Morning journal and courier., 1892-10-31
OUR RAPIDLY GROWING~CITY.

EO1nG8 OTOHEtA-Adp. |
ping Over Into Old East Haven-Ex-
tending Out West Chapel Street and
Derby Ayenue-The Horse Car Line
Extension to Yale Field - The
Branch Line No Longer Obstructed
Tho Boulevard Sewer.
New Haven is indeed growing city. 1t
8 spreading out in all directions. Time |
was, and that only few years ago, when |
It was a common remark that New Haven |
was spread over a big lot of territory and
had innumerable vacant building lots in
side its thiokly populated limits. Now
this is changed, and as is seen by the daily
papers, there is a great scarcity of vacant
land in the interior of the city, go much
so that centrally located land for the cree
ton of new high school building is very
scarce, and public attention is centering
to notable extent on Broadway, most of
the other available land having been built
upon or being altogether too. oostly-in
other words, the vacant lots about town
have become scarce. The late ex-Gover-
nor English used to tell of the big open
territory. when he was boy, east of
Chestnut street and Franklin street: and
many of our people, not yet old, recollect
when there was circus lot on Grand
street, now Grand avenue, at Frank
lin street. It was big enough for
the big circuses of Barnum & Bailey or
Forepaugh of to-day. So there we're
our citizens who are active in business to-
day very few stores on Grand avenue for,
in fact, it's whole length, from State street
to Mill river, while in Fair Haven the
street was lined by pasture lots chiefly,
instead of dwellings, and business blocks
as it is to day. In fact there was almost
an utter absence of stores excepting few
places Familiarity termed ''gin mills" and
one or two grocery stores until the an
Gent part of Fair Haven was reached,
near the Quinnipiac river and the lit
tie nest of stores in Fair Haven East,
some Of which survive and are still to be
eeen in their old original style to- day
some of them, however, more modern
and quite Gifted in appearance and man
agement.
A stroll in any part of the city out into
the suburbs reveals to any one acquainted
with the city in past years the notable
growth of the city in the past few years,
aud how rapidly it is growing to-day. Our
neighboring city, Bridgeport, is the only
city in the state which is growing as fast
| az New Haven is. Waterbury is doing
we'll in this direction. City Point people
| are Justly proud of the great growth OF
this city in their direction. And how well
| the point looks and all Howard avenue in
| particular, with the fine and numerous ar.
| ray of we'll built, attractive houses of 9
nice class, which have been built down
there in the last few years. And next
Sunday jubilee day celebration occurs al
the Howard avenue Methodist church or
the point, marking further the progress
and development of this section.
The horse cars to CITY Point have giver
way to electric cars, and the swift-movine
| electric cars make short work OF the trit
from the point to the dry goods center o.
the city. The ladies can go shopping twice
day with the greatest of ease. RICH
merrily they go-both the City Pointladie
and the electric cars.
And now the City Point ladies are in NJ
way ahead of those who pstronize the Syl
van avenue line, as here too the electri,
car has succeeded the horse cars.
The cove and the lower annex are alst
now brought into close relations with tn,
city's center by the Morris cove electro
road, and those sections are now rapid,
building up.
On West Chapel street the march of i'm
provement is also taking large strides
Ever since the Yale field was located ant
brought to its present pitch of improve
ment, with its handsome buildings ant
other equipments for athletics, the It'd
of improvement has set that way NOR
strongly than ever. There are many in
dications of activity on all sides. Tn
vacant lot at the old terminus of the hors
car tracks, which needed filling in so badly
is nearly filed in, and several houses hav
ing three-story frame residence upon it
| which ia both ornamental and well con
structed, and Buck & Co. have next door
furniture store as the handsome chairs out
eide disclose to the most casual observe
w no passes by. Many new and nice house
have been or are being erected. Out op
posite Yale field Mr.. Edward NJ. Clark O
this city has sold in the past few weeks
dozen building lots from his fine level pic
of land 30 desirably situated for houses an
which were sold at prices ranging from
build upon their purchases. A number G
houses will soon be erected upon thi
handsome tract of land.
Out beyond Mr.. G. II. Redfeld, son an
business partner of Mr.. Redfeld, the qua,
~ owner and contractor, has a stylish an
, pretty, new brick residence, which is
nice addition to the landscape. 1t stand
, on Derby avenue, next to the Dickerma
pond, pretty street of water. Mr.. Rec
field, the father resides considerabl
farther out in the interior of the town {
Orange. Mr.. Reynolds, supervisor of til
Yale field, ia to further improve his HON
and grounds opposite the Yale field. No,
. that the horse railroad has been extende
, to the Yale field, the cars of the Fair HIS
ven and Westville Horse Railroad compan
run all the way to the gate of the field
connecting at Norton street with the regr
> lar cars of the line. The cars run durin
} the afternoons when the Yale students al
using the field for athletics, the first CO
connecting with the branch to the fel6
passing the college grounds shortl
before O'Clock; from that time all cal
connect until the close of the game
or practioing at the field. When there is
ball game Superintendent Graham of tn
railroad has big bunch of cars all read
and waiting near the field to bring BAG
the people. So great was the number {
visitors daily of late to the field to see til
students at practice, that the athleti
authorities at Yale have made a new rul
which prohibits now the attendance {
, spectators.
A great hindrance to travel to the fiel
| by the branch horse car line has been tn
work on the boulevard sewer. Just as til
railroad company had the branch line con
( pleted and ready to run cars on, the wor
, on the boulevard sewer reached Derb
avenue and for two weeks or more
mountain of earth across the avenu
l blocked the railroad track and stopped til
) passage of cars beyond that point. Th
> | sewer is 5 feet inches in diameter an
> lies quite distance below the avenue
| surface. Mr.. Brazos, the contractor, hs
pushed the work forward as rapidly
. possible and the avenue is now no longe
> | obstructed. The boulevard sewer end
for the present, at Derby avenue. 1t wi
l be like the stories in the fiction papers
"oontinued." Probably next year anothe
} section of it will be built. The roadbe
f on Derby avenue has just been put in fin
condition for teams from the sewer lir
, out nearly to the Yale field Electricit
l | will, no doubt, before long, be the motiv
power for the car line, connecting tt
, center of the city with the Yale field, {
all signs of the times point that way, an
. | with this object ultimately in view heav
rails for the new branch line to the fel
were laid, adapted to the use of electri
cars and to the application of electricit
as the motive power.
SNEAK THIEVES AT WORK.
] | They Are Stealing Coats and Cloaks
l A New Scheme to Catch a Store
keeper.
: Sneak thieves worked pretty extensivel
> in this city Saturday afternoon and ever