Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-27
CITY NEWS

MlsS 1lliS Stdulef OI DeuHt StIeel ls visiting relatives in Meriden. 4 son was born, Tuesday. to Mir and Mrs Silas Carter of p Ashley street. Highway Commissioner Macdonald has approved the award by the board of public works to Pagan Bros of An sonia of the contract to build a sec l tion of Macadam road on the Middle bury road.
 l At a meeting of the committee ap pointed to revise the rules of the re- publican party. held last evening !n the office of J. P. Kellogg. it was de- cided to adopt the primary law now and for some time past in u.e by the local democrats. Another session WI be held Friday night when this ah-' l other matters will receive another | airing.
 One of the most delightful trips at the present time is a visit to the Cat skill mountains. The New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad furnish es the best accommodations for those who contemplate making the trip. ! Buffet and parlor cars and competent and courteous trainmen By leaving Waterbury at 10:5S one can reach Lake Mohawk in the Catskills the same evening.
 John Anderson of Town Plot is in receipt of a cablegram informing hm that his daughter. Mrs Jean McQuard who. with her husband. left here on July , for visit to friends i'll Den mark. is in a dying condition at one Of the seaport towns at Norway. She was in the enjoyment of good health when she left here, but it is supposed she was taken ill on board the ship. P. H. Carroll, the garbage contrac- tor, has been notified to attend meet ing of the department of health Mon day afternoon at 5 o'clock, and answer few questions relative to his duties. Parties are securing the town with statement to the effect that the work of Mir Carroll is unsatisfactory and re- questing people to sign it so that Ill case something of this sort should be introduced and considered as good eyl- dence it is easy to see Carroll's fin ish, for no matter bow thorough the work might be done it would be an easy matter to induce some to say 1 they never Saw d NohSNtoi ih shNAA backwards.
 | Judge Peck's finding of facts in the ! suit of Attorney F. B. Kelley agaiI/t 1 E. I. Torkomian was received to-day at the district court. The issue in ! this suit was whether or not the law 1 yer is worthy of his fee. The conrt l found that the defendant had con- suited the plaintiff quite number of ! times for a few years and that the latters services were worth at least i S50 d year or SIP for tue entire pe- ] riod covered in the transactions. He 1 found also that the defendant begun 1 the organization of joint stock cor | poration and that the papers were drawn up by the plaintiff whom. 1t
 was understood was 10 be secretary. 1 The corporation was not formed how | ever. yet the defendant continues to do business under its name.
 | To save q boys life.a chaffeur ran | his auto into a telegraph pole on
 Phoenix avenue yesterday afternoon. 1 The boy was riding bicycle down the 1 avenue as fast as he could go and the
 chaffeur was going up the avenue at fairly lively clip. Above Jacques 1 theater it became evident to the man ! in the auto that to save the boy he
 must drive aside and perhaps break
 his own car. The hoy was coming
 down the incline so fast it was impOs-
 sible for him to turn aside. The chaf-
 feur accordingly smashed into the pole
 and the boy rode by, safe. This boy.
 who is well known because of an un-
 fortunate defoTmity. is said to he q
 spectacular rider and forever running
 risks of getting his neck broken. He
 came nearer to il yesterday than ever
 before.
 People un Baldwin street and others
 who find the illuminated clock in the Washington school wonderful coIs
 vpnience claim that it is now out oi
 commission and lay tine blame on the
 biz road roller belonging to Q. r. Hart
 that operate,l there while Mr McAlanu,
 was surfare hardening the street
 While nobody can explain what cpn
 nprtiou the steam roller had with the
 clock in the tower. still if is pretty
 generally believed that the pOndeT0us
 machine was the source of the sudden
 stop made by the time piece. Ii did
 the same thing before when the rolIel
 was up there and it does seem as if
 there might he some truth in the al
 legation Anyway. the clurk is nnt
 doing the right thing by the people and somebody should see that it tend,
 ta business.
 C. E. LsIkeHS. inc celebrated SteePls
 Charlie of Cp.umbu>. O. iS in town
 and doesn't Iook 8 day older than wher
 he made his first visit to Waterbury
 several years aEn Already hP Ina.
 touched up ffaErnleS for the Water .-buTv Brass Co. fhp Waterbury Cruel
 hla Co. the Southe~a New England Telephone Co. tho T=ptt Baking Co ant
 other firms. Charlie is in the pink 0i
 condition and says he never feels hap
 pier than when he iS rerrlsssI on ths
 ion of a pole 2sJ or 3u fet a5C~s tiIg
 earth He has a notion that he ma,
 soue time strike spire tall enougf to enable him 10 get hold of the clouds
 and clamber into heaven He uevei
 close an ere on week days. but retire, early every saturday night and su1vs, ike a top until Monday morning sgheI
 be wakes tIr as fresh as 8 daisy and prspared fer any kind of work in hi'
 line that rrynlsS along His hiEhes'
 asrent was 2a1 feet on Sreeple at
 the Hubinzer building in New York
 where he S1raddIe,l the eagle sul
 tfut.ctf his har to the astOnisbesf ma
 tiveS ara the street
 | Before IeavFnz home for the sum.
 mer do mt neglect to provide yourself