Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-23
NEW HAVEN STREET SCENES

NEW HAVEN STREET SCENES As Revealed 10 View in a Walk Into
 Town From the Suburbs of the
 City.
 As an incoming train approaches our city the passenger notices on the board fence along the road some soap or stove polish ad- vertised in enormous figures. Above the fence he sees linen washings fapning against their suspending strings. A whistle or two from the locomotive and he passes the work r. men standing aside from the track, pickaxe and iron pole in hand, with their old jackets and dinner pails lying on the ground behind them. He glances at the inside of box closs by the road that comes into view and and faded checked shirt, with clay pipe in mouth, holding fast the shining end of a switch handle.
 New Haven is growing steadily, but there are many vacant lots for sale in the suburbs, as is shown by the signboards put up by Beeeher, Webb and Hoadley. Many of these green building lots are yet pastures for COWS, and the fences which enclose them are turned into use in advertising corn cure or cough balsam. Some fortunate grounds are cleared of their old boots, rusty cans and hoopskirts, and the base ball diamond is traced on them. If 6 lot lies at the corner of two streets a path leads diagonally across it and is trodden by the shop hands morning and evening.
 The hands are men and young women; the men carry tin psils and the women haud.basksts, or go home at dinner. A girl who is behind or could not turn out with the rest just at the whistle, walks lively toward her factory, sending successive waves up the loose skirts and making the sidewalk ring with the stamp of her high -hseled shoes. Some of the newly opened suburban streets are provided with curbstones, the future sidewalks are planned; and. perhaps, red hydrants stand out of the sand. The street lamps in these quarters of the city, fre- quented but by the urchins of the neighbor- hood, are short lived; the glasses lie in thou sand pieces at the feet of the iron posts and the street signs attached to the lamp frames are often turned in wrong directions. The houses in the outskirts are whitewash- ed or whitespainted little cottages ot uniform pattern and stand in row with the gable ends toward the street. Before one of the houses you may see baby carriage drawn up to the low swinging gate and in the window baby in its mothers arms climbing the window pane. Sometimes the concrete walks in front of the new houses are yet soft; they are sprinkled with white sand and overlaid with blanks.
 Nearer to the city we observe new houses CI BOka0 aICQ1C0CLUEaI DE0b0uSIOAs lucy arc homes of comfortable merchants. One com- mon point of these tasty suburban residences is the lavish use of stained glass in the win- dows and in the doors. Each house has in front 8 nicely kept lawn on which usually 8 hose is left 50 arranged as 10 water it in fine spray. On the lawn of large aristocratic mansion far in the city spinning sprinkler Is connected with the hose and near the brick barn at the further end a colored man in white ahirtsleeves is seen pushing the click ing hand-mower painted red and green. About New Haven are many ash heaps and public dumps adjoining the railroad em- bankments and the marshy spots. The old ones are covered by the wild growth of bur dock and rag weed; the new are ransacked for bits of coal and rags by the bareheaded daughters of sunny Italy.
 Not far from such localities is the region of low grade beer saloons. A saloon has pair of short, swinging screen doors at the entrance, over which you espy large gilt framed looking glass, covered with pink-col- heavy boots of the men reclining against the bar. In the window is an exhibition of bot ties and names of famous brewers.
 In this vicinity we often meet with large double frame house with high, broad door steps, tho dirty rails of which being polished by the children's sliding down on them. The staircase, covered with rag carpet, run down
 
 boarding house. A hen in maternal air scratches busily in the sand about the brick foundation or the house and feeds her nu- mercus little family. Over the damaged fence @ housewife in faded calico empties a pan of potato peels. At this the chickens run away scared, but they soon return to in- vestigate the garbage. From the direction of the kitchen presently you get whiff of stewed onion, and large factory at dis tance startles you with @ sudden thrilling whistle for dinner.
 In coming further toward the center of the city we begin to notice the flaming signs of Chinese laundry, the wooden Indian before the tobacconist's and the parts colored post in front of the barber shop. In the corner drug store ladies wait for horse cars and c stranger turns over the leaves of the direc- tory upon the showcase. And in the hotel parlor portly gentleman in @ silk hat sits reading the papers.
 The light blue ice wagon with hatchet and scale, and the grocery team driven by the white-aproned individual with pencil on the ear, come to our notice. Occasionally in the middle of the streets we see @ man in threadbare coat and battered hat pushing 6 little handoart. He says something in a tone, and although doubt if the lady sitting in the window can exactly make out the words, am certain she understands what that musical person is after.
 At night after 10 o'clock Chapel street is deserted by the shopping people. The pen- dant electric lights left burning in front of the dry goods and millinery establishments whiz and hiss ftfully, displaying the various shades of delicate color. Beneath them on the Aagstone pavements are scattered hand bills and troddsR down by the people. In the by-streets red lanterns show the sites of earthwork and building. In a city, to the sleepless, nights are disturbed by the irreg. ular breathing of the switch engine.
 OIty Mission Notes-People's Service. An interesting service of song was held Sunday evening in Engligh hall, corner of Court and State streets, which was attended by largely increased audience. A mixed chorus choir occupied the platform. MT. Richardson of the seminary rendered very ef- fectively two solos and Q quartette, composed