetings of this organization have been well attended and the inter est in the work of the club has abated not whit. The society is approaching it's wind-up for the year with fine rec ord. It has been the aim of the ladies composing this club to do something to make the cities or towns in this part of ithe Naugatuck valley better in civil line, and they have done it, particular ly in their projecting such a work as now is the function of the District Nurse association. This charity is ap- preciated and is being welcomed by all the citizens and the medical men espec- ially. The nurse is busy at all hours, and even now the employment of an as- sistant is contemplated.
 The vital statistics for the month of March showed but nine deaths for Der by, one of them being caused by con- sumption.
 Lawyer w. S. Downes has purchased the first blackboard automobile seen in this locality, and will find it useful in his trips to his country-seat, Maple dale" on the river, provided the ice melts before next fall. The blackboard vehicle is of course built low and is of light structure apparently but durable enough to carry quite a load at speed of thirty miles an hour. The machinery is located in the rear, and is simple in construction
 A man working in the Monarch laundry of New Haven last Sunday morning telephoned to Dr. George L. Beardsley that he had just censured a lcouple of fellows who were driving a lame and generally diseased horse at tached to a heavily loaded junk-cart on the way to Derby. Dr. Beardsley thanked the informant for his humane interference and at once put the Derby police on the trail. The wagon was so heavily filled with stuff that it became fast in the mud long before it reached the Derby line. The driver had to re- turn to New Haven to get derrick to extricate the wagon from it's fastenings. Had these junk dealers ever reached Derby they would have met with warm reception from one of Derbys lively "cops'
 The annual meeting of St. James parish showed fine financial status 1 The sum of sixty-th hundred dollars was raised during the year and the en- doWment fund so increased that it now amounts to eight thousand dollars The church is gaining in members and it's weekly services are well attended. 1 The Thomas Market" on Main street, long a popular meat store, has passed into the hands of Peck, who for merly ran successfully the Bridgeport Market" near the bridge. Peck pur- poses keeping an up-to-date store with all the delicacies. Meat markets must 1 be profitable enterprises in this sction, as nearly every six months announces some new venture in that line of com mercial activity. Meat markets and vegetable stalls are multiplying at rate that makes the passer-by query how can all these jobbers in eatables pay rent and get a living. They do someway, and the goods they offer for sale find ready purchasers. There are few cities of Derby's size where there are finer displays of fresh and early garden produce. The Italians lead in this and do thriving business. l The new iron railroad bridge to span the Naugatuck near the Junction is not fast approaching completion. The three sections or divisions of the first span are finished, but the temporary support for the second did not prove big enough for the trusses and the contractor has been obliged to arrange for some spill 1 ing. The pile-driver scow is due here soon.
 l Ansonia's health officer reports but seven cases of contagious disease for February and only five in March. The usual spring tournament through the back yards of all buildings is soon to commence, and piles of rubbish will soon fade away into the garbage vans
 The new city hall of Ansonia is to be built of Munson granite. The new Catholic church of the same city is con- structed of this kind of stone. The foundation walls are already well start 1 ed
 The street department tangle in An sonia still continues and bids fair to be a long tussle between the Murrays and the Donahue. The way the two gangs are distinguished is by their weapons of warfare at work, the Murray men using brand new picks and shovels, while the 1 Donahue crowd engages in shoveling and picking with the city's old tools. Ansonia is distinguishing itself various l ly of late, but never more to the amuse- ment of the outsider than in this freak of a fight between two factions deter mined to do her street work
 l The first automobile accident this ! year occurred in Ansonia Monday af- l ternoon. The machine of Dr. Norwood ran into nine-year-old colored boy, breaking his leg.
 Now that really a bridge is 10 be, must be built over the Naugatuck river and railroad at Derby, the discussion has shifted from high or low to concrete I or steel The final act in the comedy of l snSsinns Of the city fathers was fha