Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-05
i. FAsT-GRowING SEA RESORT.

 mont have not appreciated the beauty of the place nor it's quiet and seclusion and perfect adaptabiity for seashore resort. Separated from communication with the outside world by over mile of wood and field, feeling only the brisk breezes that blow in from the sound and the scent of the sea air, the happy resident in this charming spot forgets all thoughts of toll and hurry and abandons himself freely to the exhilarating influences of the scene. Wide, grassy lawns slope down to the sea, on whose sides the summer homes of the many hundred residents of the place are scattered, some with the water surging up to their very piazzas, others high above on a sort of bluff, whence an extensive pros pect of the New Haven harbor, the sound, and the Long Island coast may be ob- tained. Over 8 hundred cottages are strewn along this pleasant rising ground between Oyster river and the Western promotory The hotels accommodate fully 300 people when pushed to their limit, and at the height of the season human beings are packed in the cottages as thickly as sardines or as Italians in downtown tenement =
 No such disagreeable results as follow in the latter case attend the stay of the sum mer visitors at Merwin's Point. Between the huge masses of rock that jut above the surface of the sea lie banks of firm sand covered with ten or fifteen feet of compare lively smooth water. At flood tide-in the morning about il o'clock-almost all the population of the place turn out on the beach, where hundreds of young and old in picturesque costumes go in to bathe while as many promenade the shore. It is estimated that nearly 1 200 people are to be found in hotels and cottages in the i'm mediate vicinity during the first two weeks of August.
 This season things at Merwin's Point are buster than ever. To be sure the two big hotels, Bonsilene hall and the Pembroke, complain of recent lack of patronage, but on the other hand every cottage has been crowded for weeks past to it's utmost ca pacity. Not an empty cottage can be found along the shore, while rooms are a very great scarcity. The abandonment of hotels by summer residents shows an in creasing love of privacy and freedom. The old-timers say that the two things the cot tagers do not want at the shore are street cars and steamboat docks. The place has been kept singularly free from the dis. orderly and lower element. One bar sells the only liquor obtainable at the point The drunken roughs of summer excursionists is unknown, and all the residents are persons of respec- liability and position. At the same time the utmost unconventionaity prevails. Living rooms are divided at night into ten or sixteen squares by curtains, and afford as many places to sleep. Meals are eaten at all hours, everyone knows everybody else, and informal entertainments are given at alternate houses every evening. The | formal social affairs are the large ''hops" at
 the big hotels on Saturday nights, where a
 crush of people always attend, there being
 over 400 persons present at the Bonsilene l on a recent occasion of the kind.
 The population at the resort is not ex- l clusively New Haven by any means. On | the western sides of the beach Bridgeport people predominate. Woodmont has al- ways been favorite watering place of Bridgeport society people, and it is fast be- 1 coming an equal favorite with persons from the interior towns, Ansonia, Birming- ] ham, New Britain and Meriden. The list of cottagers this season is too long to enumerate in full. Among the we'll known people at the resort may be named 1 the following: George D. Lewis of New Haven, at the Webb cottage; Colonel and | Mrs. Wooster and MT. and Mrs. Edward Frisbie of Ansonia, at the Wooster double cottage; MT. and Mrs. Baldwin of Water bury; J. Edward Somers and family of New Haven, and David Somers; MT. and Mrs. Phipps of New Haven; Guernsey Parsons and family, and w. P. Merriam and family at MT. Merriam's double cottage; George P. Allis and fami- ly of Birmingham, MT. and Mrs. Frisbee of Waterbury, MT. and Mrs. Beecher of New Haxen at the Baldwin cottage; Tal- colt H. Russell and family of New Haven | at the General Alfred H. Terry cottage; at Glazier cottage, Mrs. 0. B. Chapin of Hartford; E. A. Chapman and family, MT. and Mrs. Green, Superintendent and Mrs. Howe, reform school, Meriden; Henry Fox, MT. and Mrs. Prindle, New Haven; Misses Catharine and Susan Spencer, Wa terbury; Anderson cottage, Frank Glazier and family, Glastonbury; Little cottage, Mir. and Mrs. Della, Meriden; D. P. Sawyer and family of Meriden; Clark cottage, MT. and Mrs. Perigo, J. Gibb Smith and family, MT. Henry Brown (with Bradley & Dann) and family. Mrs. George Blynn of the Calvary Baptist church choir, N. H.. Hoyt and family, Mir. and Mrs. Butricks, New Haven; MT. and Mrs. w. N. Middle l brooks of Bridgeport; MT. and Mrs. F. G.. Brown, Mir. and Mrs. William Brown of Waterbury.
 Of the three hotels at Woodmont the smallest and least pretentious is doing the | largest business. This is Merwin's Point hotel, wide, low-roofed roomy cottage, | capable of accommodating about sixty | guests. The establishment is run by George Sanford and family, who had | charge of the Hotel Pembroke last year. The Sanford house bears high reputa-
 tion for it's excellent cuisine. It's Sunday
 shore dinners are enjoyed by over a hun
 dred transients, who come for days out
 ing from all the surrounding towns.
 Among the guests at present staying at the
 hotel are the following
 N. L. Brewer and family, Milton; w. A.
 Wilson, MT. and Mrs. c. M. Provost,
 Bridgeport; Captain and Mrs. Flaherty, Miss L. Flaherty, Birmingham; w. A. Langdon, Southington; MT. and Mrs. Hugh Stirling and Miss Stirling, Bridge port; Mrs. Mrs. M. s. Foster and James H. Foster, New Britain; Fred Morse, An and Mrs. Packer and family, Louisville, Ky, George W. Perkins and wife. Spring field, Mass; Mrs. Foster, Brooklyn; Mrs. M. R. Leavenworth, John H. Tyler and fomily, Galveston, Tex; Dr. and Mrs. | Frederick Blodgett of Ansonia.
 | At the Bonsilene and the Pembroke af- fairs have been rather dull of late. The proprietors of these establishments are praying for 8 succession of hot days in order to draw the crowds out to the l shore.
 | A general description of Woodmoni
 would be sadly incomplete without more than cursory mention of the Owanus Canoe association, which is holding an en- campment near Merwin's Point, August Is inclusive. The regatta of the club will be held to-day on three-mile course around the western promontory. An ex. tended account of the history and present status of the association, crowded out to.
 day, will appear in our columns to-mor. | row.
 | JoTT1NGs ALONG THE SHORE.
 Miss Lillie Wheeler is recent new
 conner at the Brown cottages.
 MT. and Mrs. s. B. Kittle of Brooklyn
 N. Y, are visiting at the cottage of MT
 Henry Fox, near the Bonsilene hotel.
 MT. and Mrs. 0. P. Merwin of Milford are entertaining party of friends at thei,
 cottage on Rocky Cove. The party is
 composed of Mrs. Henry Williams, the
 Misses Margaret and Bessie Williams, How. l ord u1p,pIrar and Alnhoneo Porfar