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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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Children’s Behavior. 
We have received this week two 
communications, calling attention to 
the action of children in the Manches- 
ter town hall Wednesday night during 
Prof. Kirkland’s lecture on the moth. 
As both are along the same line of 
discussion, we publish only one of 
these communications. It may be 
found in another column. 
We would like at this time also to 
call attention to a request we have 
made several times before as regards 
signing of names to communications 
sent us for publication. One of the 
letters sent us was accompanied by 
the sender’s name, the other was not. 
While we do not request the name of 
the sender for publication, we must 
know from whom such communication 
comes, merely as a guarantee of good 
faith. 
As regards the question in hand we 
almost want to refrain from discussing 
the matter. Those who attended the 
lecture Wednesday night can well 
understand the reason why. Nothing 
we Can say in these columns can pre- 
vent children from “carrying on”’ in 
a public hall. The matter lies with 
the parents. When a speaker is com- 
pelled to stop and ask his audience to 
quiet their chattering that he might be 
heard, it is, to say the least, a rather 
embarrassing position in which to 
place him. 
When parents allow their children 
to go to a public place, whether a 
lecture, musicale or what not, they 
must expect nothing more than chil- 
dren’s actions from them. Yet if a 
police officer should take one of these 
disturbing children from the building 
to make “‘an example” of him, the 
parents would be the first to find 
fault. It is surely a disgrace to the 
town to bear a repetition of last 
Wednesday night’s actions. 
Goes to Bar Harbor. 
George M. Haskins, for almost seven 
years editor and publisher of the Rock- 
port Review, has recently purchased 
the Lar Harbor Record, weekly, and 
Bar Harbor Life, a summer publica- 
tion, and will soon go to Bar Har- 
bor to assume control. Mr. Haskins 
bought the Revzew from Joseph Le- 
man of Manchester and Rockport, 
and during the yearshe has controlled 
it he has built up the paper to quite 
an extent. We predict the same suc- 
cess for our contemporary in his new 
field of labor. 
W hisperings, 
Iam indebted to my good friend 
Fred Swett for a copy of the Salem 
Register, one of the earliest publica- 
tions in the country, which he .found 
a short time ago among some old 
papers belonging to his grandmother, 
Mrs. Harry Kitfield, wife of the yood 
old Thomas Kitfield, whom many of 
our older residents will remember 
well. 
This particular paper was No. 98 of 
Vol. IV., published. on Thursday, 
December 8, 1803, the same year as 
the clipping we referred to last week 
in these columns appeared in the old 
Gazette. It is a four page affair, four 
columns wide, and about one half as 
large again as the BREEZE. It is quaint, 
indeed. Very little in the shape of 
news, considerable advertising and a 
long political artlicle on the “Cloven 
Foot of Federalism.” 
* * * * 
One thing which struck me particu- 
—y 
larly was an item on a fire in Salem. 
It speaks for itself. 
“FIRE.—We hadan alarm of Fire 
on Friday evening last, which for- 
tunately proved to be a chimney only. 
It is almost two years since this town 
has been visited by this distressing 
calamity; and we trust this Providen- 
tial exemption will not lessen that 
care and vigilance for which the in- 
habitants of Salem are so justly dis- 
tinguished. The Town was _ never 
better provided with Cisterns, En- 
gines, Buckets, &c. and seldom ever 
worse provided with Chimney Sweep- 
ers. The dangerous practice of burn- 
ing Chimnies, we hope will be done 
away, by a supply of those useful 
Gentlemen. A mansion house worth 
20,000 dollars has lately been burnt 
to the ground in Maryland by the 
burning of a chimney which was set 
fire to in order to cleanse it.”’ 
* * * * 
In the same column we find another 
scrib which the boys of this day 
should read. It is on smoking, and 
says: 
“We hope the ‘Laws Staff Offi- 
cers’ will take due notice of the large 
and small boys, who violate, most im- 
prudently, the By-Laws of the Town 
by smoking Segars in the street al- 
most every night.” 
* * * * 
I was interested the other day to 
learn that the original Boston terrier 
was owned by Robert C. Hooper, one 
of our Manchester summer residents. 
It was about twenty years ago that 
Mr. Hooper owned the beautifnl dog, 
but no one ever thought then this 
breed would occupy the prominent 
place in Kenneldom that it now en 
joys. 
MANCHESTER, Oct. 27, 1904. 
Editor North Shore Breeze: 
I trust you will allow me space in your 
paper to express my disapproval of the dis- 
turbing feature of last evening’s lecture in 
town hall. I have attended performances in 
Manchester when the children and boys 
acted in amanner more befitting the children 
in slums of our cities before, but never did 
I feel more the utter disgrace of such actions 
as was demonstrated at Prof. Kirkland’s 
lecture last night. 
I suppose one might expect children to act 
a little out of the ordinary in a dark hall, 
especially when a crowd of them sit together, 
but the shrieks and whistles and howling, 
after the lecture and before, to say nothing 
of the chatter and moaning noises they made 
while the lecture was in progress, was a most 
disgraceful circumstance. 
I am surprised some of the men having 
the lecture in charge, or the police —for I 
noticed some in the hall—did not try to 
stop the noise. I think, however, the whole 
trouble lies in parents allowing their children 
to go to a public meeting unattended. 
IT hope you will find room in your paper to 
call attention to this matter. 
“For DECENT BEHAVIOR.” 
