Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-23
CORRESPONDENCE.

Notes of Notwithstanding Crops-Long I Island strawberr1es-Rev. Mr. Martin | Through Five States in Twelve Hours -Retofcing.
 l ON THE CARS, June 21. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER: After an absence of nearly two months I propose to ''locate'' next week in the City of
 Films again. Having been successful in placing not only ruffiing, but the machinery l for manufacturing the same, in the leading cities, feel as if a very great end has been l accomplished, and now I hope to have the benefit and rest from the labor of the past and enjoy the results. In the many towns I have visited I have had the ever welcome JOURNAL AND COURIER to read and have kent pretty well posted on New Haven items. I ] must say word in praise of your editors, for the news they gather is of that sort and kind that gives good idea of just what peo- pie out of town want to hear about home, and 1t Is as good to read as a personal letter from friend. I am frequently importuned by those to whom have sent a copy of your paper to remember" them again and by this I can see that others than myself hold the same opinion.
 Notwithstanding the backwardness of the
 weather, crops look well all over the coun- try, and the potato bugs and army worms
 by the thousands 'sIt is an i'll wind that
 blows nobody good" The grass crop is very heavy everywhere, and all the coming fruits are especially promising. Strawberries Gal though a little tart) are large, and the crop was never so good I was on Long Island last week and they were just picking there, and never saw better fruit or a better market. Instead of being shipped they are largely consumed by the city boarders who are already focking to the farm houses, and during my stay there we had great dishfuls with sweet cream at every neal and just as
 yyao fo1- fho ioIy; of@ @I,o from the acres of beds that almost every farmer is now raising No native fruit is more healthy, particularly for children, and 1t is surprising what quantity growing boy will dispose of It is like feeding grain into mill hopper, land yet there is room"
 I had very enjoyable visit short <yime ago in Brattleboro. Vermont, with Rev Mir
 Martin, who is well known to our Church of the Redeemer folks, and no one could be more pleasantly situated. He was greatly pleased to see some one from New Haven, and, although could not give him much
 news. " we had a long talk over old times of several years ago. He says his church / Cformerly Dr. George l.. Walkers) is all the
 while increasing and prospering we'll He took me to the barn and showed me his fine road horse. which is great source of recrea- tion for him. It would have been great pleasure if I could have accepted his invita- ton for longer stay, but as I had to leave on the 10 o'clock a. m. train and fill appoint ments made by letter and telegraph in Hol-
 yoke and Springfield, Mass, Hartford and New Haven in Connecticut, and be in New
 York city that same day (which I accom- plished) and get to Railway, New Jersey, by
 10 o'clock that night, it was necessary for me to not miss single connection. On that day passed through five States, in just twelve ~- hours, and kept every engagement ito the letter,'' and the next day far away dowps South, from which place I came few day before. But when business is good tha fatigue of travel is forgotten in the excite ment, and time goes at the speed of the fast est train. During the past two months have rode by the hour on trains running mile minute right along, for long time together, and when you got at that rate for hours at a time you are pretty sure to get ''somewhere' in the course of day or night But re- ioice at the prospect of few months of rest and quiet the enjoyment of picnics, of sail on Lake Whitney and ride on the East Haven road to the lighthouse, and the friend ship of the acquaintances love, made in the past dozen or fifteen years, in the most de- iightful city to live in I have yet seen in my iourneyings. M. c. S.