Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-24
BRooRI.YR BRIEFS

Frank Martin Is working in the Winchester hotel, New Haven.
 Miss Elizabeth Phelan has re- turned after visiting friends in Tor rington.
 Joseph Hartley of South Leonard street and manager of the Brooklyn Athletic club juniors is working in Hartford.
 -Teamsters found it rather difh- cult to get their horses by the cross ing at the Naugatuck station this morning. The circus wagons mo- nopolized the street.
 Ut is rumored that Daniel Leary, member of the fire department in the Brooklyn house. will quit his job next week. It is said that Leary is tired of his position and has come to the conclusion to send his resignation to Chief Snagg.
 This morning while one of the big wagons of the Wild West show was coming up Bank street, trolley car crashed into 1t. The accident happened in front of the Southern New England Telephone office. Though the persons who saw the col lision thought the vehicle would be damaged, it came out of the mixup with very little damage. The fen der of the car was smashed and the front of the rolling stock badly bat tered. The accident was caused by the wheels of the wagon slipping on the rails.
 John Jamele, six-year-old youth whose home Is on Washington avenue, was truck by switcher on the tracks near Porter street yester- day afternoon about o'clock and was injured badly. Though none of his bones was broken his skull may be fractured and it will be day or two before it is known whether the boy will recover. It was near the Porter street crossing where so many accidents have already occurred that the child was hit by the switcher. It is thought that he was playing be- tween the cars. At any rate as the switcher was going along the track, the boy ran from under a freight car and before the engineer could bring the switcher to standstiil IL had struck Jamele. It caught nim in the shoulder, but luckily at the time it was not going very fast. Nevertheless it hurled him some dis tance and when he was picked up ne was unconscious. Though no bone was broken, the boy was bleeding from the ears and nose and his spine appeared as though it was injured. He was carried to the office of Dr Russell by Nut" Devereaux, the brakeman, but as the doctor was not there, Dr Donahue, who was pass ing was called in and dressed Ja- mele's injuries.
 William Tobin, who resigned his position in the buff room of the American Pin company, to go to New Jersey to accept similar position in one of the factories, returned to his home in Brooklyn last evening. He had some experience while on his way to his destination and came back a sadder but wiser person. "Bill' was done for $40 and he feels his loss keenly, when he thinks of the man ner in which he was touched up for the forty copecks. When he reach ed Bridgeport he decided to take the midnight boat from the Park City to New York. He wished to make as good time as possible. so came to the conslusion it would be best to take the boat instead of spending the night in the most wicked city of the state. He was not long on the boat when he was addressed In nonchalant man. ner by a man sitting near him, and after few minutes the two were en- gagged in conversation. They con- versed for short time but at length both grew sleepy and started to doze Finally Tobin who was tired, very tired, fell to sleep. He had dream and 1t was a pleasant one. He saw himself on the way to New Jersey. It was Wednesday night and in his pockets was his wad of $40. But the money was safe for there was no one on the boat who would think of robbing him. He dreamed of the money that would be made out of his new position and had visions of a return to Waterbury with money bulging from all his pockets. It was such a pleasant slumber that he dis liked to wake up but noise on the other side of the boat made him real. ize that he had been having pipe. He thought 1t all over and said to Just think of it. imagined that had hundreds of dollars in my pockets. but all have is forty stingy dollars" As he murmured thusly his hand went into his vest pocket to pull out his roll. but the sleep god must be chiding him. Again he hunted for his money but 1t had gone. gone, gone. So had the man who had been sitting beside him. Tobin informed the officer of the boat of his loss and made an ef- fort yesterday to get some trace of it. but 1t was all to no purpose. He came home last evening. He is still