The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-24
WOODBRIDGE IMPRESSIONS A VISITORS SKETCHES
Day Among the Cottages Rain Sadly Needed-Plenty
 of Water in Reservoirs.

Woodbridge continues to look up and to be 8 mecca for many people who like to enjoy the summer season away from the city's game and turmoil. where the air is pure and sweet and undefiled. To be sure, just now Wood bridge streets and highways are very dusty for lack of rain, but where in Connecticut is not this the case?
 But although rain is greatly needed, there is water enough In sight There is Lake Dawson, an immense body of water. The city people who see it now, when it is full nearly to the brink, wonder if New Haven will ever want for water with this and all the other sources of supply which the Water company controls.
 The lake is well supplied even in this remarkable season of drouth, even the little rivulets and brooks by the road side have not run dry, yet are still vending their way merrily along through in much diminished volume.
 Everywhere the eye notes that the fields are dry as powder The grass is no longer green, but yellow and brown, and the crops are suffering. Corn fields display their tall, gaunt stalks, but with scarcity of ears of good size. The potato fields are crying for rain also, or looking as if they would like to shed a few tears over their condi- tion.
 The apple orchards look half way but the crop on the whole, rather stunted Here and there parehed throated farmer was seen yesterday busy getting in loads of sun-burned hay.
 On Round Top, the highest elevation in Woodbridge, the grain looked yell low and worthless.
 There were few automobiles speed ing along on the highways, each one stirring up cloud of dust which was binding and choking to the passersby All along the roadsides the shrubbery and underbrush and the foliage of the trees are covered with the dense white powder.
 The residents of Woodbridge say they never remember a summer when the country was so dust-coated and the grass so scared and yellow. Only here and there in the valleys and swamp land is the grass green and inviting.
 Woodbridge roads towards the close of the afternoon disclose a long file of New Haveners, returning from their day in the city, riding in carriages or automobiles to their summer cottages. Most of these are on it's elevated places and some are from 400 to 500 feet above sea level.
 New and elegant summer homes are being erected every year in Wood- bridge One of the most notable ones this year is that of Attorney Jacob F.. Goodhart which stands on a slightly lelevati6n. Tn front of the house.s the land slopes down gently to the new Dillon highway which the water ccrn- rany has built in compensation for using a section Of the old and roman- 1 tic Ravine road. This old road, in it's lowest and most picturesque part, is now the bed of the new reservoir, the inmense concrete dam for which is just being finished. Mir. Goodharts house is very handsome and quite imposing structure of brick and stone, with ample piazzas, supported by boulders gathered from the fields and rock beds in the vicinity. The land surrounding the house has been cleared of underbrush and shrubbery, the best of the trees having been retained, and the lawn already presents fine ap- pearance Mir. Goodhart was himself at the spot yesterday experimenting some minor Improvements, sun-burned. healthy and vigorous. The elevation where his house stands is over 800 feet above sea level.
 How do you get water here" was asked.
 "A very simple matter, indeed" said Mf. G. "We sunk pipe well to the depth of TO feet and struck some of the finest water man ever tasted. We have a little building over there which you see, here an engine pumps up the water and sends 1t through piping into an air-tight tank in the cellar.
 "The water is forced in until the air above 1t in the tank is compressed so that the water is sent all over the house to be drawn as needed"
 Another beautiful and quite ornate new summer home is that of Adam Lattig of this city, the former general manager of the Fat Rendering com pany's plant in West Haven. This house is much noticed and admired.