Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-17
CITY NEWS

MISS Lynch, or Bristol, who has been visiting the Misses Timms, of Summer street, has returned home
 The regular monthly meeting of tie Queens Daughters will take place soz morrow night at St Patrick's hall promptly at S:15.
 There will be celebrated tomorrow | morning in the Immaculate Concsp-' tion church at s o'clock, a months
 mind mass for the late Joseph Cullen. St Mary's T. A. society will hold &
 meeting in St Patrick's hall Thursday. February IS. Every member is r8- quested to be present as important business is to be transacted. M. Gavegan is in Waterbury on one of his periodical visits. MT Cav egan is the Boston Pilots represents. tive and is calling upon the numerous friends of that publication.
 A large crowd attended the prom enade which was given in the City hall, last night by the Waterbury Military band. The music furnished for the dancing was excellent and was de- cidedly pleasing to the dancers.s Thds is Ash Wednesday. the conn mencement of the Lenten season. Ind usual exercises were held in all th& w ! Catholic churches Wednesday, ana Friday evenings for the next seven weeks.
 The fire department responded to an alarm of fire from box "A, corner of Johnson avenue and Waterville street, at 9:10 this morning. Some plumbers were thawing out frozen pipes in W. c. Austin's house when a part of the woodwork became ignited and q small blaze started 1t was quickly extinguished.
 A very pleasant evening was spent. at the home of Charles Ryan,, 39 Vol. colt street, last evening. Many oeI his friends were present. Songs were rendered by several and games Of all kinds were played. Refreshments were served, aftsr which the merry Sunmakers departed, wishing MT Ryan many returns of tiie day.
 George Zingi, manager of Zingarell&s the aerial artist. who appeared at thu Company 6 carnival last week. was seized with fainting xpeil yesterday while sitting about the stove in the he had been stopping dnring his so- 1ourn in this city. He fell against the stove and his face and hands were se- verely burned. It is feared that he may lose the sight of one of his eyes.
 At the meeting of the board of public works last night Euperintend- ent Hotchkdss. to whom was referred the petition of Chester Chin for per- mission to place a sign in front of his place on North Main street, reported that no such person was living there. Two weeks ago g Celestial who gave his name as Chin rented rooms there, but that was the last they saw of him. He, was given leave to wtfh- draw. The board vo+ed to allow City hall to be rented to the A. M. E. Zion church for an entertainment to bs held April 15.
 No man connected with the preaA ent city administration can spring srnarter joke than Commissioners Gosn of the department of public works The other day when Mir Seweil of the trolley company was talking about how anxious he was to get the plans approved so that he could commences operations, MT Goss remarked that he supposed the company had the rails on the ground The rub amused MT sewef1 because this was one of the principal reasons why he argued for speedy action on other plans submat~ ted and approved long ago. although notlrsfsE has yet been done towards doinG HA0 work.