@]|_A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE NORTH SHORE 
Vol. V. No. 47 
MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23; 1907. 
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FIRE AT MANCHESTER 
Building on the Kimball Estate, Smith’s Point, destroyed Thursday 
Morning. 
Fire almost totally destroyed a_build- 
ing on the D. B. Kimball estate, Smith’s 
Point, Thursday morning. The struct- 
ure was one of the oldest on the point 
and was uscd as astable and barn for the 
old Smith Farm. 
A sad feature of the fire was the loss 
of a large Newfoundland dog, owned 
by Benj. Giles, one of the men working 
on the estate. The animal was very in- 
telligent and knowing and his loss is felt 
keenly by Mr. Giles, as he owes his life 
to the animal, which saved him from 
drowning ina New Hampshire lake a 
few years ago. The dog was chained 
inside the barn and though Mr. Giles 
tried to free him, very nearly suffocating 
himself in the attempt, the dog was not 
freed and he was suffocated. He was 
seven years old. 
Mrs. Walter L. Harris of Salem, who 
owns the property, estimates the loss of 
building and contents at about $3000. 
There was little insurance on the build- 
ing and none on the contents. 
The fire was caused by sometar which 
was being melted on a stove in a 
corner of the lower floor, becoming ig- 
nited. The tar was being used by a 
Danvers concern in putting a tar paper 
roof onthe building. Once started it 
could not be overcome and though the 
alarm was rung in immediately by John 
Barry, the caretaker of the estate, the 
building was in flames when the firemen 
arrived. 
In the building were some 25 tons of 
fresh hay and this made ready prey for 
the flames. 
The alarm was rung in from Box 62, 
corner Beach and Masconomo streets, 
at 8.45. The fire horses were in the 
fire station at the time and took about 
five minutes to reach the scene of the 
fire, about three-quarters of a mile awdy. 
Just six minutes after the first alarm 
_ sounded a stream was turned on the fire. 
It had gained such headway, however, 
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Loss Estimated $3,000. 
and the nature of the fire was such that 
the matter of saving the building and its 
contents was out of the question. 
The firemen did splendid work and 
did well to keep the fire in this building, 
for there were two other buildings with- 
in twenty-five feet of the burning struct- 
ure. 
G. A. Burnham, an Essex painter, 
had just completed painting the building, 
the day before the fre. He had in the 
building at the time an overcoat and 
other apparel, tickets, etc., as did also 
R. H. Closson, his assistant. 
In the upper part of the building Ben- 
jamin Giles, who works upon the place, 
had recently moved his household goods, 
and with his daughter Miss Addie Giles, 
were occupying three rooms. Every- 
thing they owned was lost. Mr. Giles 
entered the building just after the fire 
started but he was able to remove only a 
coat, clock, and a basket of clothes. 
Among his loss, aside from the much 
prized dog mentioned above, was a sum 
of money,—about $29, anda bank book, 
though the latter will probably be made 
good. 
To Mr. Giles and daughter the loss 
will be especially felt. “They have only 
recently moved here from New Hamp- 
shire and it was only a week ago last 
Saturday that they moved into the rooms. 
They lost everything, but the clothes 
they wore at the time. 
There was no horse, or cow in the 
building at the time. ‘The building was 
used to some extent for storing furniture 
from the cottages on the _ estate, 
especially furniture to be repaired. 
The “‘all out’’ was sounded at 11.45. 
A big crowd of people went over to see 
the fire. The firemen were very for- 
tunate to be able to keep the flames 
within the building for the most part, 
though the roof was almost entirely 
burned off, and holes were eaten through 
the sides of the building. 
OARYy 
GATALOGUES, 
HOURS WITH LESS KNOWN 
WRITERS. 
BY D. F. LAMSON. 
Andrew Marvell was born in 1620, 
the year of the Landing of the Pilgrims, 
and he was of the same stock that 
peopled New England with its men of 
intelligence and sterling worth. He 
was a man cast ina larger mould than 
either Crashaw or Cowley. He was 
endowed with mental and moral qualities 
of a high order, was a man of learning 
and wide acquaintance with the world; 
he was both scholar and man of affairs, 
and was intimately associated with the 
best and greatest men of his time. In 
an age of bribery and corruption, his 
political life was without a stain; he was 
a bold and uncompromising friend of 
liberty, and in his long parliamentary 
career always contended ably for the 
rights of the poeple. His latest biog- 
rapher gives a large part of his space to 
Marvell’s public service, showing him to 
have been in the truest sense such a man 
as all nations need in the seats of power. 
Marvell appears to have been a 
masterly debater; he had command of 
virile and forcible language; he had both 
eloquence and humor, and on occasion 
could indulge in fancy not unlike that of 
Burke and sarcasm worthy of Swift. 
The friendship between Milton and 
Marvell is one of the interesting inci- 
dents of the stormy times of the Protect- 
orate, and it has been conjectured not 
without reason that Marvell’s influence 
with that of Davenant may have served 
to shield Milton from the reprisals of the 
Restoration. Marvell’s tribute to Mil- 
ton, in reply to the charges against him 
of Abp. Parker, is one of the finest en- 
comiums of its kind in our language, 
alike honorable to the author’s head and 
heart, and reminding one of Cicero’s 
famous Defence of the poet Archias. 
Marvell’s estimate of Milton, asa ‘‘ man 
of as great learning and sharpness of wit 
as any man,’’ few will be found to dis- 
agree with, as well as his shrewd remark 
that ““it was his misfortune, living in a 
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