Gloucester Minstrels Give 
Performance at Manchester 
Under the auspices of the Manches- 
ter Brass band the Y.M.C.A. min- 
strels of Gloucester gave a_perform- 
ance at the Town hall, Thursday 
evening, before a fair sized audience. 
Only the end men appeared as black- 
faced artists, while the soloists and 
chorus appeared in every day dress. 
The affair was supposed to be a party 
with the ‘‘waiters’’—end men—manip- 
ulating the bones and tambos, and 
_the circle representing the ‘guests.’ 
Herbert Nichols was “host” or “in- 
.terlocutor.”’ 
Previous to the show the band 
_paraded the streets, attracting a large 
crowd to the Common. 
The solos and choruses were inter- 
spersed with jokes and hits, several 
of which were original and made a hit. 
The topical song to the tune of 
“Everybody works but Father,” had 
some good hits. Among the verses 
were : 
Everybody works but Sammie, 
He sits down all day, 
Over in the station, 
Still he draws his pay. 
Rubbers out the window, 
Up and down the Square 
If you want to find him, 
You'll always find him there. 
Everybody works but Kimball, 
He wasn’t built that way, 
On the town committee 
To Boston every day ; 
Takes along his bosses 
And others, so they say, 
Buying up steam rollers, 
Buys one every day. 
Part two opened with an original 
poem (?) by Alex. P. Webber, fol- 
lowed by a specialty act by Mr. 
Chandler in alittle nonsense and jug- 
gling, and a couple of musical 
numbers. 
Spry’s Greenhouse Injured 
By Fire—Loss Estimated $1000 
The Manchester fire department 
was called out last Monday afternoon 
about 5.20 for a fire in the greenhouse 
of W. F. Spry, off Bridge street. 
Though the fire itself did not amount 
to much, the damage to the house in 
breaking glass, etc., and to the stock, 
is estimated by the owner as $1000. 
The fire started near the boiler in 
the southerly end of the house run- 
ning parallel with Bridge street. It 
was blazing up through the roof when 
the firemen arrived and the end of the 
glass house adjacent to the wooden 
structure was all broken in. It- took 
but a few minutes to quench the fire 
but the cold air meanwhile was _rush- 
ing in onto the plants. 
The damage to the house Mr. Spry 
estimates at $300, and to the stock at 
$700. Among the plants destroyed 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
OPENING! 
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Invite your attention to OUR SEMI-ANNUAL 
display of French Pattern HATS and MILLI- 
NERY NOVELTIES, WEDNESDAY and 
THURSDAY, APRIL 4th and 5th, 1906. 
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were some valuable rubber plants, be- 
longing to some of the summer resi- 
dents which he was storing for the 
winter. There was no insurance on 
the building nor its contents, as very 
few companies will place any insur- 
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ance at all on greenhouses, unless 
they are adjacent to dwellings. 
A pleasant reminder of the pic- 
turesque North Shore—The Breeze 
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slit. 
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is crushed down with the powerful Cinch pliers as shown in cut. One 
jaw of pliers presses top of seal, the other presses on bottom through 
inner tube. 
A little soapstone is added and the tube is ready to 
blow up. The device has had a season’s trial on various cars and is 
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