The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-06-18
NEW HAVEN MORNING
THE ROAD TO COSY BEACH
EXTENSION OF NEW HAVEN STREET RAILWAY COMPANY COMPLETED.

Initial Trip Over the Line Taken Yester- | day by a Party as Guests of the Conn
 pany-Fine Shore Dinner Served at l Bartlett's-Axtension Opens for Busi-
 ness TO-day.
 By recent extension of the lines of the New Haven Street railroad New Haveners are now enabled to reach conveniently one of the pleasantest and prettiest little shore places to be found on the New England coast. The place referred to is Cosy Beach and the name Is a most appropriate one, a cosier nook being difficult to imagine. Heretofore this quiet little spot has been isolated as it were, access to 1t be- | ing possible only by boat.or carriage while once in while a stray bicyclist penetrated to it's inviting recesses. But by the completion of the New Ha- ven Street Railway company's eXten- | sion, which was accomplished only | few days ago, it is made accessible by | trolley ride of about fifty minutes.
 Yesterday afternoon, the first passen- l ger car was run over the new route. It conveyed a party of newspaper men and other guests of the company. The party was conducted by General Man ager G. A. w. Dodge and included about twenty gentlemen. They left the Green on a special car for the ride to Cosy Beach. And what ride 1t was. Out through quiet little East Haven, soberly nestling outside of the city's hum drum and hustle amid fertile farms and verdant pastures, and then over a stretch of track extending | through woodland and fields like a quiet country lane. Here and there a herd of cows in a pasture lot would lift their heads from the succulent grass and gaze with bovine wonder at the, to them, unwonted sight of a trolley car invading their peaceful precincts.
 The new extension leaves the Short Beach road soon after East Haven vil- lage is.passed and from this parting to the shore, about a mile and a half the line is built through right of way secured from the neighboring farmers. Except for an occasional farm house partly hidden in trees and fianked by barns, not a break occurs in the lGnd- scape of fields and woods, and these rather add to the beauty of the scene than detract from it. At one point the tracks extend for some distance through a large patch of sweet fern growing among other woodland shrubs | o,,I Iyy "a breeze, to delight the senses of the pas- senger, seem almost to rival in sweet ness the perfumes of "Araby the Blest."
 Arrived at Mansfield's Grove at the western end of Cosy Beach, the party spent a pleasant hour along the shore, among the rocks, and in the pavilion, from which perched on the pinnacle of high rock a beautiful view of the sound and the east shore is obtained. The scene is indeed picturesque. Just beyond this jutting rocky headland is quiet little bay studded by little rocky islets and bordered by tree GOV cred cliffs, while at the very back of the bay is a pretty little bit of smooth beach.
 At the end of the car line little river divides the grove from the main
 land and across this a bridge has just been completed. Having enjoyed the view about the grove and gotten good
 appetite by the walking about the shore, the party sat down to a shore | dinner at Bartlett's hotel. The menu
 which included everything usually served in a shore dinner, was of su-
 perior quality and much better cooked < than is the average shore dinner II
 included chowder, soft shell crabs, lob , ster boiled, lobster salad, fried cells . broiled bluefish, fried oysters, broiled 7 | sea bass, with vegetables all served by , | two pretty girls. Every member of the party was high in his praise of the din. ner and 1t was pronounced by all one , | of the best shore dinners they had evel f l partaken of.
 f After charge after charge had beer made upon the numerous courses an1 . fearful havoc wrought thereon, William
 S. Beecher, director of the department U of public works was chosen toastmas ter and called upon the following gen
 temen for short speeches.: Alexander
 Troup, Colonel Charles w. Pickett. J . Edward Dennis, w. J. Atwater, S. z f Poli, Thomas H. Sullivan, Genera
 Manager Dodge of the New HaveI Street railroad and Walter J. Connol 7 of the board of education. Among those present in addition to these gen :. tlemen were: President Corey of tht , New Haven Street Railroad company : Charles A. Warren, J. J. Lawton ant MT. Grannis. The return trip to tn, city was made after the speaking, ar
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