NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
AND REMINDER 
Vol. XIV 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, June 2, 1916 
Manchester, Famous Among America’s Watering Places 
Beautiful Scenery, Wonderful Bathing Beach, Landlocked Harbor, Smooth Motor Roads and Woodland 
Drives Offer a Few of the Attractions 
O WANDER for a day among the many beauty spots 
in the vicinity of Manchester with their rare wood- 
land scenery, balanced by choice glimpses of the ocean’s 
blue among the trees, is a delight never to be forgotten. 
While drinking in the wondrous natural beauties of the 
surroundings it is hard to realize that for over two hun- 
dred years they went practically unappreciated. © Who 
was the first keen observer of the scenic beauty of the 
North Shore is an unrecorded fact. It is evident that 
none of the early settlers found much to be desired in 
the picturesque scenery of the section. ‘Theirs was a 
problem of existence, not of enjoyment. But even the 
succeeding generations appear to have been blind to the 
beauties and the possiblities of the North Shore. 
As a matter of fact it was not until well along in the 
last century that the poetic beauty of this region com- 
menced to be realized. What the land of wondrous 
scenery awaited was a poet with the vision of Whittier, 
who would sing to the less romantic souls of the natural 
charm of surroundings. Back in 1835 the celebrated 
Harriet Martineau, as guest of Hon. Stephen C. Phillips 
of Salem, rode to Manchester and was so impressed 13 
to exclaim, “It is enough to make a poor man envious.” 
The pioneer of “summer residents” of Manchester 
was Richard H. Dana, the poet, who in 1845 purchase:l 
thirty acres between the county road and the waterfront, 
bordering on what is now known as Dana’s Beach (pri- 
vate). The land was covered with a luxuriant forest 
growth and in its seclusion he built the first summer 
house of this section of the North Shore, if not the first 
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resort of Napoleon II. 
declared the Dana 
scenery to the 
summer 
Charles Sumner 
location and 
famous Biarritz, the 
on the entire shore. 
summer home superior in 
Succeeding generations of the illustrious family have 
made Manchester their summer home. With the Dana 
estate as the nucleus the summer colony rapidly grew 
until today Manchester is among the most fashionable of 
America’s watering places. 
The coming of the summer resident has worked 
wonders in the development of Manchester. The visitor 
to the little village by the sea is amply repaid, in the coin 
he seeks, for the benefits he brings to the town. Beauti- 
ful scenery, a wonderful bathing beach, a landlocked har- 
bor, smooth motor roads winding along the shore and 
amid the woodlands, are a measure of the advantages 91 
Manchester as a summer resort. The summer resident 
has unquestionably brought prosperity to Manchester an‘ 
made possible its deve lopment into one of the most mod- 
ern towns of its size in the country. 
The increased wealth of the ‘Town of Manchester has 
made it possible for the construction of miles of splendid 
motor roads, the expenditure this year to be over $68,000 
in building or repairing highways. Manchester spends 
$10,000 yearly for its street lighting system, which is 
second to none. ‘There is not an overhead wire in the 
town—telephone or electric. A new and highly efficient 
sewer system was recently installed. Over $100,000 has 
been spent in developing Manchester harbor which is one 
of the best on the North Shore. There are public land- 
ings convenient to the railroad station, the postoffice, the 
“Eaglehead” at Manchester, the Summer Home of 
Mrs. James McMillan of Washington. 
Surrounded by 
Trees and Rocks, the Ocean Washing its Foundations. 
