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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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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. 
VOLUME 1. NUMBER 37. 
SATURDAY, JAN. 28, 1905. 
Protect the Shade Trees. 
A Boston correspondent, who has a 
summer ‘home in Manchester, writes 
us this week, urging that we again 
call attention to the need of immediate 
action in curbing the advance of the 
brown-tail and gypsy moths. 
Several times previous to this have 
we alluded to the necessity of some 
concerted movement in this regard. 
Last week, in speaking of another 
matter, we said ‘‘ Our attractions are 
our stock in trade here on the North 
Shore.” And verily, how true this is 
when we regard our beautiful shady 
drives and wooded hills. Yet these 
very shady drives and wooded _hills 
will be attractive no longer, once they 
become infested with the moth plague. 
There are localities in the State, not 
far from the North Shore, where the 
trees are practically as bare in summer 
as in winter, and for no other reason 
than that the leaves are devoured by 
the moths in the spring as soon as 
they shoot forth from their buds. 
Many people will recall seeing trees 
along the North Shore last summer 
in just as bada condition. . 
That all the trees here are not in 
that condition is only because the pest 
is not far enough advanced. It surely 
will come unless steps are taken to 
check the pest. 
Now is the time to get to work — 
now, while the trees are bare. The 
nests are plainly discernible, and can 
be taken from the trees much easier 
now than when the tiny caterpillars 
have crawled out of their silken nests 
and have spread over the entire tree. 
The town of Manchester should 
take some action on this matter. It 
is for the interests of the town to see 
that the trees are cleaned and thus 
prevent the moths multiplying in 
number. Money should be appropri- 
ated for this purpose. First of all, 
clean the shade trees along the 
various streets; then turn to private 
property. Ifa property owner refuses 
to clean his own trees, let the town do 
it at his expense. Some of the sum- 
mer residents are already taking 
measures to rid their estates of the 
moths, and many others will undoubt- 
edly join in very soon. ; 
It is surely high time to awake to 
the necessity of some concerted move- 
ment. 
Whisperings, 
Shovelled out, yet? Snow isa pecu- 
liar thing, especially when it 1s accom- 
panied by wind. But the most peculiar 
thing I have noticed is that instead of 
resting reposefully out in the back 
yard, where it isn’t in the way, it 
usually blows in a pile in front of the 
front door, and looks at you with a 
sickly smile, as it were, as you come 
down stairs in the morning. 
* * * 
Talking about shovelling snow, how 
is politics? They go together on the 
North Shore, for politics in Manches- 
ter is always at its heighth in the dead 
of winter. 
* * * * 
Iam hearing lots of talk nowadays 
about candidates for the various town 
offices. True enough, it doesn’t come 
till March, but it takes all of February 
to talk the thing up. Iam looking 
for a lot of good-natured rivalry this 
year, and a good part of it hinges 
about the fight for the town auditor- 
ship. My friend Bell isn’t running 
this year, but I understand there are 
three or four others after the job. 
They areall young men, too, and that 
makes the contest all the more inter- 
esting. The three I have heard of so 
far are Allen Peabody, Howard Stan- 
ley and Leon Carter. They are all 
three bright young men, popular, and 
if I am informed rightly they are in- 
clined to be rather “ bull-doggy,”’ 
which is to say that they will each 
fight to a finish. ; 
* * * * 
There are a few candidates in the 
field for selectmen, too, I understand. 
And if I am rightly informed there 
may be a contest for town clerk and 
for the water board. But my good 
friend Meldram informs me he is to 
run for re-election to the board this 
year, and Charlie Howe wants to be 
re-elected to the park commissioners. 
* * * * 
It will be but a little while now 
before the pot will be “ bilin’” in good 
shape. 
* * * * 
I saw quite an exhibition of profes- 
sional horsemanship one morning the 
first of the week, down on Tappan 
street, in Manchester. Some horses 
galloping furiouslytoward Beach street 
attracted my attention at first, and on 
investigation I found it to be Johnnie 
Powers, horseman at Sullivan’s sales 
stable. Powers is no slouch when it 
comes to handling horses. Undoubt- 
edly many of my readers have seen 
him on the stage, for he was with Neil 
Burgess in the “County Fair’’ for 
some years, and was one of the star 
“racers’’ on the stage. 
¥ * * * 
I have heard a good many stories 
the past two days of people who were 
put to considerable inconvenience be- 
cause of the storm, but this one about 
nine Beverly men strikes me pretty 
well. ‘They were working for Robert- 
son, the plumber, on the Leland house 
at West Manchester and left off work 
so as to return to Beverly on the 4.20 
train. They went to the station, but 
there was no 4.20 train that day. 
They waited and waited, but no train. 
Finally along toward 9 o’clock a train 
came along from’ Boston. This they 
boarded and went to Manchester to 
find something to eat. It was about 
midnight when their Beverly, train 
came along, and they arrived there 
about in season to return to Manches- 
ter the next morning. 
* * * * 
I take the following very pertinent- 
ly put question from the Somerville 
Journal : Puzzle—If the _ parlor 
clock says 11.40, and the library clock 
says 12.03, and the kitchen clock says 
11.54, and the dining room clock says 
11.49, and your watch says 12.07, and 
your wife’s watch says 12 o’clock toa 
second, what time is it ? 
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