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Volume 9 May 12, 1911. Number 19 
MARBLEHEAD. 
We are presenting to our readers 
this week a special number devoted 
to the interests of picturesque Mar- 
blehead and Nanepashemet, the beau- 
tiful. Her quaint and _ interesting 
colonial streets, her attractive shore 
line and unsurpassable yachting har- 
bor has for*generations attracted un- 
numbered thousands of summer 
pleasure seekers. ‘They come, afoot, 
by rail, by electric cars and in later 
years by the modern automobile. 
The charm of her village life and 
strengthening air from the broad 
sweep of the Atlantic will continue 
to bring renewed health to the visi- 
tors who seek a summer retreat here. 
The people of Marblehead have a 
noble ancestry and the record of their 
community life and their service to 
the Commonwealth and the nation 
have been unstained. At the end of 
the Civil War, there were six hun- 
dred widows and one thousand fa- 
therless children within her gates. 
This patriotic community loyalty is a 
direct inheritance from their ancient 
English forebears, who left the nor- 
thern stretches of Jutland and Ger- 
many and settled in the Channel 
Islands. ‘The speech of the early set- 
tlers of Marblehead betray their Chan- 
nel Island origin. ‘The enterprise of 
this hardy stock has been known and 
respected from the very beginning of 
New England history. 
Originally Marblehead was a part 
of the Town of Salem, but was sep- 
arated as an independent ‘Township 
z eas G. E. WILLMONTON eas 
-Attorney and Counsellor at Law- 
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in 1649, and her prosperity con- 
stantly increased until the days of the 
Revolution when it had become the 
second town in Massachusetts in pop- 
ulation and wealth. 
The attractiveness of Marblehead 
as a place of residence is not a mod- 
ern discovery, for generations men of 
means have sought her rocky cliffs 
and beautiful harbor shore for sites 
for homes. Her culture is centuries 
old. Within her precincts ancient 
mansions were built like the Lee 
Place. It is said that this home cost 
about ten thousand pounds. It was 
built of stone and was handsomely 
fitted up with pictures and panels and 
wainscotted walls hung with  tapes- 
tries. Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, the 
present Senator from Massachusetts, 
in his history of the English Colonies 
in America tells of the “handsome 
houses numerous in the sea port and 
larger inland towns and their neigh- 
borhood. ‘They lined the road for 
seventy miles about Boston and on 
many of them sums of money were 
expended which in_ those days 
amounted to a small fortune.” So 
for generations her shores have been 
the attraction of people. 
Marblehead harbor, that has floated 
many a modern floating palace yacht, 
gave refuge to the Old Constitution 
that pursued, found refuge and pro- 
tection while the guns of Fort Sew- 
all kept the British men of war at 
bay. The men who went down to 
the sea in ships found the ends of the 
earth and brought back the life of the 
deep sea for food and treasure trove 
for trade from the far isles of the 
sea. Her seamen manned many of 
our ships of war and her sailor 
trained men were heroes of the north- 
ern navy in the terrible war for the 
preservation of the union. 
The references in literature to her 
Venetian sky, her rock-bound coast, 
her stalwart men and noble history 
are not uncommon. Hawthorne in his 
American notes with his vivid and 
unique style writes of an experience 
in 1838 when he waited through the 
night watches and counted the hours 
one by one as they were tolled out by 
the town bells and the watch lights 
sent their arrows of warning out into 
the darkness. ‘The whole life of the 
town, shore and street and hall is 
alluring in its literary and historic 
associations. Every house of its an- 
cient streets could tell wonderful 
stories of thrift, devotion, sacrifice 
and loyalty. Ancient Marblehead has 
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nothing of which to be ashamed. One 
literary blunder was made at her ex- 
pense by Whittier who lived to learn, 
to realize and regret the injustice 
which he had done Marblehead in 
Skipper Ireson’s ride. The tradition 
was warped when told and the genu- 
inely beautiful life of the toilers of 
the sea in ancient days was the reverse 
of the inhumanity of the Skipper Ire- 
son and a grave injustice was done 
her noble women. ‘The spirit of her 
citizens is the spirit which has made 
our republic possible. ‘lhe mislead- 
ing poem has caused many false im- 
pressions. This is crystallized in a 
“yarn” which is “spun” of a mis- 
guided summer visitor who asked, 
mislead by the characters in the 
poem, ‘where all the queer folks she 
had read about were.” The reply 
given was a characteristic of Ameri- 
can humor and candor, “they’ve all 
gone back to Boston and Chicago. 
‘he season is about over.” 
Modern Marblehead is_ proudly 
forging ahead. Already the yachting 
centre of New England has known 
the beginnings of air navigation and 
every year adds to her laurels. 
Through her streets the children of a 
new generation wander to read the 
records of the noble labors of the 
past, their eyes rest upon a new 
Marblehead arising out of the glory 
of the old. 
Tre CONSERVATION OF WOODLAND. 
We are reading much about the 
conservation of Forest Lands in New 
Hampshire and in the far West but 
there is an equal need of an awak- 
ening on the North Shore to the fact 
that the shore privileges and the 
woodland drives represent her great 
summer asset. Remove the ' wood- 
land from our North Shore and we 
would have a tree-stripped and naked 
shore line not unlike the sandy 
stretches of the South Shore and 
Cape Cod. Nothing should be left 
undone to develop a strong sentiment 
of forest conservation by a perma- 
nent policy of planting, of protection 
by the gypsy moth crusades and care 
against fire. 
The present season has been one 
of unusual and constant peril because 
of the long drought and the conse- 
quent inflammability of material ly- 
ing on the forest floors. Manchester 
and Beverly Farms have — suffered 
much from woods fires this spring. 
The dangers from such fires would 
be reduced greatly if the regulations 
INSURANGE OF ALL KINDS 
REAL ESTATE 
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