Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-11-14
TIME BRINGS CHANGES.

TImE HRINGIS CHANe1kSSs
A Rig TRANSFORMATION In Twenty
Years-One OF the Fast Growing
sections Of New Haven-A Location
to which Consolidated Railroad
Men Gravitate Homes.
No portion of the city has grown more
rapidly in the last few years than the
Howard avenue and Oyster Point, or City
Point, section, and now that the city has
located a park at Oyster Point the locality
has taken fresh start and is growing
with even greater rapidity. Howard ave-
nue. below the railroad bridge has been
greatly built upon of late, even more so
than the upper section of this avenue,
where many new houses all of good class
are to be seen. The lower part of the ave-
nue. is now we'll lined with neat we'll built
houses almost its entire length, except
where the city has taken lands for the
park, and on the side and parallel streets
many new and tasty houses are to be seen.
The whole section wears All air of prosper
ity. An old Connecticut soldier Of the late
war, who had been away from New Haven
for twenty-three years, and returned last
week to take a look at the cold camp
ground" at the Point, where the
Sixth, Seventh, Fifteenth and other
war regiments lay encamped, just
before going to war, was perfectly amazed
to see the change that has taken place at
the cedars and vacinity. The old spot
was hardly recognizable. Instead of
bare, unimproved tract of land half mile
or more long and nearly as wide, as it was
when Terry had his regiment there and the
late Colonel Wright had his Fifteenth G.
V. there, he saw a small town newly grown
up. Of the cedars he looked for he at last
found few survivors. Where his regi-
ment had had battalion drills, sweeping
over acres of grass land, he saw signs up
showing that a city park had been mapped
out there. About the only land mark he
old camp ground was, was the old Hal1ock
mansion. At sight of that his Rip Van
Wrinkle emotions began to wear away a
little, for he felt that he was not
after all. Going away down to the
point inself he felt more relieved, for
at this extreme end of the tongue of land
many of the old features of twenty-five or
thirty years remain essentially unchanged,
though u6 Olo T6hllZ0 u llGtl6 SURPRISE aI
seeing the fine oyster steamers now in use
by the Point oyster kings. Gazing west
ward over the meadows lying between the
Point and Kimberly avenue he saw with
increased interest the long line of earth
works covering a long stretch of the city's
big boulevard sewer, which crosses this
wide expanse of meadow. The old veteran
made up his mind that the Elm city was
truly a growing city, az well as the dear
est place on earth to him.
On the upper end of Howard avenue the
march of Improvement has been steady.
One of the most notable changes is the re-
| moval of the old Dubois mansion from its
| ancient site to the Putnam street side of
| the fine grounds of the old property. The
| old house, with its shady lawns, tall trees,
dense shrubbery, garden and orchard, lent
a certain degree of picturesqueness and
| suburban charm to this part of the ave-
nue., and spoke of wealth, cultivation and
refined leisure, but the march of improve
ment has relegatsd the old mansion to a
side street, and the ample grounds will no
doubt before long be thickly occupied by
dwellings of more or less varied style of
architecture.
This section of the city is highly popu-
lar with Consolidated railroad men. All
over this section of this city are homes of
railroad employees, nearly all of which are
comfortable looking places with more or
| less of the modern improvements. Within
| a few weeks many new purchases of land
have been made by Consolidated railroad
employees, among which are quite num-
| Der of purchases on Cassius street, the
new street opened by the late Massena
| Clark few years ago, opening into How,
ard avenue and on neighboring territory
all made within short time from Mr.
Edward M. Clark the owner of the proper
ties purchased Mr.. Munson, employed in
has bought lot on How
ard avenue; Ambrose NJ. Andrews
employed in the Consolidated road shops
one on the same avenue; Conductor Jerry
Wall, one Cassius street; Charles W
Alling engineer, one on Lamberton street
same locality; Mr.. Curnow, another of tn
roads employees, one on Cassius street
Engineer Fred J. Curtis, one on Cassiu
street; Engineer Samuel A. Marley, one OF
Lamberton street, and Depot Master Avery
one on Lamberton street. ALI of these
have signiied their intention of building
at an early day upon their purchases, ane
probably all will have dwellings erected
before next fall.
The handsome enlargement of the Bap
fist mission edifice and the develop
ment of the society into an indie
pendent church organization is anothe
very welcome change and improvement il
this section. The new drug stores of Han
over and Rutricks, respectively, with thei
attractive appearance and stock, shows en-
terprise and call for a superior class o
druggists sundries in the section. Ballou'
is nearly in the same section. The trans
formation at the old base ball ground
marks a wonderful change, that big trac
of land once 80 long enclosed by higl
board fence land where Cassidy, Sullivan
Upper, Nichols, Captain Pabor, etc o
the old New Haven nine of years ago de
lighted multitudes of base ball enthusiast
or caused bowls of vexation) being now g.
thickly studded with houses that no trac
of the old ball field is now visible. Trul,
the city is growing, and let it grow.