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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Published every Saturday Afternoon. 
J. ALEX. LODGE, Editor and Proprietor. 
5 Washington Street, Beverly, Mass. 
Branch Office: Pulsifer’s Block, Manchester, Mass. 
W. L. MALOON & CO., PRINTERS, 
Beverly, Mass. 
Terms: $1.00 a year; 3 months (trial), 25 cents. 
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this office not later than Friday noon preceding the 
day of issue. : 
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guarantee of good faith. 
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terest. 
Address all communications and make checks paya- 
ble to NORTH SHORE BREEZE, Beverly, Mass. 
The BREEZE is for sale at all news stands on the 
North Shore. 
Entered as second-class matter May 23, 1904, at the 
post-office at Beverly, Mass., under the Act of Congress 
of March 3, 1879. 
Telephones: Manchester 9-13, Beverly 1008-4. 
SATURDAY, OCT. 15, 1904. 
Change of Address. 
Subscribers who are leaving the 
shore will confer a great favor upon 
the proprietors of the Breeze if they 
well send in their winter address, either 
to our Manchester or to our Beverly 
office, as soon as they know when they 
are to leave. 
This will greatly facilitate matters 
and will insure a prompt continuation, 
of the paper at your new address. 
Tax Dodgers’ Paradise, 
An editorial in the Salem ews one 
day this week said : 
‘“‘A movement is on foot in the so- 
called ‘summer set’ section at New- 
port, R.I., looking to separation from 
the city, for the sake of annexation 
with the town of Middleton. 
“This is a little different plan from 
that which was unsuccessfully engi- 
neered, a number of years ago, to set 
apart Beverly Farms as an independent 
community. It will be remembered 
that in the latter instance the wealthy 
element, whose members make the 
Farms a retreat during the summer 
months, were so dissatisfied with vari- 
ous concerns, that they saw in the 
establishment of the Farms as an 
independent town an escape from 
alleged galling conditions. 
“In like manner, the Newport ‘set’ 
have a number of grievances against 
the manner in which municipal con- 
cerns are administered, and they are 
therefore anxious to change municipal 
relations. Just as the attempt to 
establish a tax dodgers’ paradise in 
Beverly Farms resulted in failure, at 
NORTH SHORE SBREEZE 
once complete and overwhelming, so 
will the Newport enterprise, if it shall 
be pushed to a final issue, meet with 
a similar fate.”’ 
While we would not attempt to 
dispute the argument of the ews as 
to the final outcome of the movement 
said to be on foot in Newport, yet we 
do dislike to hear of our North Shore, 
as a whole or any part of it, being 
called ‘“‘a tax dodgers’ paradise.” 
What has the ews against the peo- 
ple from all over the country who 
come here every year and leave thou- 
sands of dollars behind them? Surely 
there must be some ill-feeling, or else 
the Wezus wouldn’t accuse our wealthy 
summer residents in Manchester, 
Magnolia and Beverly of dodging 
taxes. 
We believe it is the North Shore — 
the historic, the scenic, the beautiful 
North Shore — with its natural beau- 
ties, its attractive shore line, its fine 
wooded hills, that attracts wealth the 
country over, and not low taxes. 
Beverly Farms’ summer residents 
had good reason for wanting to separ- 
ate from Beverly. They have good 
reason for the growing sentiment now 
among the Farms and Pride’s Cross- 
ing residents for bringing about that 
very thing. And it isn’t because they 
want to pay less taxes that these peo- 
ple would like to be separated from 
Beverly. 
It is because the summer residents 
of Beverly Farms and Pride’s Crossing 
have to pay the money to be spent in 
other parts of the city without any 
benefit to the section in which they 
themselves live that they would like 
to effect the change. 
In another column we publish this 
week a partial list of heavy taxpayers. 
It will readily be seen that the heavi- 
est taxpayers live in wards 4 and 6 — 
Beverly Cove, Pride’s Crossing and 
Beverly Farms. 
Astounding Figures. 
Almost ten thousand, or to be exact, 
9984 persons were killed in railroad 
wrecks in the United States during 
the last year, according to statistics 
recently compiled by the interstate 
commerce commission. The records 
of the commission show that 78,152 
persons have lost their lives in railroad 
accidents during the last ten years. 
It would therefore appear that the 
number of fatalities are yearly increas- 
ing. 
The thought arises, whence comes 
the trouble? Why is it so many lives 
should be snatched away by mere 
accident? Is it carelessness, or is 
the fault in the railroad system? In 
England last year, where there are 
50,000 miles of track — one-fourth as 
many miles as in the United States— 
but where the traffic is greater per 
mile, there was not a single death by 
wreck. Yet in this country there 
were more killed outright than the 
casualties of the Spanish war, to say 
nothing of the thousands injured and 
the property destroyed. 
STATEMENT. 
ALFRED E. McCLEARY, who 
has been associated with me in 
publishing the BREEZE since its 
first issue last May, has sold to the 
undersigned his interest in the 
publication, and the paper, form- 
erly edited and owned by both of 
us, will henceforth be controlled 
by the present owner. 
The BREEZE will continue its 
present policy through the winter 
of giving the best news of the 
North Shore in a clean-cut, at- 
tractive, readable manner, and is, 
as it has aimed to be since its 
start, conservative in its efforts, 
**to be devoted to the best inter- 
ests of the North Shore.’’ 
J. ALEX. LODGE. 
A Series of Articles. 
We feel especially fortunate this 
week in being able to announce to 
our readers that in our next issue 
we give the first of a Series of articles 
from the pen of Rev. D. F. Lamson 
of Manchester and Boston, on “Great 
Masters of English Literature.” 
Coming from one so well versed in 
the history of English literature, and 
one who has written so much on topics 
of this nature, the articles should be 
especially valued by our readers. 
The first in the series, to be pub- 
lished next week, will be on “ English 
Language,” and is intended as an in- 
troduction to the articles to follow, 
which will be at intervals of two or 
three weeks. 
The Manchester Cricket presented 
its readers with a handsome colored 
picture of President Roosevelt last. 
week. 
Now for some good fall weather. 
