Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-14
CITY NEWS.

hold a special meeting in Hellmann's hall tonight.
 The annual outing of the employees of the S. N, E. Telephone Co was held at Savin Rock yesterday.
 The superintendent of streets has been ordered to build four foot re- taining wall on South Wilson street.
 The Waterbury Business Mems as sociation will hold a meeting Friday evening to discuss the Thomaston ave- nue trolley differences.
 The board of pubic works had a smoke on Alderman w J .Larkin last night. It was simply token of ap- preciation of the splendid effort made by the commissioners in giving Plaza avenue folks the benefit of the sewer.
 What to do with q lot of beauti- full shade trees on the Watertown road is question which the commit tee on streets will wrestle with next Thursday They will go up there with Superintendent Kilduff and if a scheme whereby the street can be graded satisfactorily and spare the trees can be thought out. it will be applied. It takes long time to grow shade trees and when they are full grown they should not be removed un- less for very grave reasons. @
 James Fleming and his wife have brought suit through Attorney NJ. J. Byrne against the town of 'Southbury for. damages of $4,O00.- They allege that while driving out last August their carriage was precipitated over the en- bankment near Bennet's bridge in Southbury and had the selectmen taken care of the roads no such aeei- dent would have taken place. Mrs Fleming claims to have been consider ably injured. She claims damages of $3,O00 and Mir Fleming for loss of her services and for expenses claims $1,- eco.
 If it doesn't rain soon Edward Me Manus will have trouble with the board of public works. He has the new state road on South Main street finished, but inasmuch as Commis- siener Macdonald has not yet set the seal of his approval on it, the con- tractor has to keep it sprinkled until he gets 1t off his hands. It is first class job, but there is a lot of red tape to be rolled backward and for ward before contractor gets his pay from the city, no matter how we'll he does his work. This explains why men who have not big bank account are not particularly anxious to take hold of city contracts.
 Tn, the city court before Judge Burpee this morning Michael Meyers. whose mental soundness was ques- toned. was fined s10 and costs for making a disturbance in a trolley car yesterday. Patrick Healey pleaded guilty to failing to support his wife and five children and was ordered to pay $6 a week for six months or suffer Imprisonment for sixty days. He was put on proba- tion. Clorinda Renna, 15, was charged with incorrigibility by her father. It was said the girl runs away from home. However, as her father could not make his accusation in intelligible English, the case was continued week.
 There was lively time at the en- trance to the Buckingham yesterday afternoon about f o'clock 4 dark haired young man and the elevator captain of the Buckingham got into an argument which was the cause of collecting a crowd The eievator man said he was abused. the other fellow calling him all sorts of names. A clash seemed imminent when the ele- vator bell rang and the man had to respond. As he was closing the ele- vator door the fellow on the sidewalk let fly a handful of stones and crash went the glass in the doors and the mirrors. The dark young man then took to his heels down Cottage place with Constable James F. Lunny after him, but he got away. "
 Edward B. Kelley of Fuller street, former superintendent of streets. was injured last night while endeavoring to board trolley car at Bank and North Leonard streets. MT Kelley is now in the contracting business and has just finished grading Highland avenue and commenced operations on another job in the north end. Last evening he went over there to see If a few men who were left to do sonte- thing had attended to 1t properly. On the way home he missed his footing while trying to board a car and WAS thrown to the pavement. receiving a cut over the eye and a few bruises on his side He was taken into Smiths pharmacy. where pr Russell dressed his injuries. after which be wns re- moved to his home. He feels a trifie sore to-day, but beyond that the ac- cident didn't amount to much. He will he out in few days.
 "Is a gas company a public service corporation: And if so. can it he com pelled to lay mains in all streets where gas is needed even though such thoroughfares may not he very thick ly settledI" was asked of the board of public works last night. None of the commissioners ventured a reply. but after a short pause Mayor Thonls said he thought 1t would be an uphin job to get the company to any place where 1t didn't see a big dividend, and added that in any case they act their charter rights In Hartford and the people have very little to say re- garding what they'u do or where they'll %. The question was intro dueed by somebody who says his street is not very thickly settled and he can't get the service. Mayor Thoms was of the opinion that the city has no jurisdiction over the company in that respect. but even so he thought it wouldn't do any harm to put it up to them in that form and sec what they think of 1t