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SOCIETY NOTES. 
THE North Shore Association for the Extermination of 
~* Mosquitoes, which plans to carry on a vigorous cam- 
“paign the present spring and summer, is diligently at work 
this winter. A letter was sent out to North Shore resi- 
dents under date of January 15th, signed by the officers: 
Walter D. Denégre, president; Philip S. Sears, treas., and 
Menase ©. Walker, secy., and by Frank P. Frazier, M. 
“Graeme Haughton, Thomas Silsbee, George R. White and 
WFrancis M. Whitehouse. The letter was as follows: 
ge The plan under which our association proposed to begin 
“its work of exterminating the mosquitoes has met with 
about 80 acceptances from about 300 persons who were 
asked to adopt it. This is not sufficient to permit an im- 
“mediate undertaking of the work. It is thought that with- 
in the next six months more acceptances may be secured, 
sufficient in connection with certain special contributions 
“te make the enterprise possible. Accordingly members of 
“thie association who joined under the original plan of be- 
~ ginning work before December rst, 1915, are asked 10 
"give their consent to a plan on exactly the same terms as 
the original plan except that work will be begun some 
time before December Ist, 1916, and the first payment of 
_ $50 thereunder will be due December Ist, 1916, or when- 
ever previous to that time the members are notified that 
sufficient money has been pledged to permit the work to 
go on. Members who have already paid money to the 
treasurer may receive it back upon request or may leave 
it where it is subject to the condition that none ot it will 
be used or pledged unless the full amount required to do 
the work under the plan is raised. Explanation of the 
- proposed work will be made to the landowner and. his 
consent thereto obtained pee ary upon his land.” 
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™ Mr. and Mrs. E. Laurence White of the Beverly 
_ Farms year-round colony, have gone to Augusta, Ga., to 
spend February. Mr. White is recuperating from his 
operation for appendicitis at Christmas-time, and hopes 
to be entirely recovered after a five weeks’ rest in the 
~ South. 
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£ Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cunningham of the year- 
round colony at Wenham, have gone to Boston for the 
balance of January and February. They have an apart- 
ement at the Copley-Plaza. 
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- A. P. Loring, Jr., is convalescing after an operation 
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_ for appendicitis at a Boston Hospital. Mr. Loring and 
~ family live at Pride’s Crossing the year round. 
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Andrew Carnegie, 2d, and family closed their house 
at Manchester this week, and have gone to their winter 
home at Fernandina, Fla. | 
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= Mr. and Mrs. E. Palmer Gavit of Albany, N. Y., who 
“were new-comers to the North Shore last year, are to re- 
turn this season and will again occupy the F. C. Stevens 
cottage, so picturesquely located on the ocean side of 
Nesmith’s Point, at Manchester. Mr. and Mrs. Gavit reg- 
istered at the Ritz in New York Sunday for a short stay. 
‘They are leaving shortly to spend the balance of the win- 
ter in California. 
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Whenever the ceremonial is elevated to the same 
tank with the moral, the latter will soon be lost sight of. 
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Manchester, Mass., Friday, January 28 
BAST GLOUCESTER. 
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BREEZE 
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SOCIETY NOTES 
The number of building opera- 
tions is increasing and well along into the spring, 
East Gloucester will have several fine new houses added 
to the summer colony. An attractive studio cottage very 
nearly completed on Grape Vine road, is that erected for 
Mrs. L. A. Hobbs,‘of Boston, daughter of Gov. Allen of 
Porto Rico. A. H. Atkins is the architect and. Charles 
Rk. McDonald, the builder. Besides the large studio there 
are four rooms, living-room, dining-room, two chambers 
and a bath-room. Mrs. Hobbs is a sculptor and will use 
ihe studio, which is 17x26 feet, with a height of the two 
stories to the roof. The finishings of the house are of 
dark stained wood, giving a pleasing and artistic effect. 
Besides the plans for the large new Tener mansion 
at Eastern Point, now building, Ezra L. Phillips, the 
Gloucester architect is completing plans for three or four 
new houses in East Gloucester, mention of which will be 
made later. 
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The cottage of Col. Sidney M. Hedges of Boston, 
located at Eastern Point and which was purchased late 
-last autumn by A. W. Pollard of Brookline, has been 
enlarged so that now it 1s one of the largest houses in 
that section. An addition 42 by 30 feet, makes the house 
nearly 150 feet long. The whole interior has been altered 
and the house has a new roof. ‘There is a new veranda 
40 feet long and 15 feet wide, besides a big sun parlor. 
On the first floor, the new addition, besides the sun parlor 
includes a living-room and the dining-room enlarged. On 
the second floor are nine chambers and eight bath rooms. 
The fireplaces include two down stairs, one in the living- 
room and the other in the sun parlor, and two in the 
chambers. Campbell Brothers of Lynn have the con- 
tract for building and John S. Pomeroy of East Glou- 
cester furnished the stone work. There is an imposing 
stone entrance to the estate. Mr. Pollard and his family 
come very early in the season at Eastern Point and make 
a long stay, until nearly snowfall. 
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The stork arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fitz- 
william Sargent, 232 Church road, Ardmore, Pa., on 
December 29th, and left a lovely baby boy (Fitzwilliam 
Sargent, Jr.) to the young couple. Mrs. Sargent was 
Bernice Wellington, one of the most charming of the 
younger set at Bass Rocks. Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop 
Sargent, parents of Mr. Sargent, own an attractive estate 
at Bass Rocks. 
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Mrs. William M. Lathrop and two daughters, Miss 
Ilizabeth R. and Miss Henrietta $. Lathrop, of the Rocky 
Neck colony, where they own an estate on the water 
front, have taken their departure for Daytona, Fla., and 
will remain till April. 
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Proprietor William A. Publicover and wife, of the 
Hotel Rockaway, East Gloucester, are spending several 
weeks in Daytona, Fla. They are stopping at the Ocean 
House. 
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“Red Gates,” the former summer residence of Charles 
Parker at Marblehead Neck, now owned by F. C. Fletcher 
of Brookline is being changed extensively, the alterations 
inaking almost a new house. Two large wings, one 
20x50 feet and the other 22x25 feet are located on each 
