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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 17 
SOCIETY NOTES 
The Essex County club was the scene of another bril- 
liant gathering of North Shore people Wednesday. after- 
noon, for the weekly band concert. The verandas and 
lawn were alive with people, and scores of little after- 
noon teas were given at the tables set on the verandas, 
on the lawn and under the tent in front of the clubhouse. 
The club is very much the center of social life along the 
North Shore this year, which bespeaks the wisdom of the 
members who were so zealous in enlarging the house last 
year, and who have since enlarged the activities of the 
place by running it on a broader and more democratic 
basis. Walter D. Denegre, Amory Eliot and Samuel Carr 
were among those who were so anxious to see the club’s 
activities enlarged. 
Several hundred people were at the club Wednesday 
afternoon. Among those noticed were Mr. and Mrs. 
Arthur Maxwell Parker, who motored over from Bass 
Rocks, and had with them Mr. Whitemore and Miss 
- Morgan; Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Ferguson, and Mr. and Mrs. 
Arthur D. Cook, from the Oceanside; Mrs. J. A. Janney 
of Philadelphia and Mrs. Lee MeMillan of New Orleans ; 
Hon. and Mrs. George W- Baxter and daughters; Mrs. 
A. M. Lewis of Philadelphia; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Dene- 
ere; R. M. Winthrop and sister, Mrs. Grant Forbes and 
Mr. Forbes; Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Devins; Mr. and Mrs. 
©. M. Smith and the latter’s mother, Mrs. Rumsey and 
Miss Rumsey of Buffalo; members of the French, Ger- 
man, Russian, Brazilian and Italian embassies; Mr. and 
Mrs. A. G. Hodges; W. A. Burnham; Miss Mabel Board- 
man; Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Frazier and guests; Mrs. John 
Allen and William Zeller of Chicago; Mrs. Alexander 
Britton and Miss Catherine Britton; Mrs. B. A. Beal; 
Mrs. Thomas Seott; Mrs. Charles L. Storer; Mrs. W. 
Farrington and Miss Pauline Farrington who motored 
up from Rye Beach; Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Hood and Miss 
J. Wilder; Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Bemis and Mrs. Bemis’ 
mother, Mrs. Cummings, who is at the Oceanside; Mrs. 
George Lee; Mrs. Francis P. Lefavour and friends; 
Mrs. W. C. Winters; Mrs. R. F. Greeley, Miss Marion 
Greeley and Mrs. C. B. Taylor; Miss Meycea Newell; 
Miss Minna Lyman; Miss Amy Curtis; Mrs. E. C. Swift 
and Mrs. Denning; Mrs. Clarenee Moore; Mrs. D. H. 
Tlostetter; Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Munn; Mr and Mrs. 8. 
P. Bremer; Miss Amie Clark; Mr. and Mrs. J. Warren 
Merrill; Dr. and Mrs, Lancashire; Mrs. Wallace Good- 
rich. 
Francis J. Cotting of Pride’s Crossing was host for a 
small dinner party at the Essex County club Wednesday 
evening. There were covers for eight. 
Several luncheon parties were given at the Essex 
County club Wednesday afternoon, previous to the band 
—coneert. T. B. Gannett was host for a party of ten. 
Mrs. MeMillan gave a luncheon for eight. 
Mr. and Mrs. Bradley of Nyack, N. Y., who have the 
Perkins cottage on Sea street, Manchester, are enter- 
taining Mr. Bradley’s sister, Miss Bradley from Nyack, 
who will remain with them until the family conclude 
their stay here about the middle of September. 
Quincey A. Shaw of Pride’s has returned from a com- 
bined business and pleasure trip to Michigan. Mrs. 
Shaw is still absent from Pride’s. 
Contractors are figuring on a storage building, which 
Henry Clay Frick plans to add to his Pride’s estate. 
‘Willow Bank,’’ Beverly Cove, the W. A. Slater resi- 
dence, was the scene of a pretty. luncheon of 16 covers 
on Monday of this week. 
FIVE HUNDRED LIVES LOST ! 
From the Orient, that place of fanaticism, mystery. 
wealth and poverty comes that most beautiful of nature’s 
product—the pearl. In its natural state without cutting 
or polishing, with the tints of the opal, the blush of the 
rose, the deep of the cavern and the light of the sun, the 
irritated mollusk gives us this, the most rare and costly 
of all gems. 
In their search each year at least five hundred persons 
perish, owing to the hazards of diving, and the lives of 
all men following this calling are comparatively short 
as the pressure of the water affects the heart action. 
There is no commodity so universally marketable as 
pearls and precious stones, their value being recognized 
in all parts of the globe and each year pearls are be- 
coming more rare. 
The fisheries have this year produced scarcely more 
than half the usual number and the demand is greater 
than ever. In Europe, this season, not one new pearl 
of importance has been shown. 
There ars now in this country many collections of such 
size and quality as to excite the envy of the crowned 
heads of Europe. The writer has personal knowledge 
of six necklaces with centre pearls weighing more than 
seventy-five grains and whose total weight is between 
one and two thousand grains, thus making the value of 
each string from $500,000 to more than a million dollars. 
The difficulty of collectors is in finding those pearls 
to add to their strings whose color and lustre, and per- 
fection and size will accord, and owing to the searcity of 
gems, the question is not where shall I go to buy pearls, 
but where can I go that I may find what I want? 
Within the past year the world’s most famous pear] 
was bought and sold by Messrs. Dreicer & Company after 
having rested for nearly half a century in the collection 
of the Earl of Dudley, previous to which time it had 
been in the family of one of the Spanish Princes. This 
is called the Dudley Pearl; it weighs over two hundred 
erains and its value is about two hundred thousand dol- 
lars. Such color and lustre and perfection and size, the 
Orient has never produced except in this one instance. 
This pearl is now in the possession of one of America’s 
greatest men. ; 
What is the life of the pearl? Such a question is 
asked so often it might be interesting to note that the 
term ‘‘dead’’ as applied to pearls generally means lack 
of lustre and the age, if they may be said to have any, to 
which they may live has never been exactly determined. 
It has been the good fortune of the writer to have seen 
pearls said to be more than two hundred years old pos- 
sessing all the virtues of a newly found one. Two pearls 
from the collection of Catherine the Great of Russia, aré 
now owned by a New York dealer and are of splendid 
color and lustre. 
One point which is not generally thought of by pur- 
chasers is the enrichment of this country through the 
importation of jewels here. Every year there are 
brought in upwards of $50,000,000 in gems which remain 
here and increase the assets of the people of America to 
an extent hardly believable. An interesting exhibition 
of fine pearls is to be seen in the studios of Dreicer & 
Company at the Colonnade in Magnolia and the mounted 
pieces are in designs seldom seen outside a museum. 
During the absence in Europe of Amory A. Lawrence, 
John Lawrence and family have removed from Topsfield 
and will occupy the former’s estate at Beverly Cove for 
the remainder of the season. 
