Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-08-04
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ley's drug store, is spending vaca- tion at Walnut Beach.
 l Miss Irene Kilmartin of South
 Leonard street has accepted a posi-
 tion in the Curran dry goods store. --Jamss Malone Is on weeks
 vacation to New York and Walnut
 Beach.
 l Several members of the Pioneer
 baseball team will leave this evening to spend a few at Walnut Beach. i Miss Margaret Calvin has re turned from vacation spent at
 Litchfield.
 Tomorrow morning there will
 be q meeting of the St Thomas Cadet
 association. All members are re-
 quested to be present. The meeting of the Brooklyn Athletic club which was scheduled
 for last evening was postponed until
 to-morrew evening.
 There will be work for the fish
 Investigating committee in Brooklyn;
 as there is a store on Bank street
 which looks as if it is fit to feed to cats. The store is not far from the bridge and the fish is exposed all
 day. Food Inspector Keeley and
 Sanitary Inspector Callahan will do
 a good thing when they clean the
 shack out as it is a very bad looking
 place from the outside.
 William Jackson, son of MT and Mrs Jackson of Washington avenue, fell down flight of stairs yesterday afternoon, but was not seriously in jured, although he was shaken tip considerably. The youth was playing in the hall at the head of the stairs,
 but in some manner he went tum- bling down. At first it was thought the child was badly injured, as he had bad fall, but to-day the only resemblance of his drop is badly
 discolored face and few bumps on his head.
 Edward Donahue spent yesterday in New Haven. but he did not have such time as he had in Bridgeport a week ago Sunday Eddie" had such an experience that night that he will not soon forget it. He had an interesting trip to the Park city that day, but when it was time to make the return trip it was raining. so Ed" took no chances of getting wet, and he stayed in Bridgeport and all lowed the other fellows to. return in the automobile. The ex-bailif put up at an up to date hotel which had new fangled gas jets. Whe he came to put out the gas and retire for the night, is when the fun began. He extinguished the light all right, but bumped the jet in such a way that he thought he turned it on again. He did not have a match with him, and as it was late in the evening he did not care to go down stairs to ask for match. So he dressed himself, pulled chair to the window, and sat with his window opened all night. The story did not come out until a day or two ago. Ed" says he really thinks he would have smothered had he gone to bed. as when he was sit ting about an hour in the chair he could smell the gas in the room, but was afraid to go near the jet to en- deavor to turn it of.
 The stench from the Nadgatuch has been conspicuous by its absence the past few nights. Health 0fficer Kilmartin and Sanitary Inspector Callahan havo been investigating the nuisance and both seem to be under the impression that 1t has been com ing from the gas company plant. Edwin H. Williams. who is the manager of the United Gas com pany's business in this city, returned from New York yesterday afternoon. He had a talk about the matter with Health Officer KiImartin and another will be held this afternoon. Mir Will Hams also paid visit to Brooklyn last evening and talked with Robert Walker of the Brooklyn and Town Plot committee. Mir Williams want ed to see what the petition looked like that the Brooklynites intend to present to the aldermen next Monday evening. When he saw the paper he was much pleased. as he said that he was under the supposition that the people on this side of the bridge was endeavoring to have the gas tank removed from this section. He stated that as far as he knew the workmen at his plant were always careful when they were cleaning the tar wells so as not to leave any of the stun exposed and also saw to 1t that none of the oil flowed into the river. He said of course the men might be doing otherwise without the knowledge of the bosses, but he said 1t was extremely doubtful. He seemed very willing to rectify 1t if any nuf- sance existed. Mfr Williams also had a talk with Dr De Liguori over the affair. Although the petition will be presented to the aldermen on Mon day evening no further action will be taken and it is likely that the matter will be dropped on the promise of Mir Williams that If the oior was com ing from his plant he would attend to the matter 60 as to prevent 1t In the future. About a year of more ago this same thing occurred. Upon investigation 1t was discovered that the plant was all right and when the matter was looked after thof- oughiy t was discovered that the smell of oil was coming from fac tory on the river which was using the same stun ss the gas plant The supposition of the people in Brook Iyn is that the workmen now and then when they clean out the tar wells throw the taf which they should burn into the river. This stun is undoubtedly partly the cause of the smell, as the oil from 1t may be