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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Vol. XI 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Members of the Manchester Yacht club learned 
Tuesday with no little interest, that the Royal St. Law- 
rence Yacht club of Montreal would again next season 
. challenge for the famous Sewanhaka cup, now held by the 
North Shore yachtsmen, although the Canadians have 
made several attempts to lift the trophy. For several 
months-the members of the St. Lawrence Yacht club have 
been considering, informally, the issuing of a challenge to 
the Manchester yachtsmen, but no formal action was 
taken upon the matter until a few nights ago, when, at 
the Royal St. Lawrence club’s annual meeting, an ex- 
pression of opinion showed that a vast majority of the 
members were in favor of another series of cup races. G. 
Harrick Duggan, the prominent Montreal yacht designer, 
stated at the meeting that he would start another Seawan- 
haka boat as soon as the club took formal action in re- 
gard to another cup race. ee 
The Manchester Yacht club house will close on Oc- 
tober Ist. 
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The Beverly Farms Branch of the Beverly Improve- 
ment society is invited to meet the executive board at 
Mrs. R. S. Bradley’s, Pride’s Crossing, on Tuesday, Oc- 
tober 7th, at 4 o’clock. ee be served. 
Miss Alice Cotting and her brother Francis Cotting 
have closed their cottage at Pride’s Crossing and have re- 
turned to their Commonwealth avenue, Boston, home for 
the winter. 
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Charles FE. Hodges and family returned to their town 
residence, 213 Gardner street, Brookline, Wednesday, after 
a pleasant summer at Bees es 
Former Secy. of State Knox was a recent visitor to 
‘the North Shore. He run up for a day’s golf as guest of 
Henry C. Frick of Pride’s Crossing, at the Myopia Hunt 
club. 
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Miss Helen Taft concluded a very pleasant visit 
of a few days on the North Shore last Monday. She 
was with her aunt, Mrs. Thomas K. Laughlin at Mingo 
Beach. Mrs. Laughlin will not return to her Pittsburg 
home until the end of October, she being one of those 
who is very fond of the delightful autumn weather which 
the North Shore offers, nie 
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Kilpatrick and family have 
closed their summer home at Magnolia and have return- 
ed to St. Louis for the winter. Mr. Kilpatrick is one of 
those who has never forsaken the horse, despite the pop- 
ularity of the motor. He has maintained a_ splendid 
string of horses at his Magnolia stable the past sum- 
mer. He hag sent his horses to a farm in Maine for the 
winter and will use an electric motor to run about town 
at his home this winter, a 
Col. W. R. Nelson and household have returned from 
Magnolia to their winter abode in Kansas City. 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, September 26, 1913 
No. 39 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Now that the “antis” have had their innings along 
the North Shore the suffragists are to show themselves 
in a series of meetings. Miss Louie R. Stanwood, who 
is one of the leaders in the movement hereabouts is re- 
turning to Manchester next week and she is already ar- 
ranging for a suffrage meeting in the Town hall, probably 
on October 8. Further notice will appear in next week’s 
paper. Miss Stanwood is to spend a few days in New- 
port with Mrs, Stanley McCormick (who was Katherine 
Dexter) and hopes to get the national suffrage news from 
her. Meanwhile some of the Manchester ladies, especial- 
ly Mrs. Frank P. Tenney and Mrs. Hannah Tappan, are 
busy preparing for the meeting. ‘There is no question 
but what the interest has increased since last year. In 
Beverly Farms and along the Beverly shore ladies of the 
summer colony have kindly offered their houses for suf- 
frage meetings,—including Mrs. Louis A. Shaw, Mrs. H. 
P. McKean and others. 
The J. Warren Merrills of the Manchester colony 
have gone to Hamilton for the autumn. They have a 
cottage there. 
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Master Richard Cutts Fairfield, son of Mrs. James C. 
Barr, has left Beverly Farms for Newport, R. I, where 
he will attend St. George’s school. Mrs. Barr, who 1s 
still in Virginia, was a guest Wednesday evening at the 
Keswick (Va.) Hunt club at a dance given by the Misses 
Randolph. 
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Arrangements have been made for a series of three 
Shakesperian lecture-recitals to be given September 27, 
29 and Oct. 1 at the residence of Mrs. James Henry Lan- 
cashire, Mrs. Prescott Bigelow and Mrs. Ezra C. Fitch 
at Manchester and West Manchester, under the auspices 
of the Massachusetts division of the International Sun- 
shine society. Dr. Edgar C. Abbott will interpret Ham- 
let, Julius Caesar and the Merchant of Venice, the funds 
to be used towards a free bed in the Sunshine Arthur 
home for blind babies at Summit, -_N. J. Among the 
many names of those socially prominent who are patron- 
esses of the course are Mrs. R. H. Dana, Mrs. Rufus 5. 
Greeley, Mrs, John T. Willets, Mrs. Payne Whitney, Mrs. 
J. M. Graham, Mrs. Francis W. Fabyan, Mrs. Francis W. 
Whitehouse, Mrs. Charles P. Hemenway, Mrs. Henry 
B. Taylor, Mrs. J. A. Lowell Blake, Mrs. Wm, R. Cahot, 
Mrs. Costello C. Converse, Mrs. Harrison K. Caner, Mrs. 
Godfrey L. Cabot, Mrs. Robert S. Bradley, Mrs. John 
Caswell, Mrs, Henry Clay Frick, Mrs. Jacob C. Rogers, 
Mrs. W. H. Dane, Mrs. Franklin Haven, Mrs. H. Herbert 
Hostetter, Mrs. Augustus P. Loring, Mrs. George E. 
Tener, Mrs. Anson Mills. Mrs. Louis Bacon, Mrs. Eliot 
Sumner, Mrs. George W, Woodberry. Mrs. James B. 
Waller, Mrs. Thorndike D. Howe. Mrs. Elmer B. Thomas, 
Mrs. Randolph L. Agassiz, Mrs. Charles W. Richard.on, 
Mrs. Otis Weld Richardson, Mrs. Frank S. Chick, Mrs. 
Frank P, Frazier, Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, Mrs. Alex- 
ander Steinert, Mrs. Robt. de W. Sampson, Mrs. Frances 
W. McMillan, Mrs. James McMillan, Mrs, Richard S. 
Lovering, and Mrs, James B. Waller. 
