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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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. 
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Beverly, Mass. 
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this office not later than Friday noon preceding the 
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guarantee of good faith. 
Communications solicited on matters of public in- 
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, DEC. 10, 1904. 
Telephone Service, 
Beverly Farms folk are making 
quite a halloo over their telephone 
service. They have petitioned the 
telephone company to give them a 
continuance of the exchange through 
the winter; and the petition was 
signed not only bya majority of the 
business men at the Farms, but by 
such members of the summer colony 
as John T. Morse, jr., and Edward 
Haven. The company has turned 
down the petition. 
For a long time the Beverly Farms 
‘and Pride’s Crossing people have felt 
they ought to have free service with 
Manchester. In fact, they are willing 
to dispense with the free service to 
Danvers, Salem, Peabody and Marble- 
head, if they can only be connected 
with Manchester. While they would 
like a continuation of the service to 
Beverly proper, a big majority of the 
subscribers at the Farms do not care 
for this outside service. 
Manchester people, too, would like 
free service to Beverly Farms. It is 
true a majority of the subscribers on 
the North Shore are summer resi- 
dents, and they would much prefer 
free service between Beverly Farms, 
Manchester, Magnolia and Pride’s 
Crossing than the system now in 
vogue. 
At the present time Manchester 
subscribers must pay fifteen cents to 
speak with Beverly Farms, a mile or 
two away, and vice versa. And a 
subscriber in Beverly Farms must go 
to the trouble of calling Beverly, five 
miles away, in order to get his neigh- 
bor across the street. 
While Beverly Farms people’ want 
to do what is right in the matter, they 
do think they can justly call for a 
change. 
Park Improvements. 
MANCHESTER, MaAss., 
Dec. 7, 1904. 
Mr. Editor: As it has become a 
custom in matters of public interest 
to ventilate one’s ideas in the local 
papers, I think it well to start the ball 
rolling in regard to our Marine Park, 
which, by the way, I think is a much 
better name than Beach street park. 
It seems to me the proper thing to 
do is to havea plan of contemplated 
improvements made and the estimated 
costs submitted to the town at thc 
next annual meeting, and give the citt- 
zens a Chance to say what they want. 
If plans and estimates are accepted 
let them ask for funds to carry the 
same into execution. This the town 
can do by issuing park bonds, which 
to my. mind, is a much better plan 
than to keep doing a little each year 
and not know when the job will be 
done. 
By knowing what we want at the 
start, the park can be completed for at 
least 25 per cent. less than by raising 
two or three thousand dollars each 
year. 
As one of the strong advocates of 
this proposed park from the start I am 
very much interested, and as a boat- 
man I would like to see the work 
pushed along so that the increasing 
number of boats can be accommodated 
with landing places, and that those 
who enjoy the privileges of a park may 
have the pleasure of doing so. 
What we want first are plans and es- 
timated costs, and specifications as to 
proposed expenditures. With these 
before them the town will no doubt 
vote instructions to go ahead full 
steam. 
(Signed) 
E. P. STANLEY. 
Love Me and Tell Me So. 
[Written for the BREEZE.] 
When I am dead I may not hear 
Your words of sympathy or cheer. 
So, if you please, I think as how 
I’d rather you would speak them now. 
Flowers bespeak your love sincere, 
But send them, please, while I am here; 
Heap not your fragrant tribute on my bier. 
O friends, dear friends, your spoken love I 
crave. 
You who in life to me no taffy gave, 
Waste not your epitaphs on my grave. 
Love me and tell me so, 
Before I go. 
J. A. TORREY. 
W hisperings, 
My good friend, Delucena L. Bing- 
ham, Manchester’s veteran librarian, 
who has always been a great admirer 
of Webster, and who remembers see- 
ing the great orator on his various 
visits to Manchester, handed me an 
old paper the other day with the fol- 
lowing story of Webster. Mr. Bing- 
ham thought it was well worth reprint- 
ing, and so we give it in tull: 
“It was Mr. Webster’s custom in 
the hunting season to travel ‘across’ 
from Marshfield to the Plymouth 
woods and meet the other huntsmen 
at the cabin of ‘ Uncle’ Branch Pierce. 
On one of these excursions he was 
overtaken by a storm which lasted all 
day. Noother huntsmen appeared at 
the cabin, and solitary sport was out 
of the question. But Mr. Webster, 
who often made small occasions great 
by his wonderful genius, was not at a 
loss for entertainment. 
‘Adapting himself to the peculiar 
religious inclining of his hosts, while 
they pursued their usual homely occu- 
pations, he read and repeated from 
memory a multitude of the psalms and 
hymns with which much reading had 
made him familiar. Hour after hour 
the great statesman paced the floor of 
that cabin kitchen, repeating with his 
magnificent voice. the inspired psalms 
of David, and Watts’ undying hymns, 
with only Branch Pierce and his wife 
for listeners. 
‘No church or cathedral ever re- 
sounded to grander or sweeter music 
than that with which Daniel Webster 
that day filled the cabin of the hunter 
of Plymouth woods.; and no audience 
ever listened to his own triumphant 
eloquence with such delight as its 
humble tenants listened to the familiar 
psalms, which for them received new 
inspiration as. they rolled from his 
marvellous, lips.” 
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I am in receipt this week of a copy 
of the Beverly Guide and Reference 
Book, published every fall and spring 
by Beverly’s enterprising young pub- 
lishers, Crowley and Lunt. The book 
is far ahead of anything of the kind 
published in this section, and carries 
a gist of local advertisers as well as a 
full and complete guide to train and 
electric car service, points of interest, 
elC.. Ctc: 
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It did me good Tuesday afternoon, 
after the storm of Monday night, to 
see the crowd of men on the ‘“chan- 
nel” in Manchester, cleaning off the 
snow so that the children might go 
down on the ice after school and enjoy 
the skating. When I was a boy — 
and that was but a few years ago— 
we had to shovel the snow off the 
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