ADVISORY COMMITTEE 
Mayor-Erect Fostrr Has Nove 
ScHEME OF KEEPING IN ToucH 
WITH CITIZENS. 
In accordance with his platform 
pledge that he would appoint an Ad- 
visory Committee of citizens to exam- 
ine and advise as to the finance and 
business methods of the city, Mayor- 
elect Harry C. Foster of Gloucester 
has sent out letters to 25 prominent 
business people and citizens, asking 
them to serve as members of such 
committee. 
The mayor-elect says he intends to 
exercise every available nieans to give 
the people of the city a business ad- 
ministration and believes that much 
can be accomplished by keeping in~ 
touch with the citizens and consulting 
with them on matters of public policy 
and betterment. 
The mayor-elect’s ideas in this di- 
rection are amply set forth in the fol- 
‘ lowing reasons which he states in his 
communication to each gentleman 
whom he has asked to serve. 
“The committee to examine the fi- 
nancial condition of the city and make 
such suggestions and recommendations 
to the mayor and council concerning 
the same, as they shall consider wise 
and for the best interest of tlie city. 
“The committee to suggest and ad- 
vise the mayor and council, concern- 
ing all matters relating to permanent 
improvements and such other mat- 
ters as the mayor or council may from 
time to time refer to the committee 
for consideration. 
“The committee to examine the 
manner or method in which the busi- 
ness of the city is conducted and to 
advise and suggest such changes, if 
any, as they shall deem expedient and 
for the welfare of the city.” 
The following gentlemen have been 
asked to serve: Loren H. Nauss, 
Charles FE. Fisher, Willian H. Jordan, 
Fred Bradley, Fred A. Shackelford, 
Daniel T. Babson, John A. Johnson, 
Horace A. Smith, Charles A. Russell, 
Jonathan May, Edward S. Griffin, P. 
M. Longan, Simon Garland. Ezra L. 
Phillips, Joseph C. Shepherd, Fred L. 
Davis, William G. Brown, Thomas P. 
Bolger, William T. Gamage, Frank C. 
Pearce, George Rowe, Ephraim R. 
Andrews, D. Chester Tarr, Rev. Elvin 
J. Prescott, Patrick O’Brien. 
A passenger train recentlv pulled 
into Winona, Kan., 11 weeks late. It 
took the trainmen that long to rebuild 
a culvert that had been washed out, 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
B. F. Kerrn’s THEATRE. 
A stupendous array of brilliant at- 
tractions are promised for holiday 
week at B. F. Keith’s Theatre, some- 
thing that will appeal to young and 
old being included in the program. 
One of the most pretentious features 
of the bill wilt be Mlle. Minni Amato 
and her big company of French artists 
in the wordless playlet in three scenes, 
“The Apple of Paris.” This is a thril- 
ling and intensely interesting story of 
life on the boulevards, told in the most 
realistic fashion. In addition to Mlle. 
Amato, the company includes Signor 
A. Coccia, Yuki Yamanaka, and sev- 
eral other artists of international re- 
pute. The big comedy feature of the 
week will be George Rolland and 
company in Billie Burke’s uproarious- 
lv funny farce comedy, “Fixing The 
Furnace.” This domestic travesty, 
or tragedy, as it is in any household, 
when the furnace balks in zero wea- 
ther, is chock full of laughs from 
start to finish,» and George Rolland 
as the furnace man, is excrusiatingly 
funny. Two great features for the 
children that always flock to Keith’s 
at Christmas time will be Gillett‘s 
Animals, including the Monkey Bow- 
ling Alley and Adam and Eve, the 
big chimpanzees, and Adonis and his 
wonderful dog, who present the most 
astonishing series of equilibristic and 
contortion feats. 
WuHueEre To Stop In Boston. 
Residents of this section, when 
they are obliged to remain Boston on 
business or otherwise, are interested 
in knowing where to locate in the 
right kind of a hotel. at prices satis- 
factory for the accommodations they 
desire. It has been the experience 
of many persons that there is no 
cleaner, healthier, quieter or cheerful 
hotel in the Hub than the Hotel 
Com ~onwealth. 
The Commonwealth is diagonally 
across from the State House on Bea- 
con Hill. The elevation on Beacon 
Hill affords a delightfullv cool breeze 
of fresh uncontaminated air during 
the hottest and most sultry months of 
- and is the best hotel during 
the winter season because of its ac- 
cessability to the theatres and shop- 
ping districts. The location is within 
three minutes’ walk of Boston Com- 
mon. State House. Court House, 
Scollay Square, Tremont Street, and 
elevated and subway trains. 
The location is as quiet both day 
and night as a suburban residential 
district, thus assuring undisturbed 
rest to all. 
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Epprr Foy At Tur Boston THEATRE 
Laughing Eddie Foy, the funniest 
of all Broadway comedians is now ap- 
pearing at the Boston Theatre in the 
best musical show he has had in many » 
years entitled, “Over the River.” 
Werba and Luescher, the producers 
of this hilarious girl and song comedy, 
have staged their production in spect- 
acular fashion and the piece comes af- 
ter a smashing six months’ success at 
the Globe Theatre in New York. ‘The 
play gets its somewhat unique title 
from the fact that in New York City, 
there is a slang designation for the 
prison on Blackwell’s Island where 
one of the scenes is located. Pris- 
oners sent there are said to be doing 
time “over the river.” A comedian 
in prison stripes is a novelty and Foy 
makes the role excruciatingly comi- 
cal. Eddie Foy plays the role of 
Madison Parke, a man about town 
who entertains his friends so riotously 
on a certain night that he wakes up 
the next morning and finds himself 
sentenced to thirty days “over the 
river.” The second act showing the 
interior of the prison with Foy’s red 
hair clipped close, and a suit of prison 
stripes enveloping his heroic figure is 
one of the most humorous conceits 
ever staged in any theatre. The 
chorus appear in this scene attired as 
beautiful Salvation Army lassies 
bringing flowers to the prisoners. The 
third act shows a garden decorated 
Mexican fashion, with the chorus as 
beautiful senoritas greeting the wan- 
derer after his thirty days, when he 
returns home with the fishy explana- 
tion that he has been to Mexico. 
GRANITE INDustRY IN THIs STATE 
SHows INCREASED OUTPUT. 
The granite produced in the United 
States in 1911 had a value of $21,391,- 
878, an increase of $849,911 over the 
value for 1910. Fourteen states, ac- 
cording to the United States Geo- 
logical Survey, produced granite val- 
ued at more than $500,000, in the fol- 
lowing order: Vermont, Massachu- 
setts, Maine, California, Wisconsin, 
Washington, New Hampshire, Rhode 
Island, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, 
North Carolina, Oregon, and Connec- 
ticut. Of these states the first seven 
produced granite valued at more than 
$1,000,000, and six of the fourteen— 
Vermont, Massachusetts, California, 
Washington, Rhode Island and Con- 
necticut—showed an increase in value 
of output. 
