The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-19
WEST HAvEN's BUILDING BOOM.

Over Fifty Houses a Year are Being
 Built-Advantage of This Beautiful
 Suburb.
 West Haven, generally accredited
 with being the most attractive and most
 beautiful suburb of Connecticut s
 largest city, the City of Films, is one of
 the points from which the least is heard
 by other than it's immediate residents.
 Possessed, as it has been for num-
 Der of years, of the principal resort of this metropolis, short sketch of it's growth is not at all uninteresting to the readers of the Journal and Courier.
 For years West Haven, or Savin Rock, has been identified as pleasure resort connected with New Haven, and to this may be indirectly ascribed the most re- markable growth and popularity of the borough
 In the past five years the building boom in this borough has been some- thing enormous, in fact eclipsing that of any of New Haven's suburbs The first of this boom was most noticeable in 1893, when in less than seven months a least fifty houses were erected during the time the weather permitted of such ope- rations, and every year since that has been the minimum of houses erected in the Immediate precincts of the borough.
 Upon such statement as the above, the first question that appeals to one is the cause. This may be attributed to several reasons. The first is the natural growth of city, which upon reaching it's limits must go beyond, and being separated from the city by the river, as West Haven is, decided change of To- cation being necessary, it"has been found eXpedient by families to make a formal exit from the city's precincts. Another reason, and not the least important, is the inducement that has been made by real estate owners. These have ap- pealed most especially to young men, who with a few hundred dollars have been able to assume the obligatio ne- cessary to become property owners. The pioneers of such movement were immediately initiated, and the result has been that parties who have held acres of land for number of years have cut it up into building lots, and by inn proving it have made it most attractive for building purposes.
 The proximity to the city, the conven- fence of the electric cars, the retired To- cation, and other advantages without have made this suburb an ideal place In which to locate a home and coupled with it's natural physiology there is nothing left to be desired. An unusual impetus to the building up of the borough was caused by the improve ment of property in the northern part of the borough by land improvement A large number of residences have been erected on this tract and are even now occupied by their owners, and the number still increases.
 Since the reduction of fare by the troll ley road the district adjacent to the 1 shore has begun to feel the boom, and a | number of residences are continually in course of erection. With all the advan- tages that have been set forth, and the natural course of progression of the To- cal population, it can be but question of few years before all the available space in West Haven will be occupied by thrifty citizens who seek to own their lwn homes, and then the "course of em- oire will still westward wend it's way"