12 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
A Pilea Hor Pearce 
The grey matter has turned white, 
And now the mind has lost its sight. 
Oh, sure pity the world should be 
Enclosed in a warring sea! 
No more the heart-beats love for man, 
No more the nations, first in van, 
Do strive achieve as best they may,— 
But fight and burn, destroy and slay. 
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A star of hope for armies all, 
Oh God, do send! Poor creatures call 
On Thee to end the awful war: 
Thy children wish again for law. 
Thy laws devine and golden rule, 
To worship Thee and stop the duel, 
That soon may peace ’mong men and Thee 
Be o’er the earth, we pray to see. 
—Jack Hitt. 
MAGNOLIA, APRIL, 15, 1916. 
CAPE ANN.—Prospects here for a brisk season for 
1916, are bright, the very early applications for 
houses in various sections of Cape Ann giving encourage- 
ment to this fact. In Annisquam, Pigeon Cove, Rock- 
port and East Gloucester, reports come of many rentals 
and early arrivals of families. The hotel keepers seer 
pleased over the number of applications that are coming 
for early accommodations. The diverse attractions that 
Cape Ann affords for summer residents is now promi- 
nently known and every year brings ,added popularity. 
Her boating and_ bathing facilities, the splendid golf 
courses, the pleasant social life at first-class hotels and 
golf or yacht club houses, are offered to the choice ‘of 
the people seeking a summer abiding place. But aside 
from these privileges, the glory that nature bestows is in 
views of land and sea. What grander and more majestic 
can the tourist behold than to stand on the great granite 
cliffs of the coast and watch the billows break with 
thunderous passion while above the white crests, the 
ships are seen riding the deep, blue depths, the white 
gulls circling in the azure sky? Then in gentler mood, 
we see on a calm day, from a height clad with bayberry 
green and the wild roses, a broad ‘stretch of blue, dotted 
here and there with a white sail, while mingled with the 
soft voices of the eddying tide the song birds sing happily 
and our own hearts sing in unison with the Poet Lowell, 
‘What is so rare as a day in June!” 
A live organization to work for the completion of the 
Sandy Bay Breakwater and Harbor of Refuge, Rockpori, 
held an important meeting one day last week in Boston, 
at the City Club. A campaign which promises to be pro- 
ductive of good results was outlined. Several prominent 
aioe of Cape Ann-were present, and the Secretary 97 
the Gloucester Board of Trade represented the interest of 
that body. It was decided to have an executive committee, 
composed of seven members and a general committee’ a 
approximately 25, to boom the matter locally and 1 
Washington. John Hays Hammond of Gloucester was 
chosen chairman of the general committee, with Ralph S. 
Bauer, president of the Lynn Chamber of Commerce, as 
chairman of the program committee. Register of Pro- 
bate Horace H. Atherton, Jr., was selected as secretary of 
the executive committee. All three gentlemen have con- 
sented to serve. Other prominent men of the North 
Shore, interested, will serve on the committee, 
them being Hon. John L. Bates, former Governor of 
among: 
. May 5, 1916. 
Massachusetts and summer resident of Cape Ann; Calvin 
Austin, president of the Eastern Steamship Company ; 
William J. Hobbs, vice president of the Boston & Maine 
railroad and Hon. James E. Cotter, both summer resi- 
dents of Land’s End; Capt. J. Clifford Entwistle of 
Salem, a former president of the Boston Marine society, 
besides a number of large shipping men of Boston, who 
were among those present at the meeting at the Boston 
City club. The proposed abandonment of the break- 
water and harbor of refuge has aroused the maritime 
interests all along the Atlantic seaboard and all seem to 
be lending aid to the movement for the completion of the 
breakwater, contending that the structure in its present 
state is a menace to navigation and that it should be 
finished in accordance with the original plans of the 
Army engineers. 
Our fears are usually more numerous than our dan- 
fers 
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AST GLOUCESTER.—Mrs. N. H. Weeks and 
daughters, the Misses Annie M., Florence, and Lela 
Spek ‘Manchester, N. H., are at their attractive cottage 
of Spanish architecture, located at Eastern Point. 
General Anson G. Mills and family are expected 
early at “Bayberry Ledge,” the large Mills estate near 
the Eastern Point Golf eb grounds. 
The Waterman A. Tafts of Arlington have been 
coning down over the road in their touring car, to their 
Eastern Point estate, oft and on, and w ill arrive early, 
as usual, to open the house. The Taft estate is one of 
the most attractive at Eastern Point. The house «is of 
stone and stucco, the garage and garden houses being 
picturesque. The landscape gardening is particularly 
beautiful in the height of the season. 
The Beachcroft on Niles Beach boulevard, is re- 
ceiving interior improvements including new baths. 
Mrs. Grace Buell and son George H. Crosby, who 
have been spending the winter on Cape Cod, are at Mer- 
rill Hall, Eastern Point road and will open their hotel 
early in June. 
Mrs. Mary B. 
City has arrived at her estate “Hacienda,” 
boulevard, for the season. 
Captain-Inspector A. Piatt Andrew of the American 
Ambulance corps in France, a resident of the Eastern 
Point colony, owning a fine estate here has written 
home, stating that he has had some moving pictures made 
of the work of the ambulances. He also sent to the 
Gloucester Times, an interesting story of the Glouceste: 
car, which was purchased and equipped with the money 
raised by the people of Gloucester. The letter was writ- 
ten by the driver of the “car 175” and tells of the life 
and some of the experiences of the drivers of the section 
on duty during the struggle for the possession of Hart- 
mannsweilerkopf. It is expected that the motion pic- 
tures will be shown in this country within a short time, 
giving an idea of the work at the battle front, among the 
mountains of Alsace. 
(Jackson) Rathbone of New York 
Eastern Point 
Now is the constant syllable ticking from the clock 
of time. 
ASS ROCKS.—The Fred H. Eatons of Lawrence have 
their cottage on Souther road, Bass Rocks, open for 
the week, during the school vacation of the children. 
The family expects to come early in June for the season. 
The Macombers of Boston arrive at Bass Rocks 
today, for the season, at the Smith estate, Brightside road. 
