Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1889-10-23
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

The Proposed Park Near Fort Hale
Views OF a Prominent Taxpayer Up |
ON TIA Big Real Estate Boom ON |!
Grand Avenue and James street - |
Fair HaveAss Pretty Girls ON Horse. |
back Form an Interesting Picture
Polo In Quinnipiac Rink.
Every citizen in the Annex is more or less
interested in the project of having park
down in the neighborhood of Fort Hale. It
is regarded as a most eligible site by not
few of the prominent Fair Haven East resi-
dents. The visit to that locality recently by
members of the Park commission has infused
new life into the elaborate scheme for a
series of parks and drives that has long been
in contemplation. A South Quinnipiac
taxpayer, in referring to the probability OF
the new park being reality of the future,
instead of ono Of the municipal romances,
said "While this commission 10 out on this
investigating tour it wouldn't be bad idea
for the commissioners to look over the old
Lighthouse Point property. only offer this
as q suggestion. That Is certainly piece OF
territory that will sooner or later become OF
great value. There has been frequent state
ments that the land is in the market and that
it could be developed into q valuable and at
traetive summer resort. With the promise
of @ horse car route down in that region, and
the companion enterprises that go hand in
hand when new piece OF country 1s being
developed, there is no reason why the Park
commission should overlook the possibilities
incidental to Lighthouse Point"
The new building for which DR.. M. y.
O'Connor ia having the cellar dug, near the
corner of Grand avenue and James streer,
will be one Of the attractive structures In
that locality.
It ia surprising to mark the boom in house
building in the neighborhood of James
street and Grand avenue of late years.
Within the recollection of such well-known
Barnes, Smith Granniss, A. L. Chamberlain
western end Of the Eleventh and
Twelfth wards was a big grassy
plain, otherwise known as the
Commons. Even citizens who have not
so long been identified with Fair Haven's
growth as those named. the rapidity with
which this part of Fair Haven has been cow
cred with handsome, substantial and costly
You can pick up an acquaintance TlsS any
of the old-timers in Fair Haven VINO will M
form you, without any hesitancy.
that the whole region west of Blatch-
ley avenue, as far north as Pine
street, as far south as East Chapel and as
far west as Mill river, was dotted with only
building or two. It looked, in the Ian
guage of one humorous gentleman whose
mind drifted back to the days of the bar.
racks at Grapevine Point, Gas If that part of
Fair Haven would gradually drop off the
globe altogether, 30 barren and lonesome it
seemed without houses" But now turn your
eyes on the picture of health, wealth and
beauty it presents. Houses have sprung up
there so fast that it would be only slight
stretch of sxaggeration to say that they
sometimes grew over night. Pretty soon if
they keep On building houses as lively as
they have during the past two or three years,
there will not be room enough for the arcni-
tectural wings of an ordinary henery.
As handsome picture as tho every day
citizen can gaze upon in Fair Haven is the
spectacle of half dozen of the fair daugh-
ters of the Annex and Fair Haven out horse
back riding. Il is a pretty sight
young misses with their rosy cheeks, spark
ling eyes and vivacious manner, cantering
through the streets and away over the hills of
Fair Haven heights day after day. They
didn't learn to ride in one of those riding
schools where the student must conform to
sir Their dads just iiftsa ssam gently N on
to the back Of the pony, walked
the animal around the back
yard. all the while having fatherly,
reassuring grip on the handsome piece Of
feminity in the saddle, and then after . series
of of-hand coaching trips like the above, told
the daughter to go it alone. And the young
miss started off on an easy trot. Now she
Is one OF the most graceful equestriennes in
the village. 1t would be an everlastingly
beneficial sermon to her dyspeptic, narrow
chested sisterhood to obtain view of these |
dashing damsels when they are out for q |
horseback tour of the adjoining country.
One of the young ladies residing on Gem |
ter street in the Annex is soon to be mar
has q number of friends, there is great deal
OF that quiet, gossiping sort of social chat on
the subject of her bridal dress.
Will there be polo or will there not in tho |
Quinnipiac rink this winterl That's the ques- |
ton for the hockeyists over this way to de- |
termine. The New Haven polo team have
s0ms forth sha from ON the aIt, ob:STsy
response to the tread of the recent arrivals. |
There was q time when Fair Haven could
boast of hus.pg pHSSS SIS Y6oeft sS and the
building at Bright street and Grand avenue. |
The enterprising reporter who stated that
Miss Carrie Lucas, of Brown Hill, was dead
had better give that neighborhood wide
berth in the future. The lady is recovering,
much to the happiness of her friends.
James Calvin will open q boot and shoe /
store in the new building west of the barber
shop in front of the horse car barn. This is
another evidence of the prosperity of Fair
Haven and the enterprise of its go-ahead cit
liens.
Richard Kivlan, jr., of the Annex will be
married day to a popular Branford young
lady.
Will somebody rise up In his might and |
ask why those gates at the Quinnipiac draw
bridge are not in working orderf