NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
A-WEEKLY- JOURNAL: DEVOTED-T0-THE: BEST: INTERESTS-OF THENORTH-SHORE ned 
Vol. I. No. 37 BEVERLY, MASS., SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1904 Three Cents 
A PUBLIC PAVILION. shapes and colors strewn mercilessly of the bathing facilities at both Sing- 
: about. ing and West beaches. They have 
Scheme on foot to do away with Unsightly It was the good Master who drew expressed their abhorrence of the un- 
Bath Houses at North Shore Beach and — the parable of ‘‘a foolish man, which — sightly bath houses dropped along the 
Erect Handsome Public Bath House. built his house upon the sand: And beach, and some have even gone so 
_ Here on the North Shore we are the rain descended, and the floods far as to say they would be glad to 
seeking to make our natural surround- came, and the winds blew, and beat aid in~ building a structure which 
ings ever more beautiful and more upon that house; and it fell: and would do away with the small build- 
attractive. Verily, nature hasalready great was the fall thereof.”’ ings. a 
blessed us with one of the most attrac- Not that we would urge the opposite As it is now, and as it has been in 
tive strips of shore line on the Atlan- picture in this parable and have men _ the past, anybody may obtain a per- 
tic coast, and it is here the wealth of build their bath houses ‘“‘ona rock,’’ mit to build a bath house on the 
the land delight in coming to live with for there are none at either Singing or beach. Any site may be selected. 
Nature, either driving and roaming West beaches. Any kind of a structure can be built. 
beneath the sweet scented branches What we would urge, however, to And so it goes. 
SINGING BEACH, MANCHESTER, IN A STORM. 
of the taJl trees or strolling along the come to the poimt quickly, is that The result : Houses of all hues and 
beautiful sand girded shore. everyone of thescores of bath houses shades, shapes and descriptions have 
Yet with all our attractions, with all at both beaches, which can truly be been built; some at a cost of $10, 
our beauty spots, there are things of _ said to be “ eye-sores,’’ be torn down others at $150 ; some setting far back 
our own doings which might truly be and something far more substantial, into the beach bank, others projecting 
said to detract from Nature’s own far more attractive and far more eco- out into the sand. As time goes on 
handiwork. comic from the standpoint of those the condition grows worse. The 
The storm of the past week, had it who would work for the best interests houses have the appearance of being 
done nothing more, has forcibly em- of the North Shore, be built. dropped by the winds. The desirable 
phasized the import of this latter state- While we have nothing which may positions are all taken up, and new- 
ment. | be called a definite plan to bring for- comers must take what is left. 
All along the famous Singing beach ward, we would offer as a suggestion The initiatory step in doing away 
at Manchester and at West Beach in that a beautiful public pavilion, not too with this condition of affairs was taken 
Beverly Farms, the Meccaof hundreds sumptuous in its design, be erected. Jast week at Beverly Farms, when an 
during the warm days of summer, may For years the wealthy summer resi- informal meeting of bath-house owners 
be seen in most topsy-turvy fashion, dents, who come on the North Shore’ was held and the subject discussed. 
bath houses of various descriptions, to spend their summers, have spoken ‘The meeting was called at the instance 
