Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-11
Summer Notes.

Summer Notes.
 The Growth of Shore Property-About a
 Quarter of a Million Dollars Invested i'm
 Summer Cottages in this Vicinity in Ten or Twelve Years.-NOtes By the Way
 Former and Present Tfmes-PersOnal.
 In ten years past, it is estimated; New Haven people have spent $20o,o00 in the pur- chase of land and the erection of cottages and seashore residences at West Haven shore, East Haven shore and Short Beach, while $50 00O more has been expended for the same object by residents of Meriden, New Britain, Southington and other places, some of the latter building at Short Beach, the Thimble Islands and the shore at Stony Creek The number of Connecticut people residing at shore resorts in the summer, as was recently aptly noted by writer in the Hartford Courant, reaches large figure, and this summering at the shore is side of life which has come into existence in the body polite in late years, and very largely within the past ten years. Previously we had our large seashore hotels as now, and also smaller places of public entertainment, but this was the limit. There were but very few summer residences or cottages, and this is 8 feature of Connecticut home life which no doubt is 8 factor of considerable importance in the pro- motion of health and increased capacity for work, to say nothing of it's reopling the shore and islands which nature has fitted most invitingly for summer recreation. New Haven residents of years ago, whose boyhood was spent here, returned to this city last month, after fifteen or twenty years absence. After the greetings congratulations, etc., the next thing was a drive, and West Haven shore and Savin Rock was visited The whole shore with it's array of summer resi- dences was a surprise to the strangers, who remembered it as many West Havener re- members it, wide, uninteresting level of lowlands overgrown by blackberry and whortleberry bushes and undergrowth, with here and there groves of trees which the woodman's axe had spared, and with a beach which was a tip-top place for clamming. When they left New Haven, the savin Rock Hotel, years ago burned, was in full blast with it's array of many visitors from the gay and fashionable world.
 Mr. Augustus Smith, who is summering at Savin Point and entertaining a few visitors and old friends, kept years before that time the old Assembly House, which stood, as many in the city recollect, where the Fremont is now. Mir. L. F. Kellogg, the present pro- prietor of the Fremont, paid visit recently to his brother landlord, whom he found as congenial and courteous gentleman as in days of yore when he was the popular host of the Assembly.
 The horse railroad began running some where about fourteen years ago, and since that time the growth of the borough and its grand list has been at rate never known before in the memory of the oldest inhabitant Hun dreds of people have been added to the per manent population, and the hundreds more who spend their summers at the shore make up a large floating population, which of course MT. Booth could not include in his census returns.
 Mir. Thomas R. Trowbridge, jr., of New Haven, has finished his house and surround ings in Iitchfeld, which he erected last sum- mer, and which adds another to the many fine summer residences in that beautiful and famous old town.
 New Haven people who came from Middle bury are frequently met with, and the old town quite frequently is visited in summer by New Haveners who return full of praise for beautiful Quassapaug Lake, sheet of water about two miles long by one in width. A fine groye Lake Grove near the lake, is more than ever this season the resort of pri- vate and select parties and larger picnic par ties from all the section around. It is con- nected with the Lake Grove House, kept by very popular and esteemed man, MT. Rich ardson, whose pleasant house is not open for boarders, but will, it is rumored, be enlarged for that purpose sometime. The boating, sailing, billiard and croquet privileges and views from Rattlesnake Rock and White Deer Rock across the lake, opposite the grove, and the dinners at the grove are extolled by visitors. The town is quiet country town, with many sterling people within its borders, and some of New Haven's enterprising busi- ness men and merchants hail from the old town.
 Judge Samuel l.. Bronson and E. G. Stod- dard, the State street merchant, are stopping at present with Dr. Stoddard, of Seymour.
 Prof. A. M. Loomis has a season for week or two more at Newtown and Litchfeld, and afterward leaves for Saratoga.
 Mir. George H. Ford, the jeweler, arrived home yesterday from a visit to Saratoga.
 Rev. Mr. Samson, of the Calvary Baptist church, is away taking his summer vacation.
 Rev MT. Peck, of Birmingham, takes vacation of two weeks commencing next Sun day.