returned from a ten days’ 
where she was entertained by friends at the Naval Hos- 
E. SOCIETY NOTES. 
Miss Marguerite Le Breton of Pride’s Crossing has 
sojourn in Philadelphia, 
p pital. The Le Breton family are newcomers on the 
ee Be, Bevorith Shore. 
_R. M. Townsend and family of Philadelphia, who had 
one of the Endicott cottages at Pride’s for August and 
- September, returned to the Quaker City, Tuesday of 
this week. 
Miss Hopkins of Boston and Washington, who has 
a been the guest of Miss Mary Curtis of ‘‘Indian Ridge,”’ 
Pride’s Crossing, is now in Bryn Mawr, Pa. 
John Benham of Chicago spent a portion of the week 
with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Stewart Spaulding of Pride’s. 
Miss Helen Tweed of Beverly Farms has resumed her 
studies at St. Timothy’s school, Catonsville, Md. 
Mrs. Robert 8. Bradley of Pride’s Crossing is regis- 
tered at the Curtis Hotel, Lenox, for an autumn sojourn. 
Mrs. Thomas McGuire of New York has coneluded her 
stay at the Otis H. Luke cottage, ‘‘Apple Orchard,” 
Beverly Farms. 
Herbert M. Sears and daughters are spending a week 
in New York. They do not leave their summer estate, 
“Wood Rock,’’ Pride’s Crossing, until the last of the 
month, when they will take up their residence at Boston, 
for the winter. 
Miss Josephine Rantoul returned Tuesday to Beverly 
Farms from a week’s sojourn in New Hampshire previ- 
ous to renewing her boarding school studies in Boston. 
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Burnham of Boston and Beverly 
Farms are not leaving the Farms until the middle of 
November. They are entertaining their daughter, Mrs. 
Gray of Newport and New York at present. 
- Four hundred dollars were realized from the rec nt 
sale for the Floating Hospital at Mrs. John A. Caswell’s 
summer home, ‘‘Round Plain Farm,’’ Beverly Farms. 
The children, who contributed to its success both by the 
contributions of their handiwork and assistance at the 
booths were Anna, Elenora and Katherine Winslow, 
Eleanor Jackson, Peggy and Isabel Porter, Elizabeth 
Caswell, Katherine Crosby, Katherine and Eleanor 
Cabot, Frances Weld, Polly Procter, Emma Mandell and 
Isabel Boardman. The little girls were dressed as Red 
Cross nurses and Agnes Grew as Mrs. Wiggs of the 
Cabbage Patch presided over the ‘‘Products from 
Round Plain Farm.’’ At the tea and refreshment tables 
were Mrs. Nathaniel S. Simpkins and Miss Faith Simp- 
kins. There was a large attendance and Mrs. Caswell 
proved a delightful major domo for the children. 
Mrs. Charles P. Dukelow of Brookline and her inter- 
esting family of charming little daughters are remain- 
ing at ‘‘Wyndhurst,’’ their summer home on Mascono- 
mo street, Manchester, indefinitely and her many friends 
on the North Shore will be privileged to still enjoy her 
most cordial and abundant hospitality. 
George E. Warren and family find ‘‘Singingdune,”’ 
their Manchester estate and its beach environs so at- 
tractive this autumn that they plan to remain there 
until after Thanksgiving and will do considerable en- 
tertaining. 
Another departure from Blossom -Lane, Manchester, 
was that of Mr. Russell 8S. Codman and family of Boston 
or last Saturday. Charles R. Codman, 2d, was planning 
to enter college this autumn. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 7 
Levi Z. Leiter’s New Summer 
Mansion. 
By Mary Taylor Falt. 
The imposing new tapestry brick and marble man- 
sion of Mrs. Levi Z. Leiter at West Beach, Beverly 
Farms, is a notable addition to the array of costly es- 
tates being located on the North Shore. 
The mansion, which contains over sixty rooms, sets a 
little back from the beach front at West Beach, with 
an enclosed marble terrace, and with balustrades in the 
foreground. In the rear of the house, the grounds of 
which sweep out toward the ocean-on one side and to 
the Haven estate field on the railroad line, is the gar- 
dener’s lodge, stable and garage with belfry and clock 
tower. These buildings have been built also of tapestry 
brick and marble. 
The mansion will be approached by long, tree-bor- 
dered concrete avenues. Preliminary work for Italian 
gardens, 120x46 feet, has been started. 
The mansion itself is a fine example of a most com- 
plete and ornate home, with lofty halls and living 
rooms, family suites and guests’ rooms, billiard hall, - 
library and servants’ apartments, while the culinary, 
laundry and other practical apartments of such a man- 
sion are most up-to-date and equipped in every detail. 
The front, side and back entrances are supported by 
stately white marble columns and marble tiled, roomy bal- 
conies open from the up-stairs suites of Mrs. Leiter, sr., 
and Mrs. Joseph Leiter. The water front terrace of the 
mansion opens into a loggia of green lattice work and 
ornately carved papier mache inserts, the medallions 
depicting classical and mythological subjects. 
Much mahogany is used for the heavy doors of the 
mansion, while the library, finished in gumwood, has 
very beautiful hand-carved decorations. 
The receptign room is in white wood with hand- 
earved mantle. The dining hall, 22x28, is carried out 
in mahogany and papier mache carvings with a statuary 
marble mantle. The dainty breakfast room opens on 
the terrace and is finished in white and green lattice 
work. The finish of the billiard hall is black eypress 
and grey stone. The guest rooms number eight. The 
long sweeping staircase on the first floor has black or- 
nate iron balustrades topped with mahogany and on the 
second floor it is carried out in colonial style in white 
enameled wood. 
The contractors for the mansion were the L. D. Will- 
cutt Sons Co., of Boston and the architects were Thomas, 
Parker and Rice of Boston, whose landscape gardener is 
laying out the Italian gardens. Linehan of Beverly 
Farms has the grading contract. - 
RUMMAGE SALE 
Under the auspices of 
‘‘WHATSOEVER CIRCLE,”’’ 
DAUGHTERS 
Description of Mrs. 
KING’S 
BEVERLY 
Anyone desiring to contribute articles can 
leave same before October 25 with Mrs G. D. 
Alderman, 35 Federal St., Beverly. Proceeds 
will be devoted entirely to charitable work. 
BAPTIST CHURCH, 
