Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-25
, Sonnd Waves.

Summer Cottages and Land at Savin |
 ROck-New Improvements at Short 1
 Beach-About $50, 900 Invested There l
 Summer Recreation.
 In the last ten years great number of summer cottages have been erected in suita- |
 ble locations on the Connecticut coast. Ten
 years ago shore cottages were few, but hun dreds of people now seek the shore for a
 change of air and season devoted to leis-
 ure, recreation and social enjoyment. As if
 by magic, West Haven shore bordering on
 Long Island Sound, and the Cove on the east
 shore of New Haven harbor, have become
 noted and beautiful summer resorts with at
 tractive cottages, many and numerous, some
 of them elegant and costly. The beautiful
 Thimble Islands are great place of resort,
 and the larger islands are dotted with cottages.
 At Short Beach are many cottages,
 the pretty cove there being fanked with at
 tractive summer retreats Last year a num-
 Der of new ones were erected, and this year
 many more are being built. The bay is en-
 vironed on three sides by diversified scenery,
 and very picturesque scene is afforded
 from every point of view.
 The cool weather has retarded matters
 here as at all seashore places, but next week
 majority of the summer inhabitants will be here. A few have arrived this week. Two new and picturesque cottages adorn the shore erected by MT. David Corey, of this city One is rented for the season to Professor Carleton of the State Normal school, and the other to Birmingham people. MT Corey occupies next week his cottage on the rocky prominence at Rockland Park on the west shore of the cove Rev. Dr. Horton and Dr. Williams, of Cheshire, are expected to occupy their respective summer house at the park very soon, and Dr. Horton's little chapel will next month be open again for summer ser vices MT. Miller, of Meriden, is erecting nice cottage on the beach back of MT. Corey's pair. Mir. Smith, of Mt. Carmel, is erecting one on the old Community grounds, so called. as this tract fronting on the beach was formerly the property of the Wallingford Community. Rev. Mir. Simon, a clergyman of Agawam, Mass, is erecting cottage for ] himself back of MT. Smiths, and Mir. 1 Bristol, formerly of the Wallingford
 Community, is building g cottage and barn 1 near MT. Smiths. MT. Welch, the Congress avenue grocer in this city, has 8 very pretty cottage on a slightly street corner, back from ! the shore, commanding fine view. MT. J. Willis Downs, of Benedict & Downs, coal dealers on Church street, this city, and w. ". Morse occupy cottage near the Community tract. A slightly red painted cottage of good
 size, back from the shore, is occupied by MT. Wilcox, of New Britain.
 Many Meriden people are dwellers at Inc ! whom are Messrs. Becket, Butler, Hough, l Baldwin and Miller and families. Other cot | tage occupants are Messrs Church of Wal 1 lingford, and Captain Mix, Mir. Norton and 1 Mir. Cowles of Wallingford, and MT. Nichols I of this city, besides many others.
 4 Hartford man, MT. F. l.. Hamilton, has 1 a new cottage and other shore property. MT. Harrison Bristol occupies one of the l original houses at Short Beach which was
 erected for shore hotel some twenty-five ! years ago. It stands on an eminence sur | rounded by noble trees, and has 8 fine lawn | in front and front clear to the water. MT. lC. F. Hotchkiss, a well known New
 Haven, man occupies another of the original dwellings. This was built long before the | days of summer cottages and is on the l Double Beach road, little below Mir. Welch's.
 l A number of fine cottages are also being
 erected by Mir. Henry Killam, the carriage
 manufacturer of this city, on the large tract on the east shore of the Cove, which he bought some time ago. They are finely sit | uated on a well-wooded tract. MT. Killam is ! otherwise improving this property.
 l MT. Edward Knowles, of this city, has es- | tablished a small temperance refreshment house at the Beach, and his father has fish,
 clam and oyster shop adjoining, and MT. Ja- I cobs has sea food shop near, the entrance l to ;Rockland Park, while Charley Green | keeps little inn at the bridge over East Haven Run, which divides the towns of Bran l ford and East Haven.
 The Rev. MT. Doolittle, of Southington, is | also cottage occupant, and a New Britain 1 lady occupies another of the cottages Off in l the Sound in front of Short Beach are the Cow and Calf, noted bluefshing spots, and Flat
 Rock and Flat Rock Reef. Nearer the shore are spots where the agile blackfsh love to l congregate. Branford Beacon is to be seen about five miles away.
 It is estimated that 8 quarter of a million dollars is invested in summer cottage prop erty at Savin Rock, and a round fifty thou sand at Short Beach.