Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-27
BR00KIYn BRrEFs.

The session or the MOral cluD sdt Lyceum last evening was brief.
 Miss Rose Starr, formerly of this section, now of Winsted, has return ed after visiting friends in Brooklyn.
 The game last evening was easy fort he All Brooklyn Ave and Roger Bros quintet was lucky that the score was not bigger.
 --The Bones and the Pioneers as the result of last Sundays game, have agreed to play series of bas- ketball contests at the rooms or the Brooklyn Athletic club.
 Real estate deals in this section continue Yesterday the eight-tene- ment block at John street was sold to the Levy brothers, through the agency of Thomas Martone
 -On Friday evening the regular semi-monthly meeting of the Brook lyn and Town Plot Improvement so- ciety will be held in the Lyceum at which session in all probability the members will discuss the agreement between the city and the officials of the railroad, as signed last week.
 Anyone who watched Commits sioner Eddie Donahue at the meet ing of the board of charities last ev- ening would not have suspected that during the afternoon he was the vic tim of joke which was concocted by a couple of his friends, who were aware of the fact that he was at the Jacques. enjoying the vaudeville. Ed die has had good ones played on him but yesterday was the extreme and if he could have laid his hands on the originatOrs he would undoubtedly cause them to be sorrowful. Yester- day the commissioner entertained a ! couple 0f his friends from Naugatrck and as there was no star attraction at Poli's, he decided to take them to Jacques. as the weather was too cold to make sIeighing enjoyable. Ed ward and his companions were en- toying the bill immensely when alas; during the fifth number. it was an nounced from the stage that if NIT | Donahuc was in the theater hc was wanted at city han. where special meeting of the charity board was be- 1 ing held. Although the announce ment seemed all right to the audience and even the young ladies sitting oil either side of the handsome Brook lynitc thought Ed should answer the summons. yet the commissioner tum hled immediately and just smiled whispering to his friends that it was only scheme to get him to leave the tlleater. But even the cx-bailiff him self really thought the affair was SC rious when few minutes later ar officer came down fhc aisle and in
 formed him that Sheriff Smith hat
 te.cphoned that the commissioner
 was wanted at city hall instantly. Il
 took Ed only a-few seconds to cxcusi
 himself and grabbing his hat, he al
 most broke it in his effort to pull i
 from tho hat holder under tue seat
 hurried fo the meeting place. as h
 wanted to return quickly. as his com
 pany was highly entertaining. If |
 left for the imagination to pictur'
 him as h. rushed into the charity de
 pertinent and found no one present
 but Clerk John Crary. who. not wis to the joke. asked Ed why he wa 1 puffing and what was the cause of hi hurry. Ed was 90 angry. it Is seldor , ti,at he is fu<<ed. that he coul'
 scarreIy talk. and muttering some
 thing under his breath. closed tn
 door with a bang and beat if for tn
 thesfer. Ia~t evening he said Ii could take a joke all right but d.
 clarrd tlsrre wss a limit to everythin II Does your bach ache. Have 70 rheumztism- Axteli's kidney pill Twin cure you For sale by all dru1 Ieist. price sse. Take 10 other.