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North Shore Breeze 
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VOLUME 6. May 30, 1908 NUMBER 22 
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THE man who edits the average week- 
ly newspaper cannot well avoid treading 
on somebody’s toes continually; must 
expect to be censured often for uninten- 
tional failures; must expect hard work 
and little thanks; must expect to be 
called a coward because he does not 
“* pitch into’’ everything that somebody 
thinks is wrong, and a fool if he speaks 
out too plainly on public evils; he must 
expect to grind other people’s axes— and 
turn the grindstone himself. Still we 
think the profession a noble one; and 
while we try to do what is right we do 
not pretend to be infallible. We try to 
have broad enough mind to respect the 
man who centures us and not feel we 
must go out of business when someone 
threatens to discontinue the paper or 
take out their advertisement for some 
wrong they think has been done them. 
AND now comes an invention which it 
is said will scatter the thickest fog. 
Surely this will prove of great value to 
all who follow the sea and the only hope 
is that the invention will do all the inven- 
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NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING NOT HELD. 
Because one Member of the Board Had not Signed the Warrant it was 
Thought Best to Dissolve the Meeting. 
New 
Meeting Called for next Wednesday. 
The special town meeting called for 
last Monday evening to take action re- 
lative to additional water supply for Man- 
chester dissolved without taking any ac- 
tion whatsoever other than the reading of 
tor claims for it. Here is the story as it 
comes from Washington. 
A constituent of Senator Perkins of 
California has written a letter to the navy 
department asking that permission be 
granted for him to erect on Goat island 
in San Francisco Bay a newly invented 
apparatus for dispelling fogs. No mat- 
ter how thick and dangerous the fog may 
be, by his new fog dispeller Senator Per- 
kins’ constituent claims that he can drive 
it away and make life easy for the navi- 
gators of vessels. 
His apparatus takes up only about fifty 
feet of space and requires for its opera- 
tion the services of four men. It will 
dispel a fog, he says, fora radius of six 
miles from the apparatus. It drives 
away the fog by a muffled blast without 
ajar. “The Department has been taking 
the matter under advisement. 
Senator, we think you could make 
many friends if you could advise your 
friend to bring his fog dispeller down 
here on the North Shore! We have 
plenty of money down here waiting to 
be spent if we can find anything under 
creation to put that siren whistle out of 
the way. 
At a meeting of the Massachusetts 
delegates to the National Democratic 
convention at Denver, held at Boston 
yesterday week, Charles A. Russell of 
Gloucester, delegate from this district, 
was chosen vice chairman of the dele- 
gation. 
In A. P. Gardner’s Interest. . 
W. W. Lufkin, private secretary to 
Congressman Augustus P. Gardner, has 
taken up his residence in Essex, and will 
represent the congressman’s interest in 
Essex county while that member is tour- 
ing Europe. Mr. Lufkin willsoon open 
an office in the Peabody building, Salem, 
where he will meet the constituents of 
the district. 
the warrant, the motion to dissolve being 
made by Chairman Edward S. Knight of 
the board of selectmen, and seconded by 
R. C. Allen of the committee on ad- 
ditional water supply. 
The fact that only two members of 
the board had signed the warrant was the 
cause of the meeting being dissolved. 
‘The other member of the board George 
Lockhart Allen, had refused to sign the 
warrant for reasons (or lack of reasons) 
best known to himself. 
It was set forth in a statement made to 
the meeting by Chairman Knight, which 
is printed on this page, that the members 
of the board were notified that the war- 
rant would be ready to sign Monday af- 
ternoon, that Mr. Knight waited at the 
selectmen’s office for Mr. Allen until 
four o'clock, and then about five o’ clock 
the warrant was turned over to the con- 
stable to make copies of same and_ post 
before seven o’ clock, that Mr. Allen re- 
fused to go to the constable’s to sign the 
warrant about six o'clock, and the war- 
rant was consequently posted with only 
two signatures. 
While it was the general opinion that 
the meeting could be held and that its 
action would be legal without the third 
signature, inasmuch as so much money 
was involved it was thought best to leave 
no possible loop-hole for any future 
trouble, and thus the meeting was dis- 
solved. 
Mr. Allen’s action greatly incensed 
the voters, many of whom attended the 
meeting, as this matter of additional 
water supply has been before the voters 
now for some time. ‘The special com- 
mittee had worked zealously in having 
bills pass through the legislature, and 
finally, last Monday, they were able to 
place before the selectmen the articles to 
appear in the warrant. 
The chairman of the board, as by cus- 
tom immemorial, prepared the warrant, 
and had it ready to receive the consider- 
ation of the othertwo members of the 
board, and their signatures before turnin 
it over to the constable for copying at 
posting. “The new member of the board, 
however, cared not for the two or three 
hundred years of precedent before him, 
and wanted the thing done differently. 
Mr. Knight's statement follows: 
““Mancuester, Mass., 
May 25, 1908. 
“* Owing to the fact that the warrant 
calling this meeting has but two  signa- 
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