Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-22
CITY NEWS

The board of public works will meet at 8 o'clock tomorrow night.
 A daughter was born yesterday to Mir and Mrs Patrick Cowper of 160 Mill street.
 About 60 persons attended the clam bake given yesterday afternoon at the Adams grove, Town Plot. The af fair was in charge of Lieutenant Thomas F. Hallinan and Louis Gro nan. Ed Hayward did the honors and those who partook of bhe good things say that he is growing more proficient at the business every year.
 The rainstorm of Saturday did some damage to a few of the public high ways and as a result MT Hotchkiss will have to do some hustling from now on. After he gets them fixed up again another downpour may come along and in this way the work will be kept up until the frost sets in and makes the dirt roads proof against all kinds of weather.
 Tn reply to the request of Water bury horsemen. General Passenger Agent Hempsted of the N. Y. N. H. and H. railroad, has arranged to run a Charter Oak special from Waterbury direct to the park gates on Monday, Labor day, and again on Thursday, when the historic Charter Oak is trot- ted. The train may possibly run other days, to be decided later. The train Will run from Waterbury, making but one stop, at Bristol, direct to the park gates, and will leave each day imme- diately following the days program s conclusion.
 Cornelius Sullivan of Avon street, Hartford, a bricklayer employed at the Naugatuck high school, was on his way home Saturday and stopped of in Waterbury to transact some bIsi. ness. In the evening he stepped into the East Main street entrance of the Lewis block and fell to the cellar floor. receiving an ugly scalp wound. He was taken to the police station aid later removed to the hospital, where the authorities reported this afternoon that he is getting along nicely. The man was perfectly sober when the ac- cident happened and the only way his presence there can be explained is that he supposed the building was the new public comfort station which the city promised to build in that neighbor- hood.
 George Elliott of 70 Chapel street died Saturday night at the Waterbury I hospital. Thursday morning he under went an operation for appendicitis. Mir Elliott was employed at the Wa 1 terbury Clock Go and was well liked 1 by his shQpmates. He was a native of Sheffield, England. He came to this country about twenty years ago aud l stayed here five years, when he re- turned to England and there married l Two children were born to him there. He came back to this country five 1 years ago and one child was born to 1 him here. He died at the age Of 45 years. A wife and three children sur vive him, also father and brother in England. The funeral took place this afternoon with service by the Rev MT Brooks and interment in Riverside cemetery.
 c. F. Hayes of the Democrat, who is spending the summer in the old world, was one of a number of tour fsts who stopped at Charlevflle a week ago and spent an hour or two
 at Blarney castle. Writing on his visit to this much frequented spot
 MT Hayes states in a letter to one of his coworkers on the paper that he looked around in the hope of catching
 sight of some familiar face, and see. ing noI4e he concluded to take snap
 shot of the castle and proceeded or
 his way. While adjusting his camera
 to take snap shot of the castle he
 thought he recognized a man who
 was in the act of descending the
 castle after kissing the stone, and
 immediately changed his position tc
 where he could get better view of
 him, but by the time he had done this
 the gentleman had alighted and dis.
 appeared in the crowd. He hunted
 here and there in the hope of running
 across him, but all to no avail He
 saw footmarks about the place that looked for all the world like those o1 1 Judge Lowe of Waterbury, and de 1 clares that if the judge was here that l day his double was making merry al
 the groves of Blarney and paid it's re
 spects to the stone "whosoever kisses
 grows wise, eloquent and witty"
 Those dreadful headaches caused often by over exertion of the eyes, as l they attempt to overcome their owr defects of vision, can be relieved only by the use of properly fitted glasses l Don't postpone having your eyes thor oughly tested. Come to us at once The services of our opticians cost you nothing. Frames readjusted free nC matter where you purchased them The Upson JeWelry Co, opticians 6s