NORTH 
SHORE BREEZE 
MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, JULY. 20, 1907. 
SOCIAL LIFE ALONG THE NORTH SHORE NOW IN ITS FULLEST GAYETY. 
Gand Opera Baritone 
To Sing at Manchester. 
Of peculiar interest to music lovers on 
the North Shore is the announcement 
that on Friday evening, August 2, Sig. 
Giuseppe Picco, the Italian Grand Opera 
Sic. GrusePpPE Picco 
Baritone, will be heard in a song recital 
at the Masconomo House Casino, Man- 
chester, with Mr. Wilfred Kershaw at 
the pianoforte. 
Giuseppe Picco was born in Turin, 
Northern Italy, and began the study of 
’ music when he was twelve years of age, 
and at this time sang as boy soprano at 
the Royal Chapel of Superga. He con- 
tinued his studies in his native city until 
1896, when Antonio Cotogni (one of 
the most celebrated Italian baritones of 
the day) accidentally heard him sing and 
was so impressed with his voice that he 
at once offered to become his teacher, 
and forfour years he enjoyed the instruc- 
tion of the great baritone, at the conser- 
vatory of Music at Rome. He then made 
a successful debut in Grand Opera, ap- 
pearing in the musical centres of Europe. 
He speaks with fluency English and 
French, besides his native Italian. In the 
early part of 1906 he came to the United 
States, but has not appeared heretofore 
in the East. 
The roles in which he has achieved 
his greatest successes are Tonio in Leon- 
cavello’s ale Pagliacci;’? De Siriex in 
Giordano’s ‘‘Fedora;’’ the title role in 
Verdi’s ‘‘Rigoletti’?? and Germont in 
THE WAIL OF THE FOG=HORN. 
E were crowded in our Cottage, 
And couldn’t get to sleep— 
It was midnight on the waters, 
And a fog was on the deep. 
Tis a fearful thing in Summer 
To be shattered in your rest 
By the tooting of a fog-horn 
When the wind is blowing West. 
And we shuddered in the darkness 
And we cursed it under breath, 
While the hungry sea was roaring 
And the breakers talked with death, 
While we lay awake and listened 
Each busy with his prayers, 
Which the same were punctuated 
With the town-clock and the blares. 
For near us, on the Island, 
Our nightly peace to peck, 
Fools have set asoulful Siren 
(Where was never yet a wreck, ) 
With pity for the sailor, 
Peace for landsmen is no more, 
And the awful tooting threatens 
To depopulate the Shore. 
Upspake our little daughter, 
(Who ne’er could understand, ) 
‘“Is there misery on the water, 
Just the same as on the land?’ 
Then we kissed the little maiden 
And calmed her childish fear, 
And turned and slept till morning 
When the sun was shining clear. 
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Verdi’s ‘“Traviata.”” In 1904 he sang the 
leading baritone roles 1 in Dupont’ Sis; rae 
brera,’’ Giordano’s **Siberia’’ and Don- 
eneitits ‘Don Pasquale’’ at the Khedi- 
val Theatre of Cairo where he scored an 
instantaneous success. 
Another Motor Boat Race. 
William A. Tucker of the Manchester 
summer colony has offered two cups as 
prizes in a motor boat race to be sailed in 
Manchester this summer as the outcome 
of the race held on the Fourth. One cup 
is offered for the dory class and the other 
for launches. 
A meeting of the motor boat owners 
’was held this week and the matter was 
talked up with the result that Thursday, 
August 1, has practically been decided 
upon as the date. New handicaps will be 
made by a competent committee, based 
upon the results of the race of the Fourth. 
Manchester, 6; E. C. C.,, 5. 
A baseball game on the polo field at 
the Essex County club last Saturday after- 
noon between a nine representing the 
junior members of the club and a team 
composed of young men: from the village, 
resulted in a victory for the latter, 6 to 5, 
after an eleven inning game. Other games 
may be played later. The line-up: 
Essex Counry—R. Kennard p, Dana 
c, Cotting 1b, S. Stevens 2b, Macdonald 
ss, Amory 3b, O. Lee lf, F. Burnham 
Che kiinceceth. 
MancueEsters—Edgecomb c, Foley 
p, Hurley 1b, C. Standley 2b, Walen SS, 
Cook 3b, W. Dougherty If, W. iat 
Cfo ht Bell rf. 
In Yachting Circles. 
The second in the series of races for 
Class Q, 22-foot raters, and handicap 
class was sailed last Saturday under the 
auspices of the Manchester Yacht club, 
only eight boats starting. ‘The Little 
Rhody, owned by C. F. Tillinghast, won 
in Class O and A. P. Loring’s Secret 
won again in the handicap class. In the 
former class the Dorothy Q, Essex, Or- 
estes and Eleanor finished in the order 
named. The course was a beat to wind- 
ward to a stake boat off Hospital Point 
and return. At the close of the race the 
wind fell almost to a dead calm. 
Gymkhana Sports- 
Magnolia residents and, in fact, sum- 
mer residents from all along the shore are 
now looking forward in anticipation to the ~ 
annual gymkhana sports which will this 
season be held on August 6 at Crescent 
beach, Magnolia. J. Henry Coulter and 
Carl Marshall have allthe arrangements 
in charge and are working hard to make 
it the most successful ever held here. 
There will be prizes for the jumping 
classes, the best saddle horse on the North 
Shore, and many others. A mounted 
potato race and all kinds of equestrian 
sports will be features. 
Tomorrow morning at 11 o’clock the 
Rev. Dean William W. Fenn of the 
Harvard Divinity school will preach at 
the First Unitarian Church, Manchester. 
The owners of motor boats are now 
talking up the matter of forming a club 
and a committee of three has been ap- 
pointed to consider the question. Another 
meeting will be held Monday evening. 
