Morning journal and courier., 1882-07-24
Days of Tore.

snvin Rock in the Net Remote Past as l
 Seen by CitfZens-Its Present Rank a |
 Shore tesort-RumoTed Prospecting at
 the Coney leland of Connecticut by New
 York Capitalists.
 Among the visitors at the shore Saturday were several whose school days were many years ago, and they had 8 pleasant chat re-
 calling "reminiscences of shipwrecks and white
 squalls, and water-logged sailboats of which
 they had vivid recollection, having been
 themselves the heroes of the narrow escapes
 related. One gentleman recalled times when
 he went strawberrying near where the Press
 Hinman place Is now, and another recol-
 lected what famous good place 1t was for
 blackberries in the same locality. That was
 long, long before the sea shore cottages were
 thought of, and when briars and brambles
 and cedars were thick where now the fast
 trotters dart by with elegant equipages, and
 where now the Maltby cottage stands with
 it's conspicuous tower fanked on each side
 with less costly and notable but ornamental
 cottages. The scenes recounted were in the
 halcyon days of youth when the future lay
 stretched before full of golden dreams, and
 ambition was keen and alive. It is doubtful
 if the boys of to day dream for one moment,
 according to these men of experienced years
 and matured reelection, that boyhood is the
 happiest period of existence and never to be
 matched in happy hours by any subsequent
 period of human life. The sailboat of Squire
 Hyde and other ''white.winged'' sharpies,
 fleet and trim, lay in the sea before the knot
 of quiet, thoughtful, contemplative men who
 were thus recalling Sayin Rock scenes of their
 boyhood, and the Sound stretched away
 puff of wind rufied the surface; and the mid
 summer snn shone down in all it's fervor on
 the blue surface of water. Of on the dock wonder are few white dresses and parasols whose owners were promenading to get the air and scene, and one or two men of Nestor-like appearance with gray white boards and slouched hats sat commun ing as they graciously and patiently waited for nibble from the oficious sand porgie, and they two seemed to be cemmuning with regard to some Acadian days when the woods were peopled with lawns and dryads and the waters with sea nymphs, to such saw with true insight the face of nature. Of on the broad bosom of the Sound fronting the harbor is the dome crowned new light ! house flanked on the end by the greatest work of modern times as far as New Haven harbor was corcerned-the breakw ater, now stretching away for long distance and growing day by day. with snail like pace, yet | making rapid headway when the magnitude ! of the work and the enormous quantity of { rock is thought of. Here come citizens | viewing the cottages which are to them novel | sights, their last previous visit to the Rock l having been made fifteen years ago. To ! them the long line of shore cottages, the I Sea View House with it's lines of flags f1utter- \ ing between roof and tower tops, seems the work of the magician's wand. When they left the Rock te seek the golden fleece which ! their ambition pictured for them in their profession, the only building of note at the shore the former Savin Rock Hotel l which the fire burned to the ! earth years ago, and where they were ! won't to see the beauty and fashion and scions of wealthy homes, from many 8 city
 and town. The pagoda of Charles w, Allen off by the pier with it's flag floating lazily in
 the summer sun, caught the eye of the wis., itors and having a warm recollection of its ! O~ueT, udV1uS kuOWu Q1lu III GQ6 OayS when
 he blew powerful blasts in his big silver fire trumpet, the visitors touched their spirited
 steed with the whip tip to drive over and
 grasp his hand again. Coney Island of Con-
 necticut, West Haven shore is called, is
 looked upon 8 prize spot by some capital
 ists, so rumor has it, and it is said that par ties have been prospecting at the shore,
 representing lots of New York money, to see
 if it will pay to erect a sort of Manhattan ! Beach hotel out over the water somewhere, ! place which will be resorted to. by the mil
 lion, and they were making enquiries with 1 reference to the probable building of a
 branch road for the iron horse to the shore. 1 There are parties sanguine enough, whose ! dreams of the future for West Haven shore | or Savin Rock picture out gro sth almost I as great as that which has occurred since the worthy men of W hom mention is made above, disported in the pillows off that shore in their { boyhood. ..-