Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-01-29
CITY NEWS,
The department of public works will meet tonight.

will meet tonight.
 Boys overcoats $2, sizes 10 to 16, at Upson, Singleton & Co.'S.
 The clerks in Reid & Hughes's store have decided to give their dance in Leavenworth hall next Mon- day evening.
 Mrs F. l.. Davis and her son, Ralph port, are the guests of Mrs w. F. Caldwell, 220 South Elm street, sister of Mrs Davis.
 The meeting of the art class of the Catholic Women's association which was to have taken place this evening, will not be held because of the death of the mother of the instructor. A months mind mass of requiem will be celebrated at the Immaculate Conception church at s o'clock Thursday morning for the late Pat rick Joseph Luddy.
 A special meeting of the James Meagher branch of the Gaelic league, will be held this evening. Every member is requested to be on hand as important business will be tram sacted.
 The funeral of Franklin l.. Peck took place yesterday from the resi- dence of Mrs R. A. Lott on Maple street with service by the Rev Charles A. Dinsmore, D. D., and in- torment in Riverside cemetery. The bearers were c. Fred Trott, Truman Is. Lewis, Warren s. Trott, Frank Mill Ter, N. w. Greenman and Robert F. Griggs.
 Commissioner of Public Works Ed ward J. Finn, Daniel E. Cronin, the contractor, Charles s. Miller and Ros- we'll E. Eggleston have been sum- moned for the jury in the criminal side of the superior court for to-day in New Haven when Samuel Knox, a negro, is to be tried for murder of Frederick M. Kelly. Knox shot Kelly as the latter was walking on the street on New Years day.
 The United German societies of St Cecibia's parish are preparing for an elaborate supper to be held on
 =. for the benefit of St Mary's new hos pital and will be held at the old par
 ish hail. It will be real old Ger
 man supper and will he served from o'clock on. There will. be songs and recitations and St Barromeu's or chestra will furnish music during the
 entire evening. Tickets for supper
 may be obtained at the hall or from any of the members of the various organizations.
 After the meeting of the board of education last evening Mayor Thoms visited the night school class in | chemistry. The mayor used to be something of chemist in his school
 days and last night he was greatly
 interested in the experiments of the
 class. One of the girl students had
 Inspector Slavin almost turned into something that was evidently cross between collar button and middle of-the-road politician when the
 mayor saw the gradual transforma- tion and had the student undue her supernatural work. The room is sadly
 in need of proper ventilation. The air
 was simply awful, and how the stu
 dents stand it is wonderful.
 Mayor Thoms said to-day that dur
 ing the past year he has issued two orders regarding dogs. He does not want to come out with another, but
 if the board of health says that the safety of the community demands it
 he will try again, although he be-
 lieves that this is matter that prop erly comes within the duties of the
 board of aldermen. The dog question is serious, but you cannot make some | think so. Other towns in the state keep the dogs we'll in hand, but Wa terbury makes little tyrants of the
 CUTS. and as result they think they own the town, and insist in monopo- lizing bosh sides of the walks and the middle. This explains why you
 see so many good citizens trudging in | the middle of the road. r. Daniel H. Hickey. jr. aged nine teen years. died shortly after j o'clock
 this morning at his home. 1O1 South
 Leonard street, after a short illness of pneumonia. Besides his father.
 Daniel H. Hickey, he leaves two
 brothers and one sister. John. William and Magdalene. He was graduate
 of the Waterbury High school, class of '04, and very bright. popular young man. He was member of | the High school baseball team. He was a member of the Brooklyn Ath-
 letic club and took quite an interest
 in all kinds of sport. He was en- ployed as time keeper by the O'Brien | Construction Co until about two | months ago. when his health began
 to fail and at the suggestion of the ] family he quit work. thinking that a rest would help him. He was blessed
 with a cheerful disposition and never | complained until yesterday when he | told his father that he felt a smarting pain across his chest. He had been ! ailing for some time prior to that. but | his condition was not considered SO rious. and when the physician was called yesterday he made light of the | matter and said he would he all right to-day. He slept some during the
 night and early this morning called
 his father who was sitting nearby. | and asked for a drink. The request
 was complied with. but after putting
 it to his lips. he handed it back re-
 marking that he didn't feel we'll His | father became suspicious that the end
 was near and after acquainting the
 family of the situation. Father Laf.
 lin and a physician were summoned | He fingered for an hour or so and | then passed quietly away. The boys