Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-01-11
BROOKLYN BRIEFS.

rlnk Tn that town. If successful tn Brooklyn quintette will play game
 there with amateur teams from Ney
 Haven, Meriden and Bridgeport an,
 other towns of the state. The Brook
 lynites were not sure whether the,
 would be able to obtain the rink bu if they do they expect to have som
 interesting games down there.
 The executive committee of tn, Third Congregational church, com posed of Adam Callan, M. k. German
 William Mclean, Ernest Johnson, D
 J. l.. Callbreath, Miller c. Haynor ant
 Albert Loefier, held a meeting Thurs
 day evening and elected MT Callar
 collector for two months. When his
 term expires another member will be
 elected. Outside of the routine busi
 ness that was transacted the member!
 ala nothing except to discuss the
 proposed repairs on the church.
 A special meeting of the Brook.
 lyn Improvement society has been
 called for Monday evening for the
 purpose of sending an invitation to
 City Engineer Cairns to be present at the regular meeting next Friday night
 ana deliver an address. This indeed
 will come in the nature of a surprise
 to the public who have read in the past or the unmerciful roasts which the members of the Brooklyn and ToWn Plot Improvement society gave the city engineer. Evidently the members have had change of heart TOT unless the present plan fails the members on Monday evening will vote to nave the city engineer as their guest on next Friday evening. It is understood that MT Cairns will &C., cept if the invitation is accorded him and will speak entirely about muni- cipal affairs.
 The games scheduled in the B. A. C, basketball league were not play ed last evening, as the teams made way for the game getween Frank Hol- lyWoods Uptown Wonders, and the regular Brooklyn Athletic five. The brooklynites were the winners by the score of 34 to 15. Hollywood was or the opinion that his was mighty good team. They really played good game during the first half Even at that the B. A. c. boys were leading at the end of the first period by the score of F to 9. In the second half the aggregation from up town did not nave look in and were winded after playing few minutes. The last part or the period Jagged much and the brooklynites threw baskets at will. French Gooding and Quinn played well for the losers, while the entire brooklyn team, Schlosser, Cunning ham, Dwyer, Legge and Conway were In the game every minute.
 Veronica Papikas, age 5. daugb- .er Of MT and Mrs Joseph Papikas of 'o4 Bank street, had an experience yesterday afternoon about 5 o'clock "hlch almost ended her life. While ,rosslng over Bank street near South leonard street she passed in front of down coming car in charge of Mo orman James Dalton and Conductor liilam Large. The little girl sprint "a Tn front of the car so quickly if vas Impossible for the motorman in ,ring It to halt before it struck her 5ut the fender worked we'll and al- | hough the child was knocked off her eet she landed on the fender and vas carried several feet. She was ostled considerably but upon examin- tion It was found that she escaped most without a scratch. Many peo- ne witnessed the accident and all hought she would be seriously iniur- d. But it was another of those ortuhate escapes so many of which ave already been recorded in this ection. '"i'
 Joseph Cabana, the we'll known ather' and pr De Liguori played a ouple of acts from "Fisticuffs" yes erday and it appears that the skit 'as mighty lively although the audi nee was composed of only a few per. Dns. The doctor has been very care lilly supervising the work on his new uliding on North Riverside street nd has taken it upon himself to i'm 'rm the workmen when they did not Just as he wished. Yesterday Ca ana was laboring away when tba octor put in an appearance. He tolJ aDana that he was not satisfied with le way he was doing his work and abana immediately got on his high orse. He told the doctor he could gol place much warmer than tho htural atmosphere and declared he ouId do things to suit himself More Ter ne continued if the doctor di1 Dt Know enough to run along and III his papers he would heIp him | ong. The doctor became furious ana ( 'abbing planer came down witb uch force on Cabana's neck Tbs , o~ would have felled an ordinary i an but Cabana is evidently not or- , nary. Instead of dropping like n ne came back strong and swung $ Tight hst with unerring aim. If ught the M D squarely upon inc 'se and that ended the battle Tbs 'ctor went on the street looking for
 policeman vOwing that Cabana ould be arrested. , One of the biggest rats ever seen in ! 'ooklyn almost scared the wits ouI ,
 Danny Mccarthy and "GIIly'' DaIv f
 Mahaney's saloon on Bank street IS morning. Danny is bartender for . ahaney and on opening the cafe IS startled tO see huge terrier with head sticking from behind the bar le animal must have realized that f, IS or mammoth size for it did not 4mper away when Mccarthy and ny entered. When they took a peep tne pet they tiDtOed to the door and I Inner was hardly able to say a word. I ,CaTthy Immediately procured a re- I iver and went back to the cafe , 'sely followed by "Gilly' who took i re to leave the door open. Me- rthy took a careful aim and frciI Q shots. But snake heels and gun wder the rat did not move. To add
 The horror of Daly and MeCartbr '. saloon was partly in darkness and