The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-07-08
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The season at Woodmont Is now in full blast, the cottages full. the hotels | full, and among the visitors New Ha- ven, the Naugatuck valley, Meriden, | Wallingford, Hartford. New York, Brooklyn, Chicago and other places are well represented. The electric cars now rum all the way to the beach, striking the beach about 800 feet below Merwin's Point proper,
 One of the most prominent social events of the season was a reception and dinner given Friday evening at the Pembroke hotel by Mir, and Mrs. W. J. Atwater of Trumbull street, this city, i'm honor of party of their New Haven friends, the invited guests being the same who were entertained last season by MT. Franklin H. Hart of this city at the Sheldon house, Pine Orchard, where Mr. and Mrs. Hart usually spend the summer. In the party entertained by MT. and Mrs. Atwater were Rev. pr. Phillips and wife, Mrs. Henney, jr., wife of John Henney, jr., of the Consolidated road, Joseph Porter and wife of Whit ney avenue ex-Mayor George F. Hol- comb and wife, E. S. Stevens and wife of Trumbull street and Edward I. At
 water, all of this city, and MT. H. l..
 Sterrett and wife of Cincinnati, o. The
 dinner was one of the very best ever served at the Pembroke and gave unlim- ited satisfaction, Mrs Abbe outdoing her self. The evening was delightfully."- spent and the guests separated having had an
 exceedingly pleasant time. General
 E. $. Greeley and wife and MT. Hart
 and wife were to have been of the par ty, but were detained owing to the du-
 ties of General Greeley and MT Hart
 in connection with the unveiling of the
 tablet at Fort Wooster park.
 Among the guests at the Pembroke
 is Frederick Leonard of Brooklyn, N.
 r., son of prominent Wall street ban
 ker and broker. Young MT. Leonard
 is spending part of the summer at
 Woodmont and Is to enter Yale in the
 fall.
 MT William H. Merwin of Temple
 street, this city, has his new summer
 cottage on the Merwin plot about com
 pleted. It is within 0 few hundred feet
 of the shore, on the new road to the
 shore, which road, however, does not
 yet reach the shore owing to the fact
 that the ownership of the shore front
 is disputed, and a lawsuit seems about
 to be instituted to decide the question
 of title. Policeman William Merwin
 of Fair Haven bought a strip of land
 on the beach near his shore place, and
 with a clear title as he supposed. The
 Merwin brothers of this city and Wood
 mont, with much public spirit, donated to the Woodmont Electric Railroad com
 pany a liberal strip of land by means
 of which the railroad company obtained
 the completion of it's right of way to the
 shore. The company then extended its
 road to the shore, where 1t now lands
 it's passengers close to Officer Merwin's shore house. The right of way given the
 road was through, the land of the Mer-
 win brothers, and brings the cars al-
 most to the door of the officers new
 shore building As the ownership of the
 shore front Is claimed by ex-Off1cer Mer-
 win, the Merwln land has mo driveway
 to the beach, the street being of no
 avail for the purpose unless cut through IO II6 UbdcIl. IIt Cldilll lS IlIduc ny tiie Merwin brothers that the shore front pertains to their land and that the title to 1t was never parted with, and that Officer Merwin's purchase is null and void. Ex-Judge Stoddard and Lawyer Platt of Milford have been engaged in the case by the Merwin brothers and will examine the land records of New
 Haven and Milford. going over a space of about one hundred years. Meantime Officer Merwin has gone ahead and erected a shore house of considerable size close to the beach and the terminus of the eelctric road. There is some pros- pect that the matter will be arnicably compromised.
 Mrs. $. H. Nettleton and the Misses Helen and Katherine Nettleton of Der by, who spent last summer at the Pem- broke, are registered there again this year.
 Fred H. Stevens of the Bridgeport Standard and Mrs. Stevens, who spent last summer at the Pembroke, arrived there to spend the remainder of the summer last week. They have been oc- l cupying MT. Goodsell's cottage during l the month of June. MT and Mrs. J. R. Mason of Derby and Masoni Heron of Derby are at the Pembroke.
 The following New Workers are reg l stered at the Pembroke: George Hin | ick, Ben Halliday and F. M Davis. Other arrivals are: Walter s. Thomp- son, C. s. Thompson, William Hooker Atwood of New Haven, Mrs. B. w Tib- betts of Denver, Col, H. r. Emerson, R. J. Emerson of Ansonia, Hobart Hotchkiss of New Haven and Mir. and l Mrs. G. W. Girard of Brooklyn. Colonel l.. F. Burpee and wife of Wa l terbury arrived last Tuesday and are l at the Bowman cottage.
 Ex-Mayor Henry F. Peck and family 1 of this city are at the Spencer cottage on Anderson avenue
 D. M. Zekiel and family of Springfield moved into the log cabin on the bluff which was recently built by w. E. ! Wedge of Bridgeport on Friday. | G. W. Goodsell of Bridgeport and fam ! fly arrived last Tuesday.
 Professor Bonney and wife of New l Haven will move into the cottage own- | ed by Willis N. Butricks right away. W. T. Bugbee of Springfield is in the | Harmon cottage on the bluff, having ar- rived last Monday.
 Colonel Tracy Warren of Bridgeport | is at fhe p1ntt cnttape