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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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VOLUME 3. NUMBER 2 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1906. 
There is much conjecture as to the 
redistricting of the representative dis- 
tricts under the new conditions pro- 
duced by the State census of 1905. 
For the next ten years the basis will 
be one representative to each 2,809 
voters. The Newburyport correspond- 
ent of the Boston Herald places Man- 
hester in a district with wards 4, 5 and 
8, Gloucester, making a total vote of 
2,768. 
The legislators from this district 
fared well in the list of committee 
assignments given out at the State 
House last week. Rep. Vittum was 
given a place on the committee on 
railroads, one of the most. important 
joint committees; Rep. Brooks of Bev- 
erly Farms was again placed on the 
committee on harbors and_ public 
lands, and Senator Schofield of Ips- 
wich is an the ways and means, and 
prisons. 
Governor Guild, in his inaugural 
address last week, brought forward a 
new point relative to automobile fines, 
and is somewhat in line with the 
recommendations of Major Higginson 
of the Safe Roads association. He 
says that the machines are particularly 
destructive to the surface of the roads, 
and as the State highways are largely 
a gift from the commonwealth to the 
town or the city, he suggests that for 
the damage done to the highways by 
the automobiles, if for no other, all 
fines for overspeeding should be paid 
to the State and applied to the repairs 
of highways. 
We are of the opinion that the sug- 
gestion offered by our contemporary, 
the Cricket, last week, that the name 
for the new primary school building 
be the “‘A. E. Lowe school” is good. 
It is the name which we favor, and 
which we think the town should de- 
cide upon. Whom could we better 
commemorate than that great good 
soul! Hehas served the town on the 
school board and in his almost 100 
years of life in Manchester he has al- 
ways worked for her best educational 
and spiritual as well as material wel- 
fare. A communication in another 
column suggesting that the school 
be called “The Russell Sturgis 
school,’”’ and we have also heard sug- 
gested ‘‘The John Priceschool.’”’ The 
matter will be decided at the annual 
town meeting in March. 
At the special town meeting in 
Manchester next Monday evening, 
the matter of more money for the sup- 
pression of the brown-tail and gypsy 
moths will come up. This is a matter 
which should be of vital interest to 
every Manchester voter. True it is, 
the town has spent a $1000 the past 
year in fighting this pest, as that 
amount was appropriated at the 
March meeting for the destruction of 
“brown-tails.”” It has since appeared 
there are gypsy nests in abundance, 
also, and it should not bea question of 
several hundred dollars. Manchester 
being a summer resort, depends to a 
large extent On its natural beauty for 
attractions, and we cannot afford to 
have these trees defoliated. We can- 
not afford, either, to subject our sum- 
mer visitors or our own families to 
the pain and suffering caused by 
brown-tail itch. The work of destroy- 
ing nests, on parks, streets and cem- 
eteries has been completed and the 
work will henceforth be directed 
toward private property. 
An appropriation of $2000 ought to 
cover the present needs. 
Road Improvements 
“We are very glad to have these 
summer people come here but they 
are by no means essential to the wel- 
fare of the city.” 
The Cape Ann News, we are afraid, 
is a little off in making such a state- 
ment as this. The city of Gloucester 
owes a great deal to the summer peo- 
ple, so-called, the same as we do in 
Manchester and all along the North 
Shore, and to throw cold water on 
“the goose that lays the golden eggs” 
is mighty poor policy. Ask the mer- 
chants what they think of it! They 
say, one and all, they long for the re- 
turn of the summer season. It is 
then they make their money. The 
wealth of the land pours in and hun- 
dreds—yes, thousands of people crowd 
the picturesque shores,—at Bass 
Rocks, East Gloucester, Annisquam, 
and at beautiful and popular Mag- 
nolia. Ask your storekeepers in 
Gloucester if the people aren’t ‘‘es- 
sential to the welfare of the city.” 
The ews may be right in saying 
“the common council certainly did a 
very sensible thing at its meeting 
Tuesday night in turning down the 
proposed loan of $75,000 for highway 
improvements,’”’ and that “the expen- 
diture of $25,000 in Magnolia is un- 
called for and unnecessary,” but we 
do think it is high time to do some- 
thing in the line of improvements in 
Magnolia. The resort is a little 
paradise in the summer season, but it 
certainly lacks what can be called 
good roads. 
‘‘To be sure,” admits the News, 
‘‘these people pay taxes and are en- 
titled to all the conveniences that 
Gloucester can afford to give them, 
but why we should saddle a debt of 
$25,000 upon the people of Annis- 
quam, Lanesville, East Gloucester 
and the city proper to give these peo- 
ple more than we have ourselves 
passes the comprehension of the ordi- 
nary tax payer and property owner.” 
And, on the other hand, may we 
ask, why should Magnolia furnish such 
a large proportion of Gloucester’s taxes 
and get practically nothing in return? 
The Magnotia residents, like those 
all along the shore, want good roads, 
and they should have them. Good 
roads is a good stock in trade. Man- 
chester has found it so. 
We warrant and stand behind our 
goods at H. B. Winchester, jeweler, 
Post Office sq., Gloucester, Mass. * 
Great reduction in Millinery. Mlle 
Keyou, 113 Main street, Gloucester. 
