NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
. Vol. XI 
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SOCIETY NOTES 
ties VISIT of former President Wm. H. Taft to the 
North Shore over the last week-end occasioned 
several very pleasant informal functions. Looking hale 
and hearty after a summer spent at Murray Bay, Canada, 
the former President reached Manchester last Friday af- 
ternoon at 4.15 for a short visit with Mr, and Mrs. Wm. 
J. Boardman and Miss Mabel Boardman at their summer 
Mr. Taft said smilingly to one 
of his friends who were congratulating him on his heal- 
thy appearance that he had lost fifty pounds in weight 
since leaving Beverly last summer, which would indicate 
that the North Shore agreed with him, or, to put it the 
other way, that it does not agree with him to be away 
from the North Shore. Last Saturday night Mr. and Mrs. 
Boardman gave.a dinner in Mr. Taft’s honor, at which 
covers were laid for eighteen. Sunday afternoon a num- 
ber of his friends called between four and six to greet 
the former Chief Executive, the first reception of any 
kind given since leaving Wshington last winter. Mon- 
day evening Mr. and Mrs. Boardman gave another din- 
ner in Mr. Taft’s honor, to which were bidden eighteen 
guests. Among those who called to greet Mr, Taft Sun- 
day afternoon were the Italian Ambassador, the Turkish 
Ambassador, Ambassador Curtis Guild and Mrs. Guild 
General Adelbert. Ames. Hon. T. Jefferson Coolidge and 
Mrs. Newbold, Mrs. F. L. Higginson, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. 
Dudley L. Pickman, Mr, and Mrs. C. H. Tweed, Mr. and 
Mrs. Chas. P. Curtis, Mrs. James McMillan, Mr. and 
Mrs. Wm. A. Slater, Miss F. G. Curtis, Mr. and Mrs. 
Gordon Dexter, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Waller, Mrs, J. B. 
Phillips, Mrs. Wm. Phillips, Mrs. John L. Thorndike, 
Mrs. Geo. H. Lyman, Mrs. Wm. H. Howard, Mr. and 
Mrs. Costello C. Converse, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Tyson 
and George Tyson, Mrs. Eliot Sumner, Mr, and Mrs. 
R. S. Bradley, Mrs. M. C. Burnham, Mr. and Mrs. Wal- 
ter J. Mitchell, Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Lancashire, Mr. and 
Mrs. A. L. Devens, Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Bradbury and 
Geo. R. White, Mrs. William Hooper, Mr. and Mrs. R. 
T. Paine, 2d, T. Dennie Boardman and Wallace Good- 
rich, Preston Gibson, Samuel Carr, Mr. and Mrs. Amory 
G. Hodges. 
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Prof. and Mrs. Taft were guests over Tuesday night 
of John Hays Hammond at Freshwater Cove. He mo- 
tored up the shore early Wednesday morning on his way 
to New Haven. 
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The Italian Ambassador and family, who have been 
passing part of the summer at Freshwater Cove, near 
neighbors of the John Hays Hammonds, left the North 
Shore Tuesday. 
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The John H. Janeways of New York, who have been 
occupying a cottage on Sea street, Manchester, have re- 
turned to their city home. 
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One of the many groups of players on the Essex 
“County club golf links last Saturday ‘morning was that 
composed of former President Taft. John Hays Ham- 
mond, General Adelbert Ames and Master Charlie Taft. 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, September 19, 1913 
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SOCIETY NOTES 
| Pan MOST important social event of the week and by 
far the largest attended was the dance at the Es- 
sex County club last night given by the North Shore Au- 
tomobile club. ‘The party was attended by one hundred 
and fifty or more people. Several dinners was given at 
residence of members before the dance, notably those 
at Walter D. Denégre’s, West Manchester, and at Quincy 
A. Shaw’s, at Pride’s Crossing. Mr. Denégre is presi- 
dent of the club and Mr. Shaw is secretary. Most peo- 
ple have forgotten all about the North Shore Automobile 
club, but this delightful function last night served to re- 
is the oe when the club was an important factor along 
the North Shore. When the motor car was yet in its in- 
fancy and wealthy people from all over the country 
gathered on the North Shore to spend their summers, 
there were more cars here during the warm weather 
months than in any other equal territory in the country. 
It was in an effort to keep the “horseless” vehicle off 
certain North Shore roads and to restrict them in other 
ways that the club was organized. The biggest thing the 
club ever did was to adopt a system of “tagging” cars, 
which system grew and was later taken up by the state 
and by other states and has developed into the numbering 
system now used all over the country. The club’s activi- 
ties ceased four or five years ago, when the objects for 
which it was organized had been accomplished. There 
were, however, some funds left and the two remaining 
officers of the club knew of no better means of dispos- 
ing of it than by giving the dance, which proved such a 
successful affair last night. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Robert T’. Paine, 2d, and their two 
daughters plan to motor to the White Mountains the rest 
of October. During their absence their cottage at Cool- 
idge’s Point will be closed and their Boston residence 
will be opened. Mr. Paine had his yacht “Shimna” 
hauled up at Lawley’s the first of the week, 
Another of the popular dinner-dances will be given at 
the Myopia Hunt club tomorrow night,—Sept. 20 
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Arrangements have been made with Vardon and Ray, 
the well-known golfers, for an exhibition match next 
Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 22 and 23, on the Myopia 
Hunt club links. Play will begin on the first day at 2.30 
in the afternoon and on the following day at 10.30 and 
at 2.30. 
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Dudley Field Malone, assistant secretary of state, 
was a week-end guest of Col. E. M. House, who is with 
his daughter, Mrs. Randolph Tucker at Beverly Cove. 
He came to the North Shore last Friday with Secy. of 
the Treasury Wm. T. Mc Adoo and Joseph P, Tumulty, 
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The Walter C. Cabots returned to town from their 
cottage in Manchester the first of the week. 
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John Fox, Jr., the writer, has been a recent house- 
guest of the Guy Normans at Beverly Cove. 
