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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
North Shore Breeze 
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VOLUME 6. Fes. 29, 1908 NUMBER 10 
MARCH 7—33 
SUN FULL TIDE. 
Rises. Sets A Wy Phi 
7 Sa. 6.10 5.41 PAYS, 2.03 
isu: 6.08 DA? 3.15 3.45 
2M 6.06 5.43 4.07 4.40 
Sulu: 6.05 5.45 5.00 0) 
4 W. 6.03 5.46 6.00 6.39 
5 Th, 6 01 5AT 6.55 7.31 
13 Fr 6.00 5.48 gos 8.30 
THE Breeze is printed this week on a 
new Babcock Standard cylinder press, in- 
stalled in the Breeze office this week. 
We will have more to say about our new 
equipment when we _ get better ac- 
quainted, and the new press is ac- 
climated. 
A NOVEL feature of the town election 
this year was the appearance Monday 
evening, a little over half an hour after 
the vote was announced of the BREEZE 
Special. It was only a one-page affair, 
but covered the ground, giving the result 
of the vote, and a resume of the business 
of the Monday morning session. 
WouLp it not be well for parents who 
have children attending school in the 
town to take interest enough in the 
schools and their children to visit the 
schools at least one time during the term. 
We hear parents complaining of the 
schools, who have no more knowledge 
of how they are being conducted than a 
resident of China has. We do know 
that strangers who have visited 
schools have gone away and said that we 
have the best schools of any town in the 
state. The State Examiner has visited 
the Manchester High school twice dur- 
ing the past year and has said the school 
our 
stands as high as any High school in any 
town in the state. What should the peo- 
ple of a town feel prouder of than good 
schools? What will bring a good class 
of people to any town more rapidly than 
good schools? Parents go to your 
schools and see for yourselves, and don’t 
accept idle reports about your schools and 
the teachers as facts. 
Tue terrible school house fire at 
Cleveland this week, in which some 164 
children were either burned to death or 
killed, has shocked the whole country. 
One of the papers says the authorities 
were responsible for using school~ build- 
ing the doors of which opened toward 
the inside; fire 
escapes on building; practicing only one 
means of exitin daily fire drills; locking 
back door of building where children were 
providing inadequate 
quartered. 
Manchester parents need not fear dis- 
aster from any of these causes. © On in- 
terviewing Principal Mead of the G. A. 
Priest school we find that all the doors of 
the building open outward and can be 
opened at any time by even the smallest 
child. The doors are always unlocked 
while school is in session. “Though 
there are no fire escapes on the outside 
of the building there are three principal 
exits. The rooms are all on the first 
and second floor, anyway. In practicing 
the fire drill all exits are used. As an- 
other precaution, and to overcome the 
possibility of abell being out of order, 
drummer boys always give the signal for 
leaving the building by sounding “‘taps.’’ 
The first call always means to drop every- 
thing and get in line. In fire drill the 
children usually get outside the building 
in 50 seconds or a little less. The prin- 
cipal has always been very strict on the 
children behaving themselves when prac- 
ticing the fire drill. 
Selectmen Organize. 
The new board of Selectmen of Man- 
chester met Tuesday evening and or- 
ganized with the choice of Edward S. 
Knight as chairman and Walter R. Bell 
as clerk. “The board has decided to 
hold regular weekly meetings on ‘Thurs- 
day evenings at 7 o'clock, and it will al- 
so meet the last Saturday in the month 
from 2 to 4 in the afternoon, instead of 
one o’clock as in the past. In dividing 
up the work it was decided ‘Thursday: 
evening that Tuck’s Point should be in 
charge of W. R. Bell, and the poor, 
both poor-in and poor-out, in charge of | 
Mr. Allen. 
The following appointments were 
made by the board Thursday evening: 
Edwin P. Stanley burial agent for in- 
digent soldiers and sailors, sealer of 
weights and measures and gauger of oil. 
Lyman W. Floyd and Geo. L. 
Knight, weighers of coal. 
Frank P. Knight, measurer of grain 
and weigher of hay. 
J. J. Riordan of Beverly Farms, In- 
spector of cattle. 
William Young, local superintendent 
of gypsy and brown-tail moths. 
It was expected also that the board 
would take action on the appointment — 
of superintendent of streets, Supt. « 
Kimball is a candidate for reappoint- 
ment. But knowing the attitude of at 
least one member of the board toward 
the present superintendent, there was a_ 
feeling that possibly some other would — 
be appointed, with the result that a ~ 
number of applications for. the’ position 
have been received by the board. 
In view of this a petition was pre- 
sented to the board asking that they with- 
hold action on the appointment of a 
superintendent until the petitioners be 
given a hearing. A public hearing will 
accordingly be given by the board in the 
‘Town hall next Wednesday evening at 
7.30 o'clock, Notice of this appears in 
another column. 
WHISPERINGS 
People in the West Manchester sec- 
tion who felt considerable air moving © 
around and many mutterings between the_ 
teeth yesterday afternoon may feel easy 
for we can assure them that it was only 
one of our genial grocery drivers trying 
to catch his horse. The horse started — 
for home a little in advance of the driver, 
and every time the former would run to 
try to catch the horse the latter would 
trot, and thus kept up the chase until 
home was almost reached. No damage. — 
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The Manchester young men. who go 
to Gloucester to dances, and who go in 
a wagonette because the 10 o’ clock train 
brings them home too early, should at 
least ““leave the dance ’’ in time to catch 
the wagonette. We are informed that 
two young men had to foot it home one 
morning this week. 
MANCHESTER COVE 
Mrs. William Roberts is spending the 
week-end with relatives in Boston. 
James Lawson of Beverly has accepted 
a position as one of the gardeners on the 
F. M. Whitehouse estate. He moved 
his family here from Beverly ‘Tuesday 
and is occupying the gardener’s cottage. 
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