Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-04
CITY NEWS
This is Arbor day.

| This is Arbor day.
 Twin daughters were born to-day to
 Mir and Mrs John Hurley, of Bridge
 street.
 The remains of Max Burner, who was killed by the cars at Hoboken some time ago, were removed to-day from Riverside cemetery to Pine Grove.
 John J. Shea. 429 South Main street, died this afteronon. Besides his wife he leaves four children, John, Patrick. Michael and Mary. The funeral notice will be announced later.
 Young Riley. local wrestler would like to accept the challege. recently is- sued by John Loppert and will be pleased to meet either Mir Loppert or his manager at the Democrat office OH next Wednesday evening Word was sent to Manager Bowler to-day that the Western Union lines between here and San Francisco were open and ready for business, and communication with friends Ill the stricken city can now be ob- tained.
 The collections taken up in all the Catholic churches in the state last Sun- day for the San Francisco sufferers, amounted to S14,0O0. This represents the collections in no parishes and there are forty more that have yet to make their returns.
 Do you want to be an assistant in the office of the department of char tiles? If so, take the first oppor- tunity to see the commissioners, for it is quite likely that the place will soon be filled. The appointment will be made by the board, probably at the next meeting.
 Since the newspaper men and the city officials are thinking of organiz- ing ball teams, why don't the police- men get together and form a nine? With Stevens, McEvoy, Mclean. Donahue, Gabriel, Walsh, Kierste,l, Wallace, the supernumerary, and Dodds as foundation good team might be organized.
 N. w. Tower. chairman of the Knights of Columbus relief fund at San Francisco, has written letter to D. H. Tierney, acknowledging the receipt of $100, which was- the first contribution sent from Waterbury. State Deputy George A. Connolly, to whom the money was sent, is one of the sufferers and for that reason was unable to acknowledge the re- ceipt of it before.
 A large hound with ears as big as cabbage leaves was taken into custody this morning at the rail- road station and escorted to the chamber of horrors in the police sta tion, where it will be put out of bus mess tomorrow unless claimed by the owner. It had no muZzle and acted as if 1t had planned to take the next train out of town when Off, ficer Callahan placed 1t under arrest.
 Con Cassidy is visiting at his home on East Main street. The past year he has been down in South Car olina. He will leave the latter part of the month for the Adirondack mountains, where during the past couple of summers he has managed a base ball team. This summer lie will also have charge of the ball team in that section and already he has several good men signed for his semi-professional team.
 At meeting of the graduating class of the Barnard school held yesterday afternoon, the following officers were elected: president. Porter Haynor: vice president. Marion Brophy: treas- urer. Joe Yankowsky; secretary. Flora Mersky; committee on pins. Ernest Obergfall. Helen McCirath and Ma. tilda Maier. class will, Mary Maier: class Historian. Helen McGrath: pro- phet. Edwarl Weidel: prophet on prophet. Ernest Obergfall.
 Superintendent Brennan of the Brookside home is proving success as farmer and if 1t turns out to be good season he will have pota- toes and everything else that can be produced on farm in abun- dance. Already he has seven acres of ground planted with potatoes and he expects to seed about three acres more. Some of his winter boarders have skipped. but the number on hand is not so small as to warrant the management in believing that the usual quantity of provisions will not be needed next fall.