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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 3 
Telephone 3577 Lynn 
Massachusetts 
5/7 Window Cleaning 
Company 
28 CENTRAL AVE., LYNN 
Practical House Cleaners 
Summer Houses Opened and Closed 
VACUUM CLEANING 
Will contract to 
do work 
by the season 
Est. 1907 
Inc, 1911 
Salem Branch: 
201 1-2 Essex St., 
Salem, Mass. i 
Tel. 1910 Salem 
Individual attention to all work. 
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This island is destined to become famous both as a 
health resort and as a producer of citrus fruits and 
vegetables of all kinds; also a great winter resort. Cali- 
fornia has had a representative on the island within 
the last month (a fruit grower). He was obliged to 
acknowledge that the island had California beaten on 
climate and grape fruit. Oh what an admission from 
that state! The late rains have made the fruit blossom 
earlier than usual and that means the fruit will ripen 
a month earlier so they will be on the market earlier 
and accordingly prices will be better. 
What is needed here is some enterprising Amer- 
ican to start a brick-yard, also manufacture floor and 
roof tiles, for they have the material handy and the 
demand. I noticed here a tendency for each particular 
locality to make little of each other, or in other words 
knock the different communities. This should be done 
away with. All should be up and doing for the whole 
island; and, by the way, a certain man from my own 
Telephone 41W 
Carter & McCarthy 
Awnings, Hammocks 
and Spray Hoods 
ELM ST., Opposite Roberts & Hoare’s Shop 
MANCHESTER 
ESTIMATES GIVEN 
Before having work Done Elsewhere See Us 
Essex County here in Massachusetts went down to the 
island some weeks ago and made, as I understand, a 
whirlwind trip around the island, and the way he crit- 
icised it was something out of the ordinary. | am sorry 
that he he did not appreciate and describe it as I saw it; 
but the old maxim says ‘‘There is no disputing tastes.’’ 
However, by his calling he should have been at least 
charitable. You must remember that an auto will cir- 
cle the island in from three to four hours. I would 
suggest the following: Make this island one of the 
greatest gems of the tropics. Let us keep her in the 
forefront as such. Her groves and their products are 
or will be known in every corner of the civilized world. 
Let us extend her influence and add to her reputation. 
Have her come in under Uncle Sam’s territorial limits 
and call her Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean. 
Will you help? 
THE END. 
FORESTERS COMPLETE WIN- 
TER WORK. 
Foresters who have just returned 
from winter work in the White 
Mountains of New Hampshire re- 
port that, while some hardship is en- 
tailed, as much can be accomplished 
in the dead of winter as in summer. 
In most of the government’s field 
services it is usually thought best to 
work in the north during the sum- 
mer months and in the south dur- 
ing the winter, the idea being to do 
the work with the least difficulty. 
In appraising lands for purchase 
under the Weeks law for the eastern 
national forests, however, the forest 
service has had to disregard lati- 
tude and season because it was ne- 
eessary to expedite the work in the 
north. During the past winter two 
camps of men have been estimating 
and valuing the forests which the 
government contemplates purchas- 
jing on the slopes of the White 
Mountains. 
Because of the softness of the con- 
stantly falling snow, the work was 
done mainly on snow shoes, At 
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times the temperature has been 
around 20 degrees below zero for 
considerable periods, and the par- 
ties now in report some occasions 
when the thermometers registered 
nearly 40 degrees below. The crews 
were housed in winter camps like 
those of the lumberjacks, and in or- 
der to make full use of the short 
winter days they were out by day- 
light and did not return until dark. 
The work of the crews required con- 
tinuous walking. Diameters of 
trees were measured and the num- 
ber of logs estimated in all mer- 
chantable trees growing on parallel 
strips 4 yards wide and 40 rods 
apart. From these estimates the 
full amount of timber was calcu- 
lated. 
One man, the crew leader, used a 
compass to keep the men in the de- 
sired direction, mapped the country 
traversed, kept account of the dis- 
tances covered as determined by ac- 
tual measurement, and recorded all 
the information regarding timber. 
The other members of the crew 
measured the timber and gave their 
figures to the leader, who tallied 
them. 
The actual work, however, 
did not end with all-day climbs 
through snow on the mountainsides, 
with frequent exposure to the sweep 
of winds on the higher ridges and 
divides; during the long winter 
evenings, or on days when the snow 
storms were so severe that outside 
work was impossible, the figures 
gathered were tabulated and the in- 
formation grouped, so as to show 
the quantities of timber suitable for 
various: products, such as saw tim- 
ber, spruce for paper pulp, or bireh 
for spool making. During the whole 
winter, however, it was noted that 
stormy days caused no more loss of 
time than in summer, and the health 
of the men in the party was, as a 
rule, better than in hot weather. 
Why Not a Land-Seer? 
The First Lady—My husband 
wired me from Paris on my birth- 
day asking whether he should buy 
me a Rembrandt or a Titian. Now 
which would you have? 
The Second—Well, as far as that 
goes, any of those French cars are 
pretty good.—The Sketeh, 
