NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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A Good Investment 
Be your own landlord. 
Better and safer than banks or stocks. 
Buy a piece of the land, now for sale, adjoining the beautiful Mont- 
serrat Station. 
Put by five or ten dollars a month and own oneoftheseattractive house 
lots. 
more rent. 
Later build your own cottage, make your own garden and pay no 
This is an ideal location, between Beverly and Prides’s Crossing, on 
electric and train lines near High and Grammar 
crowded. 
schools 
and not 
Ilouses rent and sell rapidly and land values are steadily increasing. 
All grades and prices from $300 to $3000. 
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Our Weekly Letter From ts f 
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By F. J. DYER 
Washington, July 7.—One would 
hardly have looked for it in a law- 
yer and a judge, perhaps, but Presi- 
dent Taft is displaying business 
ability. In the Treasury Depart- 
ment alone it was found that a large 
‘sum of money could be saved yearly 
by changing methods in vogue since 
the days of Alexander Hamilton, 
and installing new appliances and 
machinery to facilitate business. <A 
large number of clerks were dis- 
pensed with and places were found 
for nearly all of them in various . 
other departments. The govern- 
Montserrat and Prospect H 
A very attractive plaster house is going up on Magnolia St. 
large double house on Spring St. is nearing completion. The boys’ play- 
ground, opposite the station, has been opened. The neighborhood tennis 
court is now ready. ; 
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ment’s work went on better than 
before. 
For many years the Lighthouse 
Board has been under the joint 
jurisdiction of the Army and Navy. 
If one may ignore for a moment the 
serious nature of the duties devolv- 
ing upon this Board, he may find a 
creat deal of amusement, ‘(If he be 
a mere civilian)’, over the conflict of 
authority which has been a perpetual 
snag. 
It is seldom, however, that the 
very serious gentlemen in the Army 
and Navy can see what is the rea- 
son for the amusement, which they 
are somewhat disposed to resent. In 
the Lighthouse service there has 
never been any real executive head 
since 1852, although the Govern- 
HeSendioaics 
The 
Leave the noisy town and come out for a glimpse of the fields and 
woods of Montserrat; only five minutes from Beverly. 
Our representative will be at the office, 157 Essex St., every day ex- 
cept Sunday and evening appointments may be made by phone No. 
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ment expense annually for the main- 
tenance of lighthouses, lghtships, 
and other signals and devices for the 
protection of the lives and property 
of mariners, $5,500,000 a year, with 
another $500,000 for the betterment 
of the service. 
As at present constituted, the 
lighthouse board is composed of two 
high ranking officers of the navy, 
two officers of the corps of engineers 
of the army and two civilians, with 
an officer of the army and an officer 
of the navy as secretaries. 
The Secretary of the Department 
of Commerce and Labor is ex-officio 
president, but the actual head of 
the board is its chairman, who it 
elects. Under Rear Admiral Adolph 
Marix, the present chairman, the 
board has enjoyed more harmony 
