8 NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
D. L. BINGHAM—MANCHES- 
TER,S GRAND OLD MAN, about 
them. 
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er?’ ‘I suppose I have seen 7000,’ 
was the answer. ‘The gentleman 
says he has seen 7000 slaves,’ 
calmly continued Mr. Foster, ‘but, 
my friends, there are over 3,000,000 
in this country.’ It was a home 
thrust, and the speaker was not 
again interrupted that evening. 
*‘T once attended a meeting in 
Faneuil hall when some very good 
points were brought out, showing 
the inhumanity of the slave traffic, 
notwithstanding the many argu- 
- ments to show that the slaves if 
well treated were better off in 
bondage than if free. It was 
brought to our attention that a 
convention had recently actually 
been held in the south of slave own- 
ers to consider whether or not it 
was more profitable to treat their 
slaves with consideration and get 
20 years work out of them, or to 
at that time. 
sarcasm. 
and I have seen 
Mann, 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Departures from Manchester and West Manchester 
summer homes this week included Mrs. L. W. Rogers 
and George Putnam and family of Smith’s Point, who 
returned to Boston. Charles E. Hubbard and family 
left the Spaulding cottage on Bridge street, West Man- 
chester in the early part of the week. 
Miss Faith Simpkins was hostess for a Hallowe’en 
party at Beverly Farms on Monday evening, when some 
25 young people very pleasantly entertained in 
keeping with the advent of Hallowe’en. 
There has been quite an exodus from Pride’s this 
week. Judge and Mrs. W. H. Moore left Sunday for 
New York and their household servants followed Mon- 
day. Monday also was the day of departure of Mrs. 
E. Preble Motley, Mrs. R. S. Bradley, Washington B. 
Thomas and family, all of Boston. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. 
S. Spaulding closed their estate Tuesday and are on-a 
visit with Mrs. Spaulding’s relatives in Kenilworth, III. 
Their household servants went to Boston. Tuesday saw 
the Gordon Dexters en route for their Boston home and 
Wednesday Mrs. Clay Arthur Pierce and children left. 
They planned to stop over in New York to visit Mrs. 
Pierce’s sister-in-law, Mrs. Eben Richards (nee Pearl 
Pierce) before going to St. Louis. 
Col. Charles Lawrence Pierson was numbered among 
those returning to Boston on Tuesday. He has made a 
long stay at his Pride’s estate this season. 
Francis Bartlett, Esq., opened his winter residence on 
Beacon street, Boston, Thursday. 
Mrs. Daniel Ahl and Leonard D. Ahl are remaining at 
Pride’s until January 1, when they will go to Palm 
Beach, where they have secured a cottage. 
Mrs. G. Howland Shaw and Dr. and Mrs. J. Collins 
Warren, who made one household at Pride’s Crossing 
the past season, removed to Boston last Saturday, going 
to their respective homes on Commonwealth avenue and 
Beacon street. 
drive them to the limit and get 
seven years work out of 
‘*Pillsbury was another lecturer 
He was a revivalist 
preacher, too, and was well educat- 
ed, being a graduate 
and he had a wonderful stock of 
‘<The old lyceum did a good work 
and the library passed 
hands of the town in 1872. It had 
but a few hundred volumes 
it grow until it 
now has 20,000 volumes and some 
of them are very valuable works. I 
commenced my work as librarian in 
"44, although I was affiliated with 
it long before that. 
‘“Yes, indeed, I have seen many 
changes in the character of reading 
in the long span of years I have 
been dealing with books. 
the father of our _ public 
school educational system, went to 
Germany in the 30s to study the li- 
braries and school 
and when he returned our libra- 
ries received quite an impetus. My © 
experience has been that the per- 
centage of people who were reading 
fiction in the 30s and 40s was very 
much less in proportion than now. 
People then liked to read travel, © 
biography, history and essays, but 
of Andover, 
now the demand is for light read- — 
ing. 
‘‘In the old days there were but 
few newspapers and people would 
stop on the street and discuss the — 
questions of the day. 
into the 
then 
It was through Mr. Bingham’s | 
instrumentality that Manchester 
received its princely gift of a 
beautiful library building, its donor 
being Hon. 
Its ivy clad walls give it the ap- 
pearance of a bit of architecture 
dropped down from some medieval 
age. There the venerable librarian 
delights to linger daily and pour 
over his beloved books that have 
proved his choicest treasures and 
life-long friends. 
Horace 
work abroad, 
A post season event of social interest late last week 
at Beverly Farms was the reception Mrs. Wm. G. Means” 
gave in honor of her sister, Miss Gladys Durant Rice, 
fiancee of John L: Saltonstall. 
Mr. and Mrs. James L. Paine have closed their Bev- 
erly estate, ‘‘Brookside,’’ and have located at their 
winter home on Waterhouse street, Cambridge. . 
Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Richards Johnstone, who have 
spent the past summer and early autumn at Long 
Beach, Pasadena, California, and at Lake Geneva, Wis- 
consin, were due at their Hamilton estate, ‘‘Bracken- 
side,’’ Thursday. : 
Charles Bohlen and family of Philadelphia are plan- 
ning to remain at their Hamilton estate, ‘‘Black 
Brook Farm,’’ until Thanksgiving. 
Rodolphe LL. Agassiz of Hamilton is on a business” 
trip to Calumet, Mich. | 
Miss Julia Frothingham of Boston has been the guest 
of Mrs. John C. Phillips at Wenham. Dr. and Mrs. 
Phillips planned to leave Wenham this week. 
Mrs. J. M. Haskell has closed her Wenham cottage 
and returned to her winter residence on Beacon street, 
Boston. 
Prescott Bigelow and family closed ‘‘Fox Hill 
Lodge,’’ their Manchester Cove summer home, Thurs- 
day. They will be at 16 Marlboro street, Boston, in-- 
stead of Richmond Court, Brookline, this winter. 
Col. Sydney M. Hedges of Boston and East Glouces- 
ter was a member of the committee presented at Marl- 
borough House, London, by the’ Earl of Denbigh to in- 
vite King George to accept honorary membership in the 
Ancient “and Honorable Artillery Company of Massa- 
chusetts. Ile accepted the election and praised the or- 
ganization. 
Charles P. Dukelow and family have concluded their ~ 
stay at Manchester and opened their winter residence 
on Orkney road, Brookline. 
Major and Mrs. Henry L. Higginson brought their 
stay at West Manchester to a close on Monday. 
T. Jefferson Coolidge. — 
