May 11, 1917. 
Always beautiful in its lofty location at Phillips 
Beach, the Percival B. Palmer estate is undergoing much 
landscape improvement, prior to the arrival of Mr. and 
Mrs. Palmer from Chicago. It is their custom to arrive 
on the North Shore about the first of June, but their com- 
ing is expected any one of these days. Another new 
house on Phillips avenue is the Sparing house, which is 
rapidly nearing completion. Frederick Sparing of the 
firm of Sparing-Torrance Company at Lynn is the owner. 
- The coming of the Sparings to Phillips Beach will be un- 
— doubtedly a pleasing acquisition to the colony. 
The pretty 
~ Neighborhood club, which is the meeting place of all of 
the Phillips Beach residents, continues to be very active, 
and although the club house has been used a great deal 
house at Clifton for the season. 
for pleasure, it will, as was the custom last season, be 
headquarters for the Lynn branch of the Red Cross dur- 
ing the coming season. ‘‘Weldacre” the seashore home ot 
Mr. and Mrs. George E. Smith on Atlantic avenue is 
occupied by its owners, who arrived several weeks ago 
from Boston where they make their residence at the 
Parker House. 
What could be prettier than the quaint bungalows 
and cottages nestled in most delightful fashion, on the 
attractive avenues at Beach Bluff? Each seems to vie 
with the other as to whiteness and greenness. White 
seems to be the prevailing color mode with green shutters 
for the pleasing contrast, in restful harmony with the 
reen lawns, which in’ every case are to be seen. Perhaps 
seach Bluff has grown more rapidly in the past few years 
than any of its sister colonies. Quite the earliest summer 
colonists to take up their summer residence at Beach Bluff 
are Mr. and Mrs. William A. Paine, who have opened 
“The Farm” for the season. Their household, which 1s 
made up of Miss Esther Paine and Miss Dorothy Paine, 
is enlarged week-ends by the presence of Stephen. 
Mrs. Johnathan Brown just arived from Seabreeze, 
Fla., and has opened her very pretty house on Clark road. 
With Mrs. Brown are Mr. and Mrs. Ripley, her sister and 
brother-in-law, who will be included in her household for 
the summer. Mrs. Brown became a winter resident of 
Seabreeze during the past winter, having purchased a pre- 
tentious house on Peninsula drive, overlooking famous 
Daytona Beach. The McGregor summer home on Sea 
View avenue will not be open until the last of May, the 
family arriving then for the season. 
At the Tedesco club, which always has been the social 
rendezvous of this section of the shore, the broad sweep of 
links were very green and fresh as I drove up to the 
door. F. A. Taylor, the superintendent met me with his 
same genial smile, and said the club was open for business 
and had been since April roth. Aside from the fact that 
the club has generously donated a number of acres for 
agricultural pursuits, the course is as usual and looks as 
attractive as ever. The regular weekly band concerts and 
‘dinner dances will not begin until Friday, June rst, when 
these pleasurable events will be inaugurated. 
Clifton and Devereaux I found were represented in 
their summer residents by the arrival of Dr. and Mrs.G. W. 
Brewster, who have opened their place at Gilbert Heights. 
The Herman M. Rich family are at their Devereaux 
3each house for the summer. There are few changes to 
be found here this season, in nearly every case the same 
people occupying the houses they had last season. A new- 
comer to Clifton this season will be Mr. and Mrs. John 
D. Drumm of Brookline, who have taken “Ishburgh,” 
which was occupied last season by Mr. and Mrs. E. B. 
H.-A. Schmitz of Newton has also leased a 
Miss Gertrude F. Hor- 
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sreakers” at Clifton, and 
Badger. 
ton of Brookline has leased the 
will soon arrive for the summer, 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 27 
ARBLEHEAD is a very busy town these days, getting 
ready for the summer, although it is the scene of the 
many activities of the Naval Reserves who are not all re- 
moved from the Eastern Yacht club, which has been their 
headquarters for the past month, to Bumpkin Island in 
Boston Harbor. The transfer of the men and abandon- 
ment of the Neck as a training base will take perhaps two 
weeks. The boys liked the Neck very much, and found 
Marblehead residents most hospitable, but accommoda- 
tions are more ample at the island, and thus they go. 
Peach’s Point, the truly summer section of Marble- 
head, will have several new residents this coming season 
including Mr. and Mrs. ‘C. O. Baker of New York, who 
have taken the Marsh cottage. The Bakers were at the 
“Belair” at the Neck last season and the season before. 
Augustus Hemenway, Jr., of Boston, has leased the 
“Moorings” for the summer, and will arrive on May 15th. 
“Seaside Farm” has been opened by Mr. and Mrs. F. B. 
Crowninshield arriving several weeks ago, together with 
B. W. Crowninshield who has also opened his house at 
the Point. Bowdoin B. Crowninshield has also arrived 
for the season with his bride and is occupying the 
“Anchorage.” Mrs. Chester L. Dane with her children 
have not yet come to the “Old Wharf House” at the 
Point, being delayed, no doubt from the fact that Mr. 
Dane is in command of the Tenth Deck Division of the 
'T. S. S. Nebraska, now cruising “somewhere off the 
Coast.”” E. P. Howe has just returned from Washington, 
where he spent the winter and will be as usual at the Howe 
house at the Point. 
NAHANT will welcome the return of the Hon. Henry 
Cabot Lodge this summer. Senator Lodge has de- 
cided to keep his residence on East Point open all sum- 
mer and he will be there as much of the time as his public 
duties will allow. His granddaughter, Mrs. Grafton Win- 
throp Minot, who formerly was Miss Constance Gardner, 
is to be at Nahant for a part of the sumrer, with her 
young child, and they will be with Mr. Minot’s parents, 
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Grafton Minot, who have leased a 
cottage on Nahant road for the season. The younger Mr. 
Minot, who has been one of the secretaries to Ambassador 
Gerard at the American embassy in Berlin, will be kept 
in Washington most of the summer, but will make occa- 
sional trips to Nahant. The family will be for some part 
of the season with Mrs. Minot’s uncle, William Amory 
Gardner, at his new residence at Mingo Beach, Pride’s 
Crossing. 
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Mrs. Adeline Frances Fitz, who has spent the winter 
season at her cottage at Inverness, Fla., has planned to be 
for the summer at her North Shore cottage at Beach 
Bluff, an attractive house on Mostyn street Mrs. Fitz 
long has been a prominent leader in patriotic work and 
has been president general of the National Society of 
Daughters of the Revolution and before that was State 
regent of the society in Massachusetts. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Byron Swift left Boston last 
Sunday for Chicago, after a week’s visit with the form- 
er’s parents, Dr. and Mrs. Edward Hartshorn. Brookline. 
Mrs. Swift was formerly Miss Lila Leonard, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Leonard of Chicago, who have 
a summer residence on Eastern Point, Gloucester. The 
young couple came to Boston from White Sulphur 
Springs, W. Va., where they went immediately after their 
marriage in Chicago on April 14. After a visit with the 
bride’s parents in Chicago as a part of their wedding 
journey, they will go to Portland, Ore., where they are 
to make their home on Summit ave. They plan to come 
to the North Shore this summer for a visit. 
