“Vol. III. No. ll 
BETTER WATER FACILITIES 
Water Approach to Manchester in Very 
Poor Condition — Member of Committee 
Appointed at Town Meeting to Take Up 
the Matter with Authorities at Washington, 
Says ‘‘Get Hold Somewhere, and Help Lift 
Her Out of the Mud in Which She Has 
Floundered So Long.” 
Editor of the North Shore Breeze: 
Please allow me space in your paper 
to present an important matter to 
our readers generally, and particu- 
arly to those who are sufficiently in- 
terested in making the water approach 
to our town safe and convenient, at 
low water, for small boats, while those 
of considerable size may reach the 
several wharves in the inner basin 
easily. 
Through the hard work of a few of 
our public-spirited citizens, and the in- 
fluence of our late summer resident, 
Mr. John H. P. Dodge, who went to 
Washington and did valued service 
for the town he loved, a survey was 
made by government engineers, a re- 
port and plan of which we have, call- 
ing for the widening and deepening of 
any channel existing at the time and 
making one in the most convenient 
-and suitable places where low tide 
failed to disclose a water course of 
sufficient depth to be available for 
practical purposes. 
The plans call for a channel broad 
enough to suit all needs and deep 
enough to allow boats drawing not 
over four feet of water to reach town 
wharf at mean low water. The plan 
also contemplates a large basin directly 
in front of town wharf and another 
outside the draw-bridge, quite large 
and deep. 
The report and plan was adopted 
-account of Town Meet- 
ing of Monday and Fri- 
—— day evenings on pages 
hs 10, Il and 12 i 
NORTH SHORE 
o A WEEKLY: JOURNAL DEVOTED-TO-THE: BEST: INTERESTS-OFTHENORTHSHORE 
MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1906 
by the government and two smal] ap- 
propriations have been made and ex- 
pended in a way that relieved some- 
what a very unfortunate condition. 
There is still an unexpended bal- 
ance of nearly two-thirds the sum 
named in the report to perform the 
work 
We understand recommendations 
have been made looking towards the 
completion of certain small jobs 
along our coast similar to ours, but 
up to this time no appropriation has 
been made for our harbor. 
Certain gentlemen of large business 
and political experience feel that, if a 
suitable committee should take this 
matter in hand, it might be possible 
to present our needs in a way that 
will merit the attention of the Land 
and Harbor Committee at Washing- 
ton, and our rightful claims in a man- 
ner that will insure the required 
appropriation. 
The town in its recent annua] meet- 
ing favored the plan to the extent 
that they appointed a committee of 
five gentlemen who should take charge 
of the subject matter contained in the 
report and plan, and use every en- 
deavor to work it out to a successful 
conclusion. 
The committee consists of Arthur 
M. Merriam, Prof. Charles L. Norton, 
Edwin P. Stanley, Duncan T. Beaton 
and Oliver T. Roberts. 
This committee will welcome any 
well considered suggestion and solicit 
the help of any who may have influ- 
ence more or less directly with the 
Land and Harbor Committee, who are 
a most important factor in this matter. 
We trust all who have at heart the 
deep needs of our town, will use their 
utmost endeavor and, whether citizens 
by birth or adoption, get hold some- 
where, and ‘“‘with a long pull and a 
strong pull, and a pull altogether,” 
lift her out of the mud in which she 
has floundered so long, so that in fact 
as well as in name, she may be Man- 
chester by the sea. 
©. Ts Kogerts: 
Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mch. 14, ’06. 
Three Cents 
EARLY ENGLISH PREACHERS 
By D. F. Lamson 
England, in the course of her thou- 
sand years of history, has produced 
many great preachers, as well as great 
statesmen, philosophers and writers. 
That the preachers preceded by some 
centuries the great writers is according 
to a well-known law of literary devel- 
opment. In all nations oratory has 
appeared long before literature ; letters 
are always of slow growth and long in 
maturing their fruitage. Eloquent 
speakers there have been among the 
least advanced races, as the Negro 
and the North American Indian, 
among whom there has been devel- 
oped little if any literature. 
The light from Celtic and Saxon 
times is too dim to enable us to see 
more than the outlines of figures that 
moved across the stage. Britain, 
however, was not without its religious 
leaders. St. Patrick, hazy as is our 
Continued on Next Page 
GEORGE KIMBALL 
Appointed superintendent of streets of Man- 
chester this week for the 10th year. 
See page 5. 
