Merkin ORK BREEZE 13 
Few MANCHESTER PEOPLE appreciate the wonderful 
improvements being made at Masconomo Park, so-called. 
We visited the park a few days since and were surprised 
to note the changes that have been made there. In the 
first place a large part of the marsh—Tappan Marsh it 
was formerly called—has been filled in and today a beau- 
 tiful green lawn takes the place of the hitherto wet, boggy 
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tified the place for the past season. 
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surface. All the way along Beach street to the creek near 
where the Masconomo stables were formerly located, 
the land has been raised and beautiful walks are laid 
out. In the vicinity of the pier the improvements are 
more marked and shrubs and flowering plants have beau- 
Not many weeks 
ago we noted seven automobiles in the circle adjoining 
the wharf, and tied to the outer side of the float we 
counted twenty-three motor boats, while to the inner 
side, reserved for dories and smaller craft were a dozen 
such boats. In the stream off the pier, and between 
there and the boat yard were moored fifteen craft of 
various kind from a small sailing yacht to ocean sailing 
yachts and large power boats. Yet there are some who 
do not favor the town spending money on dredging its 
harbor! What a mistaken idea some people have of 
such things! After the extensive dredging now in hand 
is completed Manchester will be a somewhat different 
Manchester than of old, as far as her water-way ap- 
proach igs concerned. A wide channel, six feet deep at 
low water, is being cut across the flats between Tuck’s 
and Norton’s Points on one side and Smith’s Point on 
This channel leads on an almost straight line 
from the 100 foot wide channel dredged across Glass 
' last year. 
Head flats from the harbor entrance .out into the bay 
Another big slice is being cut off the flats in 
the inner harbor making the basin opposite the park of 
considerable proportions. Two dredges are now at work 
pushing along the improvements. 
THERE Is No City in the world where an education 
may be obtained as easily and so thoroughly as in the 
City of Boston. Yet there is a place for the new univer- 
sity extension courses in which many mature minds may 
find opportunities to supplement an education already at- 
tained, or where deficiencies in training may be made 
up. The university extension courses have come to 
stay. In the near future it will be possible for a man or 
woman to work every day for his or her daily bread and 
in the between-whiles gain an education. 
Tur Instructions forwarded by President Huerta 
to General Diaz, now in Europe to return to Mexico, and 
the not improbable action of Huerta to throw his in- 
fluence with the movement to make Diaz President at 
the coming elections have done much to clear the air in 
the Mexican tangle. It looks now as though the United 
States at least is through the woods. 
Tur Orrers which have been made by a New York 
newspaper and by an athletic club to the Secretary of 
State of the United States is an affront to the American 
people. It cannot for a moment be supposed that Mr. 
Bryan himself enjoys. the embarrassment his lesser 
blunder in accepting the Chatauqua appointments has 
caused him. 
Tur Reported InuNEss of Bishop Lawrence on the 
eve of his anniversary observances was disconcerting to 
his friends and to the host of friends who wish to unite 
in the celebration. His improved health pleases his 
friends. Massachusetts cannot spare this great church- 
man, 
Ture DeatH oF Francis Barter of the Pride’s 
Crossing colony removes from the list of permanent resi- 
dents on our shore a man who will be greatly missed. 
He was an attorney, preferring honor and righteousness 
to success purchased at the price of self-abasement. His 
high ideals carried him through to the end respected by 
the public who only knew of him, honored by those who 
knew him and loved by those who lived and worked with 
him. His private and public benefactions were large and 
many of them never came to the notice of the public. 
He will be missed by the corporation controlling the Art 
Museum in Boston but the generous gifts he has made 
that institution in the past will be a perpetual reminder 
to the administrators in the future of the great interest 
that he took in the work. The public has long been 
benefited by the careful and generous gifts that have 
been made by him. 
Mayor FitzcGERALD, of Boston has acted well within 
his rights and in the line of modern progress in demand- 
ing clean drama on the stage in Boston. Last week, the 
Mayor without reservation warned the managers of the 
theatres of Boston of his purpose. The moving picture 
managers are to get their “advice” the coming week. 
The Mayor’s office has full charge of licenses, and the 
authority to repress a play is in the Mayor’s hand. No 
far-sighted theatre manager will complain of the Mayor’s 
position. There are those who would even be more ex- 
acting than the Mayor and who would consider his de- 
mands but a “half loaf.” However that may be every 
well wisher for the success of the modern drama will sus- 
tain Mayor Fitzgerald in his position. 
Tur Boston Y. M, C. A. has dedicated its beauti- 
ful new plant in the newer part of Boston,—the Fenway. 
The well-equipped building will be a great help to the 
city in solving the “young men’s problem.” It is still 
possible for the towns on the North Shore to construct 
and maintain community welfare buildings that will af- 
ford all classes and ages the same facilities and oppor- 
tunities that the well equipped Y. M. C. A. buildings do 
for the larger centers. 
Te Users oF AUTOMOBILES are facing the east. 
The high price to which gasoline has soared has been 
discomforting to them, but with the prospects of a re- 
duction of six or eight cents on a gallon is giving the 
motor enthusiasts encouragement. The Standard Oil 
Company has succeeded in putting to practical use a new 
process with the resulting economy in production and 
sale price. 
Ir CANNo?T BE Possisie for one to have lived in 
Massachusetts for the last two decades without coming 
to a half-formed conviction that there is something wrong 
with our immigration laws. Captain Gardner has always 
been a considerate and persistent worker for restricted 
immigration. ‘There are more who will agree with the 
Congressman than will disagree with him. 
Tz Boston Hrratp may have made a wrong guess 
concerning ‘I’. R.’s ambitions for the presidency in 1916, 
but the leaders of “his” party have deemed the possibil- 
ity certain enough to appoint a committee to wait on him 
to ask him “point blank” if, 
T R. Woutp be some surprised if A. P. G. wins in 
Massachusetts. 
MassacHuser's is still in the lead for good roads. 
