Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-14
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Brooklyn to-day because of the nu- merous valentines sent through the mails.
 Our next story. "The
 Conquest of Canaan" by
 Booth Harrington, starts in
 Saturdays issue.
 James Leary who has been laid up several days because of small piece of emery being lodged in his eye has returned to work at the Waterbury Machine company.
 Tony Hellmann an employe of the Borchardt bottling works is con fined to his home on Third street with broken wrist as the result of falling on an icy sidewalk Tuesday evening.
 Michael Carroll, employed in Moriarity & Carroll's bottling works on Bank street, whose arm was gashed yesterday. while he was en- deavoring to uncork a bottle was out to-day, and although he was unable to work he was feeling very well considering the amount of blood that squirted from the wound yesterday.
 A man employed at John Panic's bakery on Bank street and who re- sides on South Leonard street was badly burned this morning. He was working near a kettle of grease which became ignited and before the fellow could escape the blaze had |singed his face and hair and badly burned his hands to 8 considerable extent. Only for the mans prompt action in quenching the blaze, the bakery would undoubtedly have been damaged by fire.
 "A bill which is being much dis cussed in Brooklyn because some state that 1t is being advocated for the purpose of busting from office Truant Officer Dick" Deeley who is we'll known in Brooklyn is that in troduced by Senatory Hurley which takes the power of appointing a truant officer from the board of ed ucation and places that officer under the control of the board of safety. The members of the board of educa- tion profess to have heard nothing relative to the bill until it was in troduced, and although they are not saying much about it, they are rather indignant that any bill should be in troduced which would usurp what little power they now have. The members of the safety board or at least the majority of them also declare that they were surprised when they read of the bill being introduced and do not seem to be very enthusiastic over the proposed change.
 The semi-monthly meeting of the Brooklyn and Town Plot Im- provement committee is due to be held tomorrow evening and should be interesting as we'll as all the meet ings of the society for the next few months during which the members expect to see many improvements come to Brooklyn. In all probability the difference of opinion among the Town Plotters in regard to the Clark street extension which has been rais- ing the "old Nick" for some time will be thoroughly discussed and the Brooklynites will undoubtedly make it plain to the residents of the hill they should come to some under standing in regard to that proposed improvement. Although a couple of the foremost opponents of the plan have had change of heart since they spoke in opposition to the ex- tension before the bureau of assess ment last Thursday evening, they must know that this backsliding bus iness is hurtful and unless a united front is presented very little is likely to be accomplished. The Brooklynites are almost as much interested in the extension of this street as the Town Plot people and since they have used time and influence to have the im- provement pushed they do not wish to see their efforts go for naught. Alderman Walker could have had that street extended under such con- ditions that in future years the peo- pie would realize what he had done for them. but he is about tired of the squabbling that is going on and is likely to wash his hands of the whole affair if the taxpayers do not soon agree upon something definite. As the Brooklyn and Town Plot so- ciety was a staunch advocate in the beginning, they should give their at- tention to the matter and find out where the trouble is. As spring is approaching. which means that the time for starting work on that ex- pected trolley line to Town Plot is also drawing near. the members at tomorrow nights meeting will per- haps also discuss their chances of getting the line.
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