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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Published every Saturday Afternoon, 
J. ALEX. LODGE, Editor and Proprietor, 
Pulsifer’s Block, Manchester, Mass. 
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ble to NORTH SHORE BREEZE, Manchester, Mass. 
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North Shore. 
Entered as second-class matter April 8, 1905, at the 
Postoffice at Manchester, Mass., under the Act of 
Congress of March 3, 1879. 
Telephones: Manchester 9-13, Beverly 143-4. 
VOLUME 2. NUMBER 15. 
SATURDAY, AUGUST. 26, 1905. 
Short Lobsters. 
Apropos the arrest and conviction, 
the past week, of one of Manchester’s 
veteran fishermen for having in his 
possession lobsters not up to the legal 
length, it strikes us that the public, or 
a considerable portion of it, is to blame 
for the existing conditions on the lob- 
ster question. 
Mr. West, or any other old fisher- 
man, would not catch short lobsters if 
a ready market for the same could not 
be found. And it isa well-known fact 
that there are scores of people very 
willing to buy short lobsters simply 
because they can get them cheaper. 
If this energetic game warden would 
bend his efforts in searching some of 
the refrigerators in the village, and 
pay less attention to the dories of the 
poor fishermen who are driven to this 
mode of making a living from want, 
destitution and threatened starvation, 
better results would be obtained. 
The law punishes the parties who 
have the lobsters in their possession, 
either dead or alive, and the commis- 
sioners on fisheries and game, or the 
district police, have the right to search 
any place suspected of having short 
lobsters, and no doubt many convic- 
tions could be made on people who 
could pay the maximum penalty, if so 
convicted. 
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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
A COMMUNICATION, 
Mr. Sargent Writes to Manchester Historical 
Society. 
West Boxrorp, Mass. 
Lo the Manchester Historical Society : 
Since my return home, I find my- 
self thinking very often of the pleas- 
ant day I had on Tuck’s Point at the 
Manchester Historical Society’s Mas- 
sachusetts-Rhode Island Clam Bake. 
It was a great pleasure to meet so 
many old friends, many of whom were 
former pupils. 
I had heard much of the Manches- 
ter Historical Society. I had read 
about it; but I had never seen it 
until that day. I was greatly sur- 
prised at its appearance. I thought it 
was a sedate, long-faced body always 
looking profoundly into the Past ; but 
I found it a cheerful, wide-awade body 
looking wisely into the Past; living 
earnestly in the Present ; and looking 
hopefully into the Future. It is an 
active and generous body. Actively 
digging for hidden treasures and freely 
giving these treasures to all the lovers 
of Manchester. 
Now, like this society, I am looking 
into the Past and toward the Future. 
To the Past when we first came to 
Manchester. When these Edenic 
gardens were barren pastures or rocky 
hills. When, instead of beautiful 
mansions there were plain houses. 
Instead of brilliant gaiety there was 
the simple life. When Sunday was 
not a holiday, but a holy day. Is it 
better now? In some respects it may 
seem to many that it is not better. It 
is natural for us to look favorably at 
the Past and to long for the “good 
old days.” There seems to be in the 
intellectual or spiritual world the same 
law that is operating in the natural 
world—“The survival of the fittest.’ 
We do not believe: 
“ The evil that men do lives after them; 
The good is oft interred with their bones.” 
We do not remember the quarrels 
of our youth as we do the sweet friend- 
ships formed. Love lingers, hatred 
vanishes. The beautiful grows bright- 
er; the ugly fades. Eternal love 
cherishes the good; infinite forgive- 
ness buries the evil. So through the 
radiance of distant enchantment the 
Past seems all bright and fair. But 
the result of all these wonderful 
changes around us is progress. God 
is still working out His own great 
plans, and the world is moving on. 
We need not mourn, we need not 
complain, and it is folly to oppose; 
for it is bound to move on. 
I find myself looking, also, toward 
the future, when we shall come back 
in our automobile to spend the closing 
years of life in fair, old Manchester, 
where the same tides flow; among the 
good, old friends where the same love 
lives. Lives? It cannot die. Love 
is eternal. Crucified it will rise again. 
I cannot close without expressing 
my thanks for the invitation to be 
present at the Historical Clam-bake. 
Already I find operating in my own 
mind that law of ‘‘survival.’’ For I 
recall more frequently and vividly the 
hearty greetings and pleasant chats of 
that day, than the baked clams and 
lobsters. 
Yours as ever, 
N. B. SARGENT. 
Fair for Next Week. 
The fair in aid of the Sacred Heart 
church is to be held in the Manches- 
ter town hall all next week, and will 
be opened Monday evening. A large 
committee have been at work making 
preparations for the event, and hun- 
dreds of tickets have been sold. Scores 
of beautiful and fancy articles have 
been contributed for this fair. Those 
in charge of the various booths will be: 
Sodality table— Margaret O’Neil, 
Katheryn Corcoran; Sunday School 
table— Margaret Sweeney, Helen 
Coughlin, Elizabeth Dillon; K. of C. 
table— Hannah Sheehan, Margaret 
Sullivan ; Refreshments — Miss Mary 
White. 
The police have their eyes open for 
boys stealing fruit and if many more 
complaints are made some of the boys 
will be made an example of. 
The schools will open for the fall 
term a week from next Tuesday, Sept. 
5 
Mrs. Hattie Perkins, with a party in 
which were Comm. Wallace of Buffalo, 
Comm. Rooney of Maine, the Com- 
manders of Roxbury and Lynn circles, 
G.A.R., visited Crescent Beach, Tues- 
day, and had the privilege of inspect- 
ing the state bath house and of seeing 
its entire workings. 
Where the Breeze Can be Found. 
L. W. Floyd’s 
J. S. Reed’s 
Railroad station 
West Manchester station 
Beverly Farms:  F. W. Varney’s 
Railroad station 
Pride’s Crossing: F.G. Haynes’ 
Railroad station 
Manchester: 
Magnolia: Lycett’s drug stores 
New Magnolia newstand 
Oceanside He 
Hesperus Hh 
Railroad station 
Beverly: News stores 
Beverly Cove: Huntoon’s 
Gloucester : Proctor Bros. 
Electric car station 
East Gloucester hotels 
Newest things in the line of neck- 
wear always to be found at the Keyou, 
113 Main street, Gloucester. * 
