The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-11-25
WOODM0NT. .IHR-SEA.
MAST HEW HATENERS AT FAM ILY GATHERINGS YESTERDAY.

visiting Homes of Ancestors and Other
 Homes--some of the Happy Events
 Mrs. DooIittIe's Whist Party-wOOd-
 mont ChapeI-Many Personal Items.
 woodmont-by-the-sea was visited yesterday by large contingent of res idents of this city and other places, who returned to the homes of their anees- tors for family reunions and Thanks giving dinner. The trolley cars ran every half hour in the afternoon and were crowded all day with people en route for stations between New Haven and Bridgeport, and the weather was ideal. ,r. -z
 Carl Schlect and wife, of the Mer- wins Point house, went Saturday to spend few days with Mir. schleets mother in New York. ..
 Hardy Merwin, of the Merwin res taurant, will build a large restaurant at the Point and will have the old res taurant removed. Walter Irving, of Milford, will have the contract for building it.
 Report says that there will be an ad- dition built on the Hotel Pembroke be- fore next summer.
 Mrs. Cleveland $. Thompson, of this city, still remains in her cottage near the Pembroke.
 MT. and Mrs John L. Merwin enter tained a family party of twelve per- sons Those present as guests were MT. and Mrs. William L. Merwin, the Misses Gladys and Evelyn Merwin and MT. and Mrs. Nathan Merwin, of Mil- ford, Dr. and Mrs. Phinney, of Brook lyn, and Merwin Phinney and Miss Ida Phinney, of Woodmont.
 Mir. and Mrs. Ephraim Chapman en- tertnined their son, Harold Chapman; Miss Blanche Nichols, Mrs. Nichols and MT. Todd, of New York, William Chap- man, of Woodmont, Miss Hattie Den nison, of Fair Haven, and F. $. Hiteh- cock, of Woodmont.
 Charles H. Futile and his mother, Mrs. Harriet Futile, entertained MT. and Mrs. Homer s. Merwin, of Wood mont, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Payne and Miss Barbara Payne, and MT. and Mrs. Norman Warren, of Kensington.
 Mrs. E. Al Hyde of Woodmont, will visit to-day with her parents on Wash ington avenue, West Haven.
 MT. and Mrs. Edward Merwin, of Co., lumbus avenue, who spend the sum- mers in their fine cottage on the Mer- wins Point, were the guests yesterday of MT. and Mrs. Charles H. Trowbridge, of Milford.
 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Monson and MT. Hilliard, of this city, spent Thanksgiv- ing with Mrs. Monson's parents, MT. and Mrs. Hard, in Stratford
 Mrs. J. L Doolittle entertained par ty of guests last Friday evening. There were seven tables of whist players, members of her son, Trubee Doolittles, whist club, and also a number of other q friends. Some of the guests present s were MT. and Mrs. Charles Bryan and child, Miss Susie Bryan; Mrs. J. R. Johnson Dr. Wieland, of the Yale mu- scum in this city, MT. and Mrs. War ner new residents, of Woodmont, for merly from Wisconsin;. MT. and Mrs. Carl Schlect, MT. and Mrs. George Att will, MT. and Mrs. AnseI Northrop, MT. # and Mrs. Bailey, George Atwell, jr., < the Misses Hubbard, Miss F'reda Allen, Robert Treat, Mrs. Benjamin Linley, A Mrs. Harry Merwin, MT. and Mrs. Charles Warner and daughters, Miss H Louise Hill, Trubee and Clarence Doo- 8 little, Leo Gillespie and brother, MT. and Mrs. Frederick Smith, Clifford and s Helen Bryan and MT. Hubbard. A fine luncheon was served at the conclusion of the game. Mrs Linley took first prize, a. Japanese chop plate; Mrs. Warner won the booby prize, a kettle. q The first gentleman's prize was taken by MT. Warner. stein; George Atwill, jr., took the booby prize for gentlemen, mouse trap. The next meeting of the club will be at Anse1 Northrop's next Friday night.
 Dr. Wieland, of the Yale museum, and family are spending the winter in the Granville Goodsell cottage, Rock Ledge, Woodmont, having been there since November 1.
 George w. Sanford, who has been the host at the, Branford Point house sew eral years, now resides on Whalley ave- nue and will build an addition this Win- ter to the Sanford house at Woodmont and will resume charge of it in the 5 spring, as in former years.
 John w. Merwin is having a number of improvements added to the old Mer- 7 win homestead. It has received a fresh < coat of paint and will be heated with \ hot air, and he has had a laundry built in the rear.
 Mrs. J. R. Johnson has had her large house, corner of New Haven avenue and Chapel street, newly painted. =.