Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-01-01
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Tne drug stores in Brooklyn
 closed at the usual holiday hours to
 day.
 Miss May Kilmartin of Meridsl
 Is the guest of Miss Mollie Lord O
 Third street.
 The Misses Jennie Kelly an,
 Nellie Devine have returned afte'
 spending . few days in Hartford. The employees of Plume | At
 woods and the American Ring com
 pany are on weeks vacation.
 John Reider of North Leonard
 street is at a New York hospital tt
 have an operation performed on on,
 of his eyes.
 The number of New Years reso
 lutions in Brooklyn will doubtless b.
 many. Listen and you might heal
 some.
 The residents in the vicinity ot
 North Riverside street would appre
 ciate 1t If the city department would clean out the manhole not far from
 Bank street.
 Miss Annie Rollis of Alder street
 while working on 8 power press al the Button factory yesterday smash ed the little finger of her left hand.
 Miss Elizabeth Kulis of North Leonard street was badly burned on the hands yesterday by the tipping oi a pan of boiling water. It was some time after the accident before the woman received any aid and her cries could be heard for a considerable distance from her home.
 John Kennedy, formerly assist ant engineer at No engine house has assumed his new duties as engi- neer at the Burton street house. En- gineer Rockwell, formerly of the Bur- ton, is now at the Brooklyn house. Rockwell was the first in line for pro- motion, consequently he received the Brooklyn engine in preference to Kennedy. who made application when "SoP Wheeler resigned.
 "A horse attached to a wagon of the Hamilton Hardware company ran away on Bank street yesterday after noon about o'clock and notwith- standing the efforts of several persons including Officer Hickey to stop it, the animal bounded along and was not brought to a halt until it almost reached the Naugatuck station. The driver was in house delivering goods when the horse became fright ened and started on the tear. Ofilcer Hickey endeavOred to check 1t as 1t hurried down Bank. .streeet but the horse felt like shaking its feet and 1t did not think of stopping, not even for an officer of the law. It narrow ly escaped colliding with other teams and as it went under the Bank street bridge, missed a coal cart by only a few feet.
 A class consisting of about 100 boys and girls. who have been pre- pairing for some time, received their first communion at g o'clock mass at St Patrick's church this morning. The high mass was celebrated by the pastor. Rev Joseph M. .Gleeson. who also delivered a most instructive ad- dress to the children. The girls were attired in white, as is the custom on such occasions, while the boys, as usual. wore their sombre black suits. The church was we'll filled with the parents and relatives of the children and also by other church goers, for to-day was holy day on the Roman Catholic calendar. as 1t was the Feast of the Circumcision. Every boy and girl who received their first com nunion this morning was awarded neat gift in the form of a card on which was picture of Father Glee- 'on. also the name of the receiver md the time and place of this morn- ng's service.
 Although the residents of the Brooklyn district know that sub-sta- ion No I, at Walkers drug store, loes large amount of business dur ng the year, it is doubtful if very many ever realize what tremendous mount of postofflce transactions akes place at this station during the | ear. The station, which was the ! lrst established in this city, did a 'igger business the past twelve months than it has during any other | ear during seven years of existence. When one stops to consider the actual mount of money taken in at this sta- ion. he will perhaps begin to think hat In few years Brooklyn will al- iost need a main station of its own. 'n money orders alone for the year f 1906 $43.755.64 was taken in. me was the banner month. when he receipts totalled 34,592.57 in this apartment. The amount for each lonth follows: January, $2,793.49; ebruary. $2.925.15: March, 34,- 25.Ss; April. s3.56e.70: May, S3.- 60.77; June. S4.4s2.57: July, $2,- 50.1S; August, S4,21s.09; Septem- er. S3.679.12: October. 33.572.24: ovember, $3,713.05; December, S4,- 57.47. Not only was the station nsy in the money order line, but the .gistered letters were sent out in ,odly numbers. During the last half this year no less than 1,26S letters ere registered at Walkers. and hen the full report is made out 1t i'll without doubt almost double the ,ove figures. In stamps and stamp lpplies the station kept up to the andard of the other departments, Id for twelve months the money ceived was S3.5S5.21. The biggest onth for stamps and stamp supplies as July. when the total was e43s.30. rom the above figures it can easily , seen that the sub-station in Brook n is most urgently needed. There e many foreigners in this section
 the city and invariably they trans t their busness at the sub-statiou