The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-22
McWEENEY!
Good Old Irish Name We'll Known in East Section of City Salute Given to Latest Member
 Honored- Ser
 geant Charles
 McWeeney.

The eAeVeUaOm OK FatrOtnlen Charles J. McWeeney of the pOsi- tion of sergeant of police certainly pIeases the old time residents of the eastern part of the city, not that the new sergeant is in our class of long residence out here, but by reason of the fact that he carries 2 name long associated with the life and activity of our good old section of Waterbury. You see we like the name; we have always liked 1t; we have ale. ways admired the family; we liked them even before Charlie, John and Frank were born.
 Their good father, John H., Sr., now dead and gone, commonly called "Herdie" by his friends of years ago. We used to watch him play ball, on the old spoon shop lots. And how he could play; quick as Q flash, and built sOme- thing like the new sergeant him. self, he jumped around his posi- tiOn of ShOrtstOp 50 fast that he gathered up everything in sight; we never knew the name of the team; names were secondary to us in those days. But we surely saw him play, we are sure of that.
 The older McWeeneys lived on the south side of East Main street, east of the old DOwney homestead, and were surrounded by the Earlys, the SuttOns, the WalIaces, the Cassidys, the JOhnsons, the McFarlands, the Byrnes, the Con- niffS, the McEvOys, the NoOnans, the BurgesseS, the MOrans, the Lawrences, the Roots, and John McGrath, who ran a canvas cov- cred bus to the old plant of Ben- edict & Burnham, named, "The Belle of Waterbury" and who aft erwardS moved with his family to S0uthington. That's the way we used to ride to work in those days; most of us, however, walked, to save the nickel that riding would cost us. It was nothing for some of us to walk even to our place of employment in Union City; try and get anyone today to cover such 8 distance, aI- though we know a worker or two who walks from the center daily to the Mattatuck factory ont here at the junction of East Main street and the Southmayd road.
 There is every reason in the world, therefore, why we should feel "tickled" at the advancement of Charlie McWeeney. In the first place he is 8 good policeman, and has proved it upon numcr- Ous occasions; his judgment has demonstrated time and again that his knowledge of the ways of the world in police work is not limited to a narrow point of view; in his short years of life, he has profit ed by his daily observations, and has learned particularly to con- fine his activities to .the real and legal duties of policeman, as called for by law. The whole theory of police work, as explain cd by learned authorities, is judgment"
 For years we have looked upon Charlie McWeeney and his broth CT, John and Frank, with much pride and admiration. John IS also policeman, while Frank has always been associated with the meat business. Our interest is based upon our friendship for the kin of a past generation, naturally we have . right to look upon these young men with a feeling that they are representative of the district in which re as we'll as they were born and A.ought up. and romped the streets in and about the junction of East Main and WOlcott streets.
 We comfort in the success of East End people, be they young or "Old Out Easters." We like tho old names that really made Out East what you find it to be to- day.
 We bow in our wish to com pletc success, good health and happiness to our young and
 sprightly Sergeant McWeeney.