Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-31
CITY NEWS

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 of MT and Mrs Thomas Duffy of Car men street, died last night. The fu-
 neral took place this afternoon with interment in Calvary cemetery. H. B. Smith, who was arrested a few days ago charged with embez- zling $32 from the General Accident Insurance Co of Philadelphia, ex- poets to be able to settle the cases by Monday. He has been released on bail.
 Brooklyn seemed to be alive with young fellows to-day who seemed in- tent on getting coal to fill their bins. Besides the two young fellows ar rested by Detective Keegan and Of- ficer Bowling this morning two more were brought in about noon time. They were caught by the railroad detectives, Burke and Quinn. The four boys were released on bonds of $100.
 The dispute between the Scovlll Manufacturing company and the city as to the latter's right to charge on water meters individually instead of collectively, when there are number of them in use by corporation. was temporarily determined by Judge Cowell to-day in favor of the city. Some time ago the Scovill company refused to pay it's water rate claim ing that the charge should he made on the meters collectively. By this way the rate would be q good deal lower than when charged on the in- dividual meter. The city threatened to shut of the water. whercupon the company had an injunction issued preventing the city from carrying out its implied purpose. The matter went into court then and the decision giv- en today was merely for the purpose of hastening the matter to the su- preme court.
 In another week or so things will he rushing on city work and before anything Is done many claim that il would not be bad plan to SC what can bc done towards giving all lis work to local contractors and local labOrcrs. It is said that there Is not town in the state where such a small portion of money expended for public improvements Is earnel hy b. cal labor as in Waterbury. Just why this should be 90 does not appear on the surface. but there msut be some reason for it. The policy may be all right. but t is mighty hard to make some folks think so. and 1t is a mys- tery why a system that so few he- lieve In should be vogue in a town like this. Every dollar that goes out of the city Is loss to the municipality and some effort should be made to keep as much as possible of the ap- propriations right here in Waterbury.
 Exchange place and the pavement on some of the other streets in the vicinity of the center got a thorough cleansing to-day when Superintend- ent Morris of the street department and Foreman Houshton. with force of men. deIuged the blocks with city water and made things look brighter than they have been for some time past A great many wondered why such an effort was being made to clean the streets. some being % un- charitable as to attribute it to the coming to tkis city Of the members of the state democratic committee. but as a matter Of fact this had nothing at all to do with ff The streets are Icing washed because they needed that kind Of treztmeut and this is ss early ss It co1ld be st- tended to. because if water wzs turn ed 0n sco1er t would freeze ani make things 70 slippfry that moody could get sruz11 vich0zt erssp<rE