Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-03-22
CITY NEWS

The Rev Father Keefe of St Ann's church will deliver the sermon at the Lerten devotions at the Sacred Heart church tonight.
 The pole flew off trolley car on North Main street last night and de layed traffic on the line for some time. Nobody was hurt.
 H. W. Atwood is now at the clerk S desk in the office of the department of charities His friends are pleased to hear of his promotion.
 Prof Barton. M. A., delivered a lee ture on '"The Ruins of Pompe1i' at Trinity church parish house last night. The lecture was Illustrated.
 The forty hours devotion which opened Sunday at St Francis Xavier g church closed this morning. The ser vice was very largely attended.
 A months mind mass for the late Mrs Mary Howard will be celebrated tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock at the Church of the Immaculate Concep- ton. I
 Contractor McManus of this city finished his contract with J. H. Whit temore at Naugatuck yesterday, and is now removing his apparatus to Wa terbury. The work at Naugatuck con- sisted of the carting away of the high hill on the Whittemore property into the low lands nearby, thus converting all into one level lot, which, it is said, would make an ideal golf grounds.
 The weather conditions are very dis appointing for people who have out door work to attend to and unless 1t clears up pretty soon contractors will commence to figure upon 8 very late spring. Several attempts have been made the past week or two to start jobs that have been on the waiting list since last fall, but the weather inter- fered and as result nearly every thing is at a standstill.
 Thomas F. McMahon severed his connection with the department of charities" yesterday to enter the en- p1oy of Randolph X Cloves. Mir Me Mahon has been in the city hall fOl the past ten years, one year as town clerk. seven years clerk of the board of selectmen and two years in the de partment Of charities. No more com petent and courteous official ever filled public position in Waterbury than MT McMahon and no man ever entered the city hall building and left 1t with a cleaner record.
 It is surprising how many people are interested in the purchase of a patrol wagon for the police depart. ment and the selection of site for it. One man said to-day that he hoped the board of public safety will defer action on the whole matter un- til the city sees the wisdom of secur- ing a new site for a police station. He thought 1t would be a big blunder to build on Leavenworth or West Main streets and was of the opinion that the proper thing to do was to buy the ] Whittlesey property on Harrison ave nue and build thereon a police station ] police court and a house for the pa trol wagon in the rear. He said that lookup never should abut upon . sidewalk as the present one does and that any effort to make a suitable DO lice station out Of the one we have will end in a dismal failure
 Too much bending over a desk and close application to work eight or ten hours each day brings on eye strain and the consequent nervous irritability is usually blamed on anything but the real cause. Many men would take more pleasure in their work and waste less energy if the strain on their eyes were relieved by the right glasses that is thing We know how to do cor rectly The Upson JeWelry Go, op fipi1 rig