Vol. II. Nos. 33-52 
Empower the Highway Commission 
to “Take Entire and Exclusive 
Charge of the Subject” Says 
H. L. Higginson of Auto 
Regulations, 
The report of Major Henry L. Hig- 
ginson, president of the Safe Roads’ 
association, of which we gave mention 
last week, have come to hand in pam- 
phlet form, and a number has been 
sent to various ones in town for peru- 
sal. The sentiment expressed by Mr. 
Higginson in the concluding para- 
graph of his report is to the effect 
that astatute should be made empow- 
ering the highway commission to take 
entire charge of the matter of speed 
regulations, instead of leaving it to 
cities and towns to do as much or as 
little as they please. 
Mr. Higginson says the association 
was formed June 25, 1905, “ to sup- 
ply funds to enable the police of the 
town of Manchester to prevent reck- 
less driving of automobiles within the 
town, to employ counsel to take ac- 
tion for the suspension or revocation 
of the licenses of persons who habitu- 
ally drive automobiles in a reckless 
manner within said town, and to fur- 
nish such evidence as may be neces- 
sary either for the prosecution of 
offenders, or for the suspension or re- 
vocation of their licenses.”’ 
The report shows that during two 
months aid a half more than ten 
thousand automobiles were timed on 
sixty-two days as follows : 
15 miles 15 to 20 20 to 25 Over 
anhour miles miles 25m. Total. 
orless. anhr. anhr. anhr. 
July, 18 days, 885 882 86 3 1856 
Aug., 2OEOe 2029 »- 3028 ° 204 11 5265 
Sept., Oe 24 t OOO) LL 10 1 3065 
4141 5570 460 15 10186 
And the note books 
show the fcllowing: 
Stopped. Refused to Stop. 
of the police 
MOY, Aare vis nr ets ca 2 78 0 
OT: A ae 170 3 
September..:...... 159 4 
407 7 
“All that can be said with certainty 
is that in Manchester last summer 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
»  AWEEMLY-JOURNAL DEVOTED-TO-THE: BEST: INTERESTS-OFTHENORTHSHORE 
MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1905 
Three Cents 
about forty-one per cent of the auto- 
mobiles obeyed the law and about 
fifty-nine per cent did not.” 
Mr. Higginson said of the work “it 
should be said that the work was well 
and intelligently done by the authori- 
ties of the town of Manchester and 
their subordinates. Their method of 
handling this difficult subject and the 
untiring devotion of the men, some- 
times under very trying circumstances, 
deserve your thanks.” 
P. S. HENSON, D.D., L.L.D. 
Pastor of Tremont Temple, Boston, who is 
to deliver his famous lecture on ‘‘ Fools” at 
the Beverly Farms Church, Thursday, Jan. 
25. Many Manchester people are already 
planning to take this opportunity of hearing 
this noted divine. 
CHRISTMAS AT 
THE CHURCHES 
Concert Appropriate to the Occasion at Con- 
gregational Church Sunday, Baptist Church 
Monday; and at the Town Hall Thursday 
Evening Under Auspices of Sacred Heart 
Church 
Christmas was observed at the Man- 
chester churches much as in former 
years by special music and sermons 
appropriate to the day, At the Con- 
gregational church, in the morning, 
Miss Carolyn E. Allen was the soloist 
and a chorus sang at the Baptist 
church, while in the evening at the 
former the Christmas concert by the 
children was given, and Harry Silber- 
man, the boy violinist of Boston, — 
played several selections at the latter. 
At the Sacred Heart church a 
special choir sang Gregorian selec- 
tions, and the pastor preached an able 
and interesting discourse. A special 
feature was the decorations. There 
were festoons of laurel rope over the 
windows and down the sides of the 
church; the stations were covered 
with hemlock, and there was an arch 
of hemlock boughs over the door ; the 
altar, at the base, was encircled in 
laurel rope, and the arches were all 
carried out in laurel rope; the tower 
of the tabernacle was wreathed in old 
English ivy; at the sides of the altar 
were two massive palms, and on the 
upper platform were two large palms 
in front of the altar. 
The altar rail was twined in rope 
of laurel, and there was a mass of cut 
flowers including Roman hyacinths, 
red and white pinks, Japanese prim- 
rose and begonia incarnata, banked 
with palms. Over the statue of the 
blessed virgin was one massive hem- 
lock bough making a significant 
drooping effect, and in front were five 
large palms, cut flowers and potted 
plants. Under one of these palms 
rested the crib. With the numerous 
candles used on the occasion and the 
electric lights, which had been in- 
stalled only a few days before, the 
effect was a most beautiful one, and 
such as has never before been seen 
