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oolet. No. 5 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
A WEEKLY‘ JOURNAL: DEVOTED-T0-THE BEST: INTERESTS-OF THENORTH-SHDRE: 
BEVERLY, MASS., SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 
1904 
CF LEPWoUR, 
Three Cents 
Bunker Hill Day, 
The 17th day of June was cele- 
brated in a quiet manner along the 
North Shore. The likeness to the 
Fourth of July which prevailed in and 
about the Hub was not evident here 
but the day was generally observed 
as a holiday, being devoted to excur- 
sion and picnic parties and_ baseball. 
At Beverly the stores closed for the 
day and the inhabitants hied them- 
selves to Peabody’s field to witness 
the contests on the diamond morning 
and afternoon, visited the circus or 
passed the day at the Willows. 
At Manchester the Red Men held 
forth at LTuck’s Point, the occasion 
of their annual outing, while a great 
many people either went to the fire- 
men’s muster in Gloucester or. to the 
ball games and the circus in Beverly. 
All was quiet at the Farms, a ball 
game by the youngsters being the 
only attraction in town, while the 
muster at Gloucester and the attrac- 
tions in Beverly carried many away 
for the day. 
At Magnolia all interest centered 
in the firemen’s muster at Gloucester 
where the local hand tub was entered. 
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MANCHESTER ELECTRIC LIGHT STATION. 
The electricity was switched on to 
Manchester the latter part of last 
week, and Saturday night the lights 
were turned on in the house of Gor- 
don Abbott, West Manchester, — the 
first house to be lighted by electricity 
by the local electric light company. 
The above picture shows the trans- 
former station on Summer street, 
near the railroad station. The little 
Structure presents a neat appearance, 
standing as it does in the small space 
between the railroad tracks and the 
‘street. It is of brick and is finished 
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inside with hard pine. 
It is here the power comes from 
the Beverly electric light plant and is 
distributed by cables to the various 
sections of the town. At present 
only the West Manchester section is 
connected and onlya small proportion 
of the houses in this section is lighted 
yet. 
The wires are all under ground ex- 
cept in the outlying places and on 
some streets where trenching for lay- 
ing the conduits was difficult, 
where poles are used. 
CARO 
CATALOGUED, 
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. 
J. J. Coolidge Seriously Injured at Man- 
chester. 
‘Resting comfortably, with favor- 
able chances of recovery,’’ was the 
report given out at the Beverly Hos- 
pital this noon as the condition of J, 
J. Coolidge. 
Mr. Coolidge was driving down 
Summer street toward the Manches- 
ter railroad station about 5.20 o’clock 
Wednesday afternoon in a small Con- 
cord buggy when he stood up and 
leaned forward over the dasher to hit 
the horse. He lost his balance, it is 
said, and fell forward. Andas he fell 
between the horse and the whiffle- 
tree his legs became caught in the 
running gear. 
Held suspended in this manner he 
was dragged fully 500 feet before the 
horse was stopped, the rear hoofs of 
the horse as it trotted along mangling 
his head and face terribly. 
In the carriage with Mr. Coolidge 
at the time were Frank Silva and an- 
other of Mr. Coolidge’s workmen. 
They succeeded in stopping the horse 
after it had gone about 150 feet. 
A crowd had soon gathered and the 
ambulance was summoned. Mr. 
Coolidge was picked’up and taken to 
the police station where Dr. Blaisdell 
attended him. He was immediately 
afterward taken to the Beverly Hos- 
pital in the ambulance by Harry 
Swett and special officer Leary. 
At the hospital it was found that 
the unfortunate man had his lower 
jaw broken, several teeth were out, 
his nose was broken, his left ear was 
badly lacerated and torn, his head 
had a very bad scalp wound and he 
was bruised all over. The bruises 
were such, however, as would natu- 
rally arise from being dragged. The 
wounds on his head were caused, it 
is said, by being struck by the hoofs 
of the horse. 
Those who saw Mr. Coolidge at the 
time of the accident thought he 
would not live to get to Beverly. And 
