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NORTH SHORE BREZEE 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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VOLUME 5. NUMBER 38 
SATURDAY, SEPT. 21, 1907. 
The Beverly officials are to be 
praised for their. action in requesting 
the Boston & Maine to have a cross- 
ing tender at the Montserrat station, 
whose duty it shall be to tend the 
crossing and nothing else. In the 
past the crossing tender there has 
also acted in the capacity of assistant 
baggage master or something of the 
sort. The road would not be far 
amiss in having the same arrange- 
ment at the Beverly Farms station, 
we think. It will be too late after an 
accident happens, due to some mis- 
understanding as to whose duty it is 
to tend the gates at a particular train. 
The band concerts this past sum- 
mer have not been an unalloyed suc- 
cess. Though there has been re- 
markably little wet weather, it has so 
happened that the few showers we 
have had, have come on Wednesday 
evenings and as a result the band has 
had to run from the uncovered grand- 
stand for shelter. 
be a good plan to have a covering of 
some sort put over the band stand 
before another season! The expense 
would be small and then every passing 
shower would not bring to an end the 
concert, and unless the shower de- 
veloped into a hard and continued 
rain so that no one would care to re- 
main out to listen to the music, the 
program could be continued without 
interruption. We simply make thisas 
a suggestion based upon the experience 
of the summer. 
Whatever may be the outcome of 
Why would it not - 
the special Town Meeting in Manches- 
ter this week on the matter of the fog 
whistle at Baker’s Island, the citizens 
of the town have at least let them- 
selves be heard and the sentiment ex- 
pressed by them will be conveyed in 
the form of a resolve to the proper 
government authorities. 
The outside public seem to be get- 
ting interested in the whistle, too. The 
papers are commenting on it and the 
Boston papers are showing their in- 
terest. In fact, one of the Boston 
papers had a photographer down here 
this week getting pictures of the 
whistle and tomorrow, presumably, 
the general public will be apprised 
of what was obtained. 
But it will take more than pictures 
to show up that whistle. This is a 
case where hearing is more important 
than sight. There appears to be no 
necessity for such a strong whistle. 
A weaker voice would be just as 
effective. The Salem News com- 
ments as follows: 
When the attempts of certain citi- 
zens of Manchester to get rid of the 
fog whistle on Baker’s Island first be- 
gan to focus attention, The News 
ventured the assertion, bearing in 
mind the fate of like protests in other 
places, that the safety of mariners 
would be placed above the considera- 
tion of any fashionable summer 
colony. There is no reason to modify 
this judgment. The particular federal 
department having to do with the in- 
stallation of these safeguards to 
maritime interests are not in the 
habit of establishing lights or fog 
whistles where they would be super- 
fluous. Once a stand has been taken, 
pleas that trench upon a frivolous or 
a strained ground are inoperative, no 
matter how potential the interests 
back of them may appear to be. Like 
unto the howl raised by the Manches- 
ter people, or rather we ought to say 
a portion of the Manchester people, . 
was that once heard down on Eastern 
Point, a number of years ago, when a 
fog horn was established in that 
locality. Cottagers and hotel guests 
railed and growled, and were “‘deter- 
mined” that the ‘‘nuisance”’ should be 
removed. But the ‘nuisance’ still 
exists, just as the whistle on Baker’s 
Island may be reckoned upon to serve 
the purpose for which it was installed, 
however pronounced the opposition 
from ostensible ‘‘wealthy,’”’ “social,” 
or “colony” elements. To the mari- 
ner, there is a cadence in one of 
those horns or whistles when thick 
fogs fall, apprising him of his where- 
abouts and warning him of danger, 
just as the hoarse blasts of the 
steamer whistle on the high seas have 
carried and will carry to legions of 
passengers the knowledge that one 
precaution is being taken against 
dreaded collision. Obviously, a differ- 
ent construction must be placed upon 
whistle blasts by pleasure-seeking 
people ashore, secure from harm. 
Protests to which the latter estimate 
gives rise cannot justly be placed 
above the adequate protection of 
those who “go down to the sea in 
ships.” And unless governmental 
policy is going to be sadly wrenched, 
they will not prevail in this Manches- 
ter objection. 
COMMUNICATION 
Editor of the North Shore Breeze: 
In a communication sent to your 
paper and published in your issue of 
Sept. 7, I took the liberty of express- 
ing my views on the stretch of oiled 
road between the Magnolia station 
and Magnolia. I signed that com- 
munication “Oceanside” for reasons 
of my own. What those reasons were 
I do not care to state here as they are 
of no public interest, but I may say. 
that I did not conceal my name 
through any fear of showing my ignor- 
ance as compared with the learning of 
the redoubtable superintendent of 
streets because I had never even 
heard of him. However, since in 
your last issue which has just come to 
hand, he has chosen to revile the 
communication and the writer with- 
out even attempting to answer any of 
the statements made in my communi- 
cation, it appears that I did wisely in 
not publishing my name. For the 
benefit of your other readers who are 
equally interested with me in the wel- 
fare of the North Shore, I may say 
that the learned superintendent has 
not answered anyone of the facts that 
I stated, namely, that the odor was 
offensive, the dirt from the-oiled road 
ruinous to clothing, and the sur- 
face very slippery and greasy in 
wet weather. If the superintendent 
wishes to give any reason why he can 
better answer these statements know- 
ing my name than not knowing it, I 
would be pleased to gratify him for 
I am seeking only the best interests 
of the North Shore. 
I was much interested in your other 
communication from ‘‘M. H. C.,”” and 
if what he says is true I should be 
only too glad to withdraw any objec- 
tions I have made. In my previous 
communication I was simply stating 
the facts as they appeared to me,a 
traveller over the road, and not in any 
spirit of fault finding. 
‘“OCEANSIDE.”’ 
Magnolia, Sept. 17, 1907. 
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