NORTH SHORE BREEZE 13 
THE PuRPOSE OF THE Boston Crry Cius is a noble 
one and if the organization be true to its avowed pur- 
poses it will be a valuable agent for righteousness in the 
affairs of the Puritan City. “We hope to bring together 
in friendly association as many men as we can, of as 
many creeds as we can, and thus create new conditions 
of good fellowship, and good citizenship for the service 
of the city, and also to destroy the class and racial pre- 
judices which exist when men do not know each other.” 
It is too often true that friendships are made along lines 
of religious and racial prejudices and if the future suc- 
cesses of the City club are as great as those of the past 
the City of Boston will see the purpose of the club rea- 
lized. 
WHEN PresipENT WiLson touched the key that re- 
leased the current of electricity that fired the charge 
which broke up the Gamboa’ Dike, at Panama, the last 
- great obstacle in the way of the canal constructors was 
blown up. A few weeks more and the waters of the 
Pacific and the Atlantic will meet and the dream of 
three centuries will be fulfilled. 
THE REPUBLICAN Parry is reuniting and the de- 
cadence of the Progressive party as a party is imminent. 
Not because there is no measure of good in the newer 
party’s platform, but because the virtuous planks for 
which it contends may be found in the platforms of 
the older parties. Progressive-isms have come to stay. 
A Low Tax Rave with no advantages is a disgrace 
to a town or municipality, but a low rate of tax and a 
high standard of town life is an honor. There is no vir- 
tue in false municipal economy nor in extravagant ex- 
penditure, 
Tue DuLLNESs of construction work on the shore 
has reduced the number of foreign residents. 
Mr. RoosEvELT says he will always be faithful to the 
principles of the Progressive party. 
BASEBALL now gives way as the season progresses 
to football, but the latter sport never can supplant the 
great national game. ‘There were days when baseball 
was in disrepute and an attendant was marked as one 
with those who patronized the race track and its gamb- 
ling evils. Happily the gambling features of the base- 
ball field have been greatly eliminated and a lover of 
sport may enjoy sport for sport’s own sake. The pleas- 
ure and relaxation that can be given by a group of ball 
players to a throng of nerve-tired and care-worried men 
is surprising. Baseball has its place and kept in its place, 
it is a wholesome and helpful diversion. 
THE ARBITRATION CoMMISsION which is hearing the 
evidence from the men on the “L,” in Boston are serving 
the public well. In the end it will be a public benefac- 
tion for all of the troubles to reach the surface. It is 
quite evident that there is a deeper problem to be solved 
than appears at first hand. To rearrange a schedule of 
wages that would be in keeping with the labor involved 
and the standards of honorable living and the revenue of 
the company will be a task of large proportions. There 
are many men who are under-paid and a new schedule 
of hours and wages is certain to be a result from the in- 
vestigations. 
CAN IT BE PossiBLE that there is not energy and ag- 
gressiveness enough in the towns on the North Shore to 
establish municipal centres. The proposed ‘Town hall in 
Manchester will be a distinct gain, but there ought also 
to be another building equipped for the social service 
work of the town. Such a building would be invaluable 
in the service of the school for gymnasium purposes and 
for girl’s and boy’s clubs. This will prove especially true 
during the next five months. Not even a moving picture 
house in town! 
AN OckAN TRip last week was a bank of fog and a 
tooting fog horn. 
BusH AND BENDER have put Brainerd, Minnesota, 
on the map. 
Brirp’s FLYING SQUADRON first vaudeville appearance of the will assist Mr. Bispham at the piano. 
Bird’s famous ‘‘flying squadron” celebrated baritone, Mr. David ee 
is scheduled to strike the North Bispham. There is no more popular Squirrels collect much of the seed 
Shore next week on the tour among 
the towns of the state promulgating 
the doctrines of the Progressive 
party. 
Rockport is on the schedule 
Friday, the 24th, at 3.40 p. m. 
The Cape Ann schedule is as fol- 
lows: 
for 
Boston (State house) 8.40 a.m, 
Lynnfield 11.50 a.m. 
Beverly (lunch) 12.30 a.m. 
Wenham 2.00 p.m. 
Essex 2.30 p.m. 
Gloucester 3.05 p.m. 
-Rockport 3.40 p.m. 
Manchester 4.30 p.m. 
Salem 5.10 p.m. 
B. F, Kerru’s. THEATRE 
One of the greatest captures ever 
made by Mr. B. F. Keith for his cir- 
cuit is announced for B. F. Keith’s 
Theatre in Boston next week in the 
opera singer among the great mass 
of lovers of music than Mr. Bispham, 
and his long association with the 
Metropolitan Opera House in New 
York has won him a high place 
among the ranks of American singers. 
Mr. Bispham’s songs will not be con- 
fined to operatic airs alone. They 
will be selected from old fashioned 
songs that everyone knows, ballads, 
and from grand operas by Wagner, 
Biset, and Mendelssohn. Among his 
selections will be The Evening Star; 
Die Possete; Toreador; For I’m a 
Roamer; Denny Deever; The Banjo 
Song; Killiekrankie; The Pirate 
Song; the Prologue from the opera 
“Pagliacci ;” Falstaff’s song from the 
opera “Falstaff,” Annie Laurie; Be- 
lieve Me of All Those Endearing 
Young Charms; Drink to Me Only 
With Thine Eyes; and Down Among 
the Dead Men. Mr. H. H. Gilbert 
used for planting by the forest ser- 
vice. 
The fall of man dates back to the 
time when Adam first took a tumble 
to himself. 
There are lots of has-beens who 
never demonstrate the theory of re- 
incarnation. 
One way of saving money is to lend 
a man five dollars when he strikes 
you for ten. 
Don’t lose sight of the fact that the 
man who won’t listen to reason may 
be thinking the same thing about you. 
There is only one thing a woman 
dislikes more than flattery, and that 
is not to he flattered, 
