The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-02-19


Changing all our nice snow to sush
Not so long ago we were reading Dan Parkers
column the day he wrote about the affair down in
New Haven when Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Ath
etic was honord at the first annual dinner OF the Con-
neccut Spors Writer'S Alliance. Parker said that Cor
nelius McGilcuddy Connie Mack descended from
that famous Irish family for whom the Macgillcuddy
Reeks were named. This Immediately brought to mind
picture of the Macgicuddy Reeks, those Wraith-llke
mountains in southern Ireland in Kerry that your aunt-
ing driver and guide points out to you from SO many
points in the Killarney vicinity. They loom up in the
background at almost every turn of the road lane,
smoky and like something flashed on screen. They
challenge for moment the beauties of something
close by such the view of the three lakes of Killarney
as you approach them via the Windy Gap The Kerry
mountains all have fascination Closer by the lakes
elena and Tommies mountains, and If you happen to
be in the immediate vicinity OF the lakes Mangerton
seems enough to touch but not nearly so high as
Carrantua the highest peak of the Macgicuddy Reeks
in the distance But person that climbs Mangerton
(sx miles to base) gets fine view of the other nearby
mountains and it said in much worn guide book,
"away behind them (Torc, elena and Tommies), like
dreamed cathedral the pnnacles of the magnificent
Reeks . Carrantual is twelve miles to it's base and
from this mountain of the famous Reeks it is astonishing
how much of Ireland can be seen. Again we quote:
Highland and oWland glenS far as the eye can
spanged with the sheen of nnumerabe lakes among
which the Lakes of Killarney distingushabe only by
their extent. Towering above them the minor reekS
south to the Boughi ranges or westward to join
those that shelter the wild valley of Gencar Away in the
front the mighty wastes of the Atlantic rolling up
the deeply indented line of coast to emborder the bays
OF Dnge and Traee. To the north the lordy Shan
non and farther inland the atee mountains proclaim
ing distant Tpperary This is just portion of the
panorama seen from the summit of Carrantual. And
this is the country of the McGlicuddys and this is just
of beautiful island that has comparable
natural beauty from north to south and east to west
And it any wonder that the Irish people want it all
for their own, with no bit of it partitioned off,
Mrs Betty Morse of Grove street entertained the
Gamma Sigma Tau Sorority so royalty the other even
ing members would like to hold all future meetings there
She's the sororitys mother Joe LoVrnovlcz OF wa
tertown henceforth will sign all checks Joe Murphy
Change OF name was granted at snort calendar ses
sion of Litchfied Superior Court last Friday Emil
Przepiorka of Terryve given permission to change
his name to Emil Quayle Mickey Swata tells me
u S. warships passing merchant ships steamng at
visual messages involving flag hoists, semaphore
flashing lights exchanged The practice permits
merchant ships to obtain proficiency IN s'gnalng not
necessary in emergencies. BY the way one OF MlckeyS
duties is signaling.
"Leggo that pickett" .. It common practice
among the rugged indivduasts of those rough and
ready days of Colonial New York to gather their reWood
from the fence of more opuent nelghDor picket or
two yanked from convenient panel under the protecting
cloak of darkness kept the home fires burning in many
humble home; so many, in fact that, according to
research by the New York City WPA Writer'S Project on
the ninth of October 1885, the Director General and the
Councillors of New Netherland with the advice OF the
burgoasters and schepens of the city, issued the follow
ing declaration:
g. peremptoriy all and every one, OF
whatever state and condition he may be, and
peremptOrily command that from this time forth,
no person shall strip any Gardens Servings, or
Plantations, OF POStS, KalS, FOleS or OCner reHc-
ing, under the penalty, on the conviction of any
person having wholly partially stripped away
any fencing; for the first offence, of being
Whipped and Branded and for the Second offence,
of being punished with the Cord until death
ensues, without any reverse or respect of persons
History does not record the fate of the fences after this
promise of dire things made public but let us hope
that no more did the Dutch equivalent of "Leggo that
pickett" disturb the midnight calm of New Amsterdam.
Clipped and pasted. Fairfield County, due TO
its proximity to New York and the influx of urbantes
of recent years, shows fewer New Englandisms" in
speech than any other section This revealed in the
first volume of 1.-THE Linguistic Atlas of New England
the work of Professor Hans Kurath of Brown Univer
sity. =. The White Memorial Foundation, which has
preserved much of Ltchfelds natural beauty from
commercalism and private despOiati0n by setting
aside large tracts of land for the public hOnors the
memory of John Jay White who came to Litchded in
1883, attracted by the beauty and peace OF this
famous old town.
Hennie Koch has definitely made up his mind not
to return to Connecticut State. L. w. Mace of 81
Central Avenue made his initial contribution of tnfo
Friday Here's hoping it's not his last Eileen j.
PYLE pretty daughter of Dr. and Mrs Edwin Pyle is the
fiancee of Newton Kimball Chase. No date has been
set for the wedding Eileen is studying at the Unver
sity Of California at present. Ferdinand Veilette
ainstay of Company E. 102nd Infantry is laid up at his
horne with A cold.