The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-19
4 BREEZE FROM LITcHFIELD.
Psriander Tells of the Beauties Of Old
 Litchfield and its Surroundings.

To the Editor Of tho JOURNAL and couRtKhi
 The wise man who finds that he can not pass the entire summer season at Litehfeid. but must pass a portion of 1t at Newport, Saratoga or at some other of the resorts which make de- mands on pulse, patience and purse. will divide his Litchheld time into two parts. He will visit Litchfeld in the spring or very early summer. and will return in the autumn. In the spring Litchheld abounds in rejuvenating forces. There is exuberant life In the air to All lungs, heart and brain with power to stand and resist the contam- nations of fashion and frivolity. Af- ter two or three weeks of Lttchfield the individual may pass through a month of Newport, or Lenox. without entire physical and mental demorall- zation. He will carry within him a storehouse of health, vigor, common sense and kind-heartedness on which to draw in hours of need and peril. Returning in the autumn, under aus pices as benign as those of spring time, he will brush off the microbes which may be clinging to his garments and in the august companionship of Litchfield burgesses and Litchfield ridges renew his allegiance to all that is best and purest in man and nature.
 The accidental occurrence of the word ridges" in the foregoing para graph calls attention to remarkable peculiarity of this remarkable country.
 Litchfield is pre-eminently country of ridges. Ridgefleld makes over its one diminutive ridge more row-de-dow than a cantankerous hen over its sin gle upstart chick. Litchfield has doz- ems of ridges. any one of which puts Ridgefeld's ridge to shame and would be sufficient to start any new summer resort on a career of prosperity. The village itself is on a ridge. This par ticular ridge is started up in the north country. When fully mature it meets the village at the north end of North street, It carries on its broad back, and on nearly an even keel, the whole of North street 'and the whole of South street. Where South street at the end of the village terminates in a fork the ridge, perhaps confused by the forking, more likely conscious that the object of its creation has been &C., comphshed, begins gently to subside and is soon lost in the fertile plains of Morris. To the east of Litchfeld, and separated from it by deep ravine, Is the ridge known as Chestnut Hill.~ No more superb ridge can be found within the limits of New England, the mother of ridges. The ridge is formed of vari- ous hills and ridgelettes which come together not far from Goshen, six miles away to the north. When the various bodies which make up the ridge have been assigned to their re- spective positions the ridge commences it's glorious march. No finer panorama in the world than that presented by the ridge as it pours its serried masses to- wards the south. When it passes Litchfield and salutes the sovereign villages one Is reminded of the imperial army of Germany when reviewed by it's heroic chief. Litchfield rejoices at the sight and is filled with legitimate pride The ridge also rejoices at the nd iofi fioy of it's liege lord. After passing Litch- field the ridge throws out column to the east, which carries way down to Northfield-miles away-a Litchfield blessing; while the main column, fol- lowing the example of the Litchfield ridge, soon breaks ranks and is also lost amid the plains of Morris. The view of the ridge from Litchfield is magnificent. The view of Litchf1eld from the ridge is most beautiful. Mo- where else in the whole range of mum dane creation do, two such superb en- titles so magnificently reflect their en- tireities, the one upon the other. As furnishing sites for the residences of millionaires the ridge is worth at least fifty thousand dollars an acre. In fact some Htchfielders are apprehensiye that an itinerant millionaire may dis cover the ridge and may call the at tention of his class to his discovery; and that thus Litchfield may become infested with millionaires, Other Litchflelders do not fear the conse- quences but are confident that the burgesses will be equal to the occa- sion, and by proper sumptuary laws will be able to keep the hoard of mill honaires within the limits of propriety and virtue. There is no apprehension entertained by any one that even a billionaire could single-handed divert for an instant the purity and stead fastness of burgesses intent though he piled him with money bags the size of Mt. Tom. ..5
 The views from tthe point where Chestnut ridge begins to dip are un- surpassed and unsurpassable. To the east the eye wanders over the Nauga- tuck valley and far into Hartford county. To the south, if gifted with the sight of a hawk certainly if the hawk were a Litchfield hawk-the eye would reach out over the ocean beyond Long Island; for nothing intervenes. To the west the view is beautiful be- yond the reach of poetic imaginings. Far iu the north is Mohawk mountain, with its solitary tower looming on the horizon like a gigantic sentinel. In the foreground is Litchfield itself in iA~ nNr