Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-09
AT RAILWAY STATION
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 Weald BardIy Know IL

Eoople WHO are spending money On vacation trips and not seeing much, might get better results at less ex- pense by paying visit to the site of the new railroad station and spend q half day looking over the marvellous changes being made there. They are worth seeing and many call there ev- cry other day and enjoy watching the great army of labOrers hustle. For the present at least, one of the prin- cipal points of interest Is along Liv- cry street, which is fast being wiped out of existence. Already nearly all the tenants of the houses acquired by the city have moved out and most of the buildings have been torn down and the material carted away. In the disposition of the property q peculiar question has cropped up and 1t Is likely that the city attorney will have to settle the difference. The question is do the cellars belong to the people who bought the houses The advertisement called for pro posals for removing the building and they were sold without any refer ence to the cellars. Is the cellar a part of the building which 1t sup ports? Come now, you disciples of Blackstone, look wise and see what you think of this.
 The work is being pushed all around. The city Is laying curb, constructing retaining walls and put ting down sidewalks, and the rail- road people are adding to the height of the tower and rapidly filling in the low spots. Superintendent Walker of the public parks has a few men pick ing odds and ends and slowing them away for future use. MT Walker smiled when he caught sight of the two handsome white birch trees on the Kelly property, the finest in town, and remarked as he shut one eye and then turned the open optic towards the top of the trees, that they are worth $100 each. They were planted many years ago by MT and Mrs Patrick Kelly, whose chill dren vacated the premises last week, and as they walked out through the gateway they turned and looked and fingered for a time on the highway before they could tear themselves away from the spot hallowed by the presence of loved ones now sleeping in St Joseph's cemetery, but whose familiar figures they could see seated in the grateful shade of the trees which their own hands had planted. This and few other things that happened down there during the past week gave folks who spent nearly all their lives there, a pretty good idea of the feeling that comes over one when leaving the old home never to return. But the world was too busy to notice what was taking place and the people did their weep ing unheeded by the busy workers that rushed here and there and in some instance the crowbar brigade was at work razing the houses be- fore the tenants had got beyond the doorstep. The most melancholy sight of all, perhaps, is that of old MT Hayward, almost centerarian who has lived in his present home for the past fifty-four years. He is not driven out, but he is shut in behind great wall which practically hides the building from view and when he wants to see what is going on in the outer world he reaches the top of the wall by means of stair way and gazes about him in mute astonishment at the transformation He Is the last of the old stock, "the sad historian of the pension train,' J as Goldsmith says of Sally Gerighty In the Deserted Village" MT Hayward Is not at all displeased at what is going on and says it does him good to sit out in the sunshine and take in the sights"
 The place is a veritable gold mine for rag pickers and from all accounts some of them have picked up some thing worth more than old petit coats and trousers. Yesterday an old fellow poked a tin box out of one of the cellar walls and after he looked into it he dropped his bag and disappeared as fast as his legs could carry him and has not been seen about the place since. There must have been something worth while ir the box else the joker would not have parted with his we'll filled bag of rags for it.
 Some of the families left their cats behind them and the felines clune to the old haunts until the timbers fell in and then they scampered to places of safety, but they come back now and then and set up a terrible howl. If you want nice cat all you have to do is go down there and catch it. The dogs fared better, the owners making it point to take them to their new homes, but even at that they have made trips back and in one instance the man who bought house had to give battle to. the house dog before his men dared commence the work of de, molitiou.