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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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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 17. 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1905. 
Deserves a Medal. 
Last week we recorded in the news 
items the action of James Lambert, a 
young man employed by one of the 
Manchester concerns, in rescuing 
James J. Diviney from the flames 
which enshrouded him, but we little 
realized at the time the importance of 
the act, which, in truth, was a means 
of saving the life of Mr. Diviney. 
Mr. Lambert is a hero, and the deed 
which he performed was one of the 
most heroic ever performed in the 
little town. 
While Mr. Diviney was cleaning 
the engine of Mr. Tucker’s auto with 
gasoline, in some manner the gas 
caught fire, and in an instant his whole 
body from head to foot was enveloped 
in one mass of flames. Grasping the 
situation in an instant and seeing this 
poor man a human torch, with flames 
rising six feet about his body—he was 
out in the open air, with a strong 
wind adding force to the flames—Mr. 
Lambert, regardless of his own life, 
rushed into what those around him 
thought to be eminent death, took off 
his coat, fought the flames like a fiend 
and succeeded -in -putting them--out- 
after a fierce struggle, thus’saving the 
life of the father of seven little chil- 
dren and husband. ewig? 
‘While deeds of less heroism have 
been rewarded by the humane socie- 
ties-ofthis-and-other--countries,_we 
NORTH: SHORE BREEZE 
think there: is no one more deserving 
of recognition than James Lambert of 
this town, and we hope his act will be 
brought to the attention of the right 
persons. 
Keep her up, Boys! 
The withdrawal of Mr. Hubbard 
from the Senatorial contest is gratify- 
ing to most of the Republican voters 
of Manchester. It simplifies the mat- 
ter, or at least reduces the equation 
to its lowest terms, but it will not 
justify the Shaw men in going to 
sleep at their post, as many a dark 
horse has taken the pole in the last 
lap and won the race. 
Keep her up, boys, and win out for 
Manchester! Remember that eternal 
vigilance is the price of safety. 
Crime vs. Patriotic Celebration. 
The loss occasioned by the burning 
of the barn belonging to the heirs of 
the late Daniel Mahoney, in Manches- 
ter, on the night before the Fourth of 
July, we are informed, has been ad- 
justed and payment has been made by 
the insurance company. 
Now an inquirer asks if the author- 
ities of the town of Manchester have 
made any effort in the direction of 
attempting to ascertain who are the 
guilty parties that set the fire. 
This seems to be a pertinent inquiry, 
unless it is taken for granted by the 
municipal authorities that what is a 
crime at all other times of the year is 
merely patriotic celebration and inno- 
cent amusement on the 4th of July. 
The recollection of our inquirer is 
quite vivid that not many years since, 
a self-appointed number of patriotic 
ones erected a pile of barrels to be 
burned at the hour of ushering in the 
glorious day of Independence, and 
that another number of self-appointed, 
but mzschtevous, ones lighted the fires 
of Independence somewhat prema- 
turely, and it was generally deemed 
by the citizens and officials of the 
town to be a gross offence against the 
peace and good order of the commu- 
nity, besides--being an infraction —of.. 
the law of.the commonwealth. | 
‘The firing of cannon, the ringing of 
bells, the~lighting of bonfires, and_ 
making night hideous with all sorts of | 
indescribablé and disagreeable noises, 
havelong. been. sanctioned by com-. 
mon and silent assent, even although 
much mental distress and suffering 
have been thereby caused to sensitive — 
and nervous people, and our inquirer 
asks if it is the public mind and senti- 
ment of the law-abiding town of Man- 
chester, that the unlawful burning of 
a building in the night time, or the 
willful and lawless destruction of 
private property, is to be deemed an 
innocent and lawful amusement, sim- 
ply because the perpetrators of such 
offences commit them on Independ- 
ence Day and under cover of the pro- 
tection expected to be accorded them 
on that account ; for there is no mzs- 
take or justification that can be pleaded 
in bar when celebration resolves itself 
into criminal violation of law. 
Hence it seems to our inquirer that 
such proceeding is quite as much an 
offence (a crime per se really) as the 
exceeding of a certain ‘ speed limit,” 
about which much is spoken and writ- 
ten, and on which account some local 
officers pass sleepless nights in efforts 
to detect and punish the violation of 
a law which gives to a man, wealthy 
enough to own an automobile, the 
right to traverse the streets and high- 
ways in a town or city at a much 
higher and dangerous rate of speed 
than other citizens are permitted to 
do with their carriages—in other 
words, for violating a law which gives. 
one citizen greater rights and priv- 
ileges than another, notwithstanding 
the theory that ‘all men are created 
free and equal.” ; 
Famous Lecturer. 
E. Tennyson Smith, the famous 
temperance lecturer, will open a ten 
days’ campaign against license in the 
City hall, Gloucester, tomorrow eve- 
ning, preparations for which have been 
in hand for the past month by a com- 
mittee of one hundred. Mr. Smith is 
an Englishman, and his fame as a 
temperance lecturer will no doubt 
lead many to Gloucester to hear him. 
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