3 NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
-<- The Atlantic Seashore Development 
Boston’s North Shore. 
If our old ancestor, Adam, was gifted with descrip- 
tive powers in the art of ‘word painting we should feel 
justified in plagarizing his-description of Paradise in 
describing this North Shore. 
If we have been-over indulgent in any description of 
other favored sections of-:the Atlantic coast and rose to 
heights of eulogy of old Neptune’s strands the climax 
still:remains in the speechless and wordless raptures 
nature unfolds here. When it is possible to translate 
the: musi¢ of the stars‘into human language and melody 
we shall-be able’ to translate nature’s revelations here 
into words.’ |: 
‘Boston's’ North Shore may perhaps claim the intro- 
duction-of the movement of permanent seashore develop- 
ment. Among the earliest settled colonies of our nation 
this section leads in the settlement of great ancestral 
estatés'to be noted posterior holdings for perhaps cen- 
turies to come when Boston’s North Shore will become 
historically famed as the- ancient gardens and palaces 
of the Euphrates. The movement is introduced, the tale 
niay become the fabled wonder of the world. It is no 
boastful prophecy to say that this section of New Eng- 
land may indeed become the world’s center of art, archi- 
tecture, gardens, and aristocracy, as it is already the 
center of thought and culture, to which the crumbling 
empires of the world must at last yield pre-eminence 
and obeisance. 
The North Shore has been unusually free from the 
tuwdry development of so called popular resorts. Even 
Revere Beach can hardly be said to come into this class 
under the metropolitan supervision with which it is 
favored. 
Old Marblehead is:a quaint painting vitalized, whose 
colors never fade, an art gem, an antique to lure the 
soul-of the:seeker after rare things and places set in the 
frame of its far-famed shores and harbor the rendezvous 
of every imaginable craft that floats. Magnolia, immor- 
talized by Longfellow in the ‘‘Reef of Norman’s Woe’”’ 
is'a brilhant gem among seashore resorts, a beauty spot 
in‘the garden of the North Shore. But ‘‘Manchester- 
by-the-Sea’’ is the queen of them all around which the 
other beauties are ladies in waiting. 
To this famed stretch of coast, honored as the coun- 
try seat of President Taft, come the seashore devotees 
of the whole country. All roads lead to this Mecca. 
There are other shrines and devout devotees, but in the 
soul of every loyal American there is a hope that some 
day it may be permitted them to wend their way to old 
Boston and its North Shore. 
Here vast wealth vaunts itself. Here come the fay- 
ored of the fates, belles of American society and Euro- 
pean court beauties; diplomats from the nations and 
empires of the world find it an ideal resort; leaders in 
every realm of human interest come ever to return; 
tourists of the world seek these shores. In ever-in- 
creasing numbers. they come to its golden beaches, 
rugged rocks and hills, and historic cities to be sun- 
tanned and sea-toughened, with tousled hair to make the 
round of golf.links or with head thrown back drinking 
the draught only the yachtsmen know as they— 
““Lay their bulwarks on the brine,’’ thus storing up 
vitality to be, only too often, squandered in winter in 
the gay capitals of the world. 
The phrase, ‘‘to tire of the sea,’’ as soft muscles tone 
up to a proud firmness, is laughable. The new life in- 
fused here in the breezes at sundown, when all the 
world is stifling and strangling elsewhere in heated 
areas, is the gift of favorable fates. To tire of this?— 
a devotee once a devotee forever. 
Few lands or coast lines offer as great a charm, none 
excel it. Here are rocky heads, forest-crowned to the 
terquoise waters that glitter and gleam by day and 
night with lights storied and sung for centuries. Today 
Neptune fawns at the feet of ‘‘Eagle’s Head’’ as a 
courtier at his lady’s feet, tomorrow, infuriated, he 
beats impotently the granite sea walls where gardens 
smile and send their perfumed breath into his heated 
face. 
These bold projecting promontories are unsurpassed 
for building sites and have been bought up by the 
moneyed men of America at fabulous prices, and yet, 
as one man said, ‘‘the birth of one day here is worth it 
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The beauty of landscape, so varied in woodland 
scenes, valleys, lakes, villages, resorts, vie in beauty 
with the sea for preference. Into these forests and 
among these hills wind the famous roadways of this 
North Shore, smooth and hard and clean and kept in an 
ideal condition for the pretty pageant of liveried ecar- 
riages, tally-hos, and automobiles, a ceaseless procession 
of interest and envy every day. 
To reach this pre-eminence and maintain it the 
wealth and talent of the world is contributing. And 
that this development is permanent is seen by the sub- 
stantial nature of the homes and estates continually 
building. Where before, afew brief years ago, the cot- 
tages of the fishermen stood, princely villas now stand. 
The days of those hardy old seamen, now known no 
more in the ports of the world, are drawing to a close 
as they ‘‘hold the turn’’ for the final order to ‘‘slack 
off’’ when the order comes to sail straight for the offing, 
out into the mists ‘‘from whence no mariner ever re- 
turns.’’ 
Where the old fishing boats beat out to sea floating 
palaces now cut the green billows in their flight from 
place to place. Yacht racing events and aquatic sports 
mark the advent and departure of the seasons, a con- 
tinual source of enjoyment, making the marine pano- 
rama of Massachusetts Bay a scene unsurpassed. 
Harbor illuminations make the nights memorable re- 
turning in dreams unique and suggestive of the fabled 
stories of youth. > 
Nothing is here lacking in physical comfort and en- 
Joyment, in schools and churches and libraries, and 
means for the highest culture. 2 
No mistake can be made in selecting a home on the 
North Shore; it is only a detail as to the particular spot. 
iden has returned to earth. 
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The Breeze is for sale 
at all North Shore 
Newstands 
Lynn to Rockport 
