Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-31
COMMUNICATIONS.

The Ssa-ShOre a Winter Residence.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL. AND COURIER: am induced to write this to furnish some information, drawn from observation and ex- perience. to many of my friends, who often
 question me in regard to this matter. Many
 persons with some show of impatience fout
 the idea of winter residence at the sea- shore in this northern climate as if it were
 preposterous, but they are generally those
 most readily convinced that they are mistak- en when they are properly informed in re- gard to the matter. They have been to the sea shore in the summer and felt the cool
 breezes from the water, and then without much thought very readily conclude that and uncomfortable almost in winter. But it is not so.
 No spot is fit for sea-shore residence either summer or winter unless it opens to the south. The winds that cool you in sum- mer are southerly and off the water, and the water is cooler than the air. In the winter exactly the reverse obtains. The winds are northerly and quite likely your residence is somewhat protected by the village or 8 ridge of land, belt of woods to the north of it. Then too the water has forty degrees of latent heat in it, some of which is imparted to the atmosphere. Added to this you have the reflected rays of the sun-those rays that
 
 has been becalmed in an open boat. I re- peat, no place, unless it opens to the south, is fit, summer or winter, for sea-shore resi- dence. This is true in regard to the north
 erly side of Long Island. This is also true
 of the shores of bays opening to the west or
 east, however near the Sound they may be.
 In the summer southerly winds bring to the
 latter mosquitoes and heat Easterly or
 westerly winds only enjoyable. The
 northerly winds usually bring heat to all sea-
 shore places in the summer.
 Some localities are getting repute as win
 ter residences for invalids. For instance At
 lantic City on the Jersey coast, and believe justly too. Now take map and you will see that Connecticut has probably more frontage to the south on the salt water than any other State in the Union, unless it be some one of the Gulf States, Florida perhaps You will see, too, that with Long Island for break water, we cannot have it so unpleasantly boisterous as in those places where the broad Atlantic breaks with full force, as on the shores with easterly exposure of Jersey or the shores south. have spent nearly all the winter where the waters of the Sound form my front yard. The thermometer has shown four to ten degrees warmer than ill New Haven, and the balcony has been occasional ly, notwithstanding the severe winter, 8 place for sitting in the open air. I have no sea shore property to sell and I do not write this to help my friends sell any, but simply 1 to call attention to the most desirable spot l in a sanitary point of view in Connecticut it's southern shore not back mile from the l shore, but just where the waves of the waters of Long Island Sound break. I think per haps it is the best shore in sanitary point l of view in the United States. If this com munication should prove acceptable to you l and the readers of the COURIER, I may at | some future time give you some ideas about 1 the sanitary effects of climate. The locality l from which I write perhaps may be guessed. | It is Savin Rock. There are many places on | this shore no doubt just, as good, and per haps better for winter residences