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Southern Woods Road 
By W. LESTER STEVENS. 
Article III. 
| By last week’s article I took the premise that the route 
as described in article 1 of this series was the easiest 
of access to both Rockport and Gloucester and tried to 
partially prove that premise. 
Any route entering at Joppa road (Witham St.) 
would of course not be favored by more than a handful 
of loyal Rockport citizens for reasons which are obvious 
to all, namely that it would divert trade to Gloucester. 
Many citizens in fact are afraid that even a route such 
as has been described would have the same effect. With- 
out a doubt it would be easier for Gloucester merchants 
to send their teams here, but if the Rockport grocers 
were progressive and kept in line to meet the increased 
demands by up-to-date methods, I doubt if this could 
be a serious objection to the proposed route. And as I 
explained last week there are at least five roads already 
in fair condition which lead directly to the Southern 
woods road as planned. 
People who send to Boston for supplies would not 
affect the situation one way or the other, those who now 
trade with Rockport business men would still trade with 
them as long as satisfaction was given and new summer 
residents would be a prize for the parties who were first 
on the spot. And it would be up to Rockport merchants 
to be first. 
__ Anyone who has been over the ground of the route 
described must admit that no. route could be more beauti- 
ful. Where in any woods along the North Shore can be 
found a drive more beautiful than that along the edge 
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of Cape Pond—for four hundred feet—or through the 
ravine of the Darby pasture—the woods between here 
and Beach plain beautiful beyond description, surely in all 
of the Southern woods no route could offer more attract- 
ion. None could offer more variety. 
Granted, if you will allow, then that the route as 
described would be easiest of access, would open more 
desirable property than any other and would be the most 
beautiful, we are forced to ask: ‘Would it also be the 
most economical?” The best answer I can give is that 
of the well known firm of Connolly Bros., contractors of 
Beverly Farms, the county commissioners and members 
of the state highway commission. They all say that it 
would. It follows a course which is naturally adapted 
for such work, there being plenty of material for fills 
right on the spot excepting for a stretch of a few hun- 
dred feet at the potato pen road and if the road were 
built well as far as here, it would be possible to team 
the fill needed from elsewhere. 
From one standpoint I personally would prefer to 
see the woods and the shore as they were even I5 years - 
ago, wild and rugged, as nature intended them, that is I 
think that the increasing of summer residences does de- 
stroy much that appeals to the finer appreciation of na- 
ture’s beauty, but I cannot be accused of being too ma- 
terialistic when I say that—having an opportunity to be- 
come one of the leading summer resorts in New Eng- 
land—the condition of the town demands that the op- 
portunity not be thrown away. 
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Thursday, September twenty-fifth 
Friday, September twenty-sixth 
Saturday, September twenth-seventy 
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