Morning journal and courier., 1892-09-19

Island. The East Haven shore and Morris
Cove with its houses are to be seen. The
old lighthouse stands out prominently.
We look towards West Haven and poin
out the tower to the Waddingham house.
We call out, "There goes an electric car
with trailerl' Soon the steam cars are
seen to pass over the meadows. How ex-
tensive the view; and we are truly thank
full for our sense of vision.
There comes to mind an incident of the
Revolution as told to US by our grand
mother, as told to her by hers. When
the word came that the British were
about to land at West Haven, and 1t was
expected that they might come up to
Westville- Hotchkisstown-the ad-
vice was to pack up what valuables they
could carry-some they buried-and with
the women and children, and feather beds
and provisions, to climb to the top OF tho
rock for safety. The ancestors Of the wri-
ter were among those who did 80. One
sick man was being carried up on a stretch
or. Quite distance up one of those car
rying him slipped, and he was preoipita-
ted quite a ways. It was miraculous
and shaken, but not killed. This incident
completely changed his cognomen, for
from that time, his name being Captain
Elijah Hotchkiss, 1t was changed to Cap
tain Rock, which name he carried to the
! time of his death. We tell more stories,
then we take farewell look. We take
/ the old path down the side. We know it
will be perilous, but then it Is so far to go
back and return tho way We came. The
old path has been blasted away for 80
many years it is well nigh gone; and we
consider it q great pity, for It is something
that never can be replaced. We come
across an old man who has worked and
blasted at the rock for years. He has 9
orowbar trying to dislodge huge boul-
der which looks anything but secure, but
loath to 60. We all help push with oul
walking sticks, and at last down 1t went
crashing, breaking into thousand pieces
We exclaimed, "You would never have
started it without our help" IT know
it," he said, you are good girls, gooi
girls" We soon come to the perilous part
So we sat or climbed on handsome knee
as best we could, assisted by our escort
At last we were down, no broken limb
or sprained ankles. We followed the patti
past the powder house, coming out nea
the stone-crusher building. Our visito
said, CHOW have been in Westville 81,
weeks and have heard that crunching
crunching sound, and would like to Boz
what causes it," The men at the crushe
were about to close their work, but on
man kindly brought some big rocks, whicl
he threw in the monsters jaws; and on
man brought water to pour over the whee
as it began grinding up the stone. w
said to her, "You see it both eats an,
drinks. What an incalculable blessing i
this invention to the civilized world of tn
late Eli W. Blake" We shouted to escl
other, but the noise prevented our hearin
each other. We went into the engin
room and watched the motions of tn
ponderous machine with its clock-l ik
regularity. Everything was as brigh
about it as polishing could make il
Then thanking the men for their kind
ness in showing us about, we took
the road again, and although tired "
were in the best of spirits. All had on
joyed the afternoon, and we might hav
gone further and not have seen the beat
tiful views which we had from this, on
| own West Rock F. " H.