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is not only a necessity but a possi- 
bility. a: 
Meanwhile it is not only untrue, 
but wrong to call the promoters of 
the great trusts robbers, pirates and 
plunderers as far as the construc- 
tive work in corporation building is 
eoncerned. Care should be used in 
the use of words of strong meaning. 
As a matter of fact the corporations 
have been constructed upon a 
decision of the Supreme Court 
(Knight’s Case) and now the de- 
cision is reversed. There have been 
questionable ‘‘ combines ”’ 
which deserve the condemnation of 
the public, but care and judgment 
must be exercised in the use of such 
terms. Now the ‘‘good”’ and ‘‘bad’”’ 
corporations are in a dilemma. Ac- 
tion either right or wrong cannot be 
taken. There is an unrest and an 
uncertainty which must be removed 
in order that legitimate capital in 
legitimate corporations may de- 
velop. -Even the corporations di- 
rected by honorable men seeking to 
know the right and willing to do it 
are in doubt and wait in-anxious un- 
certainty. The enterprises are con- 
ducting business on a “‘hand_ to 
mouth’’ policy and the public suffer. 
This whole matter is a great eco- 
nomic question to be settled on eco- 
nomie grounds and not by political 
propaganda, democratic or republi- 
can. 
An Ounce of Prevention Worth a 
Pound of Cure 
The district at Beverly Farms 
bounded by Webster avenue, Green- 
wood avenue, Haskell street and 
Hart street, continuing to the Wen- 
ha mline, should be properly pa- 
troled at night. This can only be 
accomplished by the enrollment of 
an another officer to do night duty. 
During the last eighteen months 
three-serious affairs have transpired 
on the road to Wenham. These 
could have been prevented if a pa- 
trolman had been on duty. The in- 
cident on last Friday evening is the 
last straw and the citizens of that 
district are justified in their appeal 
to the city for another policeman. 
The matter has been presented to 
the City Government through Mr. 
Loring and the request should be 
granted. The city has sufficient 
Only thoroughly trained 
competent servants (male 
or female) supplied. Ke- 
ferences personally and 
4 _ carefully investigated. 
funds to. establish a modern signal 
system and ought not to be embar- 
rassed by the addition of one new 
officer. 
The road to Wenham is unsafe af- 
ter dark and the passing and repass- 
ing of Italians and others has made 
the walk a terror to timid women. 
The city will surely correct the 
trouble. But the cause is more 
deeply seated and can only be re- 
moved by the will of some of the 
people in Ward Six. Certain types 
of construction work has resulted in 
the importation of labor of such a 
character as to demoralize in a mild 
degree at least the whole district. 
The man who has construction work 
to do and distinctly specifies that it 
is not to be done by the kind of la- 
bor that dwells in booths in the 
woods and camps in the field will 
rid the community of a menace. 
No one is so heartless as to wish 
these creatures who come to our 
shore to be deprived of the labor 
that will win bread, but on the other 
side it is transparently unfair for a 
man of wealth to develop any estate 
at the expense of the community. 
It is a social problem which cannot 
be overlooked by the North Shore. 
What a contrast! The mansion on 
the hill and the swarthy, lusty, good 
natured, booth dwelling laborer in 
camps and hovels. Is it a fair con- 
trast? But there is a class of ‘‘non 
combatants’’ who suffer. The dwell- 
ers in the village, who must walk, 
because they cannot ride must pass 
and repass men of unknown charac- 
ter at all hours in light or dark; 
and the three nerve racking exper- 
iences on Hart street, one an assault 
upon a woman, the second an act of 
indecent conduct and the third a 
drunken brawl, has rightly enough 
stirred the residents to action. It is 
certain Beverly ought to. do some- 
thing, but is it not more imperative 
that Beverly Farms should do some- 
thing for itself. Here is a serious, 
thought-provoking question and _ it 
must be solved. A man is promoting 
these conditions when he engages 
construction work without specify- 
ing the character of the laborers. 
Let the Ward have the policeman 
but let every summer resident be 
loyal to the interests of the district 
and the cause can be removed. 
MISS WILD 
Registry Office 
303Fifth Ave., N. E. Gor. 3ist St. N. Y. 
Telephones 8822, 8823 Madison $a. 
COMMUNICATION . 
Editor North Shore Breeze, 
Dear Sir:—What has become of 
the Manchester Historical Society? 
Frequently I hear this question, and 
frequently I hear of good old pieces 
of antiquity (furniture, pictures, 
etc.) that are being kept for the So- 
ciety until such time as it can take 
care of these things. But also, with 
alarming frequency,-I hear of choice 
pieces of local historical value, that 
have been given to other Societies 
and Museums, and have so gone out 
of Manchester forever, because the 
Manchester Historical Society could 
not take them, as it had no place to 
keep them. I have in mind a beau- 
tiful and valuable painting by a 
French artist of a brig which made 
several voyages under a Manchester 
sea captain, and this picture lately 
left Manchester to gracé the walls 
of the Boston Marine Museum at 
the old State House in Boston. I 
have also in mind several things 
that have been given to the Peabody 
Institute in Salem, and also to the 
Essex Institute in that city, and 
gladly received by these Societies, 
but these things should never have 
left Manchester, and would not, had 
the local Society been in a position 
to take charge of them. I have also 
lately heard of several people inter- 
ested in sueh things who have ex- 
pressed a desire to join this Society, 
but who could not find any active 
Society to join. It would seem as 
though if only a single room, in 
some building or house, were en- 
gaged by this Society, such a place 
could be used, in which to form a 
nucleus of a collection of pieces of 
historical value, which, if not looked 
after in some such way, are very l- 
able to be diverted to other ends 
and so lost forever to this town. 
Make the start and the growth will 
follow. 
Trusting that this appeal may 
start the ball rolling in the right 
direction and that Manchester may 
have a Historical Society that is 
both visible and active, and hoping 
that it will, at least, call a meeting 
of its members to discuss these 
things, I remain, with the historical 
interests of the town at heart. 
A. C. NEEDHAM. 
Special attention given 
to out of town orders, 
