Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-24
BROOKLYN BRIEFS


 William Broughton of Charles street is on vacation to England where he will spend some weeks With relatives.
 MT and Mrs James H. Brickel or South Leonard street. accompanleu py their daughters, Winnie, Mary ana Loretta, and their son, James, are spending the summer at their cottage at Laurel Beach.
 The concert and fireworks on the Bank street lot last evening given by the Italians of Brooklyn was well attended and another large crowd is expected this evening when more than $20O worth of fireworks will be touched off. Some very novel figures were shown and the display went on without hitch. This morning, or tones bank paraded the different streets of Brooklyn advertising the exhibition this evening. The lot on miniature <. market place. Several booths and fruit stands were there and the owners were shouting their wares in a very businesslike manner.
 -"Jack" Coleman, John the hack man, was hugged almost to death tnls morning by a couple of husky men who were celebrating wedding. The bridal party was in the hack while the men who did the embracing oc- cupied the drivers seat with John. Gan you imagine two men sitting on the seat of hack with Jack" who as Doctor Hayes would say has by far too much adispose tissue. It was highly amusing to See the men, one of them especially, cling to Jack as he turned around the corners. AS the hack was wheeling onto Bank street from South Riverside street one of the celebrators let out whoop that would do credit to an Apachee Indian. The hack attracted much at tention.
 We'll, just glance at this! The base ball team which is so creditably up- holding the reputation of the Brook lyn business men showed ample req son yesterday why the aggregation Of 1908 should be termed the "classiest" that has represented this section in years. What is more convincing ar gument. that the defeat (the score was IS to D which the Brooklynites served up to their brethren from Wa terville yesterday at the golf grounds. While the swatters from across the bridge were knocking the coverings off the horsehides, the Watervillians were playing tattoo on the air about the home plate. But why talk about such a one-sided game. The Brook lyn team will soon disband unless it finds some team that can make half decent showing against it..
 Edward McNamara, the four year-old son of MT and Mrs Patrick McNamara of 1919 Bank street, was badly injured yesterday afternoon when he fell off some steps in the rear of his house. The boy landed on a hard walk and his little face was cut to such an extent that when the child was picked up he was covered with blood. It seems the youth was on the 1 top of the steps leading into the base ment of the house when in some man. | ner he tripped and fell to the bottom Fortunately the boy was not hurt tc any extent while rolling down the steps, but he struck the bottom with so much force that his brothers and sisters who were nearby thought ht was killed. Dr T. J. Kilmartin wal called and found that the child wal injured considerably about the head but that no bones were broken. The doctor said that the child had yer, fortunate escape and considering thu roll he took, he was surprised tha the child was not fatally hurt.
 Michael Carroll. aged 10, son O Mir and Mrs Michael Carorll of Rail road Hill street, had rather exciting time yesterday afternoon. Twice h, was on the verge of being fatally in jured but both times was saved, ono, by his own presence of mind ant | again by the courage of his friends Carroll, with two companions, Georg, Maloney and Otto Poeltl, were play ing in the dump near the Benedict { Burnham factory when he thought i would be fine fun to see how close h, could come to a bonfire nearby. II trying "to stump the leader" he wen so close to the flames that his cloth ing caught fire and in a moment hi trousers were in a blaze Carroll fel the fire scorching his feet and witl screams that could be heard som, distance away, he ran towerd thl river. He plunged right in intend ing to wade in only far enough t quench the fire. But in his eagernes to relieve the pain the youth stun bled and although he fell into wate that was not very deep. he would un doubtedly haev been drowned hal not his companions rushed to his aid Maloney saw that his chum. was "al in" so he hustled down the bank int the water and pulling young Carrol out he. with the aid of Poeltl brought the half drowned youth {
 the shore. Carroll was taken to hi home and Dr P. J. Dwyer called in
 He found that the boys legs had bee painfully burned but otherwise tn youth was not to any degree injure
 although he suffered considerabl from fright. ..
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