Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-06-23
BROOKLYN BRIEFS.

--EUW6TU Hay OI 0OuJu L0OudTu street is on a business trip to New York.
 The Town Plot school children and the teachers held a picnic yester- day afternoon.
 Mrs Daniel Condon is confined to her home on Porter street, being i'll for the past week.
 "A months mind requiem mass was celebrated at St Patrick's church this morning for the late Charles Boylan.
 Father Mccormack of Montana, has been visiting the past couple of days at the home of James Daly on Clark street.
 The first game in the City league tomorrow will be played at 12:30 between the St Josephs and the Brooklyn Athletic club team.
 The party of young men who will leave for Bantam lake a week from to-day to camp out for ten days has everything in readiness for the trip.
 The Italians who are working on the Fernandez buildings on Bank street had a large flag floating from the top to-day in honor of the feast of St Pohn, which occurs tomorrow.
 Fireworks in Brooklyn on the open lot on Bank street this evening and Monday evening also, given by the Italians in honor of the Feast or of St John, which occurs tomorrow.
 Miss Mary McKinnerney of South Leonard street left this morn ing for New York and will later take boat for the old country. She will go to Limerick to visit her mother who is very sick.
 At the meeting of the Town Plot school district on Thursday evening the salary of Miss Ellen G. Kieley, who has been teaching in the district school for the past five years. was in creased from $450 to $500.
 -Rey U. de Hart Gulick. pastor of the Third Congregational church, will have for his text tomorrow morning The Stability of Our Times.'' Tn the evening he will preach on Moses and Hobab."
 Patrick Cronin. commissioner on the board of charities, took an- other shock yesterday afternoon and is now seriously i'll at his home on North Leonard street. It is not long ago that MT Cronin was laid up and his friends are worrying over his present condition.
 William Wallace left this morn ing to pitch for Indian Orchard against Monsoon, a Massachusetts nine. Wallace was scheduled to do the twirling for the Ring shop team in the Shop league. George Mulligan and Bill Smith of the Washington Hill team were scheduled to play with Indian Orchard.
 Ut was rumored around Brook lyn last night and to-day that a strike of the bridge workers in this section was threatened by the men 1T the company should hire any more men who are not members Of the union. The Penn Steel company has the contract for doing the bridge work for the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad in this city and a large amount of work Is involved. The men were working this morning as usual.
 The clock on the Duggan school is on duty once more and was ticking off the minutes to-day as 1t has been doing for several years past. The clock is larger than many people suppose. The dials are five feet six inches in diameter, six inches great CT than the dials on the clock in city hall. The figures on the clock are l2 inches in length, two inches long CT than the figures on the old dial. There are twelve lights in use Tor the city hall clock and as the Duggan school clock is much larger more lights will be required.
 John Dunn, the we'll known truckman, who lives in the eastern section of the city, thought for a while yesterday afternoon that he was going to lose one of his horses. John has a dump cart with two or his horses at work in this section. Yesterday one of them became SICK on Bank street and was taken into the yard of Borchardt. the bottier, where it lay for couple of hours as if it were dead. Finally 1t came to the conclusion that 1t had rested long enough and once more stood on It's feet and trotted oil with its side part ner.
 Although last evening was not the regular meeting of the Brookiyn and Town Plot Improvement commit fee some were of the opinion that the members would get together in a special session to discuss the plan for the proposed extension of Clark street as submitted to the board or public works on last Tuesday evening by Mir Lowndes, assistant city en- gineer. But there was no meeting held and unless one Is called Tor Monday evening the members won't meet until the regular night. next Friday night. As stated in the Dem ocrat on Wednesday evening, the Brooklynites are up in arms over MT Lowndes' plan.
 The residents of this section and the police who were on duty over here last evening are much concern ed over the shots that were fired on John street last night. It was about 12:3O last evening when the first report was heard. 0ficer Joe Mclean and Peter Dunais. who were on duty in this section were walking by the corner of South Leonard and Bank streets when they heard the first shot. They stopped for moment and the pistol again went on. Nc Lean and Dunais immediately hasten ed to John street whence the report of the pistol came and while tney were m inc way four more shots In