NORTH SHORE BREEZE 5 
The Boston & Maine railroad has issued an an- 
nouncement of new rates for passenger service, to 
become operative on April 1. The old fifty-ride tickets 
have been discontinued and a new ticket called the 
family ticket for twenty-five rides is issued at the rate 
of two cents per mile. These tickets have a time limit 
of three months and must bear the name of the indi- 
vidual to whom they are sold. It is anticipated that, 
roughly speaking, the railroad will be able to increase 
its revenue over three hundred thousand dollars. It is 
not expected that there will be many complaints from 
the public. There are always objections when rates are 
graded up. But railroads as well as individuals should 
have a reasonable living wage. Some of the commuta- 
tion tickets now outstanding are at a rate of one and 
one-half cents per mile. No railroad can do business on 
a rate as low as that. The traveling public have no 
right to expect a transportation company to carry 
them at aloss. The relief that is given by the new rates 
should be allowed. Those using the railroads every day 
are still able to purchase special tickets. The new 
schedule will put the ‘‘ticket scalper’’ out of business. 
Many, of course, will have anticipated the raise by the 
purchase of tickets under the old schedule, but in time 
these will all be used up and everyone will purchase 
tickets on an equal basis. 
The school children are already busy helping the 
cities and towns by destroying the nests of the destruc- 
tive tent caterpillars. Now is the time to destroy 
them. It will be much more difficult to destroy them 
after the season has warmed up and the caterpillars 
begin to crawl. The children of Manchester and 
Beverly Farms killed hundreds of thousands of these 
destructive caterpillars. Here is an opportunity for 
improvement societies to do good work. 
The Catholic Churches all over the country ob- 
served Peace Sunday last week and committed them- 
selves by addresses and prayers to the cause of inter- 
national peace. The Church is still a mighty power, 
and its influence cannot be gainsaid. With all the 
churches of America united in this movement, the harm- 
ful doctrine of militarism will find it hard to vain a 
foothold here. 
Concord protests! Shall another institution he 
placed there? Naturally Coneord says no. So would 
most towns, but the State must find a place for its new 
prison. How would Titicut do? 
The Mayor of Lawrence favors a No-License policy 
for that city for six successive years. He has learned a 
valuable lesson. See-sawing from wet to dry and from 
dry to wet has never helped any city. 
The death of Robert G. Fitch removes another 
strong mind from the field of journalism. His editorial 
work for the Transcript will be missed. 
The East Wing of the State House is nearing com- 
pletion and bills are being considered to construct the 
west wing. The entire land on the west should be taken 
by right of eminent domain and the west wing con- 
structed in harmony with the east wing. No error 
should be made now. The State has committed itself 
to the task of reconstructing the capitol, and the work 
should be prosecuted, not stinting the cost. Architec- 
tural unity demands that the wings should balance each 
other and that the Joy Street properties should be pur- 
chased to avoid injury to the beauty of the whole 
structure and the usefulness of the west wing. 
Former President William HK. Corey of the United 
States Steel Corporation is the authority for the state- 
ment that the United States is about to receive a great 
impetus in business during the next year, and that once 
attained it will be impossible for Europe to get it away 
from America. If the old world should fail in its en- 
deavors to gain a commercial ascendency over America 
by peaceful means, will it try another way when their 
armies are fresh and well organized? Perish the 
thought! 
The Craigs are to have a new theatre of their own 
Their successes at Castle Square entitles them to the 
new structure. Despite the handicap that the theatre 
was foreed to overcome, it succeeded, but the manage- 
ment will now have a new building with every modern 
appurtenance that a theatre should have. John Craig 
and Mary Young may well be happy in seeing their 
dreams realized. 
The Beverly Farms folk are to have a new library, 
and the commission should see that it is constructed of 
a durable material and a manner that will satisfy the 
needs of the users of the library and provide a small 
and suitable committee or class-room and an assembly 
hall. This ean be done by skilful planning without 
materially increasing the cost. How would brick with 
limestone trimmings look? 
The moving picture enterprises are not finding war 
scenarios as profitable as at first appeared possible. The 
public ig already weary of the wholesale murders on 
continent. 
Now it is to be expected, after their friendly in- 
struction and advice from Colonel Sohier that the new 
roads will be par excellence, superior to any of our 
boasted successes in the past. 
The Hotel De Gink proprietor does not approve of 
the policy of the Ilotel de Jobless. It is a pity that 
either are needed. 
The advances that are being made in surgery are 
small compensations for war. 
New Fares on B. & M. 
The Boston & Maine railroad has 
filed a schedule with the public ser- 
vice commission abolishing all five, 
ten, 12, 15, 25, 50 and 100-ride com- 
mutation tickets and issuing in 
their place what are known as 25- 
ride family tickets, good for the 
person whose name the ticket bears 
and his immediate family, and 
which will be good for only three 
months from the date of issue. The 
rates are practically the same as 
was proposed for the 50-ride tickets 
under the schedule which was 
turned down by the public service 
commission, being based on actual 
distance at the rate of two cents per 
mile. 
No change will be made in the 
regular monthly or pupils’ season 
tickets. but the railroad officials are 
at work on a new schedule for 
single fares, based on a two and a 
half cents rate on the actual dis- 
tances. 
