Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-09
WEST HAVEN BOOM.

Growing Rapidly and in all Direc-
 tions-A Glance at Some of the Many
 New Houses Feeling of ElatiOn
 Among the Inhabitants over the
 Prospects.
 There is general feeling among West l Haven people that the electric road will l place. The land has, according to &C., l counts, already received boom that is making the people look happy. Lots are being sold and houses erected in numbers that would speak we'll for even city like New Haven. Prices on property have taken jump and are still rapidly rising. A prominent resident nightly esteemed by all says property which could be bought for $10 per foot last year is now away up and it's owner refused to sell it at $31 per foot. This was on Elm street near the Waddingham section of the street. Houses, too, are being erected very fast and the builders there are reaping harvest. The electric road will be such great conve- nience to the working people that imme- diately after it is finished there will doubt less be great increase in the population. MT. Leete, an old resident, has com pleted very pretty cottage on Washing ton avenue near Leete street, about half | mile from the shore. It is one of the first l new houses erected in this section of West Haven in years.
 The grading of Elm street is progressing | rapidly. This grading is costing both the town and the railroad company 8 consid ezable sum. It was graded last year, but l owing to 8 mistake in the engineering it I lol %o ha Io1 A ner the walks have been graded and pre- sent very pretty appearance. The grad | ing goes long way up Railroad avenue. About half dozen large elm trees have
 been removed from in front of the Wad- dingham grounds. The elms were old and
 rotten. The walk in front all along the
 grounds is being graded and concerted in
 excellent style, which will add to the all
 ready attractive appearance of the l grounds.
 Mr. Israel A. Kelsey, vice president of
 the electric road, has erected about dog
 en substantial dwellings on land on Main
 street and other localities in the central
 part of the borough, some of which he pur-
 chased from Walter Main, ex-town clerk,
 who is now in California, and who report
 says is making considerable money at Red
 lands.
 A building is being erected on the COT.
 ner of Maple street and First avenue for J.
 w. Benedict, formerly of New Haven.
 Two houses have just been finished on
 Third avenue below Elm street. Two
 more are nearly finished between Elm and
 Main streets on the same avenue. Harry
 l. Thompson and Clarence E. Thompson
 have built several houses on Third avenue
 between Elm and Main streets.
 Mr. B. F. Richards, the lumber dealer has erected $6,000 house for his new residence at the corner of First avenue and |. Main street. It has all the modern i'm
 provements and 8 very handsome and pic
 turesque tower and is. very prettily laid out
 The under pinning is of East Rock stone
 MT. Wilkinson is erecting $4. 500 house on Main street near H. I. Thompson,
 beautiful $5 ,O00 house.
 The new $4, 900 house of Dr. Adams ii about finished. It is next to Clarence E : Thompson's residence. MT. Thompson : has returned home from his business tril , to Kansas and other western states. Don S. Thompson has two well bull
 houses on Washington avenue.
 Charles Maltby of New Haven, brothe l of George B. Maltby, the coal merchant occupies one of the new houses built b.
 Clarence E. Thompson.
 3 Two $2, 800 houses have been erected o1 Savin avenue, opposite General E. E Bradley's summer residence.
 3 | 1Qo JhIuOS CTAuhtu dOSo COIupdUy uTc u : erect new building on Railroad avenue
 Three houses on Center street, between Kim
 berly avenue and Third avenue, have been erecte
 by Julius Twiss since last fall One has bee
 sold to Mrs. Kate Wright, to Mrs. Ida E l Hills and one to Mrs. Betsy Brooks. Mrs. Wrigh = 1 is the wife of Mir. Pliny J. Wright. MT. and Mrs l Wright have moved from New Haven to thei Hills joiner in the employ of the Consolidate 1 railroad Mrs. Brooks is the wife of Isaac |. 1 Brooks, who is, like MT. Hill, employed by tn , Consolidated railroad. The houses are now oC l cupied by the purchasers.
 a Six new houses have been built on Union stree these have been sold to parties who have fot ( l seen the boom.
 I Ex-Warden Reln S. Hine has about complete | & new house at the corner of Second street an Third avenue. It cost about g., 800 to build. g President Israel A. Kelsey, of the West Have ! hoped to have the main line running with elet | tricity by July 1. It was originally intended
 have it in full operation by June %, but there ha
 been some delay in the shipment of necessar
 almost two weeks. The power station at Yves 1 Haven is completed and now the compBn 1 is waiting for machinery. Three engine and dynamos are to be put into the station. On 3 l engine and dynamo are expected to-day. Tn
 three big boilers required are in position. Tn : 1 right at work wiring the poles on the main line P That will take about two weeks. President Ke sey says that the company will not wire the pole l. ! in the city under ten days in order that tn , l cement may have time to harden and so mak l 1 the poles firm
 The shore driveway skirting the harbor has rt l ceived considerable improvement this season an |: it is iu tolerably fair condition. Considerabl
 earth for filling on the roads is being taken froI l the the lot back of the Mathushek Piano con