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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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VOLUME 8. June 10, 1910 NuMBER 23 
June 11—17 
SUN FULL TIDE 
Rises Sets AM P.M. 
11 Sa. 47 7 20 1 35 Ziel 
12 Su. 47 qa2 2 28 3 06 
13 M. 47 opera 3229 4 01 
14: Tus= =4.7 gb W 4 20 4 47 
15 W. 4°7 7 22 5 18 by 
16 Th. 47 7 23 6 15 6 45 
17 Fr. 47 7 23 7 12 1235 
STATEMENTS have been published 
recently in some of the daily papers 
to the effect that the expenses of 
Hissex County are in excess of any 
other county in the Commonwealth, 
except Suffolk, and the statements 
have naturally greatly exercised not 
only the county commissioners, but 
all those who have a hand in the 
affairs of the county. Figures 
quoted are claimed to disclose ex- 
travagance in Essex County, yet in- 
quiry shows that in view of needed 
improvements made during the past 
three years, the taxpayers secured 
good returns for their money. It is 
the county commissioners of a de- 
eade or more ago, and not those -of 
today, that must be blamed for any 
extensive expenditures at the pres- 
ent time. Owing to a misguided pol- 
icy on the part of the commissioners 
in years gone by, the county build-: 
ings, bridges, ete., were grossly ne- 
gleeted, and when the time came for 
repairs, a large amount of money 
had to be expended. Essex County 
at present has splendid courthouses, 
in Salem, Newburyport and Law- 
rence. The penal institutions are in 
good condition and well furnished, 
while the bridges of the county were 
never in better repair. Essex Coun- 
ty is subjected to heavy expenses an- 
nually, keeping bridges over tidal 
streams in order. This expense is 
not experienced to so large an ex- 
tent in any other county in the 
state, except Suffolk. Unless some 
disaster occurs, the county will not 
be obliged to spend much money for 
county buildings or penal institu- 
tions, during the coming 20 years, 
and, as a result the tax burden will be 
wholly dependent on the amount of 
money needed for maintenance of 
buildings, bridges, highways, ete. 
Essex County is extremely fortu- 
nate in having towns like Manches- 
ter, Beverly, Nahant, Swampscott 
and Marblehead that have large tax 
taxpayers and heavy valuation. The 
burden of the county tax necessarily 
falls on the wealthy residents who 
come here to spend the summer. 
Tue June number of ‘‘New Bos- 
ton’’ quotes at length some editorial 
utterances of Surveying and the 
Civil Engineer, published in London, 
concerning housing conditions in 
Boston, as brought out in the report 
of the 1915 Housing Committee. 
“The results of this investigation,”’ 
remarks the English editor, ‘‘are of 
a startling character; to none more 
so, perhaps, than to English sani- 
tarians who have been accustomed to 
identify such conditions, at least in 
part, with the greater age of their 
country as compared with the rela- 
tive juvenility of American cities, to 
say nothing of the supposed bound- 
less area of the Western continent.’’ 
The editorial goes on to comment 
with surprise upon the recent opin- 
ion of the Massachusetts Supreme 
Court on expropriating land for a 
new street, regarding this in the 
light of ‘‘limitations on municipal - 
action in slum destruction imposed 
by American ‘constitutional’ restrie- 
tion.’’ It congratulates. its readers 
upon a freer opportunity with them, 
in these words: ‘‘To English people, 
long accustomed to public expendi- 
tures on such objects, this should 
come as a-healthy reminder of the 
advantages of an elastic constitution, 
capable of modification with chang- 
ing eras and conditions, and _  de- 
pendent only upon the clearly af- 
firmed will of the people.’’ The con- 
clusion of the editorial is as follows: 
‘“It is satisfactory to note, as some 
relief from the gloom of this report, 
that the mayor of Boston is pushing 
all he is worth for the establishment 
of a municipal zoo and aquarium. In 
a recent speech he said that there 
was no reason why Boston with its 
population of 640,000 should not 
have institutions of that kind to 
equal any in the country. The hous- 
ing of the animals might serve as 
a salutary object-lesson to the cor- 
poration.”’ . 
HERE are a few figures of special 
interest to the boy who is thinking 
of leaving school to go to work—the 
boy who can continue his studies if 
he wants to, but who has an idea that 
such a course will not pay him ‘in 
dollars and cents. The figures are 
prepared by the Massachusetts State 
Board of Education, and are based 
upon a careful investigation. It ap- 
pears that the boys who left school 
at the age of fourteen went to work 
for pay averaging four dollars a 
week, and at the end of their twenty- 
fifth year they were earning an aver- 
age of twelve dollars and seventy- 
five cents a week. The boys who re- 
mained to graduate from the high 
school—at an average age of eighteen 
—went to work for ten dollars a 
week, and at the age of twenty-five 
were earning an average of thirty- 
one dollars. The total earnings of 
the elementary schoolboy for the 
twelve years were five thousand 
seven hundred and twenty-two dol- 
lars, and of the high-school boy ‘in 
the eight years seven thousand three 
hundred and seventy-seven dollars. 
And these figures represent but one, 
and that perhaps: not the most. sig. 
nificant, of the gains secured by the 
high-school boy. 
Boston—1915 has signally aided 
the passage in the Massachusetts 
legislature of an excellent law  re- 
stricting the use of dangerous ex- 
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