Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-31
BR00KLYN BRIEFS

| Miss Sarah Hanley of South
 Leonard street has returned from a
 vacation at the shore.
 Miss Anna McAuliff of Charles
 street, who has been on vacation to
 Walnut beach, has returned. | -Yesterday several families from
 this section enjoyed an outing In Wltheys grove on Town Plot. They
 had an old fashioned clambake
 which was much enjoyed by all pres ent.
 The building at the corner of
 Bank and South Leonard streets is
 getting to be more of a nuisance
 every day. At present it is nothing
 more than the nightly rendezvous of
 goodly number of tramps. More
 over 1t is said that the sanitary con-
 dition of the building is awful and
 It is surprising that the tramps who sleep there are not down with con-
 taglous disease. The authorities should at least have the shack clean
 ed out for the benefit of the resi-
 dents nearby.
 It Is said the members of the
 Brooklyn Improvement society are
 to make an effort to have the con- certs in some of the Bank street sa. looms "cut out. A few of these so. called wine emporiums with their women and music are not unlike typ ical beer, gardens and are enough 10 keep any neighborhood in tur- moil. Complaint has already been made to the prosecuting attorney about them and something is likely to happen within a short time.
 The fire department was called shortly after o'clock this morning to a pile of rubbish in the rear oi the Fruin block on lower Bank street. The rubbish which was main ly excelsior set fire to a small chick en coop which threatened to ignite a barn nearby. The Leavenworth, Scoyill street and Brooklyn firemen answered the alarm. A slight slip up in the harness of the horses of the Brooklyn engine caused a short delay which led some people to be- lieve that an accident had occurred to the apparatus but such was not the case. The fire attracted three policemen, Kiersted, Mclean and Cavanaugh and one sergeant. Blake ly. They had their hands full with children who seemed to fairly spring from the ground.
 Speaking on ''The Spirit of Cain in Modern Life" the Rev c. D. Chunn, pastor of the Third Congre- gational church, delivered a very in teresting address at yesterday mornings service during which he severely criticised the law for not being more stringent in regard to accidents. He declared it was alarm ing the number of people that are killed on the railroads, by the troll 1 ley cars. by fast autos, and the nu- merous murders committed: the pun ishment of which comes very slowly | and sometimes not at all. In 1906 | he said there were g.350 homicides. | 10,125 suicides. 3,295 killed and 10.- ! 900 Injured by the railroads, 674 | killed by electric cars and 200 kill ed by automobiles in the United States. The cost of wars during the nineteenth century was at the rate of SC a second. Many people also lost their lives by partaking of food. while in the opinion of the speaker the number of deaths caused by people living in un- houses was indeed large. The following remedies were sug- gested by the speaker:
 I. The enactment of whatever laws may be necessary for the safe and protection of human fife. Enact laws making corpora ions criminally responsible for loss ,f life through carelessness or neg. eet." he declared.
 2. Reformation of our courts. 'Of the s.350 homicIdes in the Unit d States were only ie3 death pen Ilties as the result. or about i fin 100. When only one murderer in .a0 suffers the death penalty, there s something wrong. Courts should Ieal swiftly and mete out justice vith a greater degree of speed and ertainty than they do at present"
 3. The abolition of war. This Is eing brought abort slowly in peace conferences. in courts of arbitration nd International diplomacy. backed y the universal sentiment that war , a great evil. i
 4 A deepened sense Of inc sa- redness and value of human life. Wherever human life is held sa- red. he continued. it fs safe. Whenever it Is not held sacred 1t is
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