Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-18
CITY NEWS.


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 The funeral of Mrs Rose F. Dow ney will be held from her late home, 164 Round Hill street, at $50 o'clock tomorrow morning.
 The board of public safety will hold meeting at 5 o'clock this afternoon, There is considerable business of a routine nature to be disposed of.
 Albert s. Lacey and Miss Anna Me- Guire were married this morning at the Immaculate Conception church by Father Mooney. Charles Carroll was best man and Miss Bridget Goold was maid of honor.
 One question frequently asked since agitation started over the water question is why it is neces- sary to spend million dollars now building dam and storage reservoir which the mayor claimed a couple of years ago could be built for $375,000. The most intelligent re- ply one could make to this is that the dam and basin figured on at that time were designed to store S50,- 100000 gallons, but this did not
 seem sufficiently large and it was
 finally decided to plan for reser-
 voir with capacity of two billion
 gallons, almost two and half times
 more than originally contemplated.
 The statement that the capacity of the reservoir which the mayor
 claimed could be built for the mod
 est sum of $375,000 is exactly the same size as the one which 1t has been voted to construct at an. esti>
 mated cost of $950,000 is not cor
 rect. The difference in the cost is just as easily explained as in the case of man who got figures on one story block and later on con- cluded to make it four story block. Miss Mary Reilly, the woman pick ed up on the street the other day and removed to the Brookside home, no. body knowing at the time that she had near relatives here was taken from the institution yesterday by her nephew, Henry Gallagin and convey ed to his home, S68 Baldwin street, where she is being made as comfort able as possible. She is very low and unless she gets change for the bet ter she will not live much longer. She has been a resident of Water bury for about forty-five years and has considerable money, every dollar of which she came by honestly. She knew how to save. She kept add ing to the pile right along and this
 with interest grew until the total became very large for an ordinary housework girl It was too bad that she didn't know enough to retire long ago and enjoy the fruits of her
 labor instead of going here and there
 in search of employment, but like all 1 others who have demonstrated their ability to save money, she was poor hand to spend 1t and evidently re-
 garded 1t as a sort of crime to re- duce the amount a copper. Fairmount folks made big turn
 out Monday night in the interest of the school children and they won In
 their fight for separation from Bunk CT Hill by holding the little tots up
 before the city fathers and asking them to put themselves in the
 places of the residents of Fairmount and then see what they would think of the situation. They wanted the children to go to the Waterville school, not because they have any
 fault to find with the management o' the one at Bunker hill, the objection
 being confined entirely to the long walk and the dangerous grade cross ing. where a careful man like the
 late Mir Cottle was killed short time ago. MT Creighton inquired
 who would be morally to blame for the death of one or more of the Fairmount children in case they should be killed on the railroad on
 the way to the Bunker Hill school. This prompted the aldermen to sit up and think and while nobody an-
 swered the query 1t was quite evil
 dent from the way they twitched
 abort in their seats that each was saying it Is up to me. The result proved that this conclusion was cor rect. for when the question was put. every member voted the same way. . rather unusual thing in any city board.