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West Manchester estate this year. 
and the Automobile Club of America. 
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ONE of the most important leases of the season is that 
of the estate of the late R. C. Hooper at West Man- 
chester to John Markle, of New York. The Markles had 
‘The Rocks,’ Eben D. Jordan’s estate at West Man- 
‘chester, last year, and they became so attached to the 
Worth Shore that they have decided to return. The 
‘looper estate, now owned by Mrs. Lathrop Brown 
(Heien Hooper) of St. James, L. L, is one of the finest 
‘on the North Shore. The Robert Piteairns of Pittsbure 
had it last year. 
It is understood Mr. and Mrs. Eben D. Jordan and 
Miss Dorothy Jordan are to spend the summer at their 
They have been 
going to Scotland for eee year or so. 
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It is reported on good authority that the McKee es- 
tate at Beverly Farms has been sold the past week. The 
Breeze is not in a position to state who the purchaser 1s, 
other than that he is not a New Englander. The papers 
will have been passed before the next issue, undoubted- 
ly, so that we can then state who the new owner of this 
valuable summer property is. 
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Simon Hirsch and family, of Cincinnati, who had 
“‘Wryndhurst,’’ one of the Kimball cottages, so-called, 
at the corner of Masconomo and Proctor streets, Man- 
chester, last season, are to have it again this year. 
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Paul Moore and family, of New York and Morris- 
town, have leased the Ahl cottage at Pride’s Crossing 
for the summer. This place was occupied last year by 
‘the John Barry Ryans, of New York. 
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Mr. and Mrs. I. Tucker Burr entertained a large 
number of their set at a dinner at their Marlboro street, 
Boston, residence last Friday evening. 
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Ellis Loring Dresel, of 328 Beacon street, Boston, 
whose summer home, ‘‘Thissellwood,’’ is at Pride’s 
Crossing, has sailed to join the American embassy at 
Berlin. He went by the steamer Rotterdam to Rotter- 
dam, and on his arrival at Berlin will become an attaché 
of the staff of Ambassador Gerard. He goes as a volun- 
‘teer and will take up the work which Boylston A. Beal 
laid down when his business affairs called him home last 
fall. Mr. Beal had expected to return to Berlin and 
may do so later. Mr. Dresel’s stay will be at least until 
Mr. Dresel is a Harvard man of the 
class of ’87 and is a member of the Boston andNew York 
Harvard Clubs, of the Somerset, New Riding, Tennis 
and Racquet, St. Botolph and Exchange Clubs in Bos- 
ton, the Myopia Hunt Club, the Hastern Yacht Club 
Besides Messrs. 
Dresel and Beal, three other Harvard men, Grafton W. 
Minot, 14; Charles H. Russell, Jr., ’14, and Lithgow 
Osborne, 715, are acting as secretaries to Ambassador 
Gerard, and another volunteer from the United States is 
Lanier Winslow of New York city. Joseph C. Grew, of 
Boston and Manchester, is the first secretary of the em- 
bassy at Berlin, 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, March 5, 
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QPTIISM holds the boards with everyone who is 
interested in the summer resort business on the 
North Shore,’ from Nahant to Gloucester, in the sum- 
mer of 1915, says the Boston Courier, which is the of- 
ficial organ of the Mass. Hotel association. The argu- 
ment that the coming summer should bring many tour- 
ists to New England, who in other years have sought 
Europe as a stamping ground, seems to be more than 
an idle theory, for advance bookings on hotel reserva- 
tions along the shore are already showing a healthy 
increase, as compared with last year at the same time. 
There is little doubt in the minds of most persons that 
it will be a big summer for New England from Long 
Island to the coast of Maine and the White Moun- 
tains. The North Shore of Massachusetts, with Salem 
as its center, has always been the mecea for the cul- 
ture and fashion of the country in summer. From 
May 30 until Labor Day, hundreds of noted families 
from all over the United States are quartered in their 
summer residences between Nahant and Gloucester. 
Foreign legations have always been numerous on the 
lower shore, at Manchester, Magnolia and Gloucester, 
but the coming summer official business coincident with 
the war will probably keep the foreign emissaries in 
Washington at their desks. The North Shore is better 
equipped than ever. Despite the fact that two fairly 
large hotels, the Ocean-Manor at Marblehead Neck and 
the Surfside at Gloucester, have been destroyed by fire 
since the close of last season, the hotels are in most 
cases making improvements during the winter months 
which will give the largest capacity of guests in the 
history of the shore. 
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Mrs. Walter C. Baylies and her daughter, Miss Char- 
lotte Baylies, accompanied their guest, Miss Dorothy 
Brown of Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., to New York last week. 
Wednesday Mrs. Baylies gave a large dinner at the 
Ritz-Carlton and the next day she and her daughter 
sailed for Nassau, where they expect to remain until 
just before Haster. 
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Probably the first wedding of the season at the 
North Shore will be that of Miss Katherine Putnam 
and Harvey Hollister Bundy next month at Manches- 
ter-by-the-Sea. Saturday, the 17th, has been decided 
upon as the date for the wedding. Mr. Bundy, who 
graduated last year from the Harvard Law school, is 
Justice Holmes’ private secretary at Washington; 
Grand Rapids is his home city. Miss Putnam is the 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Lowell Putnam of 
Beacon street, Boston, and Manchester. The engage- 
ment was announced at the family’s town house at a 
tea. which Miss Putam gave for her intimate friends, 
the Sunday afternoon following the Harvard-Yale game 
at New Haven, where Miss Putnam and Mr. Bundy 
were members of a party. The prospective bride was 
a member of the Sewing Cirele of 1910, and many 
pleasant things were done for her as a debutante. She 
has always been of the most interesting and most pop- 
ular girls on the Shore and has received much atten- 
tion abroad. 
