Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-23
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 road OGfcials-The BOrOugh,s Flat
 terIng Prospeets-GrovvinEa and Pros
 pering-West Haveners In Southern
 California.
 West Haven's prosperity, to which refer- ence was made in recent issue of the CoUR- TER, bids fair to be continuous. Said | prominent resident: ''It is a settled fact that the borough is seeing the last of it's will I Iage days. We have advanced too far to re- ! eede. We have large factories; we have good preachers; we have electric lights, and we have an; increasing population, to say nothing of the great importance of our coast as shore resort. We have the finest and most costly mansions in the State, that of Wilson
 Waddingham, and we have the finest sea-
 shore residence in the State, that of John c.
 Anderson, and we feel naturally little
 elsted at having among us two public spirit
 ed men who are worth probably 5000, 900
 apiece. And by the way, we are also be-
 coming of importance in the railroad world,
 owing to the coming among us to dwell of go many influential railroad men. There is MT. Mackrin, auditor in the freight department of the Consolidated road in New Haven. He is, as you have stated, building nice house for himself on Main street. There is MT. FarQuar, who is chief clerk in GeEeral Passenger Agent Hemp stead's office. He has rented house on Main street and likes the town. There is E. A. Ray, another railroad man, who has long been among us and of us. He is 8 clerk in the office of Treasurer Squires of the Consol. | dated road. There is Harry Nettleton, sten- \ ographsr at the railroad offices of the Consol- | dated road in New Haven. He has since his marriage been dwelling in the city, but has rented his house, which he bought of s. s. Pardee, to MT. Fernald of the Derby road, formerly general passenger agent of the Bos- ton, Hoosae Tunnel and Western railroad. Mir. Fernald now has an official position | with the Derby railroad. There is | A. 0. Heitman, who was formerly of the \ freight department of the Haven and Northampton railroad, and is now assistant treasurer and auditor of the New Haven and Derby railroad. He has long been one of us ' and is domiciled on Elm street. James Fl. Reynolds is 8 dweller on Main street also He is in the freight department of the Con- solidated road and is our borough's present
 warden. There is also MT. Edward Barnett, | who is in the secretary department of the | Consolidated road. He resides in the hand- some cottage on Elm street next to the Wad- \ dingham mansion, where MT. Waddingham dwelt while the present elegant home was
 building. This, you see, makes quite 8 little colony in West Haven. Then West Haven \ is congratulating itself on having acquired H. P. Hubbard of the the Hubbard Adver-
 Using agency as 8 permanent resident,
 he having bought and moved into ! the Hotchkiss place on Elm ! Elm street three doors from Senator Gra- hams. He liked his shore cottage so we'll \ that he has now permanently located here.
 MT. Hotchkiss, of whom he bought the place,
 is now temporarily dwelling at the Tontine, \ New Haven, pending his departure for
 southern California to visit his son, Theo-
 dore Hotchkiss, who is well remembered as 8 former very popular young New Haven man. IS. s. Pardee, the carpenter builder, who \ went to California some time ago, is back
 again to remain, and has rented the Don s.
 Thompson place on Main street, MT. Thomp ! son having gone to board at one of the New
 Haven hotels for the winter. By the way,
 speaking of southern California, Mr. S. l.. Smith, one of our borough ex-oficials, and
 years ago dry goods merchant
 on Chapel street, New Haven, likes
 his new home in southern California
 He is at or near San Bernadino.
 Then there is Frank Brown. MT. Brown is
 @ nephew of Mir. D. W. Wilmot who is back
 here for few weeks starting another boom
 in real estate, not at auction sale, but at \ auction prices. The prices are, as I happen to know, way down low, and the chance to buy is 8 remarkably good one, one which ' will not occur again soon. Whoever buys \ at those prices will do we'll MT. Brown was \ formerly of West Haven. If that man was II grow where one grew before, what shall we | say of MT. Brown, who has redeemed big \ arid tract of land known as the Redlands, in \ southern California, which was considered worthless? He has made it to bud and bios som. How did he do ita Well, he was a | civil engineer, and seeing Redlands, barren, sterile and worthless, he devised an engineering plan to irrigate the \ forlorn tract. To make the story brief he brought water through pipes from the hills | and mountains 15 to IS miles distant, by which Redlands is irrigated regularly, and | this dead tract for miles and miles is now ' prospering immensely. Where nothing grew, now apples, grapes, figs, dates, apricots, etc. i, grow rapidly. Redlands is now town with churches, schools, stores, factories, etc. Each purchaser of lots gets water privilege with
 1t which goes with the land. The water sup- ply in the mountains is inexhaustible and a
 big supply is constantly kept on hand in
 large reservoirs. MT. Brown has done we'll
 in Redlands and is prospering we'll as he
 richly deserves. And, by the way, there is | Niokerson. who formerly worked at the
 West Haven horse railroad stables He is
 out in Redlands and gets $S5 month for
 running an engine on motor road which is
 from 4 to miles long.