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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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North Shore. 
Fine weather, this. 
Vacation days will soon be over. 
The Beverly city fathers are cer- 
tainly doing handsomely by the 
United Shoe Machinery Company. 
We hope the Beverly board of 
aldermen will not spoil its latest pro- 
tege. They seem to: be forgetting 
all others in their eagerness to do 
something for the new arrival. 
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in the country. Some special articles 
of interest to you will bein its columns 
throughout the fall and winter. 
Read next week’s article in the 
BREEZE, by President George C. 
Chase of Bates College, upon “Col- 
lege Education.” It is timely, coming 
just before the opening of schools and 
colleges for another year. Read it, 
have your children read it, send it to 
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‘esting and valuable, also. 
Magnolia pays one-tenth of the 
taxes of the city of Gloucester. The 
residents say they get nothing, or 
comparatively nothing, for it: no 
police protection, utterly inadequate 
fire protection, streets that are almost 
a disgrace, and poor school accommo- 
dations. Their complaint is well 
founded; conditions in all these re- 
spects are very bad. Magnolia suffers 
the fate of other summer resorts. 
The city proper seems to regard it as 
a place from which many good things 
should come, but to which very few 
plums should go. 
Is It Fair? 
The BrEEzE editorial of last week 
upon the condition of the streets at 
the Farms provoked considerable com- 
ment upon the action of the city gov- 
ernment in devoting so much money 
to the improvements at Ryal Side at 
the expense of other portions of the 
city. 
One gentleman, a well-known busi- 
ness man of Beverly, met us upon the 
street one day this week, and com- 
menting upon the article, said that we 
were too narrow. ‘We should not 
have limited ourselves to Beverly 
Farms,” said he, “for matters are 
just as bad in other parts of the city. 
The money that should have been 
appropriated for street improvements 
this year,” said he, ‘“‘has been cut in 
halves in order that the United Shoe 
Machinery Company might get the 
benefit.”’ 
While there is no objection to 
granting all the benefits possible to 
induce a large industry to locate in 
Beverly, it does seem as if it were 
going a little too far to make those 
who have paid a large part of the 
burden of taxes in years past, and 
who are still doing so, put up with 
poor roads, upon which it is a discom- 
fort to ride, while the city funds are 
appropriated for the development of 
land about another section of the 
city. 
U. G. Haskell. 
U. G. Haskell’s candidacy seems to 
be growing stronger. The letter of 
Congressman Gardner, in which he 
gives his support to the Beveriy man, 
came as a bomb-shell to the Peters 
forces. Mr. Haskell has much in his 
favor—a good record, friends who 
command the respect of the voters of 
the district, and the undivided sup- 
port of his home city. 
If a man has the last-named item in 
his favor, together with the others, 
his position must be a strong one, for 
the support of those who have known 
him all his life, and who consequently 
know all his imperfections, is a strong 
testimonial to his character, his integ- 
rity and his qualifications for the office 
sought. Mr. Haskell has shown him- 
self worthy of the confidence of his 
fellow-citizens throughout every act 
of his career. 
THE OLD-TIME MEETING- 
HOUSE. 
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ships left by the receding tide, or 
have long since given place to more 
modern structures, or have yielded to 
the encroachments of traffic, except 
in a few instances, in which they are 
preserved with pride as interesting 
memorials of a rapidly vanishing past. 
Inside, the New England meeting- 
house was bare of the least attempt 
at ornamentation. There were no 
tablets on the walls, no grained 
arches or ‘high, embowed roof,” or 
‘storied windows richly dight, shed- 
ding a dim, religious light.” The 
Puritans, in their revulsion from 
everything ‘‘churchly,” wentto the 
other extreme, and made their meet- 
ing-houses bare and homely to the 
last degree. Four plain walls, un- 
painted pews, and uncarpeted floor, 
constituted the fout ensemble of the 
house of worship. Added to this, the 
bleak position which it often occupied, 
its ill-fitting windows, its lack of any 
means of warmth in the depth of a 
New England winter, and we cannot 
but admire the devotion of the wor- 
shippers. The ‘‘noon-house,”’ however, 
afforded some slight mitigation to 
the arctic rigor of the meeting-house ; 
this was a small building, in which a 
generous fire of logs blazed on Sun- 
days, and to which the people repaired 
at noon-time to eat their doughnuts 
and cheese, discuss the sermon and 
the weather, exchange friendly greet- 
ings and gossip, and replenish the 
**foot-stove,’’ another ingenious de- 
vice, to withstand the ordeal of the 
afternoon service. 
Of the interior, the most outstand- 
ing feature was the pulpit, even as 
preachimg was by far the most prom- 
inent part of the service. It was 
usually large and high, reached by a 
long flight of steps, and surmounted 
by a huge ‘‘sounding-board,” which 
suggested to the youthful mind the 
possible dread catastrophe resulting 
from its sudden fall. The reducing 
of the pulpit’s altitude and the ex- 
change of the pulpit for the platform 
may, perhaps, illustrate the change 
which has taken place within 50 years 
in the relation between minister and 
people, and in the unique position of 
the preacher in the community. Op- 
posite the pulpit, and often surround- 
ing three sides of the house, wasa 
high gallery. The end gallery was 
for the singers and the large orchestra 
of stringed and wind instruments; 
if there were side galleries, they were 
sometimes allotted to the boys under 
the charge of the ‘‘ tything-man,’”’ and 
in some cases there were “free seats” 
for negroes and Indians; in a few 
