NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
A NEW BUSINESS. | 
Boston Concern takes Lease of Land in Manchester and will Erect 
Automobile Repair Shop and Sales Room. 
A big automobile concern of Boston 
has this week taken a five years’ lease 
of the strip of land on Beach street, 
Manchester, between Dow’s block and 
Bell’s Combination store, and work 
will soon be started on the erection of 
a large automobile repair shop and 
sales room, the building to be fire- 
proof throughout. 
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A building will be erected, 27 feet 
on the street by 100 feet deep, one 
and a half stories high in front and 
one story high in the rear. 
The concern will be prepared to do 
all kinds of auto repairing, and will 
have machines of various makes, sizes 
and powers to let by the day, week or 
season. 
TINKER BROTHERS IN ONE OF THEIR CARS. 
For some weeks past Tinker Bros., 
who conduct a first-class automobile 
repair shop, with autos to let, at the 
old Park square station in Boston, has 
been looking for a place on the North 
Shore. They were down to Manches- 
ter a week ago, and Tuesday of this 
week a lease of the above-named prop- 
erty, belonging to Arthur S. Dow, 
was signed. 
The move will undoubtedly be wel- 
comed by the summer colonists, most 
of whom now own automobiles. Last 
season considerable inconvenience was 
experienced, inasmuch as there was 
only one automobile repair shop on 
the North Shore, outside of Beverly — 
that of Chester H. Dennis of Man- 
chester —and this was overcrowded 
with cars all summer. 
Red Men Follow Iron ° 
Trail to Gloucester. 
Though the forests were yet un- 
broken and the Red Men’s trail was 
covered with snow, more than three 
score Indian braves picked up the 
iron trail, Thursday night, and went 
to Gloucester, where the fourth of the 
big pow-wows under the auspices of 
the Manchester, Rockport, Beverly 
and Gloucester tribes was held. The 
meeting was even more of a success 
than any of the preceding. 
More than 250 redskins feasted on 
corn and vension, and joined- in 
the grand smoke-talk and pow-wow 
which followed. Mayor McDonald of 
Gloucester was master of ceremonies, 
and the program which was carried 
out was divided between song, stories, 
recitations and instrumental selections. 
Fred K. Swett sang a bass solo, which 
was most enthusiastically received, 
and Lyman W. Floyd made some very 
interesting remarks. Most of the 
Manchester guests returned on the 
10.10 train. 
Among the Manchester Red Men 
present were: Lyman W. Floyd, 
Fred K. Swett, Edward F. Preston, 
Robert Allen, Herbert Shaw, W. F. 
Mitchell, Lewis Collins, Orrin A. 
Martin, Chas. T. Loomis, W. J. Leth- 
bridge, John F. Babcock, Geo. E. 
Gould, J. Alex. Lodge, T. W. Long, 
D. Milton Knight, C.O. Howe, Frank 
Martin, Harry S. Tappan, Harry T. 
Swett. 
Offers Reward. 
Mrs. George A. Snowman of Five 
Islands, Me., has circulated notices 
along the shore this week, offering 
$50 reward for the recovery of her 
husband, Captain G. A. Snowman, 
who was washed from the deck of a 
vessel laden with lumber, off Misery 
island, in the storm of December 29th. 
It will be recalled that the vessel was 
trying to make Salem harbor in the 
heavy sea and strong wind, and that 
the captain. was swept overboard and 
was not seen afterward. 
Dutchess pants at Bell’s. * 
North Shore Entombed 
in Drifts of Snow. 
The whole North Shore is en- 
tombed in drifts of snow as a result 
of Wednesday’s blizzard, and even. 
now after working Thursday and 
yesterday to break the roads and side- 
walks, many of the streets remain 
unbroken. 
Superintendent Kimball of Man- 
chester declares the storm the worst 
he has encountered as regards the 
difficulty with which the roads were 
cleared, and says the storm of 1898 
was not near as difficult to handle. 
All day Thursday and Friday he had 
more than 100 men at work shovel- 
ling, and heavy teams out breaking 
the roads. By Thursday night most 
of the principal roads were broken, 
but not till yesterday was there an 
attempt made at clearing the side- 
walks about town. 
The storm, which started in with 
light snow early Tuesday afternoon, 
was accompanied by wind during the 
night and before morning this de- 
veloped into a blizzard which con- 
tinued with considerable violence 
throughout Wednesday and into the 
night. 
Business was practically suspended 
Wednesday, hardly anyone venturing 
out. 
The train service was very good till 
Wednesday afternoon, when the 12 40 
train from Boston, in charge of Con- 
ductor Samuel Charlesworth ran into 
a snow plow between Gloucester and 
Rockport. Though a few trains 
crawled down from Boston, no trains 
returned until about midnight, when 
the train ordinarily leaving Man- 
chester at 4.18 went to Boston, ar- 
riving there at 2.10 a.m. 
Thursday morning the service was 
again somewhat crippled and_ re- 
mained from 15 minutes to an hour 
late all day, but yesterday all the 
trains were running about on time. 
The storm was unusually. severe, 
but not as much so as if the snow 
were of the wet variety. Being so 
light, it drifted in massive piles, thus 
making the work of clearing roads ex- 
ceedingly difficult. 
Town Auditor W. R. Bell was con- 
fined to his home the early part of the 
week, nursing an attack of grip. 
Among other grip patients confined 
to their homes the past week are Mrs. 
S. A. Loomis, Rev. W. H. Ashley, 
Miss Gertrude Ashley and Levi A. 
Dunn. 
In the list of births for 1904, pub- 
lished in this paper recently, one birth, 
not then recorded, was omitted: 
Dec. 1, a daughter, Harriet Peabody, 
to Mr. and Mrs. Osborne Leach. 
