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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
- Published every Saturday Afternoon. 
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VOLUME 2. NUMBER 20. 
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1905. 
WHISPERINGS. 
‘Well, that’s the liveliest caucus 
we've had in Manchester for the last 
twenty years,’’ said a self acknowl- 
edged old timer the other night as we 
were talking of the Republican caucus. 
“It must have been twenty years 
ago,” said he, ‘‘ When | was on the 
Republican town committee. Any- 
way, this year in particular there was 
quite a hustle between the RKepubli- 
cans and the Democrats, and the 
Democrats got ahead of us fellows 
and got the hall for the night we 
wanted it and had planned on _hav- 
ing it. 
* Well, that was alright; it was a 
good move on their part. We didn’t 
know quite what to do about it. But 
I thought of a scheme of outdoing the 
Democrats, and without consulting 
anybody I went to West Gloucester, 
and told Bray’s band I wanted them 
to come to Manchester that night 
and give us a little music., Sure 
- enough, when night came Bray’s band 
was parading the streets, and every- 
body in town was out, but nobody 
went to the hall; they followed the 
music. The Democratic town com- 
mittee were the only ones that at- 
tended the caucus that night.” 
* * * * 
I have been told that one of the 
peculiar things about sea sickness is 
that in the first stages the patient 
is afraid that he will fall overboard, 
while in the last stages he wishes 
that the could. ) 
One of our Manchester young men 
I am told, while off on a yachting 
cruise last week had this wish grati- 
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fied in a most unexpected manner. It 
was while engaged in the humane oc- 
cupation of teeding’ the fish on ‘good 
lobster chowder that he was struck 
from behind by the boom that swung 
around with great force, causing him 
to take a submarine voyage in search 
of a cuss word that. he had lost over- 
board. 
* * * * 
The New York Tribune made the 
astounding assertion Sunday that in 
New York city there was a funeral 
every seven minutes and a birth every 
six. Is this the usual thing over 
there, or is it on account of Officer 
Peabody’s visit to establish the auto 
catching device ? 
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Speaking of automobiles, there ~is 
probably no harder worked car on the 
whole North Shore this summer than 
the 30 h.p. Pierce-Arrow of Senator 
James F. Shaw (if we may be allowed 
to hitch that title to the front of his 
name at this early date). The life of 
a political car is a hard one indeed, 
and Mr. Shaw has no doubt estab- 
lished new records for campaigning 
the past few months. He would meet 
his friends at Gloucester at 7.45 and 
at 8.15, as if by magic, he would be 
shaking. hands with his friends in 
Essex, and fifteen or twenty minutes 
later he would be the center of a 
group of politicians in Hamilton or 
Wenham, and by 9 o’clock he would 
be asking some of his supporters in 
Manchester how the situation was 
here. Oh, the auto is a God-send to 
the politician! H. Keno Marble, Mr. 
Shaw’s chauffeur says he can go all 
over Essex county with his eyes shut. 
He knows every jog in the road from 
Newburyport to Manchester. Like 
his car, he is probably the hardest 
worked chauffeur on the shore. He 
has driven almost 13,000 miles accord- 
ing to the cyclometer, since April 1, 
and in that time the much talked of 
‘‘John D.” has been relieved of 1500 
gallons of his best gasolene, and re- 
pairs on the car will figure under a 
$10 bill. The most strenuous day 
was a run from New York to Boston, 
— 255 miles — with a running time of 
11 hours. Mr. Marble has full charge 
of the car, makes all the repairs, and 
despite the strenuous months he has 
passed through he says Mr. Shaw is 
the best man in the world to work for. 
* * * * 
My good friend Chas. O. Howe of 
Manchester, I am told is not only 
a politician and painter, but he has 
developed marked proficiency as a 
farmer this summer. He has pro- 
duced some of the largest pumpkins 
ever grown in Manchester, on a little 
lot of ground in the rear of his yard 
off Pleasant street, the largest of 
which weighed 380} pounds. and. six 
others weighing almost as much. The 
_jargest he. presented to Proprietor 
Callahan of the Manchester house 
and another he gave to Mr. E. A. 
Lane. 
The Compromise High-water Pants. 
Not many years ago, when a boy 
arrived at the age that in his opinion 
justified his graduating from knee 
breeches to long pants, he generally 
met with much opposition to the 
scheme on the part of his maternal 
parent, who naturally wanted him to 
be a boy as long as possible. The 
father usually got complicated in the 
affair before the final decision, and, of 
course, came in for his share in the 
condemnation from all the old maid 
aunts in the family, and always con- 
gratulated himself if he got by with- 
out an open rupture. 
For quite a long time the mother 
and her supporters would -hold their 
position, but sooner or later the situa- 
tion would become acute, and she 
would find herself up against a dead 
wall, and would effect a compromise 
by making the pant legs six or eight 
inches longer, and that would make 
them about half way between the 
knee and the ankle. This generally 
pacified the boy and apparently satis- 
fied the mother. 
But what a result! Can you imag- 
ine amore ridiculous exhibit than this 
arrangement? Look-.over some of 
your old tintypes and see what you 
looked like when growing up. Don’t 
let your wife see them, as she will sue 
for a divorce unless you can prove an 
alibi, and you may find that a hard 
thing to do. 
We are very glad that the neutral 
ground of high-water pants is a thing 
of the past. They make them either 
long or short now, with no intermedi- 
ate stages, which proves that people 
are becoming more artistic. 
False Alarm. 
While the Shaw celebration was at 
its height in Manchester Tuesday 
night, and the crowd was at Mr. 
Shaw’s house, somebody pulled in an 
alarm from box 56, located on School 
street, near the entrance to the Essex 
County club. There is no doubt but 
that it was a false alarm, for when the 
fire apparatus arrived not the slightest 
trace of fire was found. 
This is the first false alarm rung in 
since the system has been installed in 
Manchester. The guilty parties should 
bear in mind that this is a State prison 
offence, and if convicted one is liable 
to $100 fine and six months’ imprison- 
ment. 
Tue BrEEZE—one year, one dollar. 
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