NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
MANCHESTER, MASS., FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1911. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
‘*Clipston,’’ the charming summer estate of Mr. and 
Mrs. Boylston A. Beal, on Smith’s Point, Manchester, 
—the former Mortimer B. Mason estate—will be thrown 
open to the public for the first time on Thursday, July 
27th, when North Shore cottagers are to take a very 
active part in raising funds for the new building in 
connection with the Elizabeth Peabody Settlement 
House, for which plans have already been drawn by 
R. Clipston Sturgis. It is to be on Charles street, 
Boston, opposite the Charlesbank playground. The 
function on the Beal’s estate takes the form of a 
“Bridge Tournament and Sale.’’ For the bridge tour- 
nament the ladies to be in charge are Mrs. Henry S. 
Grew, 2d, Mrs. John A. Lowell, Mrs. Bernard Weld and 
Mrs. S. V. R. Crosby. At the flower table will be 
Mrs. Edward J. Holmes, assisted by Miss Katherine 
Tweed and Mrs. Porter. The vegetable stall is to be in 
charge of Miss Alice and Miss Evelyn Sturgis. At the 
cake and candy table will be Mrs. R. Clipston Sturgis, 
and her daughter, Miss Dorothy Sturgis. Mrs. George 
Burgess will have the fancy table, for which some un- 
usual and very attractive articles are promised. Mrs. 
Russell Sullivan, Miss Ellen Bullard and Miss Miriam 
Hamlen will assist Mrs. Burgess. Quite a number of 
other cottagers from near and far are to help with the 
tea and light refreshments, which will be sold for those 
playing bridge and those at the sale. 
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Mrs. James C. Barr was overcome by the heat while 
in Boston, Monday, and is in consequence under a phy- 
sician’s care at ‘‘Barr Harbour,’’ her cottage at Beverly 
Farms. She has been ordered by her physicians to 
remain indoors for two or panes weeks. 
Mrs. William F. Draper and her attractive and ac- 
complished young daughter, Miss Margaret 
Draper, have been welcomed back to the North Shore 
this week. They were passengers on the Hamburg line 
steamer arriving at New York last Saturday and they 
came on to Manchester Sunday, after a night in Boston, 
and are again pleasantly located in the Bradbury cot- 
tage, one of the most picturesque of ‘the smaller estates 
on Smith’s Point, owned by Mrs. F. T. Bradbury. They 
had spent the winter in Cannes, Southern France, with 
cecasional visits to Paris and to Rome. At the latter 
place the late husband of Mrs. Draper was ambassador 
for several years. They also spent five weeks in Kng- 
land and were of the prominent Americans gracing the 
fanetions in connection with the coronation. 
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West Beach, Beverly Farms, is the mecca for scores 
of North Shore people daily for a plunge in the surf. 
Many of the young men and women seen daily on the 
floats and diving and swimming are most proficient in 
the sport. Prominent among such is Miss Jane Fairfield, 
the young daughter of Mrs. James Barr. Miss Fairfield 
coes some expert and beautiful diving. 
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Harry Brown of Boston, treasurer of the Waltham 
Watch Co., is at Manchester for the summer, and is 
stopping at the Essex County club. 
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SOCIETY NOTES 
Mrs. Taft has chosen to spend the season at the 
summer White House very simply and quietly. Robert 
Taft is in Europe and with Mrs. Taft are Miss Helen 
Taft, Master Charles Taft, Mrs. Laughlin of Pittsburg, 
her sister, and her niece, Miss Anderson. The summer 
White House is fitted with all cooling devices and the 
Presidential family are said to be very comfortable 
despite the oppressive weather. Last Sunday Miss 
Helen Taft looked after both her spiritual and physical 
welfare at Beverly Farms. She and her mother wor- 
shipped at the Beverly Farms Episcopal church, then 
motored to West Beach where Miss Helen went in bath- 
ing. She showed her prowess as a swimmer by swim- 
ming to the end of the pier at the beach. Her mother 
watched her feat from the beach. 
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Richard M. Bradley of Brookline and Smith’s Point, 
Manchester, derives great pleasure in the society of his 
five young daughters, who chum very happily with him. 
They are his companions on many trips and in out-door 
sports of which the family are enthusiasts. This week 
Mr. Bradley and Miss Sarah Bradley are in Brattleboro, 
Vt., visiting Mr. Bradley’s mother. 
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Daily visitors and bathers at West Beach are the 
Misses Meyer of Washington and Hamilton. Their 
bright-hued bathing costumes of blue and scarlet make 
them conspicuous among the more somber colored cos- 
tumes prevailing and they are quite Parisian in design 
and texture. They usually arrive at West Beach be- 
tween 11 and 12 a.m., and are among the many bathers 
irom Hamilton and other resorts enjoying the fine new 
pavilion and its excellent facilities. 
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The Asst. See’y of the Navy and Mrs. Beekman 
Winthrop of Washington and New York, have been 
evests of the former’s brother, Frederick Winthrop, 
at his summer home, Groton House in Hamilton. Fred- 
erick Winthrop’s engagement has been recently an- 
uouneced to Miss Sarah Thayer and the wedding will 
take place the latter part of this month. 
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Tennis has been a feature of the busy social calen- 
dar at the Essex County club the last week. Despite 
the hot weather the men’s handicap singles were started 
Monday and all the matches in the preliminary round 
were played. On Tuesday all but one match in the first 
round was completed and Wednesday the second round 
was played. Among the men and younger men playing 
and the order in which they were paired for the pre- 
liminary and first rounds, were: Preliminary—S. Me- 
Kean and C. 8. Cutting, D. LeBreton and C. A. Munn, 
N. S. Bartlett, Jr., and Ector Munn, Gurnee Munn and 
Harold F. Mason, T. L. Shaw and Jack Merrill, E. C. 
¥itz and S. D. Warren; first round—G. E. Warren and 
G. CO. Caner, Reginald Fitz and E. M. Pickman, E. H. 
Graham and : and H. 8. McKee, Prinee 
Koudacheff and Fred Seggerman, R. §8. Lovering and 
R. Tyson, 
