The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-28
EVENTS AT SHORT BEACH.
TIE GRAND ILLTMfSiTiOS 1o
 TAKE PLACE AUGUST !.

Grand Complimentary Excursion To-Day
 of short Beach People Over tho Lines or
 the New Haven Street Railway.
 Short Beach continues not only to hold its own as a popular. quiet and heaith- full pleasure resort. but to increase In favor and popularity. Here. nestling on the stretch of level land nt the shore Of shortBeach bay and in the immediate vicinity are upwards of 100 cottages. where twenty years ago there was hard ly half dozen. Twenty years ago the place was mostly woods. briars and undergrowth. A few of the old original houses remain: all the rest are modern in appearance Some of the cottages are quite stylish and expensive and ar chitecturally handsome. Most of them are plain and inexpensive. but very comfortable summer cottages. and hardly one but has some pretty piazza or other extra adornment.
 There are pretty beaches and numer- ous bathing places handy to the cot tages. and besides good bathing spots, there is good fishing at near by reefs. The clamming Is not as good as for merly. there being so steady and con stant demand for these toothsome bi- valves all summer long, but a good mess of soft shell or long clans can be gathered in an hour or so by wading out in the water, and then digging for them.
 The cottagers are quite happy over the easy access to the city now afforded by Nesbits stages in connection once every hour with the Saltonstall cleo tric cars. The wagonettes built by MT. J. L. Nesbit of New Haven for the pur- pose. and put in use. are very comfort able conveyances and very popular, and many people improve the opportunity to visit Short Beach, buying twenty-five cents through ticket on the State street sare at the old green this city which takes them to the Beach via the electric cars and Nesbit's stages.
 Next Friday, August 3, the annual grand illumination at Short Beach takes place, the program for which is now being arranged. It is expected to fully equal, If not surpass, former dem- onstrations of the kind. There will be swimming matches. sail boat and yacht and naphtha launch races display of fireworks and great illumination of boats and cottages. If the night is pleasant hundreds will no doubt go from this city to enjoy the scene either by private carriages or by the electric cars and the wagonettes. The latter will, on this occasion,by arrangement of the cottagers with MT. Nesbit, run to connect with every car, not only until 8 o'clock, but up to the last car for New Haven over the saltonstall Lake line. which leaves East Haven green at about 10:4O.
 To-day all Short Beach will be awake also, as, through the invitation of Pres ident Corey of the New Haven Street Railway company, who is one of the Short Beach pioneer cottagers, about fifty of the cottagers at Short Beach will be given a complimentary ride over all the lines of the New Haven Street Rail- way COHlpduy 1HSy VIII nave III dll d ride of about thirty miles, that being the extent of the n''"o ~n of the company The party will go to East Haven green by stages, there taking the electric cars and going to Lake Saltonstall, Morris Cove, through Fair Haven to Scheutzen park, and to Lake Whitney. The party will take along basket loads of lunches and take dinner atrsome of the con- venient resorts on some one of the lines.
 Among the party will be the following guests: Jesse Welch and family of New Haven, W. H. Lockwood and family of Hartford, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the poetess of the Bungalow, Short Beach and friends, Burr Johnson and family of New Britain, W. H. Reynolds of New Haven and family, Lawyer Sidney E. Clark and family of Hartford, Lawyer Charles B. Matthewman and family ot New Haven, A. Kelsey Jones and fam. lily of New Haven, H. A. Blunt and fam lily of New Haven, W. H. Stanley and family of New Britain, MT. Hazel, the New Haven stove dealer, and family MT. Oakley and family of New Haven
 The party will start from the Beach al 9:30 o'clock and board the electric cars
 near East Haven green at 10. A jolly