Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-06-13
CITY NEWS
Tomorrow will be Flag day.

| hC" hOl SC lol tAC lliC uCpdl U ment is being tried out and if found satisfactory will be placed in the Leavenworth street house.
 1 The Military band will give con. cert promenade tomorrow night at Columbus hall. Naugatuck. All latest music will be furnished.
 | The several divisions of the A. O. H. and the Ladies auxiliary, A. o. H., will hold memorial services for Sunday afternoon. l The Baldwin street car jumped the track at Piedmont street last night, causing a delay of nearly an hour, just as people were making an effort to get to the circus grounds.
 The bitulithic pavement on North Willow street which was torn up by the recent storm is being rolled down by the company and is as good as ever now. The trouble was caused by the water getting under the pavement. --. -.. At meeting of the bond issue ] commission last night Chairman FL 1 ton was instructed to secure the ser vices of Stenographer Thomas w. l Walsh to take the minutes of meet ing of the commission. No other business was transacted.
 The funeral of Martin -Cramer will | be held from his late home in Oakville 1 tomorrow afternoon at ? o'clock, with service by the Rev H.EN. Cunningham and interment in Watertown. Mr4 Cra- 1 mer was found dead in his bed yes terday morning. Death was due to heart failure. He was for many years an employe in Seymour Smith X Go. Oakville.
 The train which has been accus- toned to leave the Meriden station for Meriden, Middletown and way stations at 6:15 D. m, has been changed and now departs at 5:20 D. m. Although during the summer | months the train was not we'll pa tronized because of the trolley, still 1t would seem that it would be even less accommodating according to the new schedule. .-
 Our neighbors, the managers of our eo-as-you-please trolley service, are catching it right and left to-day. Those people who reached the circus grounds after g o'clock and had to walk back are not in the best of hu- nor to-day. The trolley service yes terday was complete failure, except in so far as 1t made money for the company. General Manager Sewell should have man with good head on his shoulders in the center to keen the cars moving. and the system from going to the dogs.
 The attitude of the present board of aldermen towards the department of public works was aired last night Ny the mayor and commissioners. II seemed to be the opinion of all that the intention is to hold them dowr to the letter of the law. In reply to q question Monday evening as to why he protested against things going through the aldermanic board now the same as they did under MT Elton Alderman Goss stated that Inc was a member of MT Elton's board of public works. but he was not an alderman. and that if rec | were NtHl lo IIlt deI-men from the board on which he served that didn't comply with the provisions of the charter. it was the duty of the aldermen to have held them up and that if they neglected tc do it they deserved to he censured.
 The Odd Fellows memorial ser vice will take place next Sunday, June 17. All Odd Fellows will meet at the Odd Fellows hall at 2:30 D. m. and will march to Riverside eeme- tery. escorted by Canton T. R. Martin and a band. On arrival at the eeme- tery there will be short address ap- propriate to the day delivered by Mayor W. F.. Thoms who is also grand master of the Grand lodge of Connecticut, after which the graves of the four grand masters who are buried in Riverside will be visited and decorated. The balance of the graves in Riverside and other nearby cemeteries will be decorated by com mittee in the morning, so that the members who turn out in the after noon will not be required to make the long and tiresome march around the cemeteries. All Odd Fellows arc invited to turn out. and it is expected that a large number will avail them selves of this opportunity.
 Thomas Kelly approaches the bond issue question cautiously. He has a no ton that if we issue bonds enOugi to amount to anything 1t will cOs Si1.Iso or SlDBD0 to pay the iniercs on them and he is not sure~ whether it would be better io pay such larg' amount for interest or spend it for i'm provementS. You see'' said Mr Kelly '.the interest on the bonds will hav' to loo raised hy direct taxation anI what I want to know is would it b' better to raise this money and Spens it on tine streets from year to year in stead ef bonding and paying fl for in terest. We appropriate S3lG1 or Sin. O-.D every year for street work. Nov if Te arc going to make m SIa.fED O Sla.sp to meet bond interest wha [ would ISe the matter of putting wha we' have been appropriatiHg righ ! along aI8I what we will have tO raiS. to meet bonds in raSe thev arc issued together and uSe tho sum total. whirl would amount to S15.nap or SS0sssl. a, far a< # goes. I think that phase Ot inc question iS worth looking into ans no doubt the commission VIII give | the consideration it is entitled to.-
 While NIT Kelly did not actually "p pose a Isor,i issue he did no: say hi was h favor of it.. In fact tho report CT gathered from his remarks the