June 23, 1916. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
7 
The Ubiquitous Mosquito—Campaign Waged to Rid North 
Shore of This Pest 
HE, extermination of mosquitos on the North Shore is 
what is necessary to make residence in this beautiful 
country more desirable. We have splendid residential 
sites, beautiful woods, and good roads into them for driv- 
ing and walking, but the mosquitos destroy pleasure and 
coinfort. 
Mosquitos can and should be exterminated here as 
they have been exterminated in parts of Cuba, in the 
Panama Zone, on Staten Island, in large districts in New 
Jersey and Long Island and in Greenwich, Conn., where 
land values have risen because of their extermination. 
Last summer the continuous rainfall made conditio ts 
for mosquito breeding so good, and the pests so discom fort- 
ing and dangerous that a number of our summer residents 
were induced to abate the nuisance in certain districts by 
oiling the breeding places. ‘This summer’s rainfall prom- 
ises as bad a mosquito season. ‘The oiling method proved 
successful in the limited district where it was tried, but 1! 
was realized that this temporary and expensive method 
should be abandoned and that a more permanent method 
of extermination should be adopted. 
~ The permanent method is to ditch the salt gees 
and drain the stagnant pools, as mosquitos only breed 1 
stagnant waters. “Last fall an association was formed fo: 
the purpose of exterminating the mosquitos by the pe¢- 
manent and scientific methods which have proved so suc- 
cessful elsewhere. This association had the North Shore 
surveyed by the engineers of the United States Drainage 
and Irrigation Co., of New York, a company which makes 
specialty of such work and whose methods have met 
with the approval of the United States government offi- 
cials. 
. This New York company has agreed to eliminate all 
mosquito breeding places within that district of the Noria 
Shore from the Danvers marshes to a point nalf way be- 
tween Magnolia and Gloucester, thus assuring immunity 
from mosquitos to Beverly, Pride’s Crossing, Beverly 
Farms, Manchester and Magnolia. The contract price 
fixed last year was $30,000, with an additional percentage 
on that sum for upkeep for from three to four years in 
order to assure the permanency of the work. 
The district covered is comprised within a line three 
miles back from the ocean front and approximately 15 
miles long. Within that district all stagnant pools on the 
rocks, in the woods and in the marshes will be eliminated ; 
but where the pools are deep enough and large enough to 
admit of fish life, these pools will be so treated that fish 
may live and destroy the mosquito larvae as they are now 
doing in the fresh water pond on the road near Mr. Coo- 
lidge’s entrance, at Magnolia. Mosquitos do not breed 
in water where fish can get at the wigglers. 
The association formed last fall for this mosquito 
extermination work is known as the Norrm SHore Asso- 
CIATION FOR THE EXTERMINATION OF Mosourros, with 
Walter D. Denégre as president; F. P. Frazier, vice-presi- 
dent; Philip eerie treasurer; C:‘C. Walker, secretary; 
and M. G. Haughton, Thomas Silsbee, George R. White, 
and F, M. Whitehouse of the committee. 
The association sent out some 400 circulars outlin- 
ing their plan and inviting residents within the district to 
bind themselves for subscriptions of $50 each for three 
consecutive years, that the sum needed might be realized. 
It was thought that at least 250 subscriptions would have 
materialized; but only about 100 were secured. The 
work, therefore, could not be done this season, but the 
co nmittee is now renewing its efforts to get subscriptions. 
It is meeting with success by getting donations of larger 
sums from some of our public spirited citizens, who do 
not wish to see this splendid plan abandoned. 
Three subscriptions of $500 each have already been 
secured by summer residents, who believe that the exter- 
mination of mosquitos. is as important, and perhaps 
more so, than destroying the gypsy caterpillars. 
However, the association will abandon its plan un- 
less it meets with additional generous donations, and un- 
less the Town of Manchester and the City of Beverly 
join in making appropriations to aid in carrying out the 
plan. 
It is to be hoped.that this opportunity of ridding the 
North Shore of the mosquito pest will not be lost. 
Phyllis Sears Was a Bride This Week 
[\ St. John’s Episcopal Church in Beverly Farms at 
“12.30 Tuesday, Miss Phyllis Sears and Bay ard Tuck- 
erman, Jr., were married by the Rev. Dr. Roland Cotton 
Smith, rector of St. John’s Church in Washington, and 
an uncle of the groom. He was assisted by “the Rev. 
William Lawrence Wood of Lenox and the Rev. Neilson 
P. Carey of Beverly Farms. 
The bride is the younger daughter of Herbert M. 
Sears of Boston and “Wood Rock,” Pride’s Crossing. 
Her sister is Mrs. Bayard Warren (Elizabeth pears), 
who lives close to the Sears’ home at “Barberry Hill.” 
The bridegroom is the son of the Bayard Tuckermans cf 
Ipswich and is a Harvard ’11 man. 
The color scheme of pink and blue was effectively 
carried out in the church and at the home where the re- 
ception and breakfast were given. Carbone of Boston 
was the decorator. The walls of the church were massed 
with pink roses and greenery, vases of blue delphinium 
filled every available space and the altar was done in the 
same flowers. On each pew was a wreath of smilax to 
which was fastened a cluster of pink roses and delphinium. 
The bride was given in marriage by her father. Sie 
wore white satin, einined in as old family lace and 
tulle. The skirt had a deep flounce of the trimming and 
there was a full court train. Her tulle veil was fastened 
with orange blossoms and she carried orchids and lilies 
of the vz illey. 
The matron of honor was Mrs. Bayard Warren, who 
wore a mauve gown and hat to match. Miss Olivia 
Ames, Miss NatiALiE Thayer, Miss Elaine Denégre and 
Miss Sylvia Warren were the bridesmaids. They wore 
mauve gowns covered with tulle and made with panni:r 
effect. They wore leghorn hats trimmed in flowers to 
harmonize with the gowns. ‘They carried white and lav- 
ender flowers. Richard Mortimer, Jr., classmate of Mr. 
A 2 Sag Sh was best man, and the ushers were Samuel 
Hooper, James W. Appleton, Bayard Warren, Henry 
py aden Clarke, _ Francis W. Sargent, Jr., Gordon C. 
Prince, Robert S. Potter, Evans R. Dick, Jr., Hiram T. 
Folsom, Joseph B, Russell, Jr., Roger W. Cutler, Albert 
