SOCIETY NOTES 
JNTIMATE friends on the North 
Shore of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, 
the British ambassador to Wash- 
ington, and of Lady Spring-Rice 
have heard with delight that they 
are to spend the coming summer on 
the North Shore of Massachusetts 
where they will have Miss Fanny 
Powell Mason’s estate on Prince 
street at Beverly Cove, adjacent to 
the Pride’s Crossing section. The 
estate is finely situated on Curtis 
Point, where the house commands 
a widespread view toward I[lospital 
Point, in one direction, and toward 
Mingo Beach and Manchester in an- 
other way. The house is directly on 
the ocean front. The estate is not 
very far from the Pride’s Crossing 
station, although some of the sum- 
mer cottagers thereabouts make use 
of either the Montserrat or the sta- 
tion at Beverly, then motoring or 
driving over to their places. Miss 
Mason’s house is admirably adapted 
to the needs of the ambassador and 
bis family. Last year they had a 
cottage at Dublin, N. H. Charles P. 
Curtis, Jr., occupied the Mason 
place last summer. 
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It is generally reported that 
former-Senator Albert J. Beveridge 
of Indianapolis is the purchases of 
the McKee property at Beverly 
Farms. The Beveridges. are not 
strangers tothe North Shore, as they 
had the Rockwell house at Manches- 
ter several years ago when Mr. 
Beveridge was in Washington, and 
last season they were at Smith’s 
Point, Manchester, for a _ two 
months’ stay. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Gannett 
hope to be able to move into their 
new house at Manchester by the 
first of July. The estate occupying 
the entire length of Blossom Lane, 
on the southerly side, and extend- 
ing from Masconomo street, almost 
to the banks of Singing Beach, is 
one of the most pretentious in that 
section of the Manchester. shore. 
Work was started late last fall and 
has heen in progress all winter. A 
high wall of conerete surrounds the 
entire property. <A tennis court, 
gardens, lawns, ete., form attractive 
features of the place. The Geo. E. 
Warrens and the Edward L. Woods 
are closest neighbors of the Gan- 
netts on the ocean side of the prop- 
erty. Mr. and Mrs. Gannett have 
leased the Clark cottage, across the 
way from their new house and will 
move down from Boston early this 
NORTH -SHORE BREEZE 
season, occupying this until their 
own house is completed. Mr. and 
Mrs. Roger F. Hooper (Justine V. 
R. Barber), the former a brother 
of Mrs. H. S. Grew, 2d, of the West 
Manchester colony, will have the 
Clark cottage the balance of the 
summer. 
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Mrs. Henry H. Hollister of New 
York has leased the George Cush- 
ing cottage at Beverly Farms for 
the season. 
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Mrs. W. A. M. Burden of New 
York is to return to Manchester this 
season, and will be at the Coolidge 
homestead, Coolidge’s Point, again. 
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Mrs. Robert Dawson Evans is 
further enhancing her already ex- 
tensive estate at Beverly Cove, by 
acquiring that of the late Mrs. 
Francis Hl. Peabody, whose husband 
Was a partner in the firm of Kidder, 
Peabody & Co., which adjoins it. 
It comprises about five acres of land 
and the mansion house in which 
Mrs. Peabody used to pass her 
summers, together with — stables, 
outbuildings, ete. Mrs. Evans will 
undoubtedly treat this as she did 
the so-called ‘‘Stetson place,’’ once 
occupied by President Taft. Here 
she removed the house and threw 
its location and surroundings into 
lawn and the {talian garden, which 
is justly famed as a gem of horti- 
culture. The Peabody estate, with 
its long walls and street frontage, 
lends itself readily to this treat- 
ment and will add greatly to the 
attractiveness of the present place. 
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Dr. John Henry Lancashire, who 
is spending the winter with his 
family at Augusta, Ga., where they 
have leased a house, was in Man- 
chester yesterday making prelimi- 
nary arrangements for opening his 
house next month. The family will 
go to White Sulphur Springs in 
April for a week or two before com- 
ing on to Boston. 
Farm Loans Must Wait 
It appears very easy for the ad- 
vocates of rural credits to make 
known their views in support of 
legislation of this kind, but appar- 
ently there has been no disposition 
on the part of the past Congress to 
pass a law redeeming this hope on 
the part of some of the agricultural 
interests of the country. It is sus- 
pected.that the delay has been for 
the very good reason that no one in 
Congress has produced a very clear 
method by which the desired results 
might be obtained, 
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National Capital | 
Events of Interest from the Seat of || 
Government 
By J. E. Jones 
The Breeze Bureau, 
Washington, Mar. 9, 1915. 
The Cucumber Disease 
Senator Smith, of Michigan, pro- 
posed an amendment to the agricul- 
tural appropriation bill appropriat-— 
ing $5,000 for the investigation of 
the cucumber disease. Naturally, 
most people think he was joking, 
since the cucumber is as thoroughly ~ 
established in the American nation ~ 
as the Smith family, and its ability 
for doubling up members of the 
been displayed 
human race has 
every summer since Pocahontas and 
Captain John Smith and_ the 
‘‘Judge’’ watched the gardeners 
mow the hay in Colonial Virginia. 
Somebody has recalled that Eugene 
Field immortalized the disastrous — 
effects of the ‘‘little peach in the ~ 
orchard grew.’’ In behalf of the 
cucumber family, it has been sug- 
gested that the government might 
spend a special appropriation on it 
to determine more of its history, 
and the cause and effect that plays 
so prominent a part in its opera- 
tions within the human stomach. 
Favor a Gag Rule 
Forty-one Democratic Senators 
have gone on record in favor of a 
rule to limit debate, and probabili- 
ties are that the question will be met 
at the next session of Congress. 
Heretofore, Senators have been 
privileged to talk as long as their 
powers of human enduranée would 
sustain them. The theorv bas pre- 
vailed that the Senate is a delibera- 
tive body and should not be restrain- 
ed in the full consideration of all 
matters of legislation. A _ great 
many of the Senators have felt that 
this principle has been so abused by 
reason of filibustering methods and 
the like, that it is high time that 
some restraint should be placed 
upon the indiscriminate use of 
debates, the object of which is to 
defeat legislation that is greatly 
desired either by the administra- 
tion, Congress or the country. 
No Hickory Switches Needed 
There has been considerable 
speculation as to just what the ad- 
ministration would do with the 
obstreperous Democrats who joined 
in the filibustering against. the ship- 
