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NORTH SHORE, BREEZE 
MANCHESTER'S NEW BANKING 
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INSTITUTION 
OLIVER T. ROBERTS, 
President 
FRANKLIN K. HOOPER, 
Vice-President 
RALPH H. MANN, 
Treasurer 
Among the improvements in Man- 
chester since last season none are 
more appreciated by the townspeo- 
ple who live here the year around 
and the summer cottagers who are 
arriving daily than the institution 
of a bak. The Manehester Trust 
Co. was organized during the win- 
ter and was opened for business on 
the first day of May. It has been 
meeting with splendid success. 
The bank was organized by Ralph 
H. Mann, of Torrington, Conn., a 
young man of less than thirty. Its 
eapital stock is $100,000, and it has 
a surplus of $25,000. The stock was 
rapidly subseribed= for, by the 
townspeople and summer residents 
for the most part. 
On the opening day deposits of 
nearly $50,000 were received and 
this amount has since been more 
than doubled. The deposits at the 
close of business Wednesday night 
were a little over $112,000. 
The bank has a echeeking or com- 
mercial department, and an interest 
department. : 
Oliver T. Roberts of the well 
known firm’ of Roberts and Hoare, 
is the president, and Franklin K. 
Hooper of Sheldon’s market and 
Roger W. Babson, the well known 
statistician, are the vice presidents. 
Some Very Beautiful Old Odd 
Things. 
We paid,a visit a few days ago 
to the North Shore studio of [lenry 
Havelock Pierce, at Manchester, 
and had the treat of looking over 
some very beautiful things—objects 
that would appeal to any of our 
North Shore people who are looking 
for things to beautify their homes. 
Our attention was attracted partic- 
ularly by a beautiful and _ well- 
selected collection of Mensell’s old 
English prints, done in the colors 
painted by the artists. The collec- 
tion includes some of the works of 
Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Thomas 
Lawrence, Thomas Gainsborough, 
Guerse, Van Dyke, Fra Lippi and 
Nattier’s, one of the latter’s repre- 
senting ‘‘Mme.. Victor.’’ All of 
these are beautifully set in odd but 
charmingly selected frames. 
There are many other attractions 
at the Pierce studio to interest the 
lover of the old and antique and the 
out-of-the-way — things. Included 
among such are some fine old mir- 
rors. And there are several pieces 
of furniture the history of which 
has been authenticated as far back 
as 1680. There are some Winsor 
chairs, some fiddle back chairs and 
a very beautiful ladder baek rock- 
ing chair; a beautiful old Dutch ta- 
ble, a gate table and a_ colonial 
table, and an old-fashioned duck 
foot table with the authenticated 
history since 1680, All of these are 
very rare and they are very beauti- 
Ralph H. Mann is the secretary and 
treasurer. 
The bank is fortunate to number 
among its direetors three bank 
presidents. They are Henry S. 
Grew, of the National Union bank, 
Boston, George F. Willett of the 
Norwood National bank, and C. KE. 
Fisher of the Gloucester Safe De- 
posit and Trust Co. The other di- 
rectors are Roger W. Babson, Dr. 
G. W. Blaisdell, Michael J. Calla- 
han, Ernest Curtis, Everett L. Ed- 
monds, William Hoare, F. K. 
Hlooper, George L. Knight, Edward 
A. Lane, F. J. Merrill, Oliver T. 
Roberts and Horace Standley. 
ful, too, and would be prized very 
highly by anyone desiring old and 
odd things. 
. Mr. Pierce has recently run across 
a beautiful piece of old Japanese 
embroidery, Indian red color, that 
now adorns one. of the walls of his 
studio. We understand that any of 
these things can be purehased. 
It costs to do good to others. We 
cannot love our neighbor as ourselves, 
and then save ourselves from self- 
denial and sacrifice. —J. R. Miller. 
Friend — Hallo, doctor! By the 
way, my wife says she’s feeling a bit 
sluggish. What would you advise? 
Doctor (facetiously) — That you 
get home sober and early, 
