by a stone wall. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Unique System of Fertilization on 
the Gardiner M. Lane Estate 
at Manchester. 
and 40 feet wide, and is surrounded 
A series of pipes 
leads from the main inlet pipe and 
allows the waste water to filter 
through the gravel to the receiving 
pipe at the lower end of the bed. The 
bed of gravel, which is covered by a 
thick layer of loam and grass, filters 
the waste water and sewage by a 
natural process, removing all alkalies 
_or other elements which might be in- 
jurious to plant life. It is asserted 
that when this water arrives at the 
lower end of the filter bed it is ab- 
solutely pure. 
From the filter bed this water goes 
directly to the dressing house, a ce- 
ment structure 25 feet by 15 feet and 
12 feet deep, half the building being 
beneath the ground. This building is 
filled with select dressing and a con- 
tinual stream of water is sprayed 
over the top of the dressing. This, 
with the water coming from the filter 
bed, percolates through and is then 
delivered into a large 12,000-gallon 
tank, which is wholly underground. 
From this tank a powerful pump 
forces the fertilizing fluid up the ter- 
races of the estate. A perfect net 
work of pipes has been laid under 
ground through which the fluid 
courses. In fact, with the many main 
pipes and the branches leading off 
from them, there are miles of pipe 
hidden under vari-colored flower 
beds. 
Fach furrow or space between the 
rows of plants has a pipe running un- 
derneath the soil. At spaces of about 
seven or eight feet apart short pipes 
leading from the branch pipe extend 
about an inch or two above the 
ground. At the top of these short 
pines is attached a sort of sprayer 
which feeds the roots of each indi- 
vidual plant. On this large estate 
ahounding in gardens there are thou- 
sands of these little spravers feeding 
the life giving fluid to the plants. 
Where it would take a small army 
of gardeners to give the thousands of 
plants such individual attention, the 
whole work may now be accomplish- 
ed hv one man. In fact men could not 
feed these plants in the manner in 
which this new system does, for the 
finid onlv touches the roots and does 
not touch the flower or the upper 
part of the stalk. 
Although this new fertilizing sys- 
tem is the principal work going on 
Former Manchester Minister Receives 
Call to Congregational Church in Lowell 
Rev. C. Arthur Lincoln of Mcline, 
Ill., who is so well known in Man- 
chester, where he was ordained to 
the ministry six or seven years ago, 
has received a call to Lowell. The 
a 
Rev. C. Arthur Lincoln. 
Courier-Citizen of Lowell had the 
following account last Saturday. 
‘““The Kirk street church, at a 
largely attended meeting last night, 
voted unanimously to extend a call 
to Rev. C. Arthur Lincoln, pastor 
of the First Congregational church 
in Moline, Tl. The pulpit has been 
vacant since the resignation of Rev. 
James EK. Gregg several months ago. 
“*Rev. Mr. Lincoln is 35 years old, 
and is the son of a Congregational 
clergyman now retired. He was 
born in New England, but as a young 
man lived for a time with his family 
in Florida, where he was a student 
at Rollins college, the president of 
which was Rev. George L. Ward, 
a Lowell man. Later he went to 
Amherst college and the Hartford 
Theological school. His first pastor- 
ate was at Manchester-by-the-Sea i 
this state. He then went to St. Louis 
as assistant pastor of one of ihe 
large chureLes, and for tie past 
three years he has been in Moline, 
where he has doubled the member- 
ship of the church and otherwise had 
a most successful pastorate. 
‘Tie has preached twice in Lowel! 
during the summer, coming Hast to 
attend his class reunion at Amherst. 
“The Kirk Street church will pay 
him $3500 a year, which is the largest 
salary that it kas offered in recent 
years; will allow him to take the 
month of August for a vacation, and 
will give him a secretary. He is 
married and has a_ little daughter. 
His wife was a Hartford girl, well 
known socially in that city. 
‘‘The committee that had the call- 
ing of a pastor reported last night 
that it had considered clergymen 
from every part of the country, aud 
had written no less than a hundred 
letters. It is understood that the 
unanimous action insures an accept- 
ance on Rey. Mr. Lineoln’s part.’’ 
t 
at the estate, many other improve 
ments are being made. A most lux- 
urious tea house is in process of con- 
struction on the border of the Italian 
garden, which is one of the finest 
along the North Shore. 
This Italian garden is most prettily 
designed with its fountain in the cen- 
ter, its lily ponds all bordered with 
cement, velvety green grass and the 
glowing flower beds. Altogether, it 
presents a most wonderful picture of 
harmony and profusion of color. 
Underneath a part of the garden, 
Mr. Lane has had constructed a large 
store room in which, during the win- 
ter months his gardeners store the 
thousands of plant bulbs amd other 
garden stocks, thereby keeping 
of sight which otherwise require an 
extra building. 
It is expected that by late in the 
fall the work as planned for Mr 
Lane will be about completed, and 
the people who live in this section 
feel that these grounds will be one of 
most notable beauty spots on the 
North Shore 
It is the true worker who does his 
own work as well as he ean, and, if 
called upon, does the work of his 
neighbor without. grumbling. 
‘‘He who never does any more 
than he gets paid for. never gets 
many things under ground and out paid for more than he does.’ 
