Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-17
SUMMER OUTINGS.

Joy the Beauties of Glen Island
Pawson Park Lively az Ever
Thousands Leave the City For the
Cool Resorts
the hills yesterday the air was oppressed by a |
hot, uncomfortable stiffness and the morn
ing dew on the treetops lay undisturbed by |
the slightest breath of breeze. As day |
advanced the summer heat grew more intense |
and before evening evening everyone enyied |
those who had happily made the day holt |
day and were off enjoying a cool sail on some
of the many excursions from the city. "What
lovely day." everybody on the steamers
were exclaiming, while their toiling friends
in the city were at the same time groaninR
nnder the burden of the seasons hot sway.
coNEY ISLAND.
1t looked az if people seemed to think the
steamer Elm City was capable of carrying
half the town when they piled down to Belle
| dock yesterday morning. Il was the largest
crowd that any excursion this season has
drawn, and those who were left behind were
as many as those who. were aboard. The
palm of the year has been carried on Dy the
! st. Patrickis 2. II. L. A., and no one that
saw the crowds yesterday will doabt it. The
\ immediate streets leading to the dock and the
dock itself We're moving mass OF exeur-
sionists, young and old, who were eager to
spend the day trip with the society.
Almost an hour before the Elm City was
| to start some fourteen hundred people were
aboard and the p1snks drawn in. Several
officers tried to keep the crowds back, but
men and women jumped for the boat, not
\ only at the gangway, but also along the sides.
The engineer hadn't steam up and it was inn
possible to move the boat away from the
crowd that was fast overlooking her. The
\ tug William was signalled and slowly the big
| steamer was towed away out into the stream.
l The committees were: Executive, James B.
Martin (chairman9, John Rartigan, John j.
McNamara, Charles Spillane, John Mohan,
John J. Mcfarland and Thomas Shields;
reception, John W. Lane, John T. Sheridan,
James E. Daley, Thomas Smith, Joseph B.
Clark, Terrence Kelly, James +. Maher,
Frank ]. Maher, George Goebel, Thomas Nc
| Guinness.
GLEN ISLAND.
Starin's great resort at the east end of the
Sound was visited by large numbers of exeuT-.
| sionists again yesterday. Many of the
| crowds left on Belle dock hastened over and
the steamer Elm City. The days sail was
| delightful and everybody congratulated them
selves all day long for the fortunate way in
which they had escaped the heated city. A
| large party from New York was also at the
| island and the band concerts were pronounced
| superb by the many happy hearers. The
| shore dinner one gets there has no equal and
4 seems TO make everyone 10ek L6u years young
4 er. The steamers decks were kept cool by
the steady sea breeze and dancers enjoyed
l themselves in the pleasantest manner pos
| sible. Some of those aboard were: Miss
DavoI, Miss Anne Fellowes, Officer William
| Nichols and wife, Miss Ida Paine, Miss An
ME Kutscher, Mrs. A. @. Jones, George Beck
| and wife, Otto FL. Wall and wife, Deputy
Sheriff Charles R. Spiegel and wife, Edward
| Malloy.
Excl lodge, Knights of Pythias, were also
1 on board and contributed greatly to the oc-
| casion. The committee in charge of their
party consisted of 81. G. Jones, chairman, NJ.
| Flanagan, Thomas Williams, G.. F. Levere,
G. G. Hall, Theodore Keller.
PAwsoN PARK.
The barge Juno looked never so gay as
1 when it left it's dock with its large party of
4 800 excursionists yesterday morning. Among
| the members was Independent cornet band
| its many friends. Fine concerts and extem-
| poraneous pieces were often rendered during
| the day and everything made as lively as
| lively could be. The Delaney cadets, Lieut..
Henderson in command, accompanied the
party. Some of those seen there were James
Young, Charles Hawley, Mrs. Captain Will
l kins, Mrs. George Farnunn, Miss Lizzie Coe,
Miss Hattie Coe, Miss Louisa Boone, Mrs.
Bell and daughter, Mrs. George Webster of
New York, William jackson, Miss Emma
Graves, Miss Emma Benton, Prof. George
Benjamin, s. r. Chandler, Mrs. Bertha Van
dine, Mrs. James Jones, Mrs. James Goode,
Miss Ssrah Stewart, Mr.. A. J. Banks, Mrs.
Gustave Wormsley, Mrs, DeBaptist, the
Misses Mary Wilkins, Jessie Thompson,
Clarissa Ditmus, frankie .Ditmus, Julia
Wormsley.
ARTILLERY REUNION.
Waterbury is the place selected for the
nineteenth annual reunion of Companies I,
B and the band of the First Connecticut
heavy artillery on Wednesday, September 10.
The business meeting will be held at II 80 q.
m. in the hall of Wadham post, G. A. R. A
/ smashing dinner will then be assaulted by
| the soldiers. They will eat at the Scovill
house and much fun is promised for all. The
officers of the organization are: William G.
Beecher, president; John 81. Burton, vice
president: Charles J. Porter, treasurer; John
G. Taylor, secretary.
AT PAwsoE PARK TO-DAY.
To-day the Christian Endsavor society of
SouthinRton, and the Congregational church
Of Woodbridge, viii hold their annual picnic
at Pawson Park. They win leave Belle dock
on hoard tina Tuuo az m