The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-14
A SCENE OF RARE BEAUTY
BEA UTIFUL DISPLAY MADE BY
 SHORT BEACH COTTAGERS.

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 Places-Morning Kaces-Close Contest
 in Yacht Race-New Haven Largely
 Represented.
 The illumna tions at Short Beach last evening were brilliant and beautiful and were witnessed by several thou sand people attracted thither by the reputation these iluminations have won in past years as spectacles of rare and unique beauty. The weather was charming, so much so that the chronic weather grumbler was content.
 The illuminations and the weather
 proved successful drawing cards for
 the crowds and it is probable that 5000 or 4,000 people were visitors at the set clement. Many went down on the cars
 as far as East Haven green and were carried the remainder of the distance by the stages, while some others went
 on bicycles and other private vehicles,
 and some few tried the walking. At the beach the crowd was scattered about the cottages, on the pier or bluffs
 and in boats. The scene presented from
 any of the vantage points was highly spectacular. Thousands of Chinese lan- ters and others were used in the dis play and hardly cottage showed less than half a hundred of these illumin-
 ators artstically arranged. The cottagers vied with each other in the decoration of their cottages. One of the finest showings was made by w. H. Hazel of this city, who had his beautiful cottage illuminated with 1 hundreds of lanterns of various colors hung from lines attached to the flag | staff or arranged in arches. | The Aldersea, J. N. Welch's cottage,
 and the Bungalow, Miss Ella Wheeler Wilcox's cottage, were both hung with
 numerous lanterns. | Other cottages especially well illu- minated were those of w. H. Lockwood, Bishop Goodsell, President David Corey of the State street railway. | MT. Shepard's grounds, over on John- sons Point, showed to great advantage from the other side of the bay, being brilliantly illuminated with hundreds of fiickering torches. Long Pier was strung with lanterns, while in Half Tide rock, from its posi- ton in the dark waters, stood out in
 bold relief surrounded by triangle of | lighted lanterns. The barge with tableau representing Cleopatra and Anthony ascending the Nile lowed about the bay added great l ly to the scene. | Red fire, beautiful sky rockets and bonfires completed the effect of the en- | tire illumination. Many dollars worth of fireworks
 were sent up from Keysers Point. Music was furnished for the evening by the full Branford band. Several large parties were over from Morris Cove Branford Point, Thimble Island
 and other places. A large party of six ty of the Pequot club went over from Morris Cove in barges and were enter tained at the cottage of J. N. Welch. Twenty-Five barges also were employ ed transporting visitors from the cars to the beach. At the close of the illumination hop was given at the Bungalow The evenings illumination was the termination of a gala day at the beach.
 Races were held, both in the morning and afternoon. The races and winners are as follows: Morning sports: Ladies' single scull race. flat bottom boats-Miss Ada Strong.
 Ladies' double scull, flat bottom boats Miss Vera Hazel and Miss Morse. Gentlemen's single scull, fiat bottom
 boats-H. Blatchley. Gentlemen's swimming race - F. Booth.
 Ladies' swimming race-Miss A.
 Strong.
 The prize for this event is handsome
 silver cup presented by Robert Wilcox Children's races at 1:3o D. m.- Boys running race, five years or younger-Hollie Welch. Girls running race, eight years or younger-Florence Hazel Girls potato race, ten years or young er--Vera Hazel. Boys potato race, ten years or young er-H. Roberts. Boys' three-legged race-Judson Ter Till.
 Boys obstacle race-Judson Terrill. The Lockwood cup for the launch race was won by the boat owned by A. c. Williams of Hartford, in 52 m. 19 S. Robert Wilcox's boat crossed the line
 second in 53 m. s. This race. as we'll as the catboat race for the Wilcox cup, were both close and interesting In the catboat race over a mile course the boats were very close and the winner will not be known till the corrected time of each of the boats has been reckoned The boats, their owners and their actual time are as follows: Ellen E., owned by MT. Kay of Short
 Beach, 2:13:51. Siren, owned by MT Brown of Short
 Beach, 2:14;46. Petrel owned by MT. Bailey of New
 Haven. 2:11:4. Nit. owned by J. N. Champion of New Haven. 2:16:39, Commodore, owned by J. N Welch of New Haven, 2:16:39. Mcintyre, owned by MT. Ransom of | New Haven, 2:11:21. Monsoon, owned by M. Durham of New Haven, 2:15:53 Ripple, owned by Mir. Downer of New 1 Haven, 2:2o:40.