Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-25

Getting Ready to uIumfnate-PrOf. BOy- toms ExhibftiOns-FIis HOnors from Foreign Potentates-His Celebrated Shark Ffght-BuiIding Private Docks Solid Sea Wall of Granite.
 The West Haven shore residents and hotel
 keepers illuminate this evening They say | the spectacle will surpass the former one in splendor andbrilliancy, and hundreds of friends l from the city are expected by cars and car riages. They will have band of music also to help add to the interest Many sailing
 parties are talked of, and if the night is fine l no doubt the shore will be unusually lively. The moon is down on the programme to as-
 sist, and if it performs it's part the return of
 the visitors to the city will be illuminated also.
 Men were at work on Kelsey's wharf yes l terday getting ready to place seats on the ! wharf on the shore end in readiness for the Professor Boyton exhibitions which take place Thursday, Friday and
 Saturday of this week. They will
 be given in the neighborhood of the shorn
 end of the wharf on the west side, betweee
 Chief of Police Aliens pagoda and the shore
 There will be seating accommodations for
 about 1000 people, A small fee of admis-
 sion will be charged for those afternoons The exhibitions last from to 6. There will doubtless be rush of people to witness the performances of the plucky and brave pro- lessor. He has been decorated with some 40 gold medals by foreign potentates, in honor of his achievements, which have made his
 name famous. He has made notable voyages,
 many of them perilous, in the waters of
 England, on the rivers Rhine Mississippi,
 Danube, Pc, Arno, Fiber, Loire Tagus, Guadalquiver, Garonne, Seine, across the
 Bay of Naples, the English Channel, the Straits of Messina and scores of other exhi-
 bitions of a less notable character. He descended the Tagus from Toledo, Spain, to Lisbon, Portugal, dangerous voyage. The Tagus at Toledo is 3, eco feet above the level
 of the sea, and during the trip Captain Boy ton shot 1o2 waterfalls-the highest being 25 metres, or about 80 feet-and innumerable
 rapids. The river is $50 miles in length, ut
 terly unnavigable, and runs through a moun-
 tain wilderness wild and dreary of aspect. The whole trip abounded with danger, and
 he received the order of Knighthood from
 the hands of young Queen Mercedes, of Spain. Victor Emanuel knighted him by pinning upon his breast the ''Order of the
 Cross of the Grown of Italy" at the conclu
 sion of sixteen hours trip across the beau l tiful Bay of Naples. He had hard struggle
 with the boiling, contrary currents, and fight with shark in the vicinity of the two
 famous whirlpools, Scylla and Charybdis,
 while crossing the straits, the same Scylla
 and Charybdis peopled with hideous sea | monsters in Homeric verse, and whom the
 subtle Ulysses, favored of the gods, escaped | He was accompanied by two armed boats protection against the sea monsters. In the
 mid-channel he encountered large man
 eater. The boats, owing to the cross cur ! rents, could not aid him. He beat off his
 Sailant unaided, and came out of
 the fight with three broken ribs,
 caused by a blow from the sharks tail. The pile driver has been at work for some
 time past near the shore at the upper end of
 Beach street. One after another, long, nar-
 TOW docks are being built by cottage owners. | Dr. Pierpont' dock is among the new ones
 and Mir. John Lines, when seen the other
 day busy about his new bath house, had giv- en orders to extend his dock to the length of 1 three hundred feet, and Mir. Caleb s. Maltby
 has laid an embargo on the pile driver and
 given orders to have three hundred feet
 dock built in front of his premises. These
 docks are narrow passage ways of planking
 resting on piles, which are driven eight or
 ten feet apart, and they generally have
 landing place at the end large enough for
 small party to enjoy a siesta upon or fami- l ly fishing party. At three hundred feet the l water is still shallow, but deep enough for
 bluefshing.
 Another improvement at the shore is the
 building of solid sea wall in front of the | residence of Daniel Trowbridge and other 1 property owners It is of the enduring
 East Haven red sandstone, and the founda-
 tion rests upon piling. The wall is six feet 1 in width at the bottom and four feet at the top, and this solid wall of masonry (two
 hundred feet in length) will doubtless with stand the surgings and dashings Of the sea in it's most rebellious and turbulent mood.