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VOLUME 6. March 21, 1908 NuMBER 12 
MARCH 23—27 
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Topay is the first day of Spring, -ac- 
cording to the Old Farmer’s Almanac. 
WE call attention to the ‘* Guide to 
Representative and Reliable North Shore 
firms,’’ which we will make a feature 
of this paper from now on. The 
list is printed for the first time this 
week, and we call attention to its value 
as a medium for attracting the attention 
of new comers to the North Shore, as 
well as regular residents here. 
A FULL grown thunder and lightening 
shower was a feature of the past week’s 
North Shore weather. The shower 
began about 6.30 last Sunday evening and 
lasted for an hour. ‘The lightening was 
very sharp and vivid at times, while the 
thunder was deep and incessant during 
the height of the shower. A snow 
storm added to the mixture of weather 
Tuesday. Meanwhile spring is trying 
hard to get started and some real spring 
weather has helped make us think of 
what is to be. 
Tue advent of these warm summer 
like days takes the mind of the ordinary 
man to the things he is going to do out 
around the house and the yard. It sort 
of wakes him up to the idea of spring 
renovating and makes him feel like 
“NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
digging in and getting things done before 
the real warm summer weather sets in. 
Looking at the matter ina wider range 
it brings to mind the making of road re- 
pairs and road improvements, and we ex- 
press the hope that this sort of work, on 
all parts of the North Shore, will be 
started the earliest possible moment so 
that by the time the summer visitors get 
among us we will not have any of these 
objectional things to interfere with their 
pleasure. 
‘THE need of. a-higher pressure .water 
system in Manchester was well emphas- 
ized last week at the fire at the W. B. 
Walker estate. “The normal ‘pressure 
was hardly sufficient to thrown any water 
from the hose, and not until the engine 
was connected was their sufficient force 
to throw any water on the fire. ‘This 
estate is probably at the highest attitude 
of any inthe town, but there are many 
sites which would be placed on the mar- 
ket for prospective summer homes as 
soon as a higher service was provided. 
The special town meeting on this matter 
of additional water supply comes some- 
time next month, probably. 
Another thing ‘emphasized by last 
week’s fire is the necessity of a supply 
wagon,—a wagon of some sort to carry 
additional coal forthe steamer, or addi- 
tional hose. This was brought out by 
the fire the first of the winter, too, when 
the Philip Stockton cottage was de- 
stroyed. 
““Mr. Blank has sold to Mr. Blank 
of Essex a large portion of his pine wood- 
land situated on Walker street and 
Messrs. Blank & Blank have the con- 
tract of cutting the logs. ‘They have 
already felled over anacre of the large 
pine trees, and at the present time the 
place looks like a Maine lumber camp, 
asthe large logs lie as they fell. The 
growth was very heavy at this point and 
the place presents a spectacle worth see- 
ing. 
The above news item is taken from a 
Gloucester paper. We reprint all ex- 
cept the names for we want to take this 
brief means of expressing ourselves 
against cutting down our forests and 
woodlands here on the North Shore for 
lumber purposes, or anything of the kind. 
Beautiful woodlands are among our best 
assets here on the shore and we cannot 
afford to have them cut down. Our 
summer residents have always been 
against this sort of thing and to that end 
they have bought much woodland for no 
other purpose than to preserve it. ‘This 
*“lumber camp’’ business in the heart 
of the North Shore may provea suc- 
cussful business for the 
owns the property, but it is eating into 
the heart of our North Shore attractions 
just as surely as anything of which we 
know. 
WE cannot but speak in a most com- 
mendable way of the movement started 
by Col. Sohier of our North Shore sum- 
mer colony toward raising a. fund for the 
purpose of clearing our woods of the 
browntail and gypsy moths. 
evident that the condition is more serious 
than thought by the average person. 
Col. Sohier has started to raise a fund of 
$30,000, or more, to be spent under the 
direction of the state superintendent of 
moth work in treating the woods in Bey- 
erly, Hamilton, Wenham, Manchester 
and Essex. ‘This has nothing to do with 
the money spent by the towns now in 
moth work, for this latter has to do only 
with the immediate town property, along 
the street lines. “The thousands of acres 
of wooded land in back of us are badly 
infested and it is toward this that the new 
move is made. But the question arises 
will this thing have to be kept up year 
after year? Where isthe end? No, it 
will not have to be kept up. Just as 
soon as the parasite, which has been in- 
troduced as a feature in this work, mul- 
tiplies in sufficient quantity it is hoped 
the pest will be practically obliterated. 
Our trees must be cared for in the mean- 
while, however. Beverly is giving 
$5000 toward the fund of $30,000, and 
the other towns will no doubt give some- 
thing. Manchester will probably be 
called upon to support the move a little 
later. 
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