Morning journal and courier., 1886-08-31
TO THE RARRAnaEs.


 Ven's Young Men-An Enjoyable Stay
 at the Bar and Pic.
 turesque Cliffs-A Fine Trip.
 Messrs. Clifford N. Trowbridge, son of MT. W. R. H. Trowbridge, of H. Trow- bridge's Sons, and Orville Grant Sloat, son of Gen. Frank D. Sloat, have returned from B very enjoyable trip to the Barbadoes. The young men made the trip in the good ship Victoria, belonging to H. Trowbridges Sons, and commanded by that experienced and able navigator Capt. Henry Spencer, of Clinton, Conn. They sailed from New York July 10th. They had pleasant weather dur ing the voyage and caught plenty of fish, among which were eight or ten dolphins, which were caught by trolling with piece of red flannel for bait, the line thirty or for ty feet long and vessel going seven or eight knots an hour. The ice which they took on the passage lasted seventeen days or until about the day before their arrival at Barba- does. They arrived there on the 29th. They had splendid weather on the island-cooler than it has been in New Haven, which was owing to the preva- fence of southeast trade winds. Bridgetown, the principal town of the island, contains in the busy season fifty thousand inhabitants. A notable fact about the population of the island is that it is denser to the square mile than is the case on the island of Malta or even in the population of Belgium, where the population is proverbally dense. The island has two hundred thousand population or sixteen thousand to the square mile. It has one hundred and sixty-six square miles, and is about 20xS miles. This little island figures largely as producer. In this "pent up Utica" were raised last year sixty thou sand tons of sugar and thirty thousand pun cheons of molasses-a purncheon being one hundred and ten gallons. This speaks vol umes to the fertility of the islan d and it's industrial forces Some portions yield four tons of sugar to the acre. Sugar and mo- lasses are the islands only products.
 Our young New Haven visitors spent twelve days on the island and improved their time journeying into the interior and across the country by carriage, horse car and steam cars. Every tourist visiting the isl and goes to view the most romantic and i'm pressive sight the island affords. Our tray elers did likewise. Crossing the island and making gradual descent of one thousand feet on the cars of the narrow guage railroad, they came to this romantic scene at Bath Sheba. Here the waves of old ocean roll and break against the rocky shore, and one look ing upward beholds Hackleton's steep cliff ], 100 feet high towering above them.
 Oar visitors after their twelve days stay embarked again on the Victoria homeward bound. They toek 8 westerly course and en- joyed a panoramic view of many famous isl ands, sailing by St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Mar unique, Guadaloupe, Dominica, Antigua, Montserrat, Redonda, Nevis, then through the harbor of St. Kits, then by the islands of St. Eustacia, St. Martins, Saba, and thence from the Caribbean sea into the broad Atlantic by way of Anegada passage. This passage is noted as very dangerous passage, reminding one of that scene of Scylla and Charybdis where some of Homers romantic adventures. Here have been swa1- lowed up in the last two centuries hundreds of merchantmen and not few steamers repre- sentlng millions upon millions of dollars. They passed the islands of Anegada and Som mbrero, Spanish for hat.
 Our travellers sighted Barnegat lighthouse on the Jersey beach after a magnificent run of 12 days. On the homeward voyage young Trowbridge wrote a letter and enclosing it in a glass bottle, sealed it up and cast it afoat upon the briny deep.
 A day or two after his arrival home in New Haven he received the letter through the postofGce. It was on the Jersey beach near life saving station No. Il. in Ocean county. The finder had in accord ance with the young mans request forward ed the letter. The bottle had travelled hun dreds of miles and reached NewHaven almost as soon as the young travellers. Our tourists sailed all of 5000 miles going and returning and doubt if few of our New Haven tourists have had more enjoyable, or more varied ano interesting w uII6 dG DdrOduO0S young MT. Trowbridge ir., the young author, Yale '87, whose astonishment may be imag ined, the meeting being wholly unexpected, and his younger brother being, to the best of.his and belief, three thousand miles away with the Atlantic's broad bosom be- tween them. The older brother, together with his compagnon du voyage, Dwight E. Bowers, son of ex-Governor 0. B. Bowers, of this city, both of the senior class at Yale were also on 8 pleasure excursion to the They had 'tdone' the Bsrba- does, also had travelled considerably in Mar unique, having been on the latter island ten days They made the trip to the Barbadoes on the fine Trowbridge brig Arcadia. Their programme was to come home by steamer, touching en route all the islands above emu nerated and spending day on the Danish sland of Santa Cruz. After leaving this sland the steamer is due in New York in six lays. The younger tourists whose trip is above described have brought home not few curiosities obtained on the island. They also return with most pleasant recollections of the clipper ship Victoria and the Barba- 1oes.
 Naugatuck's Burning Question.
 Naugatuck wants 8 water supply, and whether to get it from Hop Brook, Beacon Hill Brook or Lake Quassapany is as much of , public question up there as the State House