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Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1908-04-27

Millions Of dollars have f.s-
paid by The trusts and prn.'~'aa
moaopo,ists tn secure the s1sr-a-
Of presidents and congreszmrH. Hn-h
nt the senate and house, who were
sound on the tariff. says Wash
inzrnn writer And row the same
old show Is % he played again With
q different title and the excuse that
there must he added maximum
scheduled rates to protect rs from
he pauper labor AZ England whose
workingmen are now in better cir
cumstauces than orr oEn workmen
are because their cost of living Is eo
much less. The English working
man has loser wages, bat the world
70 draw upon for his necessities. for
every country. including the United
Sta-es. sells him IFS surplus products
in competition With each other. with
no tariff duties to sFsak Of TO add to
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1908-04-27
CROKER's GIFT To FIREMEx.
Sends $500 for the Memorial Fund
Auction of Seats.

New York. April 27.-Richard
Croker has sent from his home in
Ireland a contribution of $500 10
the Firemen's Memorial fund. The
check was inclosed in letter
brought TO the former chiefs
nephew. Fire Chief Edward r. Gro
keF. by Edward Cahill.an old friend
Of the former leader Of Tammany
hail In his letter Mr. Croker
wrote:
Il take great pleasure in sending
you my check for $500 made out 10
General Thomas L. James for the
Firemen's Memorial fund. have
great admiration for the officers and
men OF the FIRE department. who
bring TO me pleasant memories of
the time when I served as commits
sioner Of the department Of which
you have the honor 10 he chief
The auction sale Of boxes and
seats al the Metropolitan Opera
house for the benefit 10 he given for
the fund on the afternoon Of Fri
day. Mar I. brought in more than
sI.0BG- The boxes sold for an aver
age premium Of sfse. Cornelius ~
Bliss securing pzrterre box for
that price Other parferre hoxes
Wsre taken ~ Mrs James SpeFer and
Mrs {. b Alexander. The seats sold
for an average premium Of s1-5e
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1908-04-27
THE BUILDING BUSINESS.
Architects and Contractors Have
Penty of Work Ahead.

Building Inspector A. |. Chatfield
issued II permits during the week
amounting to about S30,5jO.
The contract has been awarded t.
the Waterbury Construction Co. foi
the foundtiOn for new house on
GlenUood street for f. OvertOn. II
will he DING feet, of frame construc-
ton.
The Barlow Bros Co has been
awarded the contract for the plumb
ing and heating for the new residence
on Woodlawn Terrace for Miss Caro-
line \. Platt. Griggs & Hunt are the
architects.
/ s. Barbara has the contract for
the concrete floors for Mendell Wei
Ienger's new meat house and stable
i'm Watertown. He also has the con
tract for 26OO feet of steel concrete
curling for the city on South Wilson
street.
Architects Griggs & Hunt will have
plans ready TO figure next week Tor
the new residence TO be erected on
Pine street for Miss Florentine ii.
HAYDEN. Ii is to he of frame COLI
struction. containing Il rooms, with
all modern conyeniences.
Architects Frenzy x Jackson have
plans out for figures for a new block
10 be erected on Mill street for Eu-
gene o. Martin. II will be three
stories high. 29xjO feet. of frame con-
struction. with tin roof. 1t will con-
tain one store and five tenements.
The Barlow Bros have the contract
for the plumbing. roofing and metal
work. and the Meriden Brass X Iron
60 the iron verandas. beams, etc. for
+. II. Brothers new apartment block
on State street being erected Ivy the
Geo =. Chatfield Go and A. II. Dixon.
The contract has been awarded To
Albert l.. Green for the new house to
hc erected on Marion avenue for
Frank Mack. The plans call for a
threp-family house. 2sxIS feet. with
modern plumbing. electric lights. two
furnaces. North Carolina pine finish.
etc. T.. A. Butler has the contract
for the mason work and the other
contracts have not been let.
Architect Louis A. Walsh IS pre-
PAIRING plans for remodeling Dr james
4. Grady's house on the corner %
East Main and North Elm streets
The entire first floor will be made
over into doctors Offices. with large
reception rooms. a consultation room
and an operating room with tile foors
and walls. sanitary base. ground glass
windows. etc. There viii he new
hardwood flooring and modern plumb
lng Throughout A private entrance
and exit with concrete steps and
walks will also b. provided.
Albert r. Greene has been awarded
the contract and work has bean start
81 oH a new house on Woodruff street
for J. H and W s. Curtis The plans
were drawn By Architect Joseph T.
Smith. and eaII for a three-st0Ty
frame house. 25T4s feet. arraiEned for
three families. with masiern plumbing.
electric lights. two furnaces. hard
word finish anf flooring. etc L. A
Butler has TIRE contract for the mason
work but the plumbing. beating.
painting and electrical WORK have not
i-een let These are to be Io0keI after
b. the contrzefsr-
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1908-04-27

Trade and industry continue de-
pressed and unfortunately the
signs of renewed activity are few
and far between, says Banker Clews.
Economy is still the order of the
day in both corporate and private
expenditures; and re alters are now
feeling the effect Of depression,
which results in the placing of fewer
orders for nearly all manufactured
products. thus diminishing the vol
ume Of trade and keeping many in
dustrial establishments on short
time. OF course the present rate Of
curtailment cannot go on Indefinite
ly. Supplies will become exhausted
and must he rer]enished but i.
would seem as though no permanent
revival could he anticipated until
the process of readjustmeut had run
its legitimate course. This is some
thing that will require both time and
patience. \ considerable portion OF
the Pennsylvania now hond issue
will provide finds FOR completing
the new WORK Of 'ha, great corpora
lion. It is nor Iitely. hovsy-r hat
the company vtl do more Khan com,
plete the worE already undertaken.
NV r,.l-a f-s,ur,. -.r lr..t- .,-r,..r sI,-
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1908-04-27
SOCIALIST MINISTER'S UNITE.
Form a Conference Which Is to Bar
Lavmen and Shun Publicity.

NJ" l"Fk. April - brand
new organization oi chuTcn SOCIALISTS
~ NO hhoNh "S 'ne ministers So
ia ISL conference mas "eeh formed 10
mis- city ana WITHIN lie" GAYS VIII
.,5u" manifesto declaring us prih-
''p-es-
p" ne" organization Is secret
ono and Is +" be composed altogether
OF '.a-gEmen. whereas the Christian
>'-ia.l~' Fellowship members OF
7Ai~a nave been attending the sun
day ft"n37z .eHnions conducted by
'Ee f"' Alexander F. Irvine in the
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1908-04-27
BUY GAS BY THE BOTTLE.
New Illuminant, Used in Germany
Exhibited Before Chemists Club.

New York, April 27.-PTofessoI
William J. Hallock of Columbia uni
versity told the members of the Chem.
lists club last night about a new dis.
covery whereby it would be possible
for householder to purchase bot.
tie of Illuminating gas on the way
home without leaving a IS deposit.
The Illuminant may be bought by
the pound at 10 cents or so when
somebody starts I'm to manufacture IL
As yet its manufacture has not been
undertaken in this country. II has
been used in Germany. where 1t was
discovered. by Professor Blau. The
gas leaves the jar through a tube
about the size of a telegraph wire
The other end of the tube connects
with the burner.
The great advantage attributed &c
the new illuminant is its inexpensive.
ness. A % pound cylinder at Is
cents a pound would give a fifty can
die power light for four months at
four hours a day.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1908-04-27

Would we have these hard times
now had Bryan been elected presi.
dent in 1896 and again in 1900?
Many good people, republicans as
well as democrats. think not. The
country couldn't have been in a
worse condition had the rankest kind
of a statesman been elected. The
men who threw Bryan down on these
occasions are undoubtedly responsi-
bic for the condition of the demo-
cratic party at present Many of
them have been fighting hard to
bolster up the party since that time.
and atone for their backsliding. but
without good result. Unless here
is a radical change all along the line
there is very little show for the
party this year, when the opportun-
ity for a democratic sweep is at
hand.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1908-04-27

Now that Cuba is about to re-
sumo independent government it is
published she will establish an army
of 1000 men with one major gen
eral. This is evidently a misprint,
says an exchange. 1t was doubtless
intended that there should be 1000
major generals and one private.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1908-04-27

Il see.'' said the groceryman as he
handed the man with the copper
nose. a bag of BROWNS QUICK
FIRE CHARCOAL, your friend
Boose is in Jail Yes" replied
Mr. Knipp, ''he took his clock from
home, pawned it and got drunk
with the money. When brought in
to court the judge asked him what
he done with the proceeds of the
sale. He said, L bought a setting
hen Well said the judge, if your
hen was to begin to set now her lit
tie chicks will be out scratching for
themselves in the bright sunshine
when you get back He sent Boose
down the road for so days"
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1908-04-27

The federal Office holders will cut
a big swarh in the republican ma
tional convention, and those from
the southern and western states
seem to be able to dominate the sit
uation. This attemp- to perpetuate
power by using the government pat
ronage is a danger to free institu-
tons, and independent republican
voters are becoming indignant.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1908-04-27
MONDAY, APRIL 81, 1908.
April II In History.

1759-Mary Wollstonecraft born; died
1914
1SS2-Ralph Waldo Emerson. tran
scendentalist died; born 1903
1902-Hon, j. Sterling Morton. ex-sec-
rotary of agriculture and the ia
Their of Arbor day" died; born 1882.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1908-04-27
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS

Sun sets GAS, rises AS; days length
fourteen hours; moon rises AS a. m.
Al p. m, conjunction between Saturn
and the moon, the latter passing the
planet from west to east degrees and
IL minutes south thereof.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1908-04-27
REMOVAL.

Charles Fine has removed from
49, East Main street 20 81 Bark
street. WhsTe he wflI - TIessed 70
meet aII MS old frfrmts ard ranv
new caes- Pure liquors. aies. Lager
and viass uiil Re found 80 gsaai.
Popular cigars and Cigarettes
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1908-04-27
Rubber STAMPS
THE 0AKVILLE COMPANY,
makers or

WIRE AND METAL GOODS.
P. o., Freight and Express Address,
oakville, Conn. Telegraph Address,
Waterbury, Conn. New York office
IS Howard Street.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1908-04-27
APRIL. THE MONTH OF SHOWER!
PROTECT YOURSELVES.

The best protection in rainy
weather is a reliable Umbrella. The
best protection on umbrellas is 10
buy them from the manufacturer.
Our stock includes the largest and
best values in the state. We manu-
facture all our own Umbrellas and
sell them at factory prices We also
have the best and largest assert
ment Of Trunks and Bags 10 he
seen in the city at the lowest prices.
A trial will convince you al the
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1908-04-27
HANLONS CAFE

1877 East Main Street, corner Brown.
Choice Liquors, Wines, Ales. etc.
All the popular brands of Cigars.
n. B.-Would like all .ly old
friends to call and am willing to
make many new ones.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1908-04-27
Il East Main ST.,
City Lumber and Coal Co.
HAS STOOD THE TEST

"Superiine" Olive Oil has been
analyzed by physicians and found TO
be absolutely pure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-25
TRIALS IN ENGLAND.

From the Law Journal.
 Why do trials generally last longer than they did? That they have grown more protracted is among the many interesting and significant facts to be gathered from the new volume of Judicial Statistics. In 1906 the aver age number of actions tried by each kings bench judge was as low as 11s; 10 years earlier-in 1S97-it was as high as ITO. Lord Justice Vaughan Williams attributes the unwelcome re- suit to the abolition of the nice rules of pleading" which defined the issues to be tried and kept the speeches of counsel and the observations of judges within the strict limits of relevancy. The real explanation is to be found not In any increase in effectiveness, either on the bench or at the bar, but in the greater complexity of the cases which now come before the courts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-25
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Noted Nlrulnlan.

Polk Miller of Richmond, who enjoys the reputation of being the best of all regro dialect entertainers, will visit Bir- mingham during the reunion," said member of the Virginia colony. He will be accompanied by Tom Booker. who. like Miller, Is Virginia gentleman of the aate-bellum school, and the two will give an entertainment at the Jefferson theatre June g for the benefit of the First Pres byterian church. Both play the banjo, and as a pair they are simply inimit- able.
 Polk Miller is a druggist and is at the head of one of the largest drug companies in the south. Soon after the war he started in business in a modest way. He was his own pill roller, but being lover of field sports he found time to hunt and to write charming articles about dogs and birds for the Turf Field and Farm and other h1gh-class periodicals. He IS a crack shot, and as a dog man has na- tional reputation. Miller has never visited Birmingham, so far as l am aware, but be has many friends here and his coming will be hailed as a social pleasure, to say nothing of his professional work in the show business"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-25
THE HEATHEN.

Wilbur Nesbit, in Harper's Magazine. When Sunday is, wy I'm so bad My folks they don't know what to do Cause wicked things they make mo
 glad
 An I do what I ough'n't to! So I'm a heathe en! Yes, sir I'm A sit in darkness kind, at don't Do good things ever any time
 Cause what I got to do, won't! An I wish 'at I could go wild
 'Ith just some feathers in my hair An my aunt Sue say: Such a child! A perfeck heathe en, I declare!" Cause I don't like tn Sunday school, An I won't learn tn golden tex, An I won't know tn golden rule, Am they don't know what I'll dc
 nex'!
 An I don't care, utceptin' it's
 So hard to keep on actin queer With everybody givin' fits
 TO me-th' only heathen here. But if you watch me close. wy, you'll Know wy I'm doin' it. You see. Tn children in tn Sunday school
 Will give their pennies all to mel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-25
SCANDALS IN LITERATURE
From the Philadelphia Ledger.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
 N HE world has been strangely slow NY to learn from experience the wis dom of allowing the dead to rest The injunction inscribed on Shakes peares tomb is of universal application. TLe only aspect of an artists personality with which the world has any concern IS that which is manifested in his work. What is not so manifest 1t is unnecessary to know, and frequently is better un- known.
 Shakespeare was fortunate in that he had no contemporary biographer. There are few petty details of his life recorded. to interfere with our enjoyment of the great, broad record of his character that Is written in his plays. We feel in them the impress of a big, wholesome, nat
 ural personality, and that suffices us. Antiquarian controversy over dates and documents is but digging the dust" We should probably be happier if we
 knew as little of any of our great poets as we know of Chaucer and of Shakes peare. Literary biography is worse than
 useless Ii it be not absolutely true, and if it be so it is likely to be disappointing. and possibly unpleasant. However it may interest the psychologist, its service to literary appreciation is questionable.
 Could anything be more unprofitable
 than controversy over the remains of Lafcadio Hearn The comparatively few who know Hearn's work and have recog- nized it's qualities care little about the personality of the man. It was obvious that his was not a normal vision, a we'll ordered attitude toward life. They felt no desire to know the artist; 1t was in the pictures he painted that they took de- light. No doubt the record of his curious career had @ certain pathological inter-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-25
RICHMOND p. ROBSON.
Washington Herald.

From the Washington Herald
 Richmond Pearson Hobson, member of the House of Representatives from Alabama, is one of the younger democratic mem- bers, who has the confidence and ear of President Roosevelt. He was the most ardent supporter of the Presidents four battleship proposition. He fought in com mittee and on the floor with all the vigor of one imbued with the merits of the measure, and with the enthusiasm of one who fully understood the subject in all it's details. He was, as Representative Williams called him:
 "A young enthusiast, wrapped up in his belief" Hobson lost out, but his fight was memorable. MT. Hobson was born at Greensboro, Ala, just 3S years ago. His education was varied but complete in every respect. He graduated from the Southern university. Receiving an ap- pointment to the Naval academy at An napolis, he took the examination, passed, entered the institution, and graduated with honor as naval constructor. He was selected to take the course at the French National School of Naval Design and there added much valuable informa- tion to his already large supply on naval architecture. He served during the Span- ish-American war and much has been written about his deeds during that brief struggle. In 1906 Mir. Hobson received the degree of u. D. from the Southern university.
 Desiring to represent his state in Con- gress the young naval hero went before the people and after long and bitter campaign succeeded In defeating much older politician. This is his first Con- gress, but he has been heard from often.
 Representative Hobson is a member of bu. one committee, naval affairs. To the deliberations of that committee he gives close attention and his intimate knowl- edge of naval affairs is of great service to the other members.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-25
Ship Subsidies By Amendment

Ship subsidies have long been unpop- ular, and it was seen early in the pres ent sesssion that bill by that unsav- ory name could not be passed. Senator Gallinger, aided by the administration, has, however, succeeded in slipping subsidies in through the action of the conference committee on the postoffice appropriation bill. The amendment reported by the conferees authorizes the Postmaster General to contract with steamship lines running to ports of South America, the Philippine is- lands, Japan, China and Australia for the carrying of the mails, and to pay to vessels of the second class the same rate that is now paid on American vessels of the first class to Europe, and to vessels of the third class the rate now authorized for vessels of the second class plying on the Atlantic ferry.
 If the House accepts the report of the conferees subsidies will become established as policy of this county o.ce established the tendepcy to inf sssass fssn < pueh stronger lthsa saJ
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-25
Larqe Crowd Expected.

"The reunion crowd will be large, but whether it will umber 25,O0o or more 1t is hard to say" remarked J. B. Babb, see- rotary of the Commercial club. and sec rotary of the reunion executive commit tee. While 1t Is difficult to estimate large gatherings in advance, am receiving re7 ports from various states that indicate great interest in the reunion on the part of veterans and others Tennessee VIII be very largely represented here, ana so will be Louisiana and Texas.
 But no matter how many people att tend the reunion, Birmingham will be pre- pared to take care of the crowd. The com nittee has kept expenses strictly within the fund subscribed, but many well known citizens who have not subscribed Will doubtless do so. If the committee naa sSoo0 more to draw on 1t could appropriate the money judiciously."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-25
GRAND BACH FESTIVAL.

Montclair, N. J., Special to the New
 York Sun.
 Despite unpropitious weather con- ditions the Bach festival opened auspiciously Friday. The influx of visitors was not so great for the opening of the festival, which took place at noon with an organ preludium played by Samuel P. Warren, although there was a large local attendance. Friday night, however, the First Con- gregational church, where all the ser- vices are to be held, was packed with an audience that included people from various sections of the country to hear the first part of the mass in B minor. As the mass is too long for a single service it is arranged to give the sec ond part tomorrow night.
 The service Friday night opened with a fanfare of trombones in the tower of the church. The trombones played a chorale, then the air was carried by the organ, and finally taken up by the choristers and congregation as hymn. 1hC ID ohQ SiOiid, COiipi u numbers, followed. Two other chorales were also sung, and there were the reading of the Epistle, Gospel and As cription and Benediction.
 The mass music and the chora1es were beautifully sung by the Bach choir of 135 voices and the chorale choir of SO women, boys and men. An orch hestra of 35 pieces from the Phil harmonic society of New York also took part in the service. ~
 The festival will be concluded on Sunday afternoon with the singing of motets and chorales and talk by the Rev Dr. Edward Judson, D. D. Satur- day afternoon the service consisted of an orchestral interludium and the Song of Pan'. from the Peasant Cam tata" by pr. Dufft. Saturday night the service was begun in the same manner as that of Friday evening, and follow ing was sung the Credo, Sanctus, Ossanah, Benediction, Agnus Dei and Dona Nobis of the mass in B minor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-25
HIPPoPoTAMUs' TOOTH AcHED.
But With Aid of crowbar and Scrub blng Brush He Was Relieved.

From the New York Herald.
 With a crowbar, a kitchen scrubbing brush, and bucket filled with an anti septic solution. Pete. a hippopotamus at the Bronx zoo, was cured of toothaehe yesterday. One of Petes teeth, which is about the size of @ granite paving block, had become so radically impaired that it was decided last night 1t would be neces- sary to fill it.
 The affected tooth and teeth adjacent to 1t were cleaned yesterday afternoon by Dr. W. Reed Blair of the Bronx zoo, with whom the hippopotamous has be- come so friendly that he no longer ob- Jects to the presence of the surgeon at his quarters in the ZOO antelope house.
 Keepers reported to Dr. Blair yester- day that the hippopotamus had become restless and that after each meal it charged about as if in pain. Dr. Blair went to the antelope house, and, with the help of the keepers, got the hippopotamus to open his mouth. It was seen that one of his teeth had become decaycd, uIu lHt pain WAS nldue HlOTc dCulc every time the animal ate, and bits of food be- came lodged in the cavity.
 Dr. Blair got crowbar and with this implement picked the tooth of the hippo potamus. Then he got a scrubbing brush and, dipping it into an antiseptic solu- ton, swabbed out the tooth. The hippo potamus gave no trouble during the oper- ation. As reward for it's good behavior it will now have it's tooth filled. An in expensive filling will be used, because there is so much of the tooth that to at- tempt to fill 1t with expensive material would substantially increase the ZOO ex- pense account.
 Dr. Blair has not decided when he will fill the tooth. He will clean it again to- day after each meal given the hippo potemus