Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-22
AS YOU LIKE F.
Some Stray Leaves from Reporters
 Note Book.

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 It is just like George c. Walker.
 superintendent of parks, to spend all
 the park appropriation and leave no
 money even for his own salary. With | his mind centered the whole time on I that park and planning night and i day what he can do with the small
 appropriation which Is made each
 year, he perhaps overlooked the fact that the finances were running low.
 But the people may rest assured that the money has been. well spent. The
 officials will undoubtedly find some
 men as to pay the superintendent, but even if they should let 1t go for some time, it is not like him to say a word.
 Some of the brakeman on the Nau- gatuck division are beginning to l have much respect for their employ CTS property. The AS You Like It Man was greatly surprised recently while making short trip when the brakeman came up to man in one of the seats and said: You had bet ter push that window up little higher or it will fall and that win dow will be broken" It was some thing new for the As You Like It
 Man who had often been on cars
 where the brakeman allowed passen-
 gers, if they; so desired, to do about everything they wished, caring noth- ing apparently as to what had hap pened providing the. rowdies did not take the car with them. The incl dent related happened in smoker.
 If any of the applicants for. the fire department should fall while scaling ladder or doing some other test while at these fire drills held by the board of safety would the city be liable for damages? To all appear ances they would. Although no one is looking for accidents one can never tell when they are likely even in un- expected places. It would not have taken much last Saturday to send a few of the men crashing from the ladder to the pavement below. The As You Like Man does not care to imagine what will happen should the board decide to test the candidates on the net. It might be safer plan to put the applicants through some preliminary training for few months like the policemen before they are made regulars.
 They were four big foreigners, powerful fellows who would be of vast assistance to any body of men in a hand to hand fight. They were standing on corner when a patrol man came along. A patrolman who is not afraid to encounter anyone or anything while performing his duty. He told the group to move but they did not understand him. Again he told them to move, but not a stir. It was some distance from a main street and If the quartet cared to they would undoubtedly administer a dreadful beating to the officer. But the patrolman thought not a mo- ment what might happen. Going up he showed the men of the sidewalk right into the gutter and informed them what he would in case they refused to move in the future. They simply looked at him. But they re- spected the uniform. ta 4s
 Are you not glad that you are living in America, the home of the free and the brave. if not read the following and then be glad: London's trouble Is her fog, To- kio's trouble is earthquakes; in her worst 100000 residents were killed. Caicutta's trouble is cholera, and the bubonic plague is the trouble of Bombay; each city pays to her trouble an annual tribute of 5000 lives. Madrid's trouble is the solan. a summer wind from the southeast; 1t is exceedingly hot, and Is accom- panied by blinding, choking clouds of dust, so that, notwithstanding a temperature of 105 or 10 degrees, all windows must be closed. The mistral is the trouble of Marseilles. an east wind that increases the city death rate 50 per cent. Bagdad's trouble Is the "Bagdad button," sore that attacks practically every resident and visitor, leaving a but ton shaped permanent scar.
 It was on car going from this city to Derby that man was pain fully but not seriously injured during the past week. When the accident happened there were about a dozen men on the car and one lone woman. The man was thrown of the end of the car had some painful cuts about the head and was bleeding badly. He was a sorry looking sight and appar- entity there was no relief as the ac- cident happened some distance from a store, and all on the car seem at loss to know what to do. The motor man and conductor were some miles out to sea. Although the woman did not know the man, neither did she have a friend with her. nevertheless she decided to dress the injured mans bruises. Taking a big automobile veil from her face she tore it in strips. With the veil and her dainty handkerchief she bandaged the mans head in a manner that showed she was an adept in emergency cases. It is not every woman that would have acted as she did.