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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-18
BROOKLYN BRIEFS

s5 saved on any suit in Upson, Singleton & Co.'S $10 suit sale.
 -Patrolman Brickel and family have returned from vacation at the shore.
 The Business Mems association of this section of the town will hold picnic and outing at Browns lots September 12.
 One of the wise men of this part of the town suggests that the city help out in filling the deep ravines at either side of James street so that so that when the troll ley runs up Town Plot way the face of the earth will have been changed instead of looking at yawning chasms that are none too healthy, the landscape in that particular spot will have been converted into a beau tiful velvety lawn. There is lot of merit in this suggestion. The deep ravines there occupy considerable space and if filled in to the grade of the rest of the land 1t would greatly improve the appearance of things in that district besides giving somebody a few nice building lots.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-18

rouIe IOsinx ncaey svsrr 1ar Esst Four tenement b vacant Let
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-18
FOR SETTING FIRE.
Waterbury Man Asked to stand Trial
 in woodbury.

in Woodbury.
 A Waterbury man named Marcus M. Gilbert. alias Charles Gill, Is on trial In Woodbury on a charge of set ting fire to the Central house in that place last Tuesday morning. He was arrested last evening and Is 1e- tended by Attorney Kennedy. A quiet investigation was made on the causes of the fire before Gilbert vas arrested. The hotel was practically demolished.
 It Is claimed that during the fire Gilbert could not be found and 1t was believed he was burned in the conaagration. But when he vas seen next day and said that he vas asleep in an outhouse during the fire. suspicion at once vas directed toward him. Detectives from the fire insurance companies then began a quiet investigation and found series of weak points In the story Gilbert told.
 Gilbert vas employed fer some time at the hotel and wss recently discharged Lately the hotel was closed and Gilbert was placed in charge hy the rropristors. Ricxer and Gzlpir- He is alleged fc have said that some time before the fre wzs Uncovered q stranger iz toNr wzs <een rfpuiirx sb1xt ttz k0tzl
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-18
FELL FIFTY FEET.
Broke Skylight, Fracturing Ribs and
 Left Thigh.


 Hartford, Aug 1S.-While sitting in fifth story rear window of tho Brown, Thomson & Co building last night about o'clock, Timothy Nor kan, 54 years old, lost his balance and fell to the roof of the annex, two stories below. His head struck on dome shaped skylight, smashing the skylight and fracturing several of Morkan's ribs He also suffered compound fracture of the left thigh, and at the Hartford hospital, where he was taken in the police ambu- lance, 1t is thought that he can live. He also got severe scalp wound.
 Morkan was formerly tailor, but for the last few years has made his living by doing odd jobs. He was frequently employed by James J. Mayo, janitor of the Brown-Thomson building, and last night was engaged to clean out some offices. Just be- fore Mayo went into his apartments for supper he saw Morkan sitting In the window of one of the toilet rooms, smoking his pipe. He sat with his feet on the sill.
 Be careful you don't fall out, Tirh," he called out to his helper as he went by.
 ''I guess there is no danger or me going over" replied Morkan cheer fully.
 Mayo, whose apartments overlook the place where Morkan landed, had just sat down to supper when he heard the crash, and running to his window saw him lying prostrate on the roof, about fifty feet below. He ran down and telephoned at once for the ambulance and doctor, and Po- lice Surgeon Cahill was sent up from the police station.
 When the ambulance backed up to the door, Police Surgeon Cahill or dered the injured man sent to the Hartford hospital with all possible speed, as 1t was apparent that his condition was serious. Aside from his other injuries, the broken glass in the skylight inflicted dangerous cut on his right wrist, and also sev- eral other smaller ones.
 It was at first thought, that bis skull had been fractured but at the hospital 1t was found that the only injury to his head was the deep scalp wound and possible con- cussion of the brain.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-18
POKING UP THE DRUGGISTS.
Rev Walter J. Shanley Says Many
 Profit on Liguor Trade.

Danbury, Conn, Aug 1S.-Rev Walter J. Shanley, former president of the National Catholic Total Ab- stinence union, in a temperance ser mon at St Peters church, of which he is the rector, Sunday, spoke par ticularly of the sale of liquor by druggists. especially on Sunday.
 He said that the law did not in tend that the drug store should be a saloon; that many druggists in Con- necticut could not carry on their business but for their liquor trade, from which many of them make thousands of dollars. Father Shan ley is a director of the Connecticut Temperance union.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-18
MAY END IN DEATH.
Yale Law Student Tied by a Rope re
 Running Horse.

Stratford. Aug 1s.-Frank Co- hen. a student in the Yale law school. and a son of Philip Cohen of this city. is in the Bridgeport hos pitaI la a serious condition as the result of prank played cn him at Meadows End last Sunday. Cohen was sleeping when some of his com pznions led a rope around his body, pInning his arms. and then tied the other end te a horse and started the horse on a run The horse ran faster than they expected and then stepped, kicking Cohen fn the face and stepping on his bcdy sefore
 her esald rescue him He hss seri- ons injuries zhc1t he k<zz sr3 lz- tErnH; injuries nrH Atso feared
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-18
Serve Thomas With Warrant.

Long Branch. x. J., Aug. 1S.--Mil- lionaire E. R. Thomas, who is in the Monmouth Memorial hospital here with a dislocated knee, received in an automobile accident, was served with a warrant charging him with reckless driving. He furnished bail for appear
 ance at a hearing on Sept. 21.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-18
CowELL's BASS STORY.
Says He Hauled In Big 0ne-Fne String of Bullheads.

Judge Cowell came up from the shore to-day and, as usual. brought a piece of news with him. He said he caught the biggest striped bass he ever saw the other day. It was 50 big that it came near pulling him out of the boat when he was trying to land 1t. Only for the assistance he got from the clerk of his court, Will liam Gillette, the fish would surely have escaped and taken the boat and the judge with it.
 It is as we'll to know that the scene of this fish story is very we'll con- ducted place, Laurel Beach, where only decent fish stories are allowed. The fish in this story was making for the middle of the sound where 1t would have plenty of room to disport itself and better chance of getting rid of the hook, when Mir Gillette appeared. He had seen the judge at some distance struggling as he thought, with an invisible object in the water and concluded at once it was either an injunction to restrain the prohibition party from nominat- ing the judge, or else mighty big fish. The invisible object proved to be the latter. The clerk of the court went to the courts assistance and with their combined strength landed the bass. It was so large they could not take it to the scales to weigh it but that night not only had the judge and the clerk fish dinner but George s. Chapman and Chauncey Seeley and Constable Rigney and half dozen others, all of the fish caught by the judge.
 The biggest string of bullheads ever seen in the north end was caught last evening by Daniel Keefe, Fred Scott and John Savers. They had so many they could not bring all home and there was fish for ev- erybody last night. Where the catch was made is profound secret.
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-04

were the new finery they expected to
go ashore in at Naples. AS far as the
eye could see our track was marked
with these miscellaneous discardings,
coats, trousers, undershirts. shoes
socks. hats. tossing and bobbing in the
ships wake.
1t was for those they knew to be
waiting on shore. for the folks at home.
kinsmen, friends, acquaintance of
their own towns that they had pride.
They would enter their villages like
conquering heroes clothed in the evil
dences of their success.
When we came to anchor those or
derly, well dressed men who were car
ried ashore in launches and rowboats.
the hands of each clasped in that of a
father or mother or a young wife with
the babe already a few years old that
had never before been seen by its
father, or was so young at departure
that, met alone, he would not have
known him for his own; In that of a
brothers or a betrothed, not one would
have been recognized for our late ship
mates in the steerage 1t was easier in
these changed and happy conditions to
realize that each carried treasure.
We ourselves were travellers, sight
seers in Italy. Our wandering way
took us up and down the length and
breadth of that wonderful and lovely
peninsula, into all sorts of out of way
places little visited by tourists But
everywhere we went there were evil
dences of the American money trans
ported by foreign laborers.
If we entered a town.. soft in color
and picturesque in it's dilapidation and
decay, there would strike the eve a
house with flaming red tiles, even
angles and new plaster, staring in its
regularity and freshness. There was
invariably the answer: The owner was
a returned laborer from America.
If we hired a carriage, as we did
In the island of Ischia, to go to places
out of walking distance. and chose
from out the number lined up in the
front of the hotel a horse and cab for
its especially good condition. the driver
would answer. our inquiries in broken
English. Later, finding we were from
the "Stati Until" he would tell us that
the equipage was his own; that the
little carriage, not much bigger and
very like a bath chair; tho tough little
horses, like mustangs Of the plains,
about the size of Shetland ponies, and
the harness, resplendent in metal studs,
rings and buckles, and the long tail
feather of pheasant In the collar and
a religious medal dangling between
the blinkers, all were bought with
money earned in America. We often
asked the question, "At what did you
work." The answer was. Helping to
build the Third street elevated The
New York subway" In laying sewer
pipes in Boston. in making roadbed for
railways in Pennsylvania, in selling
fruit and vegetables in our cities. as
hod carriers. garden assistants or coal
beavers in the west.
In Ischia on our drive, we passed
through the al fated town. under Epo-
mao. where a dozen or more years ago,
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-04

Ischia and Capri, those beautiful
islands lying off the coast. A more
surprising and curious sight we were
to witness. the transformation of the
steerage-that unkempt mass changed
into as clean and respectable looking
crowd as can be seen anywhere enter
ing church on Sunday morning. The
lower deck was already alive with
these well, If dandily. dressed men and
the few women and children who ac-
companied them, and new recruits
were constantly emerging from the
companionways fore and aft.
Each one on stepping out on the
deck went straight to the railing and
dropped overheard mysterious bum
die. AS the waves caught them and
Strengthened and spread them out there
was recognizable the old clothes worn
on the voyage And now at last was
explained to us the loose pieces of
clothing carried in their hands or over
their arms on boarding the ship. They
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-04

like cornucopias. drawn down over the
whole head. face and all with two great
holes for the eyes The real mourneTs
followed afoot, but bearing candles OF
unusual size. One carriage followed
to carry the enormous wreaths of flow
ers with long streamers of ribbons. The
whole cortege was on "a cOStn5y scsc>s
than that usually indulged in by the
centadini of the valley. where money
is scarce and work heavy. IL was the
funeral of a young girl. just entering
womanhOod the affianced bride Of a
laborer I'm fruit ranch in the Sacra-
mentO valley The expense of the
velvet bier. the wreaths from for
ist, the hired mourncrs and. a mass
would be met with American gold: with
the amount so lovingly sent by the
fiance for the wedding trousseau for
his betrOthed and the journey to join
him in the west. which she now would
never take
High up In the Apennines. in a village
where the children laughed to hear our
strange jabber and the face of for
eigner had almost never been seen.
American gold had penetrated
The omnibus. like an OLD fashioned
open horsecar with big wheels and no
rails that made its daily journey from
Rione to Chiavari on the coast and the
railway station and back. carrying the
country people and their produce to
market Is miles for 80 centesimi or
Is cents. a head. their package free,
was owned by the driver. who told US
that he had worked seven years in a
brewery in San Francisco.
IT was the same everywhere we went.
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-04

forced through pipes could be used to
quell riot and violence.
Once on board the lines cast off and
the steamer started down the sound
the steerage subsided and remained
so throughout the long voyage; a
sleeping Vesuvius. but a quiet one,
nevertheless, for the time being. Dur
ing the day. sitting about on deck as
thick and black as flies, on spars,
matches, coils OF rope, stretched out in
sleep upon the floor, huddled under
loose tarpaulins. behind capstans. masts
or bulwarks for shelter from the wind.
they were as still and listless as though
stupor had come over them. They
could scarcely be reused by the few
events there are at sea; the first show
of floating seaweed that indicates the
entering on the Gulf stream. a school
of dolphins. q passing sail. There were
moments of animation when the bell
sounded for the distribution of drink
sand food. when here and there
little group would push back, and
tightly encircling, open UP a space on
the floor on which to play a game of
cards with grimy hands and a dirty
pack; or when a concertina, giving out
few droning sounds, would be the
signal for the men near by to get on
their feet and go through the rhythmic
motions of a jig peculiar to some coun-
try district in Italy, or when half
dozen or more would join in that his
toric dance of southern Italy, the ta-
rentella, or a voice of no mean ca :
dence break into some beautiful song
from a Verdi or Puccini opera
Twelve days we were on one voyage
across the Atlantic, through the straits
of Gibraltar and up the Mediterranean.
on the morning Of the thirteenth day
we were to drop anchor in the harbor
of Naples. our frst Italian port.
At an early hour we were up and out
on deck to catch the FIRST glimpse of
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-15
VALUABLE LAUNCHES
DESTROYED BY GALE
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
SANTA MONICA, Jan. 14.-From all
points along the bay come reports this
evening of damage - sea craft and
wharfage from the heavy seas that have
prevailed for the last eighteen hours.
AT Santa MOI lea the launches Marie
and The Grant were parted from their
mornings and dashed to pieces on the
beach.
The Marie was twenty-eight feet long
and was valued by Its owner, Herman
Goring, at $500. The Grant was thirty
foot vessel owred by II. ]. Stanley and
valued at about $1,000 The latter launch
was equipped with flfteen-horse power
gasoline engine.
From the Japanese fishermen's settle
men, two miles north of Port Los An
geles, it is reported two costly fishing
dories were smashed so as to render them
useless by the gale that hit the shore
about Q o'clock this afternoon. The de-
struction of a launch and several small
pleasure boats was recorded at Redondo.
Last nights precipitation amounted to
% of an inch, bringing the total rainfall
for the season up to 2.57 inches. The
rain was followed by a wind that grad
ually grew in strength until at / O'Clock
a hurricane was blowing in exposed parts
of the city. Along the beach the sand
was swept in drifts against the resi-
dences and walking was next to impos-
sible.
The railway had force of men en-
gagged during the day removing the sand
from it's roadbed along the Playa del Rey-
Redondo division.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-15
MUCH DAMAGE DONE
BY HEAVY transform
Driving Gale Wrecks Arches at Long
Beach, and Bandstand at AIamitos
Bay Is Blown Over the
BuIkhead
snecial 10 The Herald.

Special TO The Herald
LONG BEACH, Jan. IA third of an
inch of rain fell here early this morning.
the shower being accompanied by driv-
ing gale which lasted nearly all day.
The welcome arch near the head of the
pier was blown over and wrecked 1t was
carted away in a wagon. The Shriners'
arch was also damaged.
The band stand at Alamitos bay was
blown over the bulkhead and wrecked. A
skiff belonging to James Harvey was torn
loose from it's fastenings near the pier
and drifted ashore half way to Devils
Gate.
The ocean was in a fury all today and
early this morning fishing boats and
pleasure launches scurried to San Pedro
to seek the harbor's shelter.
Signs and fences in all parts of town
were blown down by the wind. Broken
electric wires near Second and Elm early
this morning threatened a big fire.
The total rainfall for the season up to
date is 2.52 inches, lacking five inches of
equaling the precipitation record at
corresponding date last year.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-15
PACIFIC FLEET MAY
VISIT VENICE SHORES
letter Received from Admiral by Sec
rotary Of Beach Chamber Causes
Body to Hope Wish May s
Be Granted

Special to The Herald
VENICE, Jan. 14.-Seeretary w. a. Rem
ME of the Venice chamber of commerce
today received a letter of acknowledge
ment from Rear Admiral Robley d. Evans
of the United States navy in reply to an
invitation from the trade body to take
part with his feet in the naval me-
mortal services 20 be held at Venice
May 30.
His position in the matter Admiral
Evans state7 as follows:
81 have to thank you for the invita-
ton and to assure you it would give me
great pleasure to take part in such eX-
ercises, but I cannot give you any definite
answer in regard to the matter as the
movements of the fleet are controlled by
the navy department.
81 have received no instructions from
the department In regard to It's wishes
relative to the movements of the fleet on
the Pacific coast"
Evidently the nature of the reply from
Mr.. Evans was anticipated by the Venice
trade body, as it now mas request be-
fore the war department at Washington
asking that the warships pay a visit to
these waters.
Admiral Evans addressed his commune
cation on December %, 1907, while en-
route to Trinidad. The headline Of his
letter reads: ~. S. S. Connecticut, at
sea-
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-15
EASTERN CITRUS FRUIT PRICES

NEW YORK, Jan. 14.-Eight cars
California citrus fruit sold; fruit fair
to good; market declining; weather
cold.
Extra fancy navels sold $2.20 to 1895,
general average $3.50
eral average $2.35.
Extra choice navels sold $2.05 to So,
general average S2.25.
Choice navels sold $500 to $3.50, gem
eral average S2.15.
Yesterday fifteen cars of California
citrus fruit sold; fruit fair to good;
market firm. Weather clear, favorable
Extra fancy navels sold $2.35 to $685.,
general average $2.65.
Fancy navels sold S2.25 to 1885, gen.
eral averave $3.50
general average $2.35.
Choice navels sold $1.90 to $3.50, gem
eral average sails.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-15
WATER REPORT DOES NOT
PROVIDE FOR DEPRECIATION
sreoIal to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
PASADENA, Jan. 14.-~The council to-
day accepted the report of the special
water committee on the permanent I'M
provements made by the Lake Vineyard
Water company during the period from
October 10, 1904, to January IA, 1908, the
total being valued at sSS,301.67.
The report is not itemized as to new
pipe lines, where they are laid, or the
size. Neither does 1t provide for depre-
citation. Unless depreciation is charged
the people will be asked to pay at some
future time just what the improvements
cost from four years back.
Following are the materials and the
values contained in the report: New
street mains, 21.3S2.2S; addition to reser-
voir No. 1, $35,054.94; Copelin well and
pumping plant. $1Ss56.34: compressed air
well No. g. DEVILS Gate, S13S6.S5; labor on
main dam at Devils Gate, $134; closing
dam. $7735; meters, s9466.07; equipment,
$7S4.77; street improvements, $231570; Of
flee furniture, $131. Total. $S9,539.3O. Credit
for real estate sold, old pipe and pump,
s12SL61; amount to be paid by city,
$88, 301.67.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-15
ASKS CITY TO PROVIDE
WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED

PASADENA, Jan. 14.-Mayor Farley
has been appealed to for employment Tor
idle men. a local labor agency sent In
the appeal, asking the mayor to employ
a number of men who are willing to work
at wages sufficient to keep their Families
from want.
While the city has no great amount OF
public work on hand not already provid-
ed for, the appeal will be considered at
a special meeting of the council to be
held next Monday night. The communal
cation from the employment agency
states that other cities in Southern Cali
fornla are successfully providing work
for the unemployed in street and other
public improvements and paying them
wages from the public funds 1t is not
believed this plan can be followed In
Pasadena, as there is already cry in
municipal circles that the city finances
are running short Of the budget
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-15
PONY SURPRISES OWNER
BY CLINGING TO LIFE
Animal, Victim of Lockjaw, Is Found
Quietly TIibbllng Grass by
Man Who Comes to
Shoot 1t
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
LONG BEACH, Jan. 14.-Having been
told by a veterinary surgeon that one OF
his team of ponies had the lockjaw and
had but few hours to live, f. B. Palmer,
a real estate man with offices at 1873 East
Second street. led the animal to the city
dump. determined to humanely end its
life by shooting.
A big army revolver with which he
tried to dispatch the animal refused to
work, although Palmer pulled the trig-
ger a number of times.
FINALLY Palmer tied the pony to a tree
and came back to town, expecting to re-
turn a few hours later with another
weapon, and If the pony was not already
dead end it's sufferlngs.
Upon his return to the dumping grounds
a half day later he was astounded to
see the pony nibbling at a patch of
grass. Palmer whistled and the pony
looked around, then kicked up its heels
and ran to the end of its rope. The ami
NAL is now in its old barn and will soon
be harnessed again.
Its owner believes the thought of pass
ing away in such a place as the city
dump was responsible for the pony's sud-
den conyalescence.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-15
phiIndeInhln NIarket

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 14.-(Reeeived
too late for yesterdays report). Three
cars navels and two cars lemons sold.
Market is steady; weather unfavorable.
-Four thousand boxes Florida oranges
sold. Market depressed.
NAVELS
Independent, or, Highland Dist. $3.50
Parrot. xc, S. A. +. Eek, Pomona. go
Mariposa, fly, c. c. U............. 2.3l
LEMONS
Lobster. xc, C. C. .s2.10
Monticeto, Crocker Sperry. ....... f.S1
Las Fuentas, xc, Croker Sperry.. 2.lo
Citrus Fruit Shipments
Shipments Monday, January 10, were
IS cars of oranges and 10 cars of lem
ons. Total to date this season 1904
cars, of which FOL cars were lemons.
The total to same date last season 2552
cars, Of which All cars were lemons.