NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
mer famed as the home of Gen. John 
A. Dix, the author of the patriotic 
slogan,—‘‘If any man attempt to 
haul down the American flag shoot 
him on the spot,’’ the latter famed 
as the favorite bathing and fishing 
ground of Daniel Webster. 
Perhaps the marvel of all are the 
bleak Shinnecock Hills, separated 
from Long Island by the old Shirine- 
cock Canal, originally cut through 
from Peconic Bay to Shinnecock Bay 
by the Indians, now kept in commis- 
sion by the state. What charm can 
there be in these bare hills devoid of 
trees, unless it is that nature de- 
signed them especially for the golf 
‘course now recognized by all golfers 
as among the few perfect courses 
ean tell, but as one stands on the 
anywhere. But it is not that. No one 
erest of one of these wind-swept 
knolls and looks north over the blue 
ripples of the deep Peconie Bay and 
south over the Shinnecock Bay to the 
rolling Atlantic, a vow is registered 
to possess a villa site here, until now 
the price of five thousand dollars for 
an acre plot has put it beyond the 
reach of the average seashore enthu- 
siast. The skill and genius of the 
architect and landscape artist is at 
work transforming these hills into 
an ever-unfolding region of peculiar 
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Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Hutchinson 
are on the Lusitania, which is ex- 
pected to land in New York today, 
and they will reach their estate at 
Beverly Farms Monday or Tuesday. 
Their daughter, Miss Cinthra Hutch- 
inson, came to the shore this week, 
and with the maids has been getting 
the house opened. 
K. B. Richardson and family ar- 
rived at Magnola this week. They 
have taken the Joseph Sargent, jr., 
cottage this year. Mr. Richardson is 
recuperating from an illness of ty- 
phoid fever. 
Mrs. George D. Howe arrived at 
her summer home on Smith’s Point, 
Manchester, yesterday. ‘‘The Cliffs’’ 
is one of the oldest summer cottages 
on Smith’s Point, being built in 
1879. It was in its day one of the 
finest houses on the shore. The mag- 
nificent view of the ocean both up 
and down the shore is unsurpassed 
from this house. 
Mrs. James T. Field arrived at her 
summer estate on Thunderbolt hill, 
Manchester, Tuesday. 
Francis M. Stanwood and family 
arrived at their summer home at 
Manchester last week. 
Mr. and Mrs, F. R. Sears, jr., have 
opened their cottage at Beverly 
Farms. 
charm. 
Century old homesteads, shaded 
by elms and buttonball trees, with all 
their quaint interiors, hidden along 
old country roads, have been sought 
out and bought up and carefully re- 
modelled. to preserve the tone of 
quaint old age, but modernized with 
all present-day devices of comfort 
and luxury, while still the ghost of a 
forgotten age looks out wonderingly 
under the eaves at the flash of an 
automobile along a highway un- 
known in days of yore. 
When the project of the Jamaica 
Bay and South Shore waterways, to- 
ward which the U. S. government 
stands pledged to give one-third, is 
carried out, inland waterway to Bos- 
ton via Cape Cod Canal, now build- 
ing, will be established’ along both 
the north and south shores of Long 
Island, the significance of which is 
beyond all caleulation, both in point 
of profit and interest which, of 
course,’ are naturally inseparable. 
Use this Store As Freely 
While Away for the Summer 
Boston, Massachusetts 
will open a branch of their business on 
Central St., Manchester 
on or about 
June 10th next 
with a Choice Collection of 
UNUSUAL ANTIQUES 
comprising 
Rare Furniture, Ancient Paintings, Silver, 
As You Do When at Home 
Mail, express and telephone orders are 
given careful and immediate attention 
and forwarded without delay, 
We deliver purchases of $1.00 or 
more free of charge to any town 
in Massachusetts (bulky goods 
excepted); purchases amounting 
to $5.00 or more (no exceptions) 
we deliver free of charge any- 
Miniatures and Jewels, acquired from 
Private European Collections 
where in New England. 
Jordan Marsh Company 
Boston 
