22 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
FAST GLOUCESTER.—The season promises to be a 
good one in this locality, for accommodations are be- 
ing sought now daily of the many hotel proprietors; al- 
though it is somewhat early, people have applied for cot- 
tages and a goodly number of the most desirable houses 
have been taken. There has been considerable building 
activity during the winter, though the hard weather has 
interferred much with the progress of things. It is doubt- 
ful whether the Teners of Pittsburgh, Pa., will get into 
their beautiful new mansion this season, but the workmen 
are hoping that by August the house will be ready for 
occupancy. As described sometime ago in the BreEEzE, 
the Tener house will have spacious rooms on three floors, 
besides a model garage with living quarters. 
will be of tile and stucco. Ezra L,. Phillips of Gloucester 
is the architect. The house looms up very large and 
. plasterers have finished over one-half of the rooms. 
Besides the extensive enlarging of the house of A. 
W. Pollard at Eastern Point, formerly the estate of Col. 
Sidney M. Hedges of Boston, the completion of the 
studio cottage for Mrs. L. A. Hobbs, located on Grape 
Vine Road, and the finished Tutts cottage at Bass Rocks, 
a spacious house is now well under way at Grape Vine 
Cove, for Mrs. B. T. Whipple of Kansas City, Mo. The 
plans are drawn by E. L. Phillips. The house is of 
Dutch colonial design, covering a surface 43x52 feet, and 
a garage will be attached, 14x21 feet. The first floor if 
the residence will contain a living room, 18x32 feet, which 
will have a fireplace, alcove with book shelves and a 
beam ceiling; dining room, 15x20 feet, guest room and 
bath, stair hall, kitchen, pantry, and a maids’ dining al- 
cove; a piazza 10 feet wide will be built the entire length 
of the house. On the second floor are four chambers, 
three baths, two maids’ rooms and a maids’ bath. The 
outside of the house will have wide siding and a shingled 
root. BSC. Clarkiis the %contractorn). s Pomeroy has 
the stone contract and L. E. Andrews the plumbing and 
heating contract. The house is located on very rich 
fertile soil, the reason, perhaps, being for this, that Mrs. 
Whipple is greatly interested in horticulture. She has 
ragnificent gardens in Kansas city and some fine gardens 
may be expected on her Grape Vine Cove property. The 
large Bowler estates nearby are fine examples of horti- 
culture in the summer. 
Jobn Hays Hammond, Jr., is the guest of Henry 
Davis Sleeper of La Beauport cottage, Eastern Point. 
Mr. Hammond makes frequent visits to his wireless lab- 
oratory at Lookout Hill, Fresh Water Cove. 
John Clay, the millionaire ranch owner, of Chicago, 
accompanied by his young son, Jack Clay, spent the week- 
end here visiting their Eastern Point estate “Finisterre.” 
Mrs. Clay is still at Palm Beach, Fla. The Clays will 
come to their East Gloucester house on einew i 
The Beachcroft hotel, near the Gate Lodge, Eastern 
Point, has been leased to Miss Lillian Day of East Glou- 
cester, and she is preparing it for an early reception to 
guests. 
One of the largest house building contracts in this 
vicinity was that awarded this week to Simon Garland of 
Gloucester, for a mammoth summer residence to be erect- 
ed at East Gloucester for Jacob L. Loose of Kansas City, 
Mo., senior member of the famous baking firm of Loose, 
Wiles & Co. Mr. Loose, last year, purchased a most de- 
sirable tract of seashore property of six and a half acres 
at Grape Vine Cove, from Ex-Mayor Isaac Patch sof 
Hast Gloucester. The site is next to that of E.x-Congress- 
man Sloat T. Fassett, of Elmira, N. Y, Building opera- 
tions begin at once for a long, rambling house of old 
English architecture, of half timber, stone and stucco 
and slate roof. The extensive plans were drawn by 
The house. 
April 14, 1916. 
Ezra L. Phillips of Gloucester. The Loose mansion will 
be 150 feet long. ‘The main section will be 80 feet wide, 
but the two long sections, extending at an angle, one on 
each side, will be 30 feet wide. The main entrance is in 
the center and this opens into a spacious hall 50 feet long 
and 12 feet wide. The living room in front is 30x50 feet 
and will run up into the two stories of the house, with a 
15-foot stud. Panel dado will be to the top of the doors, 
the finish being of gumwood and the room will have beam 
ceiling. There will be two large fireplaces, one in each 
end of the room. Directly over the entrance hall will be 
a balcony, the entire width of the room, with openings 
looking down into the living room. Attractive book cases’ 
will be underneath. In front of the living room will be 
a porch, on the ocean front, 20x50 feet with a tile floor. 
Here, a broad view of the coast line, from Eastern Point 
to Thatcher’s Island is obtained, while the broad Atlantic 
stretches before one, the billows surging on the great 
granite boulders beneath the porch. The western wing 
contains a corridor, leading off the main hall, with three 
master bed rooms, each with separate bath, large ward- 
robe and fireplace, on the first floor, and there are two 
master bed rooms and two baths and sleeping porch’ on 
the second floor. The east wing contains a big dining 
room 20x25 feet, beam ceiling and a large fireplace, the 
room opening opposite the entrance hall. On the water 
side of this east wing will be a fine breakfast porch 15x20 
feet, enclosed in glass and with a tile floor. Beyond this 
is a 10-foot terrace, facing the ocean and coast line to- 
wards Thatcher’s twin lights. Other rooms on the first 
floor include a kitchen, butler’s room, kitchen pantry, 
serving room, laundry, stores, closets and kitchen porch. 
On the second floor are five maids’ bed rooms and bath. 
A big garage to accommodate three cars and living quar- 
ters for chauffeurs is 24x37 feet, of architecture in keep- 
ing with the mansion. The garage will have a’ cement 
floor. On the first floor will be a heater room and toilet 
and on the second floor will be a kitchen, pantry, four 
bed rooms and a bath. The Loose mansion at Grape 
Vine Cove, when completed, will be one of the show 
places of the North Shore. Mr. and Mrs. Loose will be 
at the Williamson cottage at Eastern Point, formerly 
occupied by the Siamese Legation, while the house is in 
the process of construction. Mr. Loose is now in Fast 
Gloucester. 
College students have been coming to East Glouces- 
ter for the Easter vacation for years and the unique 
charm of this beauty spot of the cape has attracted a 
number of Lasell students the past week. The Rocka- 
way hotel, at Rocky Neck, was the rendezvous for the 
party. At this attractive and comfortable hostelry about 
100 students arrived today for the week-end. The stu- 
dents come from Radcliffe and Simmons colleges. Boat- 
ing, visits to the wharves and fish packing establishments, 
the fish hatchery on Ten Pound Island, Eastern Point 
lighthouse and “Mother Ann,” and walks over the moors 
where song birds are ushering in the season, are all 
sources of vacation delight to the visitors. 
Mr. and Mrs. Ingo Simon of England are registered 
at the Rockaway. Mr. Simon is a grand opera singer 
and three years ago married Miss Clementine Lawrence. 
of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Simon contemplated sail-_ 
ing for Japan, but owning to the destruction by fire of 
the steamer upon which they were to sail, they have de- 
cided to take a cottage in this locality for the summer 
and September. 
A large number of people have registered at the- 
Rockaway since the house opened the latter part of 
March. Permanent guests will arrive the first of June. 
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