Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-24

At The Shore And In The Borough
 Many Pleasant Occurrences - Large
 Excursions-The Knights eff Honor
 This Week-The Waterbury Excur.
 sion.
 MT. William Church, of George street, left the early part of last week for Vermont, on business trip. He expects to be absent about two months.
 There was a pleasant party of little lads l and misses gathered at the residence of MT. and Mrs Arthur A. Benham on Centre street, last Saturday afternoon, to help their daughter, Miss Allie, celebrate her I ninth birthday. The whole house and lawn was given up to them. The party were | mostly her classmates of the Congregational | church Sabbath school. Miss Allie was the recipient of 8 number of nice presents. They amused themselves as all children can during the afternoon. A tempting array of fruits and other delicacies was set before them which they all heartily enjoyed, and | they departed early in the evening well pleased.
 Charles Woodruff, F. Reynolds, c. Yale, w. Warner of Watertown, Willie Hyde, Charlie Mallory, George Mallory and Carle- ! ton H. Smith of the borough, returned from ! three days pleasure trip among the Thin ble and Faulkner's Islands Saturday after noon in the yacht Sylph, Captain Charles Babcock. They camped out nights on some of the islands, and all report having jolly time They moreover succeeded in catching large number of blackfsh and bass. SIX HUNDRED FROM WATERBURY. A large party of excursionists from Water bury visited the shore last Saturday, bringing the Waterbury brass and string bands with them, making Howes' skating rink their headquarters. The party numbered fully six hundred. They arrived at the shore at g g. m It took ten horse cars to transport them from this city. The party represented the Waterbury Roman Catholic To- al Abstl- hence and Benevolent society and the Young Mems Literary society. They enjoyed them selves in roller skating, dancing, boat sailing bathing and some of the younger portion visited Railroad Grove and patronized the flying horses and swings, and several of the families partook of Landlord Putman's ex- ce!lent shore dinner. The party left the shore about p. m, well satisfied with their days recreation.
 BUSY WEEK. Last week was busy one at the shore The hotels, boarding houses and restaurants reaped harvest of greenbacks. HoWes, ! restaurant and skating rink and Railroad Grove were the center of attraction. It was estimated that there were 1 400 in Howes' ! skating rink last Tuesday night at the carni- val. In 1acG there were large cEOWuS uestLly every night at the rink. MT. Howes aims to ! have everything attractive and irst-class and l instead of losing it's popularity it continues to increase as the season advances. Land lord Putnam did heavy business in his res taurant and gave, as usual, universal satis faction, and the flying horses, shooting gal ! 1ery and bowling alleys reaped a harvest of dimes and nickels.
 Next Wednesday the Knights of Honor picnic at the shore. Landlord Howes ex- ! poets to dine four hundred of them. One notable feature of this season, there has been very little rowdyism or drunk enness on the shore. Constable Clinton re- ports that he has but very little trouble with the rougher element and that not worth speaking of. Last Thursday there were over six thousand visitors at the shore and not a drunken person could be seen up to six D. m.
 and but a very few in the evening. Landlord Twitchell did very large busi-
 ness last week in getting up shore dinners at the Massasoit restaurant on Grove street. His shore dinners are pronounced admir- able.
 PLEASANT OCCASION. A correspondent says: Through the kind ness of Landlord Freeman the guests at his hotels were given literary treat at the Sea View on Thursday evening, consisting of recitations and music The reading by Mrs. Gertrude Sanford, of Milford, was highly ap- preciated by an attentive and large parlor audience. We hope to hear Mrs. Sanford again. as such selections as hers are pleas urab1e indeed