22 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
May 11, 1917. 
The Cape Ann Resorts 
- Busy Season in Store for the 
Gloucester and Rockport Shore 
“Mother Ann,” 
APE ANN.—The manner in which houses have been 
renting for the past two months in the various sec- 
tions of Cape Ann, East Gloucester, Rockport and Annis- 
quam, goes. to'show that the season will be a very brisk 
one. The hotel proprietors are pleased over the way the 
bookings appear and altogether the outlook is most en- 
couraging. A great building boom is on, especially at 
East re loucester, where nearly a half million dollars will 
be involved. Cottages, mostly, have been built, as well as 
a hotel; additions to hotels and a chain of stores. 
Gloucester will have a new hotel to accommodate a 
hundred or more guests, this season. Harry W. Smith is 
having the house built on the site of the burned hotel, 
Surfside. located on Western avenue. The outlook and 
bathing facilities at this point are greatly to be consid- 
ered and the new. hotel which is rather low and rambling 
with its splendid equipments will be an attractive addi- 
tion to the North Shore’ list of hostelries. 
The Rockaway Hotel at East Gloucester has received 
an addition of 18 sleeping rooms and bath, besides a new 
dance hall, 25 x 36 feet, built out towards the water front. 
This addition makes the Rockaway a large® hostelry. The 
grounds’ on the water front side of the house are very 
attractive in the summer season with the well kept lawns, 
flower gardens and big tennis courts. 
for sailing accommodations and bathing is a prominent 
feature of this resort. 
Another hotel receiving an extensive addition is the 
Good Harbor Beach Inn, near Brier Neck, with its com- 
pleted 50 rooms. E. E. McIntire, a former state repre- 
sentative is the proprietor and he expects a big season, 
The boat landing 
Famous Rock at Eastern Point, Gloucester 
The new English mansion for Jacob L. Loose, the 
prominent member of the cracker firm of Loose- Wiles, of 
Kansas City, has been completed at Grape Vi ine Cove and 
the house is being furnished for occupancy. “Sea Rocks” 
is the name of Mr. Loose’s mansion, appropriately titled, 
being located as it is upon beautiful high rocks, over-look- 
ing the broad Atlantic. The surroundings are preserved 
for acres, the scenery being unobstructed. “A large gar- 
age is at one end of the estate. The house of 52 rooms, 
150 feet in length of stucco and wood, was designed hy 
Pzta sy. Phillips of Gloucester and Simeon Garland was 
the contractor. 
W. Jay Little, who purchased 25 acres of land Rope: 
site the Loose estate, has three new cottages in the pro- 
cess of construction, to be occupied by the approaching 
season, one in fact being practically completed. The 
houses of English design were planned by H. M. Hanson 
of Gloucester. One house situated near the General Mills 
estate was burned to the ground, during the winter after 
the structure had received its first boarding. A new house 
was immediately started on the former foundation and it 
is nearly completed. Harry M. Boutelle is the contractor. 
Another house is being erected for Mr. Little on his prop- 
erty near the picturesque Niles Pond, Eastern Point. 
M. F. Chase, a manufacturing chemist of St. Louis, 
is having a Dutch colonial farmhouse erected on a site in 
the Patch orchard, to the westward of the summer home 
of the late authoress, Elizabeth Stuart (Phelps) Ward, 
on Grape Vine road. FE. L. Phillips is the architect and 
E. S. Griffin, the contractor. 
One of the most pretentious summer houses in the 
