Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-07-02


Shall We Play or study-How TO
Make Money.
WATCH HILL, June 81.
To the Editor OF the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
To those who have not tried 1t it might be
novel pleasure TO contemplate the race
that is, the great annual Yale-Harvard boat
race-from such distance as Watch Hill, |
for instance. You must have seen a race or
two 30 as to know what the thing is, and You |
must possess lively Imagination. Then by |
eliminating unpleasant elements and empha- |
sizing pleasant ones, you can enjoy the race
as you never enjoyed a race before. AS the |
time for starting approaches take a comfort |
able seat on the broad piazza overlooking the |
sea. Contrast your position with that of the |
sufferers on the observation train, packed
like chickens in a market coop; each one
roaring the life out of him; each one contrib
uting in some inhuman manner to the din,
discomfort, misery; women driven into hys-
terics; men driving them; every stage of dis
gusting intoxication seated all over you;
maniacs hsiling you to be as maniacish as
they are, and proclaiming themselves in
particular and college athletics in gen
eral to be insulted If you
don't. Liable all the while to be pitched of
your perch and under the wheels of the ex-
tended juggernaut. The hot sun blistering
you. Every shape. size, color and texture of
stuff topped continually and most disre-
spectfully In your straining eyes. Heavens!
How any one who has done the thing once,
| and escaped, can possibly be persuaded to do
| IL again, is beyond the comprehension of
sanity. II all that wasted energy could be
| turned into politics it would suffice for the
| construction of o new party and the estso-
fishing of new dynasty of presidents. If
diverted to religion, It would convert Central
Africa, and every black caunibal would ap-
pear as an interesting and well-dressed
Christian. If reduced to economic force, all
the factory feeding waterfalls could take
/ week off for rest and refreshment.
Turn away now and look over the broad
1 blue sea. See Block Island in the distance
80 peacefully reposing in the hszy waters.
| Hear the music of the surf beating measured
time at your feet. Look at the ''arsosies of
| cloud-lsnd" sailing on high with their great
masses of light, and their soft intersties of
shadow. How grsndly they move, as If they
| bore heavenly cargoes and were charged with
divine messages. How superb il the glitter
of their brightness against the szure of the
sky. Their dark masses seem frsighted with
| the solid essence of storms.
"what lie that very far-off booming gunF'
so, they are off, are theyf" "welI, let me
| know the result" Soon the boy comes back
| with the information that Yale has won by
| the regulation number of lengths, and that
the country is safe for another year. Aud
| that Ia all the bother yoa have had in the
| matter. Contrast your blissful repose with
| the mad rush for home and with the all
| nights bedlam of discordant bands, drunken
yells and banging fireworks.
Wha: does II all meant What are We COM
ing toi Are there no better ways Of disposing
| of the surplus energies of the peoplei Is it
| not possible to enjoy oneself in this country
| without such coneomitants of miseryi Come
| to Watch Hill and think 1t over. When DIR.
| Delsfield, who If there be head to his pro-
| fession stands there, delivers q discourse in
| the college chapel in answer to the honor OF
/ being dubbed with an L L. ID. not q hundred
listeners greet him. Actually. no. q hun.
dredi The very same day all the college
world and thousands of others subject them.
selves to the disoomforts of a base ball field
to see game between Yale and Harvard,
and come back tired out and disgusted with
| their afternoon. A bstsman outrsnks vale
dictorian. A Deforest speaker plays woe
ful second fiddle to an oarsmsn. IL the col
. lsges of the country put no stop to this bane
, full preponderance of athletics, where will I
boy go for an educationf Learning canno
flourish where It is underestimated.
3ut Watch Hill is the theme. Look abcu
: the place. The hotels interfere with on,
another; intercept one snother's views
The Watch Hill house looks into
{ the Lsrkin house, the Ocean hous
:. into the Watch Hill hoase. The Lsrkin Il
y low down, so that from all of them the viev
of Father Ocean is limited. The hotel par
9 of Watch Hill is about as It has been. Tn
Il changes are back on the way to Westerly
: A few years ago a Watch Hill improvement
company was organized by gentlemen fror
|, Cincinnati, who with cash to back then
y have developed energy and displayed taste
!. Quite park has been laid out. Broa
:. roads wind in and out about the diminutiv
10 hills, skirt the inland ponds and reach {
n the seashore. Nearly score of cottage
l. have been erected wherein these Cincinnati
ane, with an occasional New Yorker, c
course, live at ease and show forth a warn
10 hearted aud delightful hospitality. One G
them, an honored son of Yale, will nel
.: year with his class celebrate th
ID thirtieth anniversary of graduation
" You have to stand him and his sophomor
n boy together to see that age sppreciabl
= separates them. Plots are selling at pric,
" that rival the prices at Newport and Mars
~ Qansett. Poor men are ont of It alread,
ID Instead Of going west prospecting for gol
:. mines, let the thrifty New Havener seek or
10 spots suitable for summer resorts. Thel
% / ten tlfneB tn6 t0Ouey IN On6 ente
st prising Cincinnatian, who owns the whole {
a. a pond just separated from the sea by q can,
hill, has built by the side of his pond, al
leading into It, toboggan aide. The toboi
gsns are on wheels. When they strife Il
IN water they skim the surface with delightfl
1y splashings for fifty feet or more The
he down you 20, and you must swim asho
=, with your toboggan with you. There IL Il
90 spice of danger in the sport. for il the weigl
ts be not properly adjusted you will strike Il
sr water with abrupt and hurting force, or ye
~ and the toboggan may come to intrica
:. grief together, and before you can recov
" from the ehook and the intricsciss you mi
% need active nautical assistance to save ye
TO from prosaio drowning.
b. Now 10 bed, dreaming Of the racs. WIN