Vol. V..No. 42 
MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1907. 
24 Pages 
Three Cents. 
A GOOD CAUSE 
afe Roads Automobile Association 
Want More Members and Funds 
to Carry on Their Work. 
The Safe Roads Automobile associa- 
tion of which Wm. D. Sohier of Beverly 
is president and Geo. McC. Sargent of © 
Magnolia is secretary, and of which so 
many of the North Shore people are 
members, has sent out a report this 
week of its doings since organization 
last spring. The prime object of the 
association has been to ‘“ secure reason- 
able and proper use of our highways. ”’ 
The association now has 150 mem- 
bers. It has collected $4200, and spent 
about $2791. If the work is to be con- 
tinued, says the report, the association 
requires at least $10,000 a year. “The 
report says further: 
“In 93 days, since our association 
started, 41 people have been killed, 
averaging one person killed every two 
days; and 313 people have been injured. 
Twenty-seven people have been killed 
or injured every week, practically four 
every day. 
*“In 93 days automobiles have had 
211 collisions with automobiles, wagons, 
cars, poles, etc., an average of nearly 
two and a half collisions every day. If 
we add to the above collisions with 
wagons, etc., the 124 pedestrians killed 
or injured and the horses and cows, it 
makes a total of 345 serious accidents in 
Massachusetts reported in the papers in 
93 days; 11 serious accidents every three 
days. 
** Surely this record, incomplete as it is, 
conclusively shows reckless running on 
the part of the automobilists. It 
demonstrates the necessity of such an 
organization as ours to take active meas- 
ures to prevent the few reckless and_ in- 
considerate chauffeurs and owners from 
bringing automobilists as a whole into 
undeserved dispute in the community. 
*“In view of these accidents it is 
manifest that some radical action is 
needed to prevent these reckless opera- 
tors from continuing to put the public 
in peril. 
_*©The reckless operator should no 
‘reverent. 
HOURS WITH LESS KNOWN WRITERS 
BY D. F. LAMSON. 
The 17th century in England was a 
time of social, political and religious tur- 
moil; Papist and Puritan, Cavalier and 
Round head, were in the field and the 
clash of their arms still resounds in his- 
tory. It was not an age friendly to liter- 
ary art. Miilton, itis true, undisturbed 
by the tumult around him, meditated his 
sublime song and caught the sound of 
the. spheres’ music. And among his 
contemporaries, among whom he dwelt 
as a Star apart, were Crashaw, Cowley 
and Marvell, who deserve a place in 
English authology, because of gifts that 
served their own age and made all after 
ages their debtors. But when these are 
mentioned, where shall we look for an- 
other? 
Richard Crashaw (1613—1650) was 
an accomplished scholar and_ popular 
preacher in an age when scholarship was 
not always found in the pulpit. He was 
ejected from his living in 1644, because 
of his Romish tendencies, and soon after 
entered the Roman Catholic church, 
and died virtually an exile from England 
for conscience’ sake. His poetic fancy 
was delicate, his piety was sincere and 
Cowley, though a Protestant, 
and though the age was not one of the- 
ological breadth or charity, thus sings of 
him: 
‘* Poet and saint! to thee alone are given 
The two most sacred names of earth 
and heaven.’’ 
He was the author of a line in Latin, 
which as translated into English, is per- 
haps one of the finest single lines in our 
language; it is in allusion, of course, to 
the miracle in Cana of Galilee; 
‘*The conscious water 
blushed;’’ 
a line sufficient, it may be said, to make 
any poet’s reputation. Pope availed 
himself of not a few conceptions and 
phrases of Crawshaw’s, and Coleridge 
pronounced the ““Lines on a Prayer- 
Book’’ one of the best poems in the 
language. It has all the tenderness of 
the best medieval poets without their too 
often sensuous imagery and strained con- 
ceits. 
‘* Lo! here a little volume, but large book 
saw its God and 
> 
Much larger in itself than in its look, 
It is, in one rich handful, heaven and all— 
Heaven's royal hosts encamped thus small; 
To prove that true, schools used to tell, 
A thousand angels in one point can dwell; ’’ 
and so on, though verse after verse of 
sweetness and light; 
“* Dear soul be strong, 
Mercy will come ere long 
And bring her bosom full of blessings— 
Flowers of never-fading graces. 
Happy soul! she shall discover 
What joy, what bliss, 
How many heavens at once it is 
To have a God become her lover,’’ 
His sacred poems, “‘Steps to the 
Temple,’ display singular beauty of 
diction; his versions of the Psalms, if 
sometimes marred by pedantry, are like 
Oriental gardens and beds of spices. 
When he died in obscurity at the early 
age of thirty-seven, one of the purest 
and serenest lights of English literature 
went out. 
longer be permitted to use our highways, 
even if it is necessary for some public 
authority to take the initiative in investi- 
gating every case of accident or of 
alleged reckless driving, and to revoke 
the licenses of all who are found guilty 
of recklessness.’’ 
It further says: “‘We hope to con- 
tinue our work, not only on the above 
lines, but also by securing from the 
Legislature some better and more com- 
prehensive method of enforcing the 
present laws, of obliging every operator, 
professional or otherwise, to prove his 
ability before he receives a license to op- 
erate, and that his license be revoked for 
reckless operation, and forcing non-resi- 
dents using our highways to comply 
with our laws. 
““To do this the association needs 
more money, and more members to 
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