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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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VOLUME 2. NUMBER 22. 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1905. 
The Gardner Spirit 
The insinuation in our short article 
on “ Loyalty Needed,” in last week’s 
BREEZE that “the new recruits’”’ to 
the Republican ranks in Manchester 
might ‘‘ make better Republicans than 
some of the old timers,” and in which 
we intimated that some of those 
whom we regarded as leading forces 
in the Republican ranks might not 
work so differently as usual for the 
cause this fall, hit hard with some. 
While we do not mean to become 
overbearing in the matter of a little 
political fight in our midst, we do de- 
sire to emphasize the fact that the 
Republicans of Manchester should 
now buckle down to the harness and 
support the Republican nominees of 
the convention. 
Edwin P. Stanley, who has been 
connected with the Republican town 
committee for almost a score of years, 
says he is loyal to the party always. 
He says he is like Gardner —he is a 
Republican always and he isn’t one 
that will cut his nose to spite his face. 
If his position before the caucus was 
opposed to Mr. Shaw for senator, he 
is now willing to lay down the gaunt- 
let and support the nominee of the 
convention. 
Town Appropriations 
for the Gypsy Moths 
As the. fall and winter season is 
coming on, and the beautiful trees 
which make the North Shore so at- 
tractive in summer become relieved 
of their beautifully shaded foliage, 
the question of suppressing the gypsy 
and brown-tail moths once more arises. 
Last spring, and, in fact, well into the 
summer, the work of destroying the 
moths was carried on, but the officials 
connected with the commission ap- 
pointed by the State say there must 
be considerable work done along the 
North Shore before another season or 
the moths will overwhelm us before 
we know it. 
The new law passed by the last 
legislature requires cities and towns 
to raise for the destruction of gypsy 
moths one twenty-fifth of one per 
cent. of the valuation, which in Man- 
chester ($10,935,692) would amount to 
$4,378, which amount must be raised 
and expended if the commission deems 
it necessary, though it is probable the 
town can get along with much less. 
The Boston Transcript in comment- 
ing on this matter a few days ago said 
editorially : 
Those citizens of Arlington who 
have petitioned to the selectmen to 
insert in the warrant for the town 
meeting next month an article for an 
appropriation of $20,000 for the sup- 
pression of the gypsy moths desire to 
take full advantage of the new State 
law, and clear their territory of gypsy 
moths at once by making an adequate 
appropriation. 
There is little doubt that if the mat- 
ter is fully understood the appropria- 
tion will be voted, and other towns 
and cities in the Commonwealth would 
do well to take advantage of the sim- 
ilar opportunity offered to them. We 
believe that if the law passed by the 
last Legislature were generally under- 
stood the infested towns would be 
glad to avail themselves of its provi- 
sions. How it will work may be 
shown by an estimate for the town of 
Arlington alone. 
During 1905 the town, one of the 
most beautiful of Massachusetts com- 
munities, has expended $5000 for ex- 
termination of the pests that were 
destroying its beauty. Now with the 
$20,000 asked for at the November 
town meeting, this would give a total 
of $25,000. The amount which Ar- 
lington is required by the State law 
to raise for the destruction of gypsy 
moths is one twenty-fifth of one per 
cent. of the valuation ($9,500,000), or 
$3800. 
By raising $21,200 more than the 
law requires the town will become en- 
titled to a reimbursement of eighty 
per cent. from the State, equal to 
$16,960. The practical result of this 
law, therefore, is to place the heavy 
burden of the expense upon the State 
rather than the town. At a cost to 
the town of $8040 the town may have 
$16,960 expended on it by the State._ 
There should be little difficulty in 
inducing the people of Arlington to 
take advantage of an opportunity like 
this. 
WHISPERINGS. 
A San Francisco subscriber to the 
BREEZE, in sending his remittance for 
the year, received yesterday morning, 
enclosed with his check the following : 
Once upon a time a man got mad 
at the editor and stopped his paper. 
The next week he sold his corn for 
four cents below the market price. 
Then his property was sold for taxes 
because he hadn’t read the treasurer’s 
sales. He was arrested and _ fined 
eight dollars for going hunting on 
Sunday, simply because he didn’t 
know it was Sunday, and paid $300 
for a lot of forged notes that had been 
advertised for two weeks and the pub- 
lic cautioned not to negotiate them. 
He then paid a man to kick him all 
the way to the newspaper office, where 
he paid four years in advance, and 
made the editor sign an agreement 
to knock him down and rob him if he 
ever ordered his paper stopped again. 
Moral :—(?) 
* * * * 
I hear that Mrs. Harlan G. Morgan 
of Pleasant street has better luck at 
fishing than some of the men who 
take delight in throwing the line, as’ 
she captured a cod weighing over 
eight pounds while fishing from the 
rocks with a small line near Dane’s 
beach Tuesday. Evidently  fisher- 
woman’s luck is better this year than 
the fisherman’s. If Mrs. Morgan 
keeps this up her neighbors will expect 
a scrod or two in the near future. 
Schofield Nominated 
The Democratic Senatorial Conven- 
tion of the third Essex district was 
held at the Town hall, Ipswich, ' 
Thursday afternoon. The convention 
was called to order by Thomas W. 
Brophy of Gloucester, member of the 
Democratic state central committee. 
Mr. George Hayes of Ipswich was 
elected chairman and Mr. Lakeman 
of Ipswich, gvarane . ae 
Mr. Hurley of Newburyport nom-. 
inated George A. Schofield of Ipswich 
for senator, and the nomination was 
seconded by James H. Stapleton of . 
Gloucester. 
Thomas W. Brophy of Gloucester . 
was unanimously elected a member of. 
the state central committee. _ 
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