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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
SUCCESSFUL CELEBRATION. 
Manchester’s Safe and Sane Fourth 
The efforts of all concerned to 
make this year’s celebration of In- 
dependence Day in Manchester ‘‘safe 
and sane’’ was crowned with suc- 
cess, for not only was the day cele- 
brated in such a way as to lack the 
un-sane and boisterous features of 
former years, but a program was 
carried out that proved highly en- 
tertaining for the citizens as a whole. 
Hundreds of people were attracted 
here from surrounding towns. 
It was a very quiet ‘‘night be- 
fore.’’ It was long after midnight 
before any semblance of a July 4th 
celebration was evident. 
The horrible parade was a splen- 
did success. Nearly the whole town 
turned out to see the parade, and 
from Beverly Farms and other sur- 
rounding towns came scores of 
people. The parade started at 6:30 
from in front of the Breeze office on 
Beach street. Hundreds of the sum- 
mer people turned out for this fea- 
ture, and not a few took an active 
part in the parade. 
The parade was headed by a de- 
tail of mounted police and Chief 
Marshall Fred K. Swett and his aids, 
D. T. Beaton, L. N. Cook, Bernard | 
Boyle and Alfred Hooper. The Boys 
Brigade in fancy costume furnished 
the marching music with a lar.e 
drum corps. John Connors, dressed 
as a Teddy bear followed in a two 
horse hitch bearing a masked per- 
sonage taking off Col. Roosevelt. 
The outfit was called ‘‘Teddy’s re- 
turn.’’ Teddy was given a rousing 
ovation all along the line. 
The Manchester Club’s entries 
came next in line. This was headed 
by a small detail of fake police and 
a drum corps specially made for the 
occasion. The club had three floats, 
—one a take off on the recent bake- 
house fire; another on the afteyrnocn 
whist, showing the ‘‘ladies’’ playing 
whist in one half of the float, and the 
husbands at home taking care of 
baby and doing the house work in 
the other half; another float was a 
slap at the school committee. The 
most comical feature was the water 
board ‘‘auto wagon’’,—a hit on the 
local water board. 
Next in line came the‘‘joy riders.’’ 
The little son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. 
Kuhn in Indian costume, riding on 
his pony was next. Other features 
in the line included a beautiful float 
by the Daughters of Rebekah, 
showing Rebekah with her urn at the 
well. Misses Alice and Olivia Thorn- 
dike in a harvesting rig. The Har- 
-. Needham. 
Brought Most Gratifying Results 
mony Guild. The W. R. C., showing 
tent and soldier boys with the 
army nurses. Mrs. Verry’s deco- 
rated auto. The Woman’s elub dis- 
trict nurse float. In the Industrial 
‘division were Magnuson & Hylan, 
florists; Roberts & Hoare; D. M. 
Knight’s express; G. W. Hooper, 
grocer, three wagons; E. A. Lane, 
painter; F. W. Bell & Son; L. W. 
Floyd, the novelty store; E. L. Valen- 
tine’s market ; Smith’s express, seven 
wagons; Bullock Bros., one auto. 
The winners in the three divisions 
were as follows: 
Antique and Horrible division—1st 
prize, Manchester Club, bakery fire; 
2d, joy riders, Carter and Joseph; 3d, 
Manchester Club, woman’s whist; 
honorable mention, auto wagon, ho- 
keypokey eart, Roosevelt’s return. 
Floral and artistic division—1st 
prize, Woman’s Relief Corps; 2d 
Harmony Guild; 3d Manchester 
Woman’s Club; special mention and 
particularly artistic, ‘‘A Harvesting 
Cart,’’ entered by Misses Alice and 
Olivia Thorndike; honorable men- 
tion, Daughters of Rebakah float; 
Mrs. Verry, automobile. 
Industrial division—1st prize, Val- 
entine’s market; 2d, Magnuson & 
Hylan, florists ; special mention, Wal- 
ter R. Bell, shoes and gentlemen’s 
furnishings. ; 
At nine o’clock some sports were 
run off on the common, in which the 
boys under 16 took part. The resu't. 
of the various contests were as fol- 
lows: 
Snake race:—Ilst prize ($1.00) 
Knight, G. Baker, Purdy, H. Baker, 
Walsh. 2d prize (50c) Jackson, 
Odenthal, Hartley, Coughlin, Angus. 
Potato race :—Ist prize ($2.00) W. 
Slade, 2nd prize ($1.00) Alfred 
Needham. 
Sack race:—Ist prize ($1.00) 
Manuel Miguel, jr. 2d prize (50c), 
Orien Chadwick. : 
Basket ball—Il1st prize ($1.00) 
Knight, G. Baker, Purdy, Walsh, H. 
Baker, 2d prize (50c) Jackson, 
Odenthal, Hurley, Slade, Angus. 
Pie race—Ist prize (50c) Alfred 
2nd prize (25¢c) Henry 
Odenthal. 
Obstacle race—Ilst prize ($1.00) 
W. Slade. 2nd prize (50c) Orien 
Chadwieck> 
The afternoon sports at the beach 
drew out a big crowd. Everybody 
joined in the parade, following the. 
Salem Cadet band on the arrival of 
the 1:32 train. Part of the sports 
were held in the field of the Masco- 
Broad Jump—lst prize, William 
Mulligan; 2nd, Benjamin Devine; oat 
3rd, Willard Rust. 
Pole  Vault—1st 
Slade; 2nd 
David MeNeil. 
prize, 
Arthur’ Gould; 3rd, 
High Jump—lst prize, Allen Me- — 
Kinnon; 2nd, Oliver Church; 3rd, — 
Willard Rust. 
. 100-yard Dash—Ist prize,. William 
Sheehan; 2nd, Oliver Church; 3rd, 
Albert Coffin. 
440-yurd Relay Race—Ilst prize, 
Wilham Sheehan; 2nd, William Mul- 
liigan; 3rd, Willard Rust. 
880-yurd Run—IlIst prize, Albert P | 
Coughlin; 2nd, David MeNeill. 
440-yard Swim—lst prize, Frank 
Wigglesworth; 2nd, Michael Cough- 
lin. 
Quoits—Ist prize, Otis Lee and 
Alex Carter; 2nd, John Riggs and 
William Cook; 8rd, Burgess and 
Everet: Smothers. : 
The exhibition by the hfe saying 
crew frem Dolliver’s neck was not as 
satisfactory as expected, but the | 
fault was not with the crew.. The 4 
strong undertow and brisk breeze 
kept blowing the scow from its in-— 
tended position and thus bothered ~ 
It must be | 
understood that in rescuing a crew ~ 
the crew in its work. 
from a stranded ship the ship is 
usually stationary. In this ease, how- 4 
ever, the ship was whisked-about and 
made the work very unsatisfactory. 
The shvoting of the rope by which 
the breeches buoy is manipulated, 
was very finely done. 
As a grand climax to the day’s” 
celebration a beautiful illumination 
of the inner harbor was held in the 
evening. At a signal red fire was set 
off around the entire basin, and this, 
aided by an almost continual cirele © 
of lanterns, and the decorated boats — 
in the basin, made a pretty effect. S. | 
P. Bremer’s Velthra was illuminated ~~ 
from stem to stern, anda contin-~ 
uous display of fireworks was set off 
from her deck all evening. The Salem ~ 
Cadet Band rendered a splendid con- ~ 
cert during the evening, for three | ~ 
Fours. Fully 3000 people were in the 
centre of the town. . 
The committee in charge of the ; 
day’s program was composeed of 
Frank G. Cheever, chairman; Albert 
Cunningham, Louis O. Lations, Rich-. 
ard L. Cheever, John F. Scott, Wal-_ 
ter R. Bell and Hollis L. Roberts. To = 
them much eredit is due for such a 
successful carrying out of this, the 
first celebration of Independence 
Day in Manchester under the ‘‘safe 
and sane’’ regulations. = 
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