Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1894-05-21
BUSY SCENES AT BEACON HILL.

BUSY SCENES AT BEACON HILL.
The Historic Old Hill Sees Great
Awakening Unequalled Since the
Stirring Times OF the Revolution.
airy War.
The noise of pick and shovel In East
Haven have been for weeks awakening old
East Haven and Beacon Hill from it's sleep
of over 100 years, in the laying out of new
avenues and streets by the Boston syndi-
cate, headed by the Messrs. Quimby. Old
Beacon Hill has not been cognizant Of any
such commotion since those historic days
of the defense of New Haven against the
incoming soldiers from the British feet
which lay at anchor, it is said, off New
Haven harbor, near where the Connecticut
worlds fair cottage is to stand. Besides
all this commotion, which is due to the
enterprise of the Boston syndicate, there
Is that great commotion caused by the
working of hundreds of laborers and
teamsters who have laid the rails for the
electric road, in which cars will in three OF
four weeks be running past the tract of
land of fifty acres or more which the Bos
ton syndicate has bought and passing on
to Saltonstall lake where the Cygnet, the
worlds fair Electra and the barge
Governor Ssltonstall are to do trans.
portation service this summer. Hun
dreds of people have taken a ride or
l the State street cars to Four Corners sni
| walked short distance to see improve
l ments which the Boston syndicate are max
1 ing. There are various broad avenues ani
II oofro oil Iv, 1afI mt 1on
few weeks, for the Boston men are hustler
and are pushing the work in a most enter
prising manner. A New Haven town com
mittee has the matter under consideration
of cooperating with the town in laying on
one more broad avenue, as this avenue !
just within the New Haven town line
| This avenue will run from Maine street, tn
great thoroughfare to East Haven center
along Beacon hill, the idea being to con
meet it with the Park drive, and when don
the residences built on the avenue vii
have an unobstrueted front vie,
looking over the Beaver Hill park
the fine sweep Of the city, harbo
and Long Island sound. Al
houses will be on the west eide of the ave
nue. fronting the park. Across the stree
lies the western edge of Beaver Hill park
Doubtless more slightly or desirable loca
u
cult to find In all the region roundabout
New Haven.
The Messrs. Quimby and this syndicat
had great success with their Worceste,
Mass, enterprise, having bought man.
acres of land, laid out streets, piante
shade trees, cut the tract into building lot
and sold them on moderate terms, an
now scores of houses have been built o.
the land by purchasers, and fully qual
ter of a million dollars has been added {
Worcester's grand land list by their ente,
prise. They will pursue the same plan here
selling the lots on Wooster Park Terrac
at private sale, and the date of th
big sale is fixed for May 80. The locatio
is very happy one, both from Its pictu1
esque situation and convenience of acces
from the city by two lines of electric road
lone, the State street, leading diret
through Fair Haven to the center of tt
city, where the dry goods stores and othe
stores SO dear to the ladies are; the othe
communicating directly with the easter
part of the city, where SO many of the b
! factories are located. East Haven is de-
tined to have great awakening and add
tional increase of taxable wealth.