Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-08-25
CITY NEWS


 band promenade. Latest music.
 Shorthand with bookkeeping for 1 tuition at Monroe's Business college.
 $5 gold filled glasses guaranteed for ten years, reduced to S1.50 for the next week at F. P. Slavin's, eye specialist, 167 Bank street.
 = The band concert given in Ches- hire last evening was not given by the Waterbury Military band, but by an organization from Cheshire.
 The city board of directors of the A. O. H. will hold an important meet ing ill A. o. H. hall at 1O:30 o'clock tomorrow morning. This board is composed of the five officers of the several local divisions of the order, every one of whom is expected to be present on subject to come forward is the arrangement to attend the field day exercises and county conven- tion at Naugatuck on September 3.
 Work was started a day or two ago on the 1,500 foot tunnel which is to go under the hill west of Bristol in double tracking the Highland divis- ion from Bristol to Waterbury. MT McCabe, one of the firm of contrac- tors who have the work in hand, will make his headquarters in Bristol during the life of the contract, after he finishes big job he is working on in Providence, R. l..
 Tomorrow at 1O:3O the Railroad Trainmen of Waterbury will play the New Haven brotherhood at State League park. The lineup: E. John- son p, H. Bunce c, H. Rogers 1b, J. Quinlan 2b, J. Fitzgerald ss, R. Reilly 3b, H. Corners If, J. Cavanaugh of, M. J. Leary If. M. J. Leary is an old timer and he wants to see how he can play ball in his old days The umpire of the game will be J. P. Hopson, superintendent of the railroad.
 Thursday was brothers night lat the grange in Mill Plain and an in- teresting program was carried out. There were two debates, one on the value of garden produce compared with dairying and the other whether a wife is better bargain for a farm CT than a wheelbarrow. The garden produce men won the decision from the dairymen. and after a stubborn contest the woman advocates finally triumphed over the wheelbarrow fel- lows.
 St Joseph's T. A. society left this morning for Bridgeport where they took part in the field day exercises of the c. T. A. U. of Connecticut. The boys made good appearance and their friends expect that they will outshine everything in the parade. Besides the members of the society several relatives and friends of the members accompanied them on the trip and did some roofing at the ball game which took place at Steeple- chase island.
 Baldwin street came near having a serious trolley accident yesterday afternoon, when Margaret Scadden. daughter of Richard Scadden, was tossed to one side by car, but fortu- nately escaped with few scratches. The children were playing on the street opposite the Washington school when the car came down the hill from Simonsville. All got out of the way except the Scadden girl, and the motorman was not able to stop the car in time to prevent collision. That entire street is positively dan gerous for children and it is used as n playground at great risk to life and limb.
 A dog belonging to W. N. Ladd, a grocer on North square, did not con- duct itself as a sane dog would last evening and owing to the prevalency of rabies among canines. MT Ladd determined 1t was better to call in Dr Thomas Bland. The doctor af- ter examining 1t concluded it would be a good dog dead and it was dis posed of by him. During the past few days so many dogs have been disposed of by the various veterin- arians that 1t is generally supposed and hoped, too, that the law requir- ing dogs to be restrained from run ming at large will be enforced again. There are more dogs in the town of Waterbury than in any other town in the state and 1t IS only natural, that they should make more trouble for the public than the dogs of elsewhere. Mayor Thoms is out of town at present, but upon his return he will be asked to enforce the