The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-31
WOODxONT- SEA. YESTERDAY AT RESORT Throngs Enjoy Outing There New Improvements
 Personal Notes.

WoOuinoHL-Dy-the-Se was a COOL place yesterday for days outing, but was visited by a large number of the summer residents who went to inspect, renovate and prepare their cottages for their annual summers visit. The open cars ran every half hour and were f1ll- ed with a crowd of people, most of whom were well wrapped in their win ter clothing, and who shivered in the cold wintry wind of cary summer and with chattering teeth enjoyed the beau ty of the yellow flower dotted meadows and the fragrant odor of the snowy blossom laden apple orchards.
 MT. Stevens will build bungalow in the rear of his cottage, which will be finished July L
 MT Scobie of New Britain has rent ed Mrs. G. H. Peck's cottage.
 Harry Bennett of Philadelphia has moved his small cottage to the rear of his large cottage on Merwin's Point, and is having it raised eleven feet with stone foundation. The lower part will upper rooms will be occupied by the chauffeur. His large house he is hav- ing remodeiled with the modern con- veniences and will live there with his family as permahent residents.
 Mrs. McNally of Waterbury is coming Saturday to the Hotel Pembroke for the season.
 Mi and Mrs. Ephriam Chapman go to Harbrouke Heights to-day for a weeks visit with their son Harold Chapman.
 Miss Hattie Denion visited her aunt Mrs. Chapman Wednesday, and is now in Fair Haven having returned from Cleveland, O., and will make her home in Fair Haven.
 Mrs Leach of Waterbury is at her cottage on Merwin's Point renovating 1t, and it will be occupied this summer by MT. Butler and family of this city, In the fall she will become permanent resident of Woodmont.
 Mrs s, Gillette is going next Monday Ito Brooklyn for a weeks visit with friends. ~ ' Mrs. Caroline Merwins. Johnson will sgo June 10 to New Milford to visit Mrs. :. Seorge Lines and to be present at the Api-centennial of New Milford.
 Mrs Olin H. Clark and Olin H. Clark, jr came Wednesday to visit Mrs. Clarks brother, clifford Batchellor.
 Thomas Birdseye and Miss Ella Birdseye of Derby came to their cot tage wednesday evening to spend Dec oration day and will come later for the season.
 The ladies of the Woodmont chapel have been spending the week cleaning and renovating the chapel
 D. w. Baldwin and wife of Park street are in their cottage.
 MT. and Mrs J. H. Norton of Orange street spent yesterday at their cottage at Rocky Beach renovating preparatory to their occupancy about the middle oi June. Their son, J., P. Norton, assist ant professor of economies in Yale, will spend most of the summer at Wood mcnt.
 Mrs. Charles P. Merwin of New Brit tain came Wednesday with her son Charles P, to her new cottage at Mer- wins Point. She entertained some call. CTS from New Britain yesterday and she returns to-day, She will come fol the summer about June 15.
 The hotels at Woodmont opened theil doors to guests for the season yester- day. The Merwin Point hotel has as guests Miss Lucy B. Ingham of Wilkes, Barre. Pa: J. B. Taylor and wife o1 New York, and as table boarders, MT Read and family of Bridgeport, MT and Mrs. Scudder of Bristol, Conn, MT and Mrs. Holly of Holyoke, Mass, anG many of the rooms are booked for the middle of June. The Merwin Point house has its regular contingent oi guests from year to year, and Landlord Carl Schlect and Mrs. Schlect cater only to a refined class of custom.
 The beach at Woodmont in the after noon presented a gay and festive ap, pearance as numerous parties of young people were enjoying the warm sun shine retiecting from the blue water and a lively game of baseball was play ed by an amateur club of ladies ant gentlemen. The sound was flecket with the white sails of boats in tht distance, while numerous rowboats neal shore and parties of fishermen on thu rocks were in evidence.
 Chapel street, at the junction of New Haven avenue, is almost as lively as ( city street, as the signs on the uppel roads from Bridgeport to this city hay, been removed owing to the bad condl tion, and hundreds of automobiles pas to and fro. some of them going at { high rate of speed.
 MT. and Mrs. Charles H. Merwin O 52 Bishop street spent the day witt