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NORTH 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Rudyard Kipling is to figure very 
shortly in the appeal to all Ameri- 
cans for a memorial to Nathaniel 
Hawthorne. This interesting situa- 
tion comes about through a plan of 
the citizens of Salem to erecta 
statue in memory of their great citi- 
zen. Plans have been made by Bela 
L. Pratt, the seulptor, for a heroic 
size statue of the great man of let- 
ters, seated in a chair, looking out 
to sea. It is planned to raise a fund 
of $50,000 for the statue and for a 
suitable site. Salem does not itself 
feel entirely equal to the task. A 
committee there has secured _ be- 
tween $10,000 and $12,000 in money 
and pledges, and proposes now to 
appeal to the country for the rest. A 
large honorary committee, of which 
Mr. Kipling is vice president, is or- 
ganizing the work of appeal. Kip- 
ling spent two seasons on the North 
Shore at East Gloucester, his 
Gloucester story, ‘‘Captains Cour- 
ageous,’’ resulting thereby. He 
therefore has more than a literary 
interest in the localities made fa- 
mous by Hawthorne, as he likewise, 
has made literary history for the 
North Shore. 
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Among those who greeted Dr. 
Richard C. Maclaurin, president of 
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
nology, and Mrs. Maclaurin, at Mr. 
and Mrs. John M. Longyear’s re- 
ception at Brookline last Saturday 
evening were Wm. Lowell Putnam 
and George Wigglesworth of. the 
Manchester colony. 
A fair for the benefit of the In- 
dustrial School for Crippled and De- 
formed Children will be held at the 
Hotel Somerset on Thursday, Febru- 
ary 15th from 10 to 6, and Friday, 
February 16th, from 10 to 12. The 
fair is in charge of the entertain- 
ment committee, of which Mrs. 8. 
Reed Anthony of Boston and _ Bey- 
erly Farms is chairman. 
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Secretary and Mrs. Meyer and 
Count Moltke were among the 
guests at the dinner the French am- 
bassador and Mme. Jusserand gave 
in Washington, Thursday night of 
last week, in honor of the Russian 
Ambassador and Mme. Geo. Bakh- 
metieff. The first meeting of the 
dancing class formed by Viscountess 
de Sibour and Mrs. Preston Gibson 
took place at the Playhouse, Wash- 
ington, the same night. There was 
a dinner and dance for the fifty 
members and their guests. These 
meetings will be given every Mon- 
day evening throughout the season. 
SHORE 
SOCIETY NOTES 
By mutual agreement everyone in 
the New York fashionable coterie is 
saving the night of January 11th for 
the costume ball for which Mrs. Aus- 
ten Gray is one of the organizers 
with Mrs. Arthur Iselin, Mrs. Payne 
Whitney and Mrs. Arthur Burden. 
It is in aid of the outdoor work of 
the lLying-in Hospital. Already 
dinners are being arranged before 
the ball at Sherry’s for which cos- 
tumes of any period, previous to the 
middle of the nineteenth century 
A bachelors’ ball has been defin- 
itely arranged for this season in 
Boston after several attempts in 
previous years, which for one rea- 
son or another failed to materialize. 
The date has been fixed for Friday 
night, February 2d, in the ballroom 
of the Somerset, which brings it a 
week before the second assembly. 
Mesdames Roger Wolcott, Charles 
S. Sargent, Bryce J. Allan and 
Francis Lee Higginson are the four 
patronesses representing the older 
and the younger married _ set. 
Messrs. Samuel D. Parker, chair- 
man; Randolph C. Grew, Benjamin 
Joy and William Prescott Wolcott 
are on the committee, and 50 other 
bachelors are subscribers. It is 
doubtful if there will be any cotil- 
lon, as that feature has ceased to be 
the vogue this season to any extent, 
giving place to general dancing. It 
promises to be a notable success in 
every way. 
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Mrs. John C. Phillips of Boston 
and North Beverly, was a passenger 
for Europe on the outgoing Arabic. 
Too Many Accidents Says Col. 
Sohier 
‘“We have too many automobile 
accidents on our highways and too 
much recklessness,’’ says Col. Wm. 
D. Sohier of the Massachusetts 
Highway commission. 
The reign of recklessness that has 
seized upon so many of the motor- 
ists on Massachusetts highways dur- 
ing the past fortnight has aroused 
both the public and state and city 
officials. 
The police are more alert and the 
Highway commission is now doub- 
ling all of the suspension of license 
penalties, in an effort to curb some 
of these violations of the law of the 
road. 
Col. Sohier, a man who has made 
a long and thorough-going study of 
automobile laws and _ regulations, 
and one who has amassed an enor- 
mous quantity of statistics concern- 
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ing automobile accidents and their 
causes, admits that conditions are 
not as they should be and _ offers 
some reasons for the existing state 
of affairs, gives some suggestions 
and some statistics showing that 
progress is being made toward the 
suppression of recklessness, both by 
the commission and by the automo- 
bilists themselves. 
Holmes Transferred 
Walter F. Holmes, for some time 
assistant in charge of the state moth 
work along the North Shore, has 
been transferred to the South Shore 
where he will have charge of the 
work. L. H. Worthley, state super- 
intendent, is to go to Washington 
with the government forces the first 
of the year and some changes will 
follow ‘his departure. 
MYSTERY ISLANDS 
Residents Desire to be Incorporated 
As Separate Town. 
Inhabitants of Mystery Islands, 
situated off the Beverly Farms 
shore, have petitioned the State 
Legislature to incorporate them as 
separate township. Being about 
five miles from City hall, they find 
it difficult to have their needs at- 
tended to by the City of Salem. 
Among these needs may be men- 
tioned, police and fire protection, 
lighting and care of their streets 
and walks, schooling for their chil- 
dren, etc., ete. 
There are now about a dozen 
families, and the Inn on the Island, 
making about one hundred inhabi- 
tants, who find paying taxes to 
Salem without any return, very irk- 
some, and they think there is no 
logical argument why they should 
not have the conduct of their own 
affairs. 
If all their requirements were at- 
tended to by Salem, the Islands 
would prove quite a burden to the 
city, and they see no reason why all 
the needs should not be granted if 
they continue to pay the city taxes. 
An interesting bit of history in re- 
gard to the Islands is, that the city 
leased them to George Curwen of 
Salem in 1677 for 1000 years, which 
lease was afterwards confirmed in 
1731 by the selectmen of Salem, 
deeding the right of reversion to 
Benj. Marston, who had bought the 
lease of the George Curwen estate, 
and stating in the deed that ‘‘Town 
of Salem should never have any 
claim or interest of any name or na- 
ture in thé Islands.’’ This seems as 
if they realized even 200 years ago 
that the inhabitants on the Islands 
were the proper people to take 
charge of their own affairs. 
