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plosives, and is in charge, through 
an efficient executive committee, of 
the arrangements for Boston’s ‘‘saf- 
er and saner Fourth.’’ One of the 
most striking features will be a par- 
ade of 4,000 children, illustrating 
“Independence and its Fruits,’’ by 
means of floats and marching de- 
tachments. President Taft has prom- 
ised to review this parade, in con- 
nection. with his visit to Boston on 
that date. The presence of forty to 
fifty thousand teachers in the eity, 
attending the sessions of the Nation- 
al Edueation association, will add 
much interest to the occasion. 
And what Boston gains in this 
connection we all gain. It will be a 
“safer and saner Fourth’’ all along 
the line. ; 
CONSIDERABLE talk is being heard 
about town at the present time as to 
the feasibility of a special committee 
being appointed to look into the mat- 
ter of a new Town hall for Manches- 
ter. The question has been agitated 
in a greater or less degree for the 
last ten years, but no ‘definite action 
has been taken in town meetings. 
There is no question but what a 
town of Manchester’s standing 
ought to have a better Town hall 
building. At the present time, the 
upper portion of the building is 
closed by order of the state inspee- 
tor of buildings and it is estimated 
that. it will cost from $500 to $1,000 
to put it in repair. It is a question-ot 
only a few years when Manchester 
will have a new Town hall building 
anyway, and it seems too bad that 
the town should be taxed at the pres- 
ent time to spend $500 or $1,000 for 
repairs, and in a few years have the 
building destroyed. The rental for 
the upper hall in the building 
amounts to only $300 a year. 
There is a grand opportunity for 
one of Manchester’s many philan- 
thropie citizens to present the town 
with a new building, one that would 
be an honor and lasting monument 
to the giver, as well as a most useful 
cift to the town. 
Sentiment is divided as to the best 
location for such a building. Some 
suggest removing a number of 
PRE-EXISTENCE? 
Have I lived before, or no? 
Did the universe get on without me 
A hundred years ago? 
A never-dying soul have I about me 
In the stream of Being yet to flow? 
IT and you would like to know. 
If mortal my initiate 
Can I be sure of an immortal state ? 5 
-If | came from nothing, 
Shall my end be so? 
You and | would lke to know! 
If I have lived before in eons vast, 
Lived and wrought and suffered and died, 
I have no memory of the Past, 
No sears in hands or feet or side 
To show in what worlds my life was east. 
Came I from nothing?. And shall I end— 
A breath from the Spirit that fills all space? 
Ilow many: lives shall I yet spend— 
Living or dying by whose grace? 
Whenee do I come, or whither go? 
Patience, poor Heart! We soon shall know. 
Joseph A. Torrey. 
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buildings on Union street, opposite 
the publie library and placing the 
new structure there. Others sug- 
gest the Town hill; to our minds, 
however, there can be no better loca- 
tion for the new Town hall than the 
site of the building. = It 
could, perhaps, be placed a little 
nearer the water, but at all events 
have the building on one side of the 
town common. It is only a matter 
of time when a greater part of the 
inner harbor between the Town hall 
and the railroad track will be filled 
in and very valuable new town prop- 
erty made thereby. 
Who of our wealthy summer resi- 
dents wants to present the Town of 
Manchester with a new Town Ilall 
building at a eost of $150,000. to 
$200,000? 
COMMUNICATION. 
present 
Mr. Coolidge Wants Building to Be 
Known as ‘‘Public Library.’’ 
Boston, Mass., June 7, 1910. 
Editor North Shore Breeze. 
Dear Sir: Will you allow me, in 
answer to Mr. Stanley’s criticism of 
May 3lst, to say that I gave the 
building to the Town of Manchester. 
I should have had great pleasure 
in founding a Memorial Building or 
a G. A. R, Hall, but that was not my 
intention. I meant to present my 
fellow citizens with a Publie Library 
Building. 
It was solely with that purpose in 
view that | put up the building, and 
I should much regret if any other 
name but that of Public Library was 
given to it. 
Very truly yours, 
T. Jefferson Coolidge. 
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e News Notes About the 
\ ... Stnres... \ 
« And other Business Enterprises ‘ 
Va IA IA TA TA A A AS 
Trask & Hopkins, dealers in ‘‘ pure 
foods,’’ are among the new adver- 
tisers in The Breeze his week. This 
is the only store on the North Shore 
making a specialty of dairy prod- 
ucts, teas, coffees, crackers and the 
like. They are loeated on the 
eround floor of the building at Bev- 
erly which is oceupied by the Presi- 
dent’s office during the summer 
months, 244 Cabot street. The line 
of goods earried by the firm ineludes 
the most select line of fancy cookies 
—ITuntley & Palmer’s, Johnson 
Edueator Co., Loose-Wiles Co., and 
the National Bisewit Co. produets ; 
butter in prints, boxes and tubs -all 
sizes; roquefort, sage, royal, Mae- 
Larens, mild, old Parmensen, neuf- 
chatel and Young America cheeses; 
the Algonquin coffee and the ‘‘T”’ 
and ‘‘TL’’ special tea, 
