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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL: DEVOTED-TO-THE: BEST: INTERESTS: OF THENORTH-SHORE 
Vol. I. No. 2O 
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BEVERLY, MASS., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1904 
EF Lshrvoun, 
Three Cents 
OF INTEREST TO 
AUTOMOBILISTS. 
Association Formed to See What Can be, Done 
Toward Enforcing Automobile Laws. 
During the past summer the resi- 
dents of the North Shore have com- 
mented a good deal on the disregard 
shown by the drivers of automobiles 
for the convenience and even the legal 
rights of other users of the roads. The 
rapid pace —far in excess of the limit 
prescribed by law—at which these 
machines have been driven, sometimes 
past the intersection of roads and 
avenues which could not be seen from 
any considerable distance, sometimes 
in and out among other vehicles in 
the busiest and most thickly settled 
parts of the towns, has annoyed and 
alarmed a great many people, who 
regard their own right to use the 
highway without such interference as 
one which no one is entitled to destroy 
in such a manner. The parents of 
young children living near the high- 
way have been kept in a state of 
anxious watchfulness to prevent acci- 
dents, while the drivers of horses have 
been put in very much the same posi- 
tion as if there were a railroad grade 
crossing before them whenever they 
approach the intersection of two 
roads ; to be safe from accident they 
must, if they cannot see a _ considera- 
ble distance down the road, listen 
attentively for the sound of an ap- 
proaching automobile before venturing 
to cross or turn into the highway. 
All this alarm may be very unrea- 
sonable. The automobile is said to be 
so easily controlled as to make acci- 
dent highly improbable, even at the 
speeds at which it is habitually driven, 
and at all events it is proclaimed that 
it has “come to stay,” and that the 
only sensible thing to do is to get 
used to it, Probably it has come to 
stay, though anyone who remembers 
the crowds of bicycles a few years 
ago and considers the present number 
seen on the roads will hesitate to 
agree that a much more expensive 
piece of machinery, much in the habit 
of getting out of order, has come to 
stay permanently in any very large 
numbers. But if it is to be with us, 
a good many people think that its 
owners and drivers should obey the 
law, which no one who does not de- 
ceive himself—whether he does or 
does not operate an automobile—be- 
lieves that they now habitually do. 
FIRST COTTON MILL IN AMERICA, 
One of the places of interest in Beverly to the lover of the historic is the site of the 
first cotton mill in America on Dodge street. 
by fire just forty years later, in 1828. 
The structure was built in 1788, and destroyed 
CARD 
CATALOGUED, 
The past summer’s events have 
borne some fruit of an unexpected 
kind in this direction. Some of the 
summer residents of Manchester, 
among them owners of automobiles 
who do not wish to annoy or alarm 
other users of the highways, have 
associated themselves together to as- 
certain what can be done to remedy 
the inconveniences to which they, in 
common with others, are subjected. 
It is probable that if the present 
law were obeyed their objects would 
be accomplished. If not, nothing can 
be more certain than the ease with 
which a change in the statute could 
be procured it it should be made clear 
that obedience to the law as it now 
stands did not remove the discomforts. 
and dangers to which other highway 
users are now subjected. 
The association above mentioned 
has the support of a representative 
body of the summer residents who: 
seek the co-operation of all who wish: 
to see the law obeyed. Their objects 
are stated in their articles of associa- 
tion to be as follows:- 
** To induce owners of automobiles 
to require their employees to respect 
and observe the Jaws of the Common- 
wealth relating to the speed of auto- 
mobiles on the highways, and to seek 
the support in that undertaking of all 
persons living on the North Shore 
who desire to have those laws respect- 
ed and obeyed. 
“To procure evidence of the viola- 
tion of the laws relating to the speed 
of automobiles, and to record it in 
such a form that it may be used be- 
foré the Highway Comission and the 
Legislature, and to furnish such evi- 
dence to the police in cases where 
they desire to prosecute the offend- 
ers. To take proceedings before the 
Highway Commission for the revoca- 
tion of licences, and (if desirable) to 
seek further legislation.”’ 
It is not yet possible to say whether 
or not this association will succeed in 
securing that degree of obedience to 
which the laws are entitled. Citing 
offenders before the courts and fining 
them has not proved particularly effi- 
cacious up to the present time, and 
