Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-21
ALONG SHORE.

S-SSF and just now emerged from it, would find much to marvel at, much to excite his won- ! der and surprise both in the city and out. | He would find that his dear old Elm City | had grown from a place of 10000 inhabitants or thereabouts to a city nearly double that size. Old citizens take solid pleasure now | adays both in recalling the old landmarks | and the old places of their boyhood and in | noting the great changes that have since talk | en place. They recall the old jail which stood where the City Hall now stands, the old pavilion where wealth and fashion congre- gated, now dingy black workshop where 8 myriad of wheels buzz and hammers are heard; they recall the old Hoadley Place, with it's once fine gardens and the time when
 Mill rivers waters flowed at high tide close to the Hartford railroad track for most of the distance between the Steamboat dock and the old tin bridge. They point to old buildings here and there and to the time when Grape vine Point, ,now busy hive of manufactures, was stshopless" and almost houseless, fifty
 acre lot covered with blackberry vines and tall old Lombardy poplars. But no changes are more striking or notable than those which have taken place along the shore of theSound, as for instance atSavin Rock where are hum
 dred or two of handsome summer cottages,
 some of them palatial and costly, and at the
 east shore where there are many more sum-
 mer cottages, and at Short Beach, which is thickly dotted with summer cottages, nearly all of which have been
 built within ten years and the majority with
 in the past six years. The change has been marvellous and fairy-1ike and at the Thimble Islands the growth has been equally notice
 able and cottages have sprung up on shore l and island as if by magic, while of shore ho- tels there is full score. Another place is Cosy Beach, on the shore of the Sound about mile east of South End Here is also quite nest of cottages, among the dwellers ill which are Mir. Pardee and family of Cheshire,
 Mr. Stiles and family of North Haven, MT.
 Clinton and family of North Haven and Mir.
 Robinson and family of Oyster Point. The beach glistens with it's white sands in the
 sums rays and the view off shore is fine. To the westward along shore you see the new
 lighthouse off New Haven harbor and South End, to the westward lie in view No Mans
 Land and Den Mansfeld's cosy suburban re-
 treat and some of Branford's rocky and
 woodland shores. From New Haven lady,
 wife of MT. George w. Bromley of 101 St.
 John street, all the cottage owners at Cosy
 Beach purchased the land for their cottages, and the same lady is the owner of many ! acres of East Haven land which borders on Cosy Beach, The mother of the lady, Mrs. Bishop, is an old resident in this section of East Haven, and though ST years of age seems much younger, and in mind IS clear,
 sprightly and active. Below Cosy Beach on the sea shore is the summer residence of MT.
 Stephen M. Wier, the New Haven carriage
 manufacturer, large white house looking
 like medium-sized shore hotel Leading to 1t from the main road is long driveway
 with two tall white posts like sentinels at the entrance. Below this comes Den Mans fields old and favorite and always quiet
 family resort, gem of place, embowered
 amid shade trees danked on three sides by
 water, landscape, now rocky, now hilly,
 now level, with cottages perched here and
 there in desirable locations, and Den Mans
 fields well known and neat hostelry in the
 center. Here facing the shore and over
 looking the brink of the ever present waters
 of the Sound is the pretty cottage and sum
 mer house of MT. W. H. Andrews, assistant
 treasurer of Mallory, Wheeler & Co.'s estab
 lishment in this city, place which MT. An drews has occupied for several seasons. Here the view of the Sound and in all directions is very attractive, and when MT. Andrews beautiful steam yacht Lucy appears in the bright waters of the Sound it makes another picturesque feature of the marine landscape. Also lying off in the water is an ominous looking float which is nightly watched by denizens and visitors at the shore to see if a shark is to be landed. MT. Charles B. Bris- tol of Fitch's establishment, another well known New Haven gentleman, has another of these pretty cottages on the outer shore and many are the friends of both gentlemen. Of on the cliff at Mans6eld's is the Cliff cot tage of MT. Alfred Ives and son. of North Haven, and no prettier or more picturesque spot is to be seen for miles along the shore
 than this, while no more hospitable gentle
 men keep their latchstrings out for their friends. New arrivals at Mansfelds are
 MT. Eddie R. Slater, of Sargent's, and MT.
 George Pardee with their families. They
 have another or the cottages. Mrs. A. c. Stevens and Mrs Durgy, of this city, occupy
 fbo of East Haven occupy another of the cot tages, and Messrs. Charles B. Atwater and F. L. Story take possession of another to-day. In the grove near the road is the little cot tage of Mir. Sylvester Thompson, now about 75 years of age, who was years ago a store keeper on Bridge street, in this city, and af terward was with the Craigs, storekeepers years ago on East street, corner of Grand.
 Many visitors have viewed the art collection
 which greets the eye on all sides at MT.
 Thompson's neat little eyrie.
 Down at Short Beach among the large col
 ony of cottages are Professor Horton, princi- of the Cheshire academy; Professor Malcomb Booth, of Cheshire Academy, with a number of Spanish boys under instruction at the academy; Miss Fanny Wheeler, of No. 7 Dixwell school, this city and her mother, who have just built cottage at the Beach; James Totham contractor at Peck Bros., this city; Frank Potter, of Killam & Co.,, this city; Rev. Dwight Bissell, lately returned from Italy, and wife; Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Dib- ble, widow of the late Horace P. Dibble; D. M. Welch, the New Haven grocer, with his family and a pair of fine ponies; Rev. Dr. Goodsell and family, of this city; MT. Will liam Jepson and wife, of this city, and many others well known here and not few well known in Meriden.
 Thomas J. Beers, the carriage manufactur CT, and Charles H. Bradford, of Sargent &r Co.,, are located in their neat cottage just below Short Beach. Benjamin F. Mansfield and family are at their cottage at the same place. Quite a large party of their friends paid them a visit Sunday afternoon and were nicely entertained by the cottagers as well as highly elated with the charming view of Branford Point, distant islands and rock bound shores, which were plainly visible to the naked eye from the vicinity of the cot tages. It was also coolly observed that at this location it is not necessary to pack the thermometer in ice to keep it's temper from rising, and the continued cool waves drive the sEskeeters" to other shores The bathing facilities at this shore are excellent and the residents in the various cottages are all pro fcient in the art of swimming. Among the visitors present were MT. Edward F. Mans field and family, Walter R. Francis and wife, Frank B. Walker and family, MT. and Mrs. w A. Beers and various others.