BUILDS GOOD ROADS 
Chairman of the Mass. Highway Commission 
says this of the Manchester Superintendent 
The /ournal of the Massachusetts 
Highway association, issued quarterly, 
has come to hand this week, and we 
note in it an account covering several 
pages of remarks made by Supt. of 
Streets Kimball of Manchester, at a 
meeting of the association in Boston, 
recently, in which he relates some of 
his experiences in road construction in 
Manchester. 
In introducing the Manchester su- 
perintendent the presiding officer said : 
“I am going to find out how they 
do things down by the shore. There 
is a famous town there, somewhat the 
resort of the tax dodgers; they evi- 
dently have plenty of money and must 
have good roads.”’ 
The subject of thin roads was one 
of the chief topics of discussion, and 
of this Mr. Kimball said : 
“In regard to thin roads. I started 
in to build a piece last spring, and as 
I told Mr. McClintock, he nearly took 
the life out of me when he came along 
in an automobile, and asked if I 
thought I could make that road hold. 
I put on about four inches of trap 
rock, and rolled it down, then a light 
coating of dust, and rolled until it 
flushed, and for us, it is an exception- 
ally good piece of road. We have 
good results, and it gives good satis- 
faction. It is as slippery and smooth 
as asphalt. There are two or three 
hills, and some little complaint has 
been made about their being slippery 
in wet weather. I built a piece about 
five years ago on the same road and 
the results have been excellent. This 
seems to be the most economical road 
we can build.”’ 
Hon. W. McClintock, chairman of 
the Mass. Highway commission, spoke 
very complimentary of Mr. Kimball’s 
work during his remarks. He said : 
“Thin macadam, when it gets to 
that stage, must be a mere surfacing. 
Mr. Kimball’s road in Manchester is 
much of the same kind, although Mr. 
Kimball went a little farther than Mr. 
Ross. Mr. Kimball must have mis- 
understood my position, because I 
never had a doubt about the success 
of the road he was building. There is 
no finer road on the North Shore than 
the road which Mr. Kimball showed 
me last summer, the road connecting 
with the State road in Beverly.” 
Relative to oiling roads, an experi- 
ment tried so successfully in Califor- 
nia, and which has been suggested 
here in view of the constant raising of 
dust by autos, Mr. McClintock said 
this was not yet in a stage sufficiently 
peecctcd as to be able to apply it 
ere, 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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MANCHESTER 
Mrs. Chas. E. Fish has been spend- 
ing the week in New London, Conn., 
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Alexander 
Campbell. 
The flag floated at half-mast from 
the G.A.R. pole Thursday and yester- 
day out of respect to the late George 
Willmonton. 
Dyer’s auto garage was represented 
at the automobile show in Boston this 
week, Mr. Dyer having a position in 
the Iver’s Johnson Sporting Goods 
Co. booth, in Symphony hall, and 
passing out cards to prospective cus- 
tomers. On one side of the card was 
printed the route from Boston down 
the North Shore to Manchester, and 
on the other side a picture of Mr. 
Dyer and his business card. 
Daniel Linchan & Son 
Contractors and Builders 
We are the Contractors for the Entire 
Stonework and ugg at H. ex Frick’s 
new residence 
DANIEL LINEHAN 
JOHN H. LINEHAN 
PRIDE’S CROSSING, MASS. 
George E. Willmonton has been ap- 
pointed agent in this section for the 
German Insurance Co., of Freeport, 
Ill., this making another valuable addi- 
tion to his already strong agency. 
The company has assets over 
$6,000,000. 
Thos. B. Stone spent part of the 
week visiting his sister in Salem. 
Mrs. George D. Haskell has been 
spending the week visiting her brother, 
Dr. Charles Gilman, and family in 
West Roxbury. 
Rev. D. F. Lamson was in town 
the first of the week on a short visit. 
What order of women in Ancient 
Rome was considered superior to all 
others ? Own the Stoddard lectures 
and know the conditions of ancient 
and modern times. 
Speeial attention given to House 
and Land Drainage. Estimates 
given and Contracts performed for 
Roads, Bridges, Sewers, Water 
Works, Wells, Earthwork, Blast- 
ing, Grading, Stone Masonry and 
Landscape Work, Steam Drilling 
Tree moving a specialty. ots 
RSS fee Te, A as Ke = 
Remover of House Waste and Ashes. 
Jobbing and Expressing 
H. A. BURCHSTEAD, Manager 
Board for Horses. 
Horse Clipping. Order Box with Loomis, the Jeweler. 
P.O. Address, BOX 409, MANCHESTER, MASS. 
D. B. HODGKINS’ SONS, 
Flour, Grain, Hay and Straw, 
TAPPAN STREET, MANCHESTER-BY-THE SEA. 
Telephone 123-4, 
Also, RAILROAD AVENUE, CORNER PEARL STREET, GLOUCESTER. 
M. Jj. 
TELEPHONE 222-3. 
MARSHALL, 
ALL KINDS OF FURNITURE UPHOLSTERED. 
House Cleaning, Opening and Closing in Fall. 
First-Class Work Guaranteed. 
Shop, High St., Beverly Farms, 
Turkish Work a Specialty. 
Address all 
man to 047 Humphrey St, Swampscott, Mass, 
Mattresses Made to Order. 
CONNOLLY BROS. 
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS, 
BEVERLY FARMS, MASS. 
S. J. CONNOLLY. 
G. P. CONNOLLY. 
T. D. CONNOLLY. all kinds of Stone Work 
Steam Road Rollers to let. 
Branch Office at Manchester-by-the-Sea. 
Estimates bh on Blasting, Excavating, bodies Landscape, Steam Drilling and 
(=~ All work personally 
Builders of Lawn Tennis Courts. 
attended to. 
SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN to HOUSE anp LAND DRAINAGE, 
