The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-28

 prosperity. Just above is a deep, fine
 perennial spring of pure, limpid, al-
 most ice cool water, and rightly named
 Cold Spring brook, which is a feeder to
 the stream, and has been suitably
 walled In and protected. Mr. A. J.
 Granniss is superintendent of Glen
 Grove park, as of yore, and under his
 careful oversight the grove is kept in
 most attractive condition and he will,
 as ever, make everything pleasant for
 the numerous Sunday schools and pri- vate excursion parties which will visit | the park this season. The park Is to l be a great resort for Sunday schools
 and private excursions. About twenty
 are already booked, and bookings for
 more are being made daily. One of the
 mammoth excursions this season will
 be the grand union excursion from Mer-
 iden, composed of the Trinity Metho- dist, the First Methodist and the Uni
 versalist churches of that city. They will probably charter a special train.
 A committee from the German Baptist | Sunday school of this city, composed
 of MT. Louis Lassen and MT. Scheussler, visited the lake Saturday and engaged
 July as the date of the annual excur-
 sion of the school to the park. The Dwight Place church and the College | street church of New Haven have their
 special days engaged.
 Another and new pleasure grove Is to be thrown open to the public this sea- son in complete trim. This is the "Re- gatta Point Grove" which is a delight | full, beautifully wooded grove on the
 east side of the lake on gently sloping land. It is large, well wooded grove, easily and quickly accessible by the | electric launch, and trailer Lucy, being distant only about a third of a mile
 from the railroad station, and many private and family parties will visit 1t l this season.
 There are two steamboats this season
 at the lake, the well known Cygnet, a now familiar boat, commanded by Captain Baldwin, and the Swan, com
 manded by Captain Bassett. They are
 swift sailing boats, and then for
 large parties there is the big barge
 Gov saltonstall, as of yore, with ac- commodations for 250 or more. Captain
 G. H. Baldwin has the management of
 the transportation department and his is an old familiar face to visitors at the
 lake, and a more skilled, capable and discreet navigator need not be desired. Captain A. J. Bassett, who is captain of the Swan, is well versed in the management of steamboats, he having commanded the we'll remembered tug, "Pollywog," which piled in New Haven harbor thirty-four years ago. Mater he was for twenty years with the New Haven Tow Boat company.
 The steamers will begin making trips for public accommodation to-day, mak- ing trips as often as the patronage re- quires, and in few days schedule time will be announced.
 One of the prettiest new features just added to the ridge park, that great mountain park, known as Lake Salton- stall park" occupying all the high ridge over four miles long, which overlooks the lake on the west, casting its shadow on the lakes bosom, as early as ? D. m,, and being a delightfully."- cool spot with its forest like array of trees, was just completed last Saturday. This is at Eagle Nest rock, which is a high point on the ridge, a few rods from where the electric cars stop. Heretofore this eminence was reached by a circuitous foot path, but now the ascent to it is a flight of oak steps, by which and the por- tions of the old path utilized, access to it is direct. Then at the very summit of Eagles Nest, where Hes the huge boulder dating from some glacial period a wide flight of seats has been erected from the summit of which one sees a magnificent view, comprising a stretch of Long Island sound, the towns of Madison, Guilford,, Branford, East Haven and New Haven. It also com mands a fine view of New Haven har- Dor, the breakwater, etc, While East Haven lies stretched out almost at ones feet. 1t is g. view worth going | miles to see, and yet walk of less than l two minutes takes one to it from where | the electric cars stop fully 150 feet be- | low. It was here, tradition has it, that | a lordly eagle had its nest for years, | and used to rob the fish-hawks of their | prey as they returned from New IIa- | ven harbor or the Sound bearing the | fish they had toiled to catch. The eagle | was only taking toll, being lord of the | airy domain whereabouts. The many | other grand views from the heights have been hitherto described in our columns. The heights are now in their full glory of verdure with the scene further by the multitudes of blooms of the box wood and the laurel. There are over eight miles of drives and walks, all free to the pub lie on this vast private suburban park of seven hundred acres.
 IN OLD SLAVERY DAYS.