Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-29
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since the NdSnlngtOn monument
 vas opened to the public October 9,
 1888, up to June 30. 1905. 2,573.6O9
 visitors have ascended to the top. q
 majority of them preferring to use
 the elevator rather than climb the $50
 feet of stairway. During the past
 fiscal year the number of visitors was
 l30,S03, of which number S9,235 used
 the elevator. This number included
 the guides
 Anybody having a supply of white
 mice on hand can get rid of them to
 the government at 25 cents each. and
 the government will be glad to get
 them at that price This is no rat
 story but serious proposition from
 that. scientific bureau known as the
 [. s. Public Health and Marine Hos
 pital Service. These mice are wanted
 for purposes of inocuIation in testing
 serums for the treatment of diseases.
 Thousands of these little rodents have
 met their fate through these expert
 ments ana the contract enjoyed by
 some animal dealer in supplying these
 animals has grown beyond his power
 to supply. The chief of the Hygenic
 laboratory applied for authority to
 purchase the necessary mice in the
 open market and the assistant secre-
 tary of the treasury approved 1t in
 the interest of science and mankind
 generally.
 One-quarter of cent per year for
 carrying the United States malls
 daily distance of seven and three
 fourths of mile and back. How's
 that in comparison with some of the
 enormous salaries drawn by officers
 of the Equitable Life Assurance as
 sociation and other corporations and
 then ponder on the difference in pay
 rolls But it happens fin this case
 that Uncle Sam would have paid
 more but he was not asked. Adriel
 L Stuart of Freedom \. H., when
 bids were called for for carrying the
 mails six times a week from Freedom
 to a station a fraction more than sew
 en miles distant. submitted bid. offering to do this for period of four years between July 1. 1901 and June 30. 1905, for one cent. He bid this low figure because of the prestige it would give him to have the sign "U. S Mail'' on his wagon which covered that ground every week day, year in and year out, in the transportation of passengers. Stuart has fulfilled his contract to the letter and few days ago a warrant on Uncle Sam's treas ury for one cent was made out and sent this contractor fin payment of bis salary for the period of four years. This is the smallest treasury warrant ever issued and instead of having it cashed Mir Stuart will frame 1t.
 The death of Daniel Cassidy of South Leonard street removes a man who WAS not only prominent but popu- lar among his countrymen in Water bury He Is now the missing link of what the boys used to term the noble three Cassidy. Clohessy and Ray. all residents of the Brooklyn dis trict. They had known each other for almost lifetime and for years were inseparable companions. When the late Michael Clancy, man whose l name will always be revered by those 1 ! who knew him intimately, used to 1 meet at social gatherings, and join In 1 the chorus of the song. entitled When We Were Boys Together" said to have i been composed by Frank Ray. al- l though some credit it to John Clohessy, everybody used to say that it had ref ! erence 10 the four singers. and as this | never was questioned it went and in | | time was accepted as gospel truth and | when anything gets to that point they | stand whether they are true or false. | Cassidy and Clancy have gone to their 1 reward. but ClohesSy and Ray are still | with us and the next time they sins | | that song it is quite likely that their | thoughts will revert to the absent ones whose voices often chimed with theirs . in the rendition of that familiar poem. i By the way the old Guard Is thinning | out in Brooklyn and if the few survivors want to perpetuate the or | ganization in that part of the town IL behooves them to be on the lookout for | some recruits to take up the vacancies caused ty the calling away of the Hor- igans. Byrons, Begnals. Cassidys, Clancyx. Bannons Garveys. Lough | mans. Derwins and others who could always he depended upon for some thing more substantial than talk when the occasion required it.
 One by one the youthful Celtic en- thusiasts who figured in the Fenian | raid on Canada in CT are passing away and in a short time it will be hand to find anybody who has person al knowledge of that well meant. but I futile effort. to give freedom to Ire land. Waterbury has a few of them still living. but they don't say much about it. partly because it was an l utter failure. and also on account of the inference. whether true or false. that some of the leaders were not sin eere. Re that as it may. il is certain that the bulk of those who left their homes at that time in response to the call to arms. acted from patriotic Impulses. no matter what purpose ofherx had in mind Thomas F. Boyce of Derby. who was buried there Hast week. is the last member of that noble hand of Irshmen to be laid at rest and his comrades speak of him | as one of the brayest fellows that went out with the boys who made up the Philadelphia contingent. He was a native of Letterkenny Donegal ihe .-hIack north" as some term that dis trief of Ireland. and from his boy hood had very good reasons for tn. rafrioric aryfor which wss such . prominent characteristic of his who'll. life He was Fenisn and was not | zshame-i to own his connection with xl arsI L.. N