The Connecticut labor press., 1919-06-14
MITCHELL OF TAFFY FAME NOW
 CONTROLS RESORT AT LIGHTHOUSE Change Name NGtches Lighthouse Will Begin His Famous Island Clambakes Monday-Canadan Wild Geese Captured There-Fresh Lobsers and Camoufaged
 Bathing Suits at NGomaugu guin-Tabard

Some men are born famous, others achieve fame and still others when operating a summer amusement resort will have a nice pair of wild Canadian geese become exhausted on their prop erty so they can be easily captured and thus supply another good feature to entertain the young and old And some say there is no such thing as luck. But it isn't all luck for if Noel A. Mitchell had not had the good judgment to se- cure the greater part of what was call ed Lighthouse Point, make countless improvements, which will be described later, and name the place after himself, the geese might not have Hawkered there.
 As this is a true story, the thrilling details might as we'll be set down here. MT. Mitchell made salt water taffy abotl- 27 years ago and since then he has catered to the sweet-toothed and the lover of the clambake in Block Island and St. Petersburg, Fla. He is now developing Lighthouse Point, which he has renamed Mitchelps Lighthouse Beach A reporter for The Connection Labor Press was present at the renam- ing ceremony this week and everything went off with much eclat. He had planned a great many standard and novel features for the resort and then the pair of wild geese, which hopped off somewhere in Canada, became ex- hausted as soon as they reached the Connecticut playground and some of MT. Mitchell's employees captured them. They are now in captivity and can be seen by all. Mir. Mitchell says they make fine eating but as he is to put out a genuine Block Island clambake he will not kill the geese for the table but will save them for exhibition. They are said to be more toothsome than a mongrel goose and many know how good this is about Christmas time with few raisins in the bread dressing.
 It would be interesting to say that the geese were caught by Chief Yellow Hand but the Oklahoma Indian Is at the Beach for another kind of performance of which the details will be told some other time. When seen by the reporter, the chief was not making war medicine but had fishing rod and was about to try his luck i'll the vicinity.
 When an expert hotel keeper puts up a new hotel he always provides plenty of space for a roomy and attractive lobby, even at the expense of stores to be rented. Most of the successful hotel keepers maintain that this is good judg- ment. This was first explained to us by the father of Walter g. Garde. In line with this idea, MT. Mitchell has cleared his water front of bathing machines, rest boxes, GOODS for glm- cracks and all kinds of rubbish so that there is nothing along the beach now but clean sand. There Is a wide stretch of sand that makes an ideal place for recreation and it fills the eye with its beauty The sand Is not as white as that in Florida where it is mixed with coquina shells but it is the. only kind available and it is natural. The point that MT. Mitchell makes is that the place is absolutely safe for women md children In speaking about his prop erty, he often returns to this phase and he thinks it worth while to see that safety is guaranteed. He has pretty little girl of his own, too.
 In the roundhouSe, where the flying horses were wont to fly MT. Mitchell will establish a moving picture theater with an up to date program of the mute drama He Is also planning a number of summer shows and amusements that will be novel to patrons in this section of the country. Additional information about these features will be supplied later in this paper. x
 Beginning on Monday. June 16, MT, N4HSACA WILL oSAEN llS AniAAOho OAOSN Island clambake in the old dancing pavilion The tables will be arranged along the sides of this room and the dancing will be confined to the center of the floor. A mechanical bandolin is placed in this room. MT. Mitchell has served the Block Island c1ambake in Florida for 25 years. This is somewhat different from the Rhode Island bake. the Babcock bake of Narragansett, the sheepbake of Compounce or the pot latsch of the old Connecticut Indians. He also served this bake in its native habitat, Block Island, and to bring this famous bake and other features here he passed Ep an opportunity to man age the Ocean View House at Block Island, which to that island is about the same as the Winthrop is to Meriden.
 Those who go to the seashore in this l part of the country plan to see certain amusements and devote certain amount l of time to bathing or fishing but no matter what the program IS about every | one relishes good clambake or shore | dinner. In order to supply the wants l of the great majority, MT. Mitchell be- lieves that the Block Island clambake l fills the bill.
 The Block Island c1ambal1e consists | of the following:
 > Baked Clans Clam Chowder