Morning journal and courier., 1886-07-24
WEST HAVEN SHORE.

Many Wealthy Visitors Enjoying
 Themselves at tho Shore Tine
 Coming Big Ptcnfc-Life at Howes'
 Skating RiRk-The Coming Fair
 Of the West Haven and Milford
 Cathel1cs-Shore Notes.
 As the big waves roll in from Long Island Sound, washing West Haven shore, the beach at Savin Rock is alive each day with bathers, among whom are college professors and oth- CT prominent New Haveners, who find a sea
 bath invigorating, and not few from other
 States who are with their families stopping at the shore. The season at Savin Rock bids fair to be lively enough before it ends. The great G. A. R. State picnic, August 9th,
 under the auspices of Admiral Foote post of
 this city, will be the great event of the sea- son. Favorable answers to invitations have
 been received from all over the State and it is safe to estimate that 10,00e people will at tend it, and with the throngs which will pour down to the shore from this city it is proba- \ ble that the number will much exceed that This evening there will be at Howes' rink an exciting contest between Johnnie Dodds on
 skates and Bison, the pedestrian, on foot.
 Elson was at Howes' yesterday making prepa-
 rations. Next Tuesday night there will be ! another race, which will be announced, and | on Wednesday night hop. The music. for the skating and dancing is by Kusterers orchestra of this city, five pieces, and is much enjoyed. From Aug 9th to Aug 14th, inclusive, at Howes' rink will be held grand fair by the Catholics of West Haven and 1 Milford, under Rev. Father Larkin's direc- tion. It will open on the 9th with grand | concert by Landrigan's band. There will be | lively times each night Of the fair. On the ' 26th of August the 20th c. V. will have their reunion at Howes' pavilion. l On August Both the State organization Order I of Eastern Star will have a picnic and supper I at Howes.
 Guests at the Sea View and Beach houses ! are: A. D. Judd and wife, Wallingford; A. l.. Judd, Wallingford; Miss Kate w. Judd, Wallingford; F. s. Munson and three ladies; T. B. Burnham wife and child, Holyoke; Horace Patten and wife. Enfield, Conn.,; w.
 F. Seaman and bride, Poughkeepsie, N Y.; Mrs. +. N. Cummins, of New Haven, whose son and daughter, Capt. w. M. Wellman and wife, of this city, are stopping at the house; Mrs. s. E. Fairchild, Miss Henrietta Dur
 ham and Annie L. Durham, of Seymour,
 of Millerton, N. Y.; John Grove White, Sioux City, Iowa. wealthy Westerner; Mrs. J. A. Robbins, Rocky Hill Conn.,; MT. and
 Mrs. Wolcott Abbe, Enfield, Conn.,; Mrs. J. Wilcox and Miss L. WilcoA, of New Haven;
 A. W. Allen, ThompsOnville; w. A. Wager,
 Mrs. R. O.. Mason and Mrs. H. P.
 Parsons, of Enfield, Conn.,; Editor Graham and family, of Meriden; Herbert Lyman, prominent insurance man of Westfeld, wife and two children; Mrs. John Taylor and son of Southington; J. Buss Wemple, wife and child of New Yerk-Mr Wemple is prominent insurance adjuster h1S i10N Ioif al lace A. Guilford, Northampton; David May CT, the diamond merchant of Hartford, and family, wife, two sons and a daughter; Mrs. H. Arms and Mrs. c. Russell, wealthy Toledo ladies, Mrs. A. c. Porter and grand daughter, of Waterbury; N. H. Hoyt, wife and two children, New Haven: Miss Lillian D. Armes and Miss Lizzie A. Broughton, of Springfield, Mass. Mrs. M. H. Dubois, New York; s. J. Willard, New York city; w. H. Lewis, wife and child and nurse, of Cincin- nati, who board at the Grand Union Hotel in the winter. MT. Lewis is the senior of w. H. Lewis & Co.,, wholesale dealers in leaf tobacco and the junior in point of years. About twenty of the friends of MT. Lewis, of Cincinnati, will arrive next week at the Sea View-most of them on Thursday. Among those who are coming are MT. John J. Perkins and family, MT. o. F. Bradley six daughters (Mr. Perkins is of Henderson,, MT. George A. Bowen and family, MT. Bowen, the noted manu- facturer of stained glass windows; Prof. E. J. Dooley, who has charge of the music in the opera house at Hartford and is organist of the Jewish church, Hartford, and a Catholic church in that city; J. R. Sturges of Hartford, pupil of Mir. Dooley's; F. D. Meigs and wife, the New Haven clothier; L. L. Strouse of New York, the famous corset manufacturer on Court street, this city; Mrs. H. R. Murray of New York and her sister, Miss Mary Bilinghurst, the latter of whom for the past six years has been living in Par is. MT. A. F. Powers, clerk of the Sea View, is an accomplished gentleman of fifteen years hotel experience, and has very large circle of friends. Visiting at the shore yesterday was MT. F. 0. Hubbell of Waterville, near Waterbury. who is on summer tour for his health
 The interest of some of the younger sum mer visitors at the shore, as well as residents of the borough was highly excited yesterday by the appearance among them of a man and his wife apparently hailing from sunny Italy, who had with them hand-organ and bear. The young folks were amazed with wonder ment at beholding 8 live bear led along the streets as docile tame kitten, and had wonderful stories to tell of bruin and his