The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-24
4 VERY ENJoYAnAE TRIP.

A summer Vacation Trip-Up the Farm
 ington and Down the Housatonic Valleys
 A Carriage Drive Up Northward Into
 tho Old Bay state-New Haven People
 Met icn Route.
 Travelling by means of the iron horse
 has it's charms, ploughing the ocean on
 palace steamer delights multitudes,
 the confirmed bioyclist scorns a dis
 tance of one or two score of miles for a
 days travel, but there is still a potent
 charm in a carriage drive across coun-
 try and not a few Connecticut people
 this summer have enjoyed the last
 mentioned excursion methods Judge
 Lynde Harrison two or three years ago
 made trip by horse and carriage over
 a goodly part of Connecticut visiting
 many out of the way towns not in the
 highway lines of trade and travel,
 towns with which he was familiar only
 1n name, or as component parts through their representatives of the general as-
 sembly, of which he had been speaker, and at times general director. Many
 rural district, many babbling brook were recalled to view on this rural trip in short, many a scene which has left most pleasant imprints on the judges tablet of memory. Ellsworth l. Foote, of the New Haven Water com pany has left all the perplexities of l water rates and the thousand and one problems of business detail pertaining
 to his big corporation behind and is | enjoying a carriage drive up north" MT Henry Sutton, builder and manager of many ships has for years taken l solid comfort every summer in drive 1 with his wife up north into the Berk- shire and surrounding territory. Anoth- CT well known and prominent New I Haven man, MT Henry Colwell, has 1 just returned from carriage drive 'up the Pennington valley and down the l Housatonic." MT and Mrs. Colwell l left New Haven on the trip nahrly a Fmonth ago. The terminus of the trip was Goshen, Mass, and here at an old furnished inn, 1,4oO feet above sea level,
 they were quartered until their depart | ure for home Here they endured ab- solute comfort during the recent terri ble hot spell in which all New HAven was b4king and sizzling, the highest point the thermometer reached in | Goshen being s9, while the nights were delightfully."- cool.
 1 On the return trip the route was as | follows: Goshen to Cummington, to West Cummington, to Paper Mill vil- I lage, to East Windsor, Windsor Hill, l Dalton, Pittsfeld, Lenox, Stockbridge, I Great Harrington, Clayton, Norfolk, 1 Conn, Norris, Litchfield Watertown waterbufy and home only once were l the excursionists caught in the rain, and that was near the end of the jour l ney. They left Goshen last Wednesday morning, returning Saturday morning. They met several New Haven people while en route home, At Norfolk they l saw Rev. F. $. Lines and Dr. Sage, who were there soiourning. At Litch- tfeld they saw Cashier Foote of the | National Tradesmen's bank William
 Gay, Of the Hotel Majestic Henry
 White, MT Wooster of the former car riage manufacturing firm Of Durham l & Wooster. On the road from Great Burlington to Norfolk they met Els
 worth T. Foote who was taking drive
 across country. At Pittsfield they vis- I tied the fine stock farm of Mir Mannice
 who is a nephew of Judge A. Heatcn
 Robinson, and J. B Robertson of this city. On the way they also visited the 1 Allen stock farm one of the finest in all respects in the New England states.