Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-14
THE ANTI.TUBERcULosIs
LEAGUE OF WATERBURY.

ie real work was not commenced
 Until people got on the streets enroute to the stores and factories bright girls provided with lots of tags and box to drop your offering into. Few if any at all refused to contribute something. It was a field day for the girls, the younger ones especially, who appeared to take de- light in stopping everybody they met, even holding up men in teams and automobiles and refusing to allow them to move until they were proper ly tagged. Some were decorated by a dozen or more insignias of the day, and there was not horse, dog, cat or vehicle of any description seen in any part of the town but sported a tag, some of them having so many that it was difficult to enumerate them. The taggers penetrated every hols and corner of the town and anybody who thought to keep clear of them by remaining indoors made a serious mistake, for they went in and out and round about every spot where they suspected to find anybody that could be prevailed upon to give some thing, little or much, that being left at the discretion of the donor, but just the same a blind man could see the fair workers smile when they saw little paper money pushed into the box. Everybody was good natured about 1t and the thing put more real life into the city than 1t has ever seen before, cranky old fellows that you could not trust to speak to on other occasions without risk of offending them, being as docile as lambs in the hands of the girls, and skin-flints that wouldn't think of giving a friend glass of soda in lifetime, going down into their jeans and pull- ing up handfuls of silver and passing ing 1t out to the collectors in man. ner which to say the least was re- freshing in an age when we hear so much about alleged indifference on the part of the man who has dollar towards the needs of his suffering fellow being. It reminded people of the old saying lone touch of nature makes the whole world kin" and prompted many to remark that not withstanding all we hear to the con- trary the world is growing better right along and when approached in a proper way for good cause peo- pie are more willing to give for char ity to-day than at any other time in the history of the world, and Water bury is no exception.
 The taggers who got loose among the lawyers in the district court to- day reaped a harvest. Court was about to open when they entered the lobby and nothing would do Judge Cowell and Court messenger Perkin- son, Clerk Gillette and Sheriff Smith but a fair tagger should occupy seat beside them at their respective desks. Such honor as this scared the taggers at first but in few minutes they had accustomed themselves to their distinction After court, and fortunately 1t was not long to-day, the taggers went to work and they did not stop until they had the judge and the messenger sand the sheriff and the clerk, Judge Lowe and Clerk cassin of the probate court. Clerk Marsh of the superior court and Mes senger Platt dressed out in tags. And the boss of the whole court house, Ianitor McGraw. did not escape. He sas often said that he never ran dur
 Sg all the civil war, but If he got no medals for that. he got paper ones to- day.
 It has often been said that George H. Byrnes and the other clerks in the bureau of water ought to have more help. but you wouldn't think so if YOU called there to-day. The place was crowded and everybody appear ed to be engaged in clerical work, The regular clerks were on hand, hut they were lost sight of among the great army of women who rushed here and there with tags. flags. red ribbons. pencils. money and other things that occupied their attention. SO that while the place is busy spot all the time 1t was much more so to- day than ever before. even in the days when people stood in files to be handed out books by the late Mir Bassett and his assistants when the Bronson library vas located in that building
 Some of the boys in the city saw h good chance of making . few Sickels to-day and preceded to buy "