Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-02
SEARCHING TOR BODY.
Systsmatic Plan sS Removing Ics
 Uadsrtassn To.nay.

Tue search for the body of little Joe uriano in ScovilPs ditch still continues, but so far no trace of it has been discovered and it is question If there will be until the ditch is stripped from the point where the boy fell ill to Dub In street. Superintendent Doran of the board of charities has taken Il hand t1l the work and in connection with Yardmaster Grannis of tbe Sco- Will Mfg Co systematic plan c> re- moving the ice was undertaken this morning and if enough help car, be se- cured the whole stretch ought to be opened to-day.
 It Was suggested that the water be drawn off, but Mir GOss does not think this the best thing to do. He believes that Ill such q case the ice would fall down and bury the body in the mud and render the work of recovery more difficult than by removing the ice. Be sides that, he is not willing to shut down and throw 2,O00 hands out of work if he can help it. He couldD't get enough water from the city to run the mill if the supply from the ditch should be shut off. because they haven't connections that are right fol that -'pose and 1t would take $5.OO0 to put. them in. Mir Goss is willing t0 furnish men to assist in the search for the body. but he thinks that the most expeditions way of removing the ice and finding the body is to turn the job over to some of the ice dealers who have the right kind of tools to work with. If this should he done and operations commenced near the brid"e that spans Dublin street and~lnt the ice float down the river according as 1t Is chipped off, it wouldn't take long to clear the whole of it. instead of working down from the spot where the hodv disappeared and having the Ice backing up on them as fast as they br"ak it off. as it has been doing since they started. Anyway. there op"ht to be more heln tf-are and there is not a ta~nayer in Waterhury but would he willing to climb {Her the hummocks in the streets amd have every man on the street danartment po out there and delve in the ditch until the body is. dis covered. TOhe sure. some say it is none of the city's business. but this is cruel view to take of the situation. and besides 1t is an erroneous idra, for when you get down to the facts every person in the community. esnacially the mafa portiOn Of the rnnulatiou. be- 1or"s to the state It wouldn't take Deo- pie long. to be made sensible of this if thu Sto< vou ut toI v,A fnt. o11 know the state may have haen robbed of a valuable soldier in little Joe Cri. ano in case it should need men of braw wn and muscle and courage to up- hold the honor of the flag fifteen or twenty years from now. He would steD into the fray of his own accord. and if not the authorities could and would force him to do so whether he wanted to or not. This is as it should be, but the indifference now on the part of the authorities is all wrong and not calculated to make the best kind of citizens. especially among the foreign born element, many of whom made no bones of stating to-day that if young Urianc met with similar fate in his fathers country the town officials would he the first to come to the rescue. But Joe Criano was an American and if he had lived never, would have known any flag other thhh the Stars and Stripes, and as such the loss of few gallons of water or q lit tle time in factory should not stand in the way of giving his case all the attention that would be bestowed upon the offspring of the first citizen in the community.
 Putting this aside and taking it Oil the broad question of humanity, every good citizen will say that at least the employees of the city government should have been organized into searching party as soon as it became known that the hoy was drowned and kept in that ditch until the body was found and turned over to the bercavcd father and mother.