Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-29
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A Glance At Some of The Many Changes And Improvements In The Street Nm The Past Four Years


 A Glance At some of The Many Changes
 And Improvements In The Street
 Nm The Past Four Years.
 Church street merchants regard with com placency the attractive alteration of the Bai- ley building now in progress as another step forward in the way of improvement on that with the improvements given the fronts ot the American building and Hoadley build- ing on the same street, and the extensive en- largement and improvement of the post office, is very gratifying to real estate own CTS on the street and to good citizens pleased with the city's prosperity. Then further down near George street is the new and sub stantial building with roomy stores which ex-Governor English is erecting and which takes the place of the old wooden building which stood on the same site and was relic of the old New Haven days of long ago, built when the city had less than 0,O0O in habitants, or about as many as Norwalk has to-day.
 These are all indications of the increasing growth and wealth of the city. and the con sequent call for larger and better buildings and finer stores in the center. Church street, it might be added, at once takes the atten- ton of most newcomers from the trains as they approach it, owing to the monster tea kettle which occupies so conspicuous posi- ton over the store of Major General Chidsey, the purveyor, of whom the New Jersey Knights of Honor took home most glowing recollections of friendship and good fellow ship. The tea kettle also recalls to thou sands of New Hayeners ono of the most nota- ble bazaars or fairs ever held in the city, and an amount of guessing at ten cents as to fIo of it xU0nfd hold nous and exhausting to contemplate. Church street, lower part, has also taken on new phase in late years, owing to the American Theatre and bi-weekly band con certs from the theater hall way, preliminary to matinees, which the indefatigable Eldridge gives regardless of expense, and likewise in Church street build ings are schools of music, both vocal and in strumental, c. A. R. halls, Knights of Co lumbus halls, the Stationary Engineers hall, an Odd Fellows hall, elegantly equip ped, the Grays' association hall, with it's handsome equipments, etc. And all these are changes and improvements made in very recent years, and all of them are on that DOT ton of Church street south of Chapel. There are besides such fine buildings as the Mas sena Clark building, Benedict's building, the late Dr. Woods building and ex-Governol Englishs new buildings, all of which come properly within the enumeration of improve ments of Church street in the past ten or if teen years.
 AMONG THE GREEN MOUNTAINS. New Haven Gentleman's Pleasant
 Experience Among the Farmers.
 Professor Louis Bail, who has been spend ing four weeks of his vacation at Greensboro, Vt, has returned home and gives glowing accounts of his trip. The beauty of the mountain scenery at the place where he was located the professor thinks almost unsur- passed. He brings back with him number of sketches of mountain, hill and valley, running brook and silver lake, with wide spreading farms and well kept farm houses, which are pleasant to look upon as sketched, but no doubt far more beautiful in all their reality. Greensboro is farming town, al- though the farms are principally devoted to grazing. The farmers are an intelligent, well accumulated their wealth from the large groves of naples which are so abundant in this region and from which the delicious maple sugar and syrup is made and shipped to all parts of the country. Most all of the large farmers take boarders in the sum mer, and there is one quite large house in the place which makes business of keepins 
 is transforming his farmhouse into board ing house to be used next summer. The prices charged, says the proprietor, are re- markedly low for the excellent food and oth- CT accommodations provided. Greensboro, which is three miles distant from the railroad station, is 1,7O0 feet above the sea level. short distance from the village is Caspian" or 'Beautiful'' Lake, three miles long, and it is fed almost entirely by springs. The water of the lake is clear and cold and trout are abundant. On this lake Julius Preston, formerly of this city but now of New York, has this summer placed a little steam yacht, which was brought by rail to Greensboro. It skins hither and thither about the lake, taking pleasure parties wher- ever they desire to go.
 Among the New Haven people boarding at Greensboro this summer besides Professor Bail and daughter were Professor Andrew w. | Phillips of Yale college, his wife and Mrs. Phillips sister, T. w. T. Curtiss, principal of the High school, and John F. Douglass (of ! B. H. Douglass & Sons), wife and child. !