The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-07-06
NOTES FROM MORRIS COVE
4 RUSH TO THE LIGHTHoUSE OYER
 THE R1ILRoAD EXTENSION.

Iron Moulders' Picnic cYesterday-Pequots Fireworks Again Postponed-Captain Elizur Thompson at the old Light and His Guests-Rushing the Work of Ex- tending the Electric Road to the Light house.
 Morris Cove and Lighthouse Point were we'll filled with pleasure seekers yesterday. In spite of loNe"y morn ing the appearance of a rift in the cloudy western sky gave start to the people who counted on q good tima for the Fourth and whose enthusiasm lasted over night,
 Crowds kept going down. although not in nearly as large numbers as would have gone on the Fourth had that day been fine. The Iron Moulders' as- sociation held their postponed picnic at Lighthouse Point and had a very jolly time. The games were run oft and the fun ran high. There was plenty of dancing in the grove and many sup pers and dinners were served at the hotei, which Is conducted by Glhern & Quinn, and whose bountiful tables well sustained their reputation.
 Tie energy displayed by the New Ha- ven Street Railway company in push ing their branch to the lighthouse is very commendable. The railway is new completed to over two hundred feet be- yond the old Morris house. It is now within six hundred feet of the point. It Is being pushed very fast over a direct route to the point, which lies nearer the harbor shore by about 200 feet than the old carriage roadway. About sixty men, mostly Italians, are laying the tracks. This extension bids fair to be a highly populag excursion route.
 Captain Elizur Thompson of the old lighthouse sits at the old familiar home near the old white lighthouse, cordial as ever, warmly greeting old friends his eye not yet dim, nor his natural force not seriously abated; and he re- calls the old days. the old times. the old familiar faces, although his years are now eighty-six. ''Yes," said the venerable captain, T was born in 1809,' : and you can figure 1t out for yourself. 7 He recalls well the old days when Hon James l.. Babcock was collector and when his newspaper partner, F, W. J Sizer, now mayor of the borough o1 Fair Haven East, was one of the lead. ing New Haven journalists and news. paper owners. Captain Thompson has a vast fund of incidents and interest ing recollections slowed away in the haversack of his memory, and though aged is not a pessimist, but speaks most hopefully of the future of the Star Span. gled banner, under which he has SC long served and which in his old age he still serves in the daily duty of dis playing the weather signals under the direction of Uncle sam's agricultural bureau, in which work he is assisted by his estimable wife. The rooms ir the captains pleasant home reserved for guests are all occupied and not until later on will there be any va. cancies. Captain Thompson is still quite active for one of his years, excepl for a little lameness caused by hiI trouble, which limits his walking tc short distances only. At present stop ping at his home is the following party all from Amsterdam, N. Y.: MT. ant Mrs. Thomas Little, Misses Mary ant Ellen Little, Thomas and Andrew Little Miss Abbie Kelwe, MT. and Mrs Charles Callender and two children, Eddie ane Murray. One of the greatest pleasures of the venerable captain is the visits O his son, Captain Thompson, who con ducts the big new red lighthouse, who's, beacon light shines so brightly ou at the entrance to New Haven harbur and who is as famous locally as hi, venerable sire as an efficient lighthoust keeper.