The Newtown bee., 1889-08-30
BRIDGEPORT.
NORTH MAIN srREEr,sBooM

As related in the last BEE, Lee Broth CTS have purchased tract of b acres in the northern part of the city and at once begin work laying it out into building lots. The property was purchased of John M. Beach and Frank N. Higgins. MT Beach's land being in front. The property runs through from North Main street to Madison avenue and has a front age of 40 feet on North Main street. Through the center of this land will run a street 60 feet wide to be called Fairview avenue.
 Thirty-two lots will be made of the 15 acres, each l00x200 feet. For those fronting on North Main street, sI4O0 each will be asked, while those in the rear, on Fairview avenue, will cost 5000. They will be nearly as desirable, howev- CT. for the avenue will be fully maead- amized, utilizing for the purpose the stone taken from the stone walls that now cucumber the fields. Scofield & Starr have surveyed and mapped the To- cality and Lee Brothers say that their men will be at work in less than month. They also declare that great care will be taken to secure none but worthy purchasers and that the tenants must be of a most desirable elass-sueh as have developed and built up the West End.
  young men, whose success in the real es- tate business at West End proves con clusively that they are able to undertake and carry forward similar enterprises. With them for leaders, there is no doubt that the northern part of the city will rapidly develop and that the land in that vicinity will soon be in demand for build ing purposes.
 In connection with this, it may be stat ed that Bradley Nichols & Son, who own a large tract of land on Madison avenue. south of Fairview. will also arrange lots for sale and that the same care in regard to the character of purchasers and ten ants will be observed. With two such opportunities to purchase desirable build ing lots, contiguous to the city, Bridge port men who desire to own suburban | residences should seek no further. But all this present and prospective growth simply brings out in bolder re- | lief the suggestions made months ago by the BEE, in regard to improved streets | here. North Main street has been partly macadamized and is greatly improved | thereby; but there is still room for more. Charles w. McCord, the thriving car pet merchant, has completed arrange ments for doubling his space and greatly | facilitating his business by taking the store in the new Bishop arcade adjoining his present quarters at the rear. MT Me Cord will have an entrance from the ar cade, as well as from Main street and will be able to arrange and display his | extensive stock to much better advan- tage. He believes that poor location | is dear at any price and certainly has
 taken the cream of the present situation. | It was hoped that the arcade would be | finished by November l. but wet weather has hindered the work fully three weeks.
 ". H. Perry has postponed his intent ion to build Main street block of II
 stores between Lumber street and Dutch | lane.
 | The property formerly owned by Owen Cromwell in the northern part of the town has been sold; Charles V. Gesch- ke has also sold property in the north | ern part of the town.
 l Plans for parks are still being propos- ed. Besides our incompatible Seaside park, there is Washington park on the
 East Side and Highland park in the northern part of the city. not to mention Beardsley park, where so much has been done by James w. Beardsley. Esq, for the Identification of the locality and var ious smaller parks. West End people, | who have the true cosmopolitan idea re- garding the earth and the fulness there of. some time since presented petitio- | for West End Park, where the West end band could give West End concerts for West End people. They are likely to obtain all they ask. And now it is pro posed to cut Catherine street through from Washington avenue to Main street at the head of East Washington avenue. This would leave a small triangle, bound ed by Main street on the east, Washing ton avenue on the west and Catherine street extension on the south; and of this it is proposed to make another park. Thus will Bridgeport more than ever de- serve it's name of Park City.
 E. D. Alvord of the w. F. Swords Lumber Co. has returned from Millen- | beck, Va., with fiattering reports of the | future prospects of that section of the Old Dominion, iS which he and w. C. Haight are financially interested. Mir AL | word took W. w. Starr. Jr, the civil en- with him to Virginia. in order to test the feasibility of building railroad from Fredericksburg to Millenback, which has | a splendid water front with 20 feet of water at it's docks during low tide. This | line of 100 miles, which would traverse five counties now without rail facilities, was not only found entirely practicable, but the people along the route were en- | thusiastic at the prospect of having it | to talk up the scheme and right of way and money were freely offered. Mir AL | word saw the graves of Washington's | father and mother on his trip, for this is historic ground, Millenbeek itself having once formed part of the Lord Fairfax es- tate, then one of the finest in the Old Dominion. Millenbeek is situated in Lancaster county, at the junction of the Rappahannock and Corotoman rivers, where steamers stop daily. The soil is
 well adapted for garden truck and fruit, game is plentiful on the land and in the water and, along its three miles of water front, arc is fine oysters as grow any where. A railroad would boom Millen- beck into the importance which it's situ- ation justifies.
 It was announced some time ago that owing to a large increase in practice in I Bridgeport, Dr Merrow and his associate physicians were obliged to secure larger i and more commodious quarters for the I reception and treatment of patients. The