Vol. 1., No. 2 
BEVERLY, MASS., SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1904 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL: DEVOTED-T0-THE: BEST: INTERESTS-OF THENORTH-SHORE: 
EF LEPAWOUR, 
Three Cents 
TOWN LANDING. 
Work Started on 40-foot Pier at Manchester. 
Work on the town pier at the Tap- 
pan Marsh, near the railroad station, 
was started this week. A pile-driving 
machine came in Tuesday night, and 
the work was started Wednesday 
morning. Pitman & Brown of Salem 
have the contract for building the pier. 
It is not known to just what extent 
the work will be carried this year. A 
member of the park commissioners 
said to a BREEZE reporter this week 
that they would go to the Jimit of the 
$3,000 at their disposal now. 
A pier 40 feet square will be built 
in the flats on the tip of the marsh 
nearest the draw-bridge. It will be 
constructed of oak pilings and hard 
pine. A float of good dimensions will 
be put at the end of the pier. Piles 
are also being driven from Beach 
street, near the arch bridge, out 
toward the pier. Thespace inside will 
be filled in. 
When the pier is completed a basin 
will be dredged and also a channel 
from there to the main channel, if 
sufficient money remains from the 
appropriation made. 
Meanwhile the roadway from Beach 
street across the marsh to the pier is 
being pushed ahead slowly. It is 
expected the road will be finished by 
the time the pier is ready for use. 
No definite work is being done on the 
road, the progress being only as fast 
as dumpings and refusematter brought 
there is disposed of. A man is kept 
on hand all the time taking care of 
this, and occasionally a load of gravel 
from some of the town jobs is dumped 
there, too. 
At all events, it now looks as if 
Manchester is to have a town landing 
place, something that has been the 
crying need for years. There is, and 
always has been, a strong feeling that 
the town should have some such land- 
ing where yachtsmen might come at 
low tide and land as well as when the 
tide is high. 
REPUBLICAN CLUB. 
Capt. A. P. Gardner Discusses Reciprocity at 
Beverly. 
Capt. A. P. Gardner, representative 
from this district, addressed the Bev- 
erly Republican club at a smoker 
given at their rooms Wednesday night. 
Capt. Gardner discussed the reciproc- 
ity question. He spoke in part as 
follows: ‘‘The Democratic party has 
been casting about for some time for 
a platform upon which to wage the 
electoral battle this fall. They have 
tried various questions, and all have 
proved unsuitable. The last one to be 
given up was the question of the 
Panama canal. When they tried to 
‘make this the issue they found that 
the majority of the people favored the 
action of President Roosevelt, and it 
at once had to be dropped and a new 
issue found. It now looks as if they 
would be obliged to fall back upon 
the old issue of the tariff and free 
trade. In this connection reciprocity 
with Canada will have the most prom- 
inent position. 
‘They will tell you that reciprocity 
with Canada means increased pros- 
perity for the country, because it 
gives a wider market. They will tell 
you in Beverly that you can sell shoes 
made here in Canada at a good profit, 
and that Canada is not ina position to 
sell her shoes here in competition 
with American makers. If this is so, 
why should Canada want reciprocity ? 
But reciprocity does not mean free 
trade in manufactured goods; it means 
free trade solely in the raw materials, 
the raw products from the field, forest, 
mines and sea. 
“ Reciprocity with Canada is not a 
new and untried proposition as the 
would have you think. It was tried 
Oliver Wendell Holmes’s House. 
Charmingly situated a little back from the road and nestling cosily among the trees, one 
of the most attractive residences along the shore is that of Chief Justice Oliver Wendell 
Holmes, off Hale street and near Beach at Beverly Farms. 
Of simple design and unpreten- 
tious in style, it harmonizes with the surroundings and makes an ideal retreat for one who, 
like the Chief Justice, seeks rest and quiet after a winter spent in the arduous duties of the 
supreme bench. 
CARD 
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