28 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
Southern Woods Road 
By W. Lester STEVENS. 
Artic’ II. 
The road through the Southern Woods of Rockport, 
the route of which I described in last week’s issue of this 
paper, seems to be the most feasible for several reasons. 
tis the most beautiful route, and I hope to tell why 1 
think so later. No other route could be so easy of access 
from both Gloucester and Rockport and certainly no route 
would open for development as much desirable property 
for sites for summer homes. 
A road along the cliffs in the rear of Long Beach 
would open much property but it would still leave the 
necessity of immediately constructing other roads in other 
directions. Now the proposed route touches nearly every 
path and woods road which enters the woods from Rock- 
port and manycof these paths could with very little expense 
be made into fine side roads which would develop the same 
property and more which a road along the cliffs would 
open. Let us see where these paths are. 
After leaving the woodland owned by Albert French 
at the lower end of Cape Pond the road would touch a 
path which goes through “‘Bottle of Rum Rock’’ pasture 
and enters Prospect street at the head of Summer street. 
Owners of property through which the paths run would 
have an incentive to build a good road because the valua- 
tion of the land would be increased. A branch of the road 
also would eventually meet the main highway (South 
street) at a point halfway between Prospect street and 
Marmion way. 
The proposed road would meet a road already in such 
condition that little expense would be needed to make it 
serviceable at the head of Beech Plains, and this road 
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enters South street directly at the head of Marmion Way. 
At the head of the ‘Potato Pen” road the Smith’s bridge 
road, which enters South street near the Rockport Lodge, 
is crossed, and below it would touch another road which 
finally ends near the property of Charles T. Small. Thus 
one can_readily see that not only would woodlands be 
opened but the fields would be more valuable than at pres- 
ent. In fact, these fields would be valued very highly in 
many summer resorts as golf links, for which purpose they 
would be ideal. Roads and paths leading into the woods 
are a path skirting the southern edge of Cape Pond. A 
continuation of the road from Marmion Way, finally end- 
ing at the Joppa road, Gloucester, where the proposed road 
enters the “Potato Pen” road is still another well defined 
path which finally ends at Long Beach where the road 
would enter the property of the heirs of the late Andrew 
Lane is another path running for a mile or more through 
the woods and finally ending at Long Beach, and the road 
crosses the Flat Rock bars path which could also be made 
into a good side road without much expense. All of these 
paths and roads have been travelled over for many years 
and it is a trait of human beings to choose the easiest way, 
and in this case it is the best for the paths follow the val- 
leys on either side of which are excellent building lots, 
I have taken only one premise and have not fully 
proved that—the premise that the route would be easiest 
of access to both Rockport and Gloucester. I hope to show 
that this is so and in another article will carry my argu- 
ment still farther and will also investigate some objections 
to the road and try to ascertain if these objections are well 
sustained. 
THE Procession of Essex County Grand Army 
Veterans in Lynn last Saturday, in automobiles, tells its 
own story. ‘The veterans have served their day with 
dignity and bravery. It is well that they ride, but it is 
saddening to think of the age of man claiming them. 
They will never be forgotten, however few their numbers 
or how feeble they may grow. 
Women deceived by men want to marry them: it 
is a kind of revenge as good as any other.—Beauma- 
nom. 
Women swallow at one mouthful the lie that flat- 
ters, and drink drop by drop a truth that is bitter— 
Diderot. 5 
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