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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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Published every Friday Afternoon. 
J. ALEX. LODGE, Editor and Proprietor. 
Telephones: Manchester 137, 132-3. 
Knight Building, - Manchester, Mass. 
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VOLUME 8. June 3, 1910 NuMBER 22 
June 4—10 
SUN FULL TIDE 
Rises Sets ADM: P.M. 
4 Sa. 49 7 16 (es) 8 19 
5 Su. 49 Tay, 8 53 9 14 
6M. 48 717 | 9 48 10 07 
7 U4. 8 7.18 |10 42 10 48 
8 W. 43 TaLO re wi b= 3'5 — 
Oe Tee ete? TAIMVA0=50 Ibe eas 
10 Fr. 47 7 20 |11 42 1 18 
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Ts the Tree in the Highway? That 
is a question that has not infrequent- 
ly puzzled the tree wardens. The 
trouble has arisen from the difficulty 
of determining the exact boundaries 
of the highway. Often there. is no 
fence or wall; and again, where such 
structures do exist it is not certain 
that they represent the property line. 
These problems arise chiefly on back 
eountry roads, though they have 
been known to arise on some of our 
North Shore roads. 
It will interest property holders 
generally to learn that this year the 
law has been so amended (Chap. 321, 
Acts of 1910) that city and town 
charge of public 
officers having 
shade trees should have no further 
difficulties in this particular. If the 
right of the city or town to exercise 
jurisdiction over any given roadside 
tree is disputed by the abutting 
property owner, on the ground that 
it is not within the highway limits, 
although it may appear to be so, 
supposed to 
the new law requires the property 
owner to prove in court that the 
tree is not within the highway. Un- 
til he does so the law states that the 
tree shall be taken to be within the 
The city or 
any- 
limits of the highway. 
town is not obliged to prove 
thing. 
How to Keep Cool! This is 
advice which many will seek 
during the coming months, and 
which few will follow. However, it 
may not be amiss to be told that the 
health officer of the city of Washing- 
ton, where many great thoughts are 
has 
originate, issued 
some ideas on the subject. He says, 
avoid getting excited on a hot day, 
keep the nerves tranquil, get plenty 
of sleep, and, of course, wear as few 
clothes as possible. 
the doctor, do not drink iced water 
Above ail, says 
or other very cool beverages, soda 
water, or stimulating drinks. Fimally. 
the doctor might have added, if vou 
ean go where it is cool—to. the 
beaches or to the mountains or some 
place cooler than Washington or the 
place you happen to abide in. Until 
Dr. Wiley issues a bulletin on how to 
keep cool, this will be about all on 
the subject. 
On Sale at North Station 
The Breeze goes on sale at the 
North Station, Boston, this week, for 
the summer months, and as thé sea- 
son advances the newsboys on the 
North Shore trains will have The 
Breeze for sale on the late Friday 
trains and on Saturday and Sunday 
trains. The Breeze is the only week- 
ly suburban paper handled by the 
G. W. Armstrong news. service’ at 
the North station and on the- trains. 
N. 8. Horti. Society. 
The regular meeting of the North 
Shore Horticultural society will be 
held Friday evening, June 3, at Lee’s 
hall, Manchester. 
Arthur E. Thacher of the Arnold 
Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, will lee- 
ture on ‘‘ Newer Varieties of Flower- 
ing Shrubs.’’. The subjeet will em- 
brace many of the varieties collected 
recently in China by E. H. Wilson. 
«.- G. E. WILLMONTON ... 
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law 
Willmonton’s Agency 
OLD SOUTHBLDG., BOSTON 
SCHOOL AND UNION STS.. MANCHESTER 
Parsee ORL BLE IN COREL 
Our Weekly Letter From st ; 
Washington 
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Washington, June 3.—One of the 
questions which has been forced into 
prominence during this Congress is 
the parcels post. There seems to be 
a great diversity of opinion on this 
question, and many persons who dis- 
cuss it evidently have but an imper- 
tect knowledge of the principles un- 
derlying it. Not to discuss these 
here, there has been presented .to 
Congress recently a summary of the 
rephes made to queries by the hard- 
ware salesmen. These replies were 
sent to 8S. R. Miles, at Mason City, 
Ta., and it appears from them. that 
the 849 carriers heard from carried 
837 parcels on their rural routes in 
one month. The total weight of 
these packages amounted to 7,560 
pounds. It seems that most of the 
carriers do not make any charge 
for carrying parcels, not consider- 
ing the business worth cultivating, 
and the fact that they do not charge 
a fee doubtless contributes to the 
general disinclination to ask them to 
perform such a service. “The an- 
swers to various questions put are 
summarized as follows: 
With his present equipment can a 
carrier handle 50 to 500 pounds of 
merchandise daily? Answer: 187 no, 
23 yes—d0 to 200 pounds. 
Is your postoffiee equipped to 
handle 50 to 100 per cent. greater 
volume of business, figuring, as we 
must, that merchandise would rap- 
idly multiply the weight and bulk 
of mail to be handled? Answer: 182 
no; 35 yes, with additional help. 
With 10 to 25 merchandise: par- 
cels to be delivered daily, necessitat- 
ing the carrier getting out of his 
wagon, would it be possible to deliy- 
er the mail on time? - Answer: 198, 
no; 13, yes. 
Are the farmers in your vicinity 
discussing or demanding Parcels 
Post? Answer: 202, no; 16, ves. 
Do they really understand the 
question? Answer: 202, no; 16, yes. 
Would a Parcels Post confined to 
delivery from the office-from which 
the carrier starts be of any advan- 
tage and satisfy people? Answer; 
173, no; 35,. yes. 
Ilow many of your carriers make 
any charge for delivering unmail- 
able packages, as they are now per- 
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