Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-01-25
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-Mle0 S&Ql0 A0uuouy or NOIVu Leonard street has returned after spending a few days with her sis ter. Mrs Leo Joyce of Passaic. N. J.
 James CalIan, of 495 Washins- ton avenue. foreman at Benedict & Burnham's factory, was severely burned about the arms while at work Wednesday.
 7 Mrs Michael English of North Riverside street has returned from Thomaston where she has been spending brief vacation with her daughter, Mrs Thomas Baxter.
 The snow of to-day was well comed by the children of Brooklyn as well as other sections of the city, for If 1t had not fallen Ralph N. Blakeslee's sleigh ride would have to be postponed.
 The next regular meeting of the Junior Amateur league will hb held Sunday at the rooms of the Quaker Athletic club. Last evening the com- mittee on constitution and bylaws was scheduled to meet. but no one in Brooklyn this morning knew whether anything was accomplished at the session.
 Mrs Joseph Gauthier, who was seriously injured last week by being struck by an engine while picking coal on the railroad tracks near the Meriden junction, Is slowly recover ing at the Waterbury hospital. Not .withstanding her injuries and her age. she is over 60, the woman has made a remarkable fight for life and is on the road to recovery.
 TPatrick O'Brien's whist team was too much for Captain Kelly's players in the opening games of the card tournament at the Lyceum last evening, winning by the score of AS to AZ. The score indicates that the contests were close. Kelly says that when his men get going there will be nothing to 1t and O'Brien's ag- gregation will not be deuce high, ac- cording to the auburn haired boy.
 Perhaps the residents of Brook lyn for the most part need not be re- minded of the fact that the poorest cars of the trolley company are run on the Bank street line, but there might be few persons who as they ride to the center in one of the "dinkies'' wonder if all the cars of the c. R. & L. are as good as those that are on the Bank street line. But the Brooklynites are not the only persons who have to endure them If there is any consolation in that fact. These same cars run along North Main street, but that line has no curves, and as 1t Is level almost the entire distance, the "dinkies'' run very smoothly, the passengers seldom experiencing a jolt or jar; why they could almost write letter on the trip from Bank street to Lake, wood! That is the reason why the motormen and conductors consider the Bank and North Main street runs the poorest in the city. They know the cars are of the kind that run any way but we'll and find many other things which make the run disagree able. Still, the Brooklynites have a seven minute schedule after 1 o'clock in the afternoon, and is not that something for which they should be thankful?
 "A couple of Brooklyn merchants who consume goodly amount of ice during the year. not caring to pay the price asked by the Water bury Ice corporation for its product. are thinking of entering the ice bus iness on a small scale. One of the men is very anxious to carry out the plan, while the other is giving the matter much consideration and will come to a decision in day or two. The Brooklynites have the option on a small pond and as there Is an ice house near at hand large amount of ice could be harvested at very little expense. Although the merchants in- tended when the subject was first discussed of merely cutting enough ice for their own use, they now see where they could provide plenty for themselves and also put in quantity which they could retail to other Brooklyn merchants at a price much cheaper than is paid to the Water bury Ice corporation. Although the ice crop this winter promises to be a rich one, there is no reason why the iee corporation cannot raise the price tho coming summer as it did last. They'll find an excuse all right if they think they need the money. That's the reason why the Brooklyn men referred to above are contem- plating entering the fee business to the extent of getting enough for their own needs at least.
 Michael Madden, who is always on the hustle for the interests of the Brooklyn Athletic club, pretends to be somewhat angry because of the walloping the players travelling un- der the B. A. c. name received in Naugatuck week ago tonight. But the baseball enthusiast is not at all worried, notwithstanding that when basketball is mentioned to him his chin drops and he does not care to discuss the subject. The reason why some of the members are indignant is because of the unmerciful wallop- ing that the Brooklyn five suffered a week ago Is because they are of the opinion that the best team did not go down to the Rubbertown. But they should quit trying to put up this bluff. The team that went down to Naugatuck last week will. 1t is safe to say, defeat any other quintet that can be formed among the mem-
 bers of the club. The team had not been practicing and went up against live composed of good players in u9 t~r