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BASS ROCKS. 
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Scott, Jr., of 
Philadelphia, were here this week. 
They will occupy their summer home 
this season. Last season Frederick 
A. Flood and family of Brookline 
were its tenants. 
. Chas. E. Pugh and family of Over- 
brook, Pa., and Winthrop Sargent 
and family of Haverford, Pa., will 
occupy their respective summer 
homes this season. 
Henry Souther and family of Hart- 
ford will be at the Sherman cottage 
again. 
EAST GLOUCESTER 
Work on the East Main street im- 
provement from Hadley’s _ black- 
smith shop northerly to Haskell 
street is being rushed and although 
operations. commenced only last 
Tuesday, the work is progressing 
steadily, so that the stretch will be 
completed in feadiness for the sum- 
mer travel. The new portable crush- 
er has been set up opposite the 
Boston & Northern Street Railway 
Company’s stable, and the old paving 
blocks are fast being ground into 
crushed stone, for an under layer for 
the road bed. The advantage of a 
portable crusher is very apparent 
from the vast amount of stone being 
crushed. Then there is a saving of 
labor and expense of the double 
teaming process to the Fox Hill pit. 
It is reckoned that fully $900 alone 
has been saved on the job by the use 
of the portable crushing plant. The 
tarvia composition and trap rock has 
been laid and the road will as- 
sume some definite proportions. If 
the improvement turns out to be 
what has been promised, it may 
bring about a change in the practice 
of future road building in this city, 
especially in view of the large auto- 
mobile traffic during the summer 
season to Eastern Point and Bass 
Rocks. ‘This stretch of road was for- 
merly paved. 
Teacher—“Throw that gum in the 
waste-basket !” 
The pupil’s face grew scarlet but 
she did not stir. 
“Tf you do not put that gum in 
the waste-basket immediately I will 
send you out of the room,” said the 
teacher, gravely. 
The girl walked reluctantly to the 
desk. 
“T can’t, teacher,” she confessed; 
“it’s ma’s gum an’ she'll lick me if 
I come home without it.”— Success. 
SAN FRANCISCO 1915 
Announcement made of free trip to the 
Panama-Pacific 
International 
Exposition 
ORD has been received from Sunset, the Magazine of the 
Pacific and the Far West, of the organization of the Sunset 
Panama-Pacific Club. The Club offers a four weeks’ trip to the Ex- 
position to be held in San Francisco in 1915, including railway fare, 
Pullman, diner, hotel accommodations, admissions to the fair, side 
trips to points of interest, all in return for a little time each week to 
be devoted to the work of the Magazine. 
The exposition is to be held to commemorate the completion of 
‘the Panama Canal, connecting the Pacific and Atlantic. 
From all 
indications it will be by far the greatest World’s Fair ever held. 
The Magazine has issued a very attractive booklet descriptive of 
the trip, and giving further particulars, which will be sent on appli- 
cation. 
The membership is very limited and it is not likely that more 
than one or two applications will be accepted from this vicinity. 
Request for particulars should be sent to 
SUNSET PANAMA-PACIFIC CLUB 
317 BATTERY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 
en nnmmmennneemeenenenen naa) 
There is a certain naval officer of 
the United States who is very much 
opposed to the use of profanity by 
the officers under his command. 
The following story is told concern- 
ing this admiral’s command of a 
squadron engaged in target maneu- 
vers in Magdalena Bay. ‘The com- 
manding officer observed one day that 
the men of his ship, the flagship, 
seemed to lag behind the crews of 
the other vessels of the squadron, be- 
ing the last to finish the execution of 
a command or to carry out a maneu- 
ver. 
He mentioned this fact to his cap- 
tain. Just as the latter was about to 
reply there came floating over the 
water from the vessel standing by the 
flagship a volley of oaths, the result 
of which was that there was some 
pretty hustling on the part of the 
men addressed. 
Glancing. at his. superior officer 
with a smile, the captain replied: 
That's: it, ‘sits. Yous see,-Sir,; my 
men don’t get enough encouragement 
like that.”—Harper’s Weekly. 
A minister who has been doing mis- 
sionary work in India recently re- 
turned to New York for a visit. 
He had brought with him a supply 
of his favorite condiments, and by 
arranging with the head waiter these 
were placed on his table. 
One day another guest saw the ap- 
petizing bottle and asked the waiter 
to give him some. 
“T’m sorry, sir,’ said the waiter, 
“but it is the private property of this 
Gorham Davis, Prop. Frank H. Davis, Mgr. 
GORHAII1 DAVIS, 
Livery and Boarding Stables, 
Gloucester and Magnolia 
First~ lass Stable for Boarders All the latest stvies of 
Carriages, with safe horses and careful drivers, furnished 
osromPtly. Auto Garaze. Electric Carriages re-choarsed 
gentleman.” The minister, however, 
overheard the other’s request, and 
told the waiter to pass the bottle. 
The stranger poured some of the 
mixture on his meat and took a lib- 
eral mouthful. After a moment he 
turned with tears in his eyes to the 
minister, 
“You're a minister of the Gospel ?” 
ese Sit. 
“And you preach hell and damna- 
tion?” 
“Yes,” admitted the minister. 
“Well you’re the first minister I 
ever met who carried samples!” 
—Success. 
Just before Artemus Ward’s death 
Robertson poured out some medicine 
and offered it to the sick man, who 
said, “My dear Tom, I won’t take 
any more of that horrible stuff.” 
Robertson urged him to swallow 
the mixture, saying: “Do, now— 
there’s a dear fellow—for my sake. 
You know I would do anything for 
you.” 
“Would you?” said Ward feebly, 
grasping his friend’s hand for the last 
time. 
“T would indeed,” said Robertson. 
“Then you take it.” 
Ward passed away a few hours 
afterward.—Bancroft Recollections. 
