Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-01-22
CITY NEWS


 American lodge, No A, A. o. U. w.. | will give whist party in Mechanics hall on Thursday evening.
 William Rutter, formerly proprietor of tannery in the eastern section of the city. died last week at his home l in Brooklyn, N. Y.
 Saturday afternoon the Crosby High ! school basketball team went to Bristol | and had an easy time defeating the high school five of that town, doing the trick to the tune of S4 to IA. The February number of the Wo- mans Home Companion will be a good one. Every subscriber to the Demo crat can have copy free. Pay your subscription fin advance is the only stipulation.
 The funeral of the late Mrs Mary E. Bunnell took place this morning from the family residence on Orange street. The body was taken to Thom- aston for burial by Undertaken Mori- arty.
 At meeting of the students of Monroe's Business college, it was decided to give whist party and re- ception in the school rooms, Thursday evening, February l. The members of the executive committee are the Misses Straun. Sanford, Harper and Kelley, and Messrs Keane, McGrath, Goldstein and Kahl.
 A dispute between a payer and plumber took both before Justice John F. McGrath in chambers this after- noon. The payer, James Keenan. claimed to have done $43 worth of paving for the plumber John Gill, North Main street, and that Gill re- fused to pay him. Gill's defense was that the work was not properly done.
 The suit of George H. Goodwin against Thomas r. Lunny for $1OO damages for services rendered was de- cided today in favor of the plaintiff to recover $55 with his costs. Mir Good. win claimed to have done certain work in the carriage repairing and painting business for Mir Lunny, and this was denied by the defendant. Judge Peas ley heard, this case in the city court Saturday afternoon.
 The St Aloysius T. A. society held it's tooth meeting yesterday afternoon in St Mary's schol and listened to an interesting talk on the formation of the society by William Keenan, son of w. c. Keenan of Melton street. Mir Keenan went into details and told of the efforts of the Rev J. H. O'Don- nell and others on behalf of the or ganization and also the good it has done among the youth of the parish.
 Rev Father Gleeson of St Patrick's church says there Is no truth in the run1or that the parochial school in his parish is to be closed at the end of the summer term. As far as he knows the sanitary and hygenic conditions of the rooms are satisfactory to Health Off. cer Kilmartin, and everything is run ming along smoothly in connection with the school. The subject came up at the meeting of the board of education last Monday evening when an addition to the Bank street school was being discussed. At the last mass yesterday Father Gleeson spoke on the subject and assured his parishioners that as far as he knew the school would be continued next year.
 Real estate men are very much m- terested in the proposed Robbins street trolley extension. but not one whit more 30 than are those who wanr the cars to get onto Town Plot by way of Bank street. There is a logi- cal solution of this question and if the trolley people and the city get to- gether it may be settled to the satis- faction of both parties. The trolley IS needed in both directions and there is nothing To prevent the company from extending the service so as to meet the demand. If Brooklyn doesn't get the trolley to Town Plot it will br n serious setback 10 the district. and ev- erybody there knows it. but the stand taken bp residents of that part of the town does not mean that they are op- posed to the other route. There is de mand for both lines and thpr, shouldn't be any delay in having them.
 The store keepers and property own CTS on North square are at last aroused to the necessity of having that thor Oughfare kept clean in weather like the present. Under the present conditions it is impossible to keep the square in anything like decent shape. The busi- ness men and property owners have at last agreed that the engineering de partment is the one in fault and they intend to present a petition tO the board of public works to have some thing done tn will make 1t possible for their patrons to enter their stores without running the risk of being drowned in the flow of water that cOmes down Bishop street CT being swamped in the mud that comes with it. Near the O-Brien building. corner of Bishop street there is a depression about foot deep in the gutter. This was caused by defective filling fn by the empsoyes of the feBeThOne ooal- pany ubo laid a cnlduit h that plses last fall The paving has sunk and the dirt and stuff that aeruuulsre< there h vet rezfber keep~ the surface