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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Published every Saturday Afternoon. 
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North Shore. 
Hear ’em ! 
Fire-crackers. 
The Glorious Fourth—the longest 
day in the year. 
The Fourth begins on the First 
and it doesn’t end until the Fifth. 
Join in and have a good time. 
The BREEZE has just been entered 
at the Beverly post office as second 
class matter. Application for entry 
was made at the time of the first 
issue of the BREEzE, but not until 
this week was notification received 
from the authorities at Washington 
granting the application. 
It is a credit to the business men of 
Manchester, as well as to the loyal 
citizens and bandsmen, that Manches- 
ter isto have a series of band con- 
certs this summer. It isa credit, we 
say, to all who have taken a hand in 
making this possible. The town 
needs some such thing to keep the 
people in town Saturday nights, and 
the movement which results in the 
first of the series of concerts next 
week will be greatly appreciated. 
The caterpillar itch seems to. be 
thoroughly in vogue just at present. 
It comes when we little expect it, and 
it confines itself right to a spot that 
we can’t very well see — right in the 
back of the neck. These brown- 
tails! What a terrible pest they are 
getting to be. It is bad enough to 
have them destroy our beautiful 
shade trees, but when that maddening 
irritation besets us we begin to think 
that our complexions and our tempers 
as well as our forests are in the maw 
of the ravenous caterpillar. 
We have said much in_ these 
columns about the wretchedly poor 
electric car service afforded the peo- 
ple in this section, and it would seem 
that there is still lots to say were we 
to give expression to the feelings of 
the masses on this subject. We had 
occasion a few days ago to ride from 
Beverly to Hamilton. Having heard 
so much about the service on this 
line we concluded it an excellent op- 
portunity to “have a look.” We 
have since concluded that the Boston 
& Northern cars on the Wenham- 
Hamilton line are about as poor apol- 
ogies for electric cars as it has been 
our misfortune to ride in. Lack of 
space forbids us to enumerate the de- 
fects in the service. 
The Fourth of July. 
How many Americans realize that 
the last celebration of the Fourth of 
July inthis country cost more than 
the battle of Vafangow cost the Rus- 
sians. Here are the figures: 
Died of lockjaw caused by injuries.... 406 
Died sof other injuriess. sie. cate 60 
Deotally; blind eds -y-hsginie Suess ctoh sactel 10 
Number who lost one eye.........++. 15 
Arms and legs lostmac. cn se eo tees 54 
Number who lost fingers............-. 174 
Number injured who recovered....... 3983 
Total number of casualties in the 
United States atch svi eae ee 4349 
—The Boston Journal. 
The foregoing figures are of in- 
terest in view of the heated contro- 
versy going on in some places in re- 
gard to a more sane celebration of 
the Fourth. 
While we are by no means in sym- 
pathy with those who seem to have 
forgotten their own boyhood, who 
would keep Young America down, 
and who object strenuously to any 
outburst of boyish enthusiasm, we 
are heartily in sympathy with regula- 
tions which will prevent such out- 
bursts of patriotism as result in a list 
of tragedies like the above. 
The bill passed by the General 
Court last winter against selling 
high-powered explosives and against 
selling to minors is, we think, a 
step in the right direction. 
By all means let young America 
have his day, but Jet it be restricted 
within reasonable bounds. 
Beverly’s Need. 
The great need of Beverly today 
and a need that is making itself felt 
more strongly every day that goes 
by, is the need of new houses and 
new tenements. Beverly has grown 
rapidly of recent years and the popu- 
lation is rapidly outstripping the 
growth of houses to accommodate it. 
There has been a lot of building go- 
ing on recently in the Garden City 
but it has been mostly in the line of 
business blocks with accommodations 
for stores and offices. There has 
been so much of this in fact that 
offices are at the present time rather 
a drug on the market. 
On the other hand, houses are at a 
premium. Rents have increased two- 
fold and it is almost impossible for a 
stranger coming to the city to secure 
accommodation at any price. What 
will happen when the United Shoe 
Machinery plant commences business 
is a question. Big blocks are going 
up for the accommodation of business 
men who expect a largely increased 
business with the great influx of peo- 
ple who will be employed at this im- 
mense plant. But no plans are being 
made for the accommodation of these 
strangers. Where will be the busi- 
ness if these people have to live in ad- 
joining towns? Surely it will not be 
in. Beverly. 
Something ought to be done and 
done at once. Real estate men say 
that there is no better investment 
today than in tenements. 
There is an opportunity for some 
one. There is no need for more busi- 
ness blocks. They should in the nat- 
ural sequence of things follow the in- 
crease in population and not precede 
it as has been the case in Beverly. On 
the other hand preparation for this 
increase should be the first thing 
thought of 
To the real estate owners we would 
suggest that some effort be made to 
anticipate thearrival of the families of 
employes at the new plant, or when 
they arrive they will be forced to live 
in neighboring towns and they, in- 
stead of Beverly, will reap the reward. 
A woman’s idea of enforced idle- 
ness is to have so much money that 
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it would keep her busy trying to .— 
spend it. 
