The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-08-10

One of them is j. N. Champions Nit"
Another interesting event of the day
will be the launch race for the Short
Beach cup, a trophy offered in 1894 by
Mr.. w. H, Lockwood OF Hartford to the
winning launch, to be held as long as
1t can remain winner. The course is
about ten miles in length. The cup is
now held by Mr.. Williams of Hartford,
who has won it twice, Mr.. Robert Will
cox has also won the cup twice. The
best time thus far made was that of
Mr.. Wilcox's launch in l hour "a min
utes and SO seconds.
There are some fine launches owned
at the shore, among them Mr.. Lock
woods "Janruta," Mr.. Wilcox's "Ro-
bella" Mr.. Williams Edith" Mr.. Ha-
zels Mystic and Mr.. Welch's moro
itsa"
An amusing race of the day will be as
follows: All the competing launches
will be anchored, and their small boats
tied to the shore. AT the signal each
contestant ties his small boat, rows to
the launches, lights the fires and gets
under way as soon as possible. The
contestant who does this with the great
est alacrity wins the prize.
Races have also been arranged
| throughout the day for the boys and
girls, two prizes to be contested for il,
each event. There will be separate
races for the boys and girls of the fol-
lowing varieties: Swimming races, tub
races, running races, three legged races,
obstacle races and potato races.
There are several entries in each of
the events. t D
The general committee of arrange
ments consists of J. D. Welch of New
Haven, David Corey of New Haven,
Sidney Clarke of Hartford G. w. Ha-
eel of New Haven, w. H. Lockwood of
Hartford E. G. Ooakley of New Haven,
Albert Stanley of New Britain. Robert
! Wilcox of New York, and E. B. Knowles
| of Short Beach.
| The committee on illumination con-
| sists of Messrs. Wilcox, Corey, Clarke
and Shepard.
The sailing committee, of Messrs.
Corey, Clarke, WEIGH and Kelsey.
The finance committee rs headed by
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox and is COM
posed of the following: Misses Harriet
Wild, Ada Strong, Annie Eldridge, Vio-
let Miller, Eta Knowles Maude John
son, Bessie Welch, Vera Hazel, Alice
Baldwin, Caroline Worth, Grace Rey-
nolds and Miranda Clarke, This com
mittee has been very successful in col
lecting funds.
If the weather is stormy the illumin-
alton will be on Saturday evening.
| Buses will connect with the electric
cars every twenty minutes that even
ing, and will continue running as long
as is necessary to accommodate Wis
itors
The White Star steamer will bring
a large party over from Branford.
The fishing season is just opening.
Mr.. Lockwood took thirty-fve blue
fish of small size in one day and other
| large catches are common.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the poetess, is
one of the enthusiastic admirers OF
| Short Beach, where she has spent hei
summers for many years. Speaking oil
the place the other day she expressed
| regret that so beautiful a place should
have so commonplace name as Short
Beach. 1t is at her suggestion that the
name Boulder Bay has been applied tc
the inlet in this article as perhaps one
which would supply need of the inle
which has hitherto had a rather monde
script existence with no well defined
name. The name Boulder Bay is Ger.
tainly descriptive of the melt and thl.
story.
The cottages are occupied this sum
ner as follows: The Edgewater by
Miss Booth and Miss Monson of Meri
|
family of New Britain. Mrs. J. M
| Crawford and daughters of Cohoes N
Y, are stopping at the Baldwin cottage
for the month. The Linwood is occu
pied by W. L. Forbes and family o
Hartford, the HARDWOOD by Mrs. ]. NJ
| Davis of New Britain, Twin cottages
by Mr.. George Swayne of New Britain
and Mr.. Horace Booth and family, TIL
Greenleaf by Mr.. Fl. M. Eddy of New
Britain. T. B. Wilcox of New Britain
occupies his own cottage.
Bishop Goodsell will occupy his cot
tage, the Edgecliff, the last of tn
month. 1t is now occupied by his son
Buel, of the First National bank of thi
city
The Bijou is occupied by George NJ
Steubens of Brooklyn.
DR.. Foster of this city occupies tn
Kelsey cottage.
DR.. Barnett of New Haven spent
short time at one of the Kelsey cot
tages.
The Jewett is occupied by Mr.. Fran
JeWett of Hartford.
The Amazon is occupied by w. {
| King of Springfield
, The Sylvan is occupied by DR.. Georg
, D. Thayer and family and Miss Kell
of Northampton.
The Whipporwill is occupied by MI