12 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
Manchester 
ANCHESTER is blessed with public improvements 
probably found in no other town of the size in Amer- 
ica. Its excellent roads, beautiful land-locked harbor, 
modern sewerage, pure water supply and fine street light- . 
ing puts it in a class by itself. . Already possessing finer 
roads than many cities much larger than itself, the Town 
of Manchester voted this year to invest $40,000 more in 
re-building highways and $28,000 for general repairs and 
improvements. This single item of improvement is enough 
to class it as a thoroughly alive and up-to-date town. One 
thing which always strikes the stranger in Manchester is 
the absence of electric light or telephone wires. Man- 
chester spends over $10,000 a year for street lighting and 
there is not a wire above ground nor a swinging, glaring 
arc lamp on the streets. More than 500 telephones are 
it, commission in Manchester, but no wires are in evidence 
—a condition to be proud of. 
In addition to boasting one of the finest small harbors 
on the New England coast Manchester has the distinction 
of supporting one of the two or three public landings be- 
tween Boston and the Merrimac river. Outside of Marble- 
head harbor there is no other place where there are free 
public landing facilities. It is a condition to be proud of 
and one which should be more widely exploited. Over 
$100,000 have been spent in developing a splendid harbor 
and its advantages for anchorage ought to be known 
everywhere. An unobstructed channel, cut straight across 
Glass Head flats at a width of 100 feet, offers plenty of 
room for good sized craft to navigate the harbor entrance. 
The channel is dredged to a depth of about 8 feet below 
the mean low water mark. An admirable feature of 
Manchester harbor is the remarkably safe anchorage pro- 
vided. The report of the Chief of Engineers, made to 
the Federal Government, says, ‘““The outer sheltered har- 
bor or roadstead contains approximately 300 acres with 
five fathoms of water.” In the roughest of weather the 
outer land-locked harbor provides a perfectly safe anchor- 
age for vessels. The inner harbor has been dredged, thus 
providing a ‘broad basin, deep enough for the large power 
and sailing boats. A landing right in the center of the 
village is found by passing under the B. & M. tracks. 
There are also public landings at Masconomo park and at 
Tuck’s point. These landings are all free. The Mas- 
conomo park landing is handy to the B. & M. railroad 
station and the Manchester postoffice. This summer the 
channel buoys in the harbor will be lighted, by the Town 
of Manchester. This is an unusual advantage in a har- 
bor of this size. 
The harbor offers advantages not only for summer 
residents of Manchester, but from all the surrounding terri- 
tory. Ipswich people and others living at the inland re- 
sorts, take advantage of Manchester’s splendid harbor 
which with its three free landings close to the excellent 
highways, is as good as a harbor right at home. The 
Tuck’s point landing is adjacent to the Manchester Yacht 
club. In former years many beautiful private yachts have 
been anchored in Manchester’s land-locked harbor during 
the summer and as long as its advantages continue to 
surpass all others as they do at present it will be a most 
popular stopping place. 
Manchester Harbor, Showing Mystery Island in the Distance. 
April 14, 1916, 
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