8 NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
| LOBSTER COVE, MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA, MASS. 
BY MARY TAYLOR FALT 
“LOBSTER COVE, MANCHESTER. 
Showing the Richard Stone, 
J. Warren Merrill and J. R. Coolidge 
Cottages. 
Lobster Cove upon whose bluffs and beside whose 
rocky roadside beach repose the summer properties of 
several well-known Bostonians, is a charming scenic 
setting to please the aesthetic taste of the summer resi- 
dent or tourist. 
It is now only a landmark of new conditions and 
environments of the modern Manchester, the summer 
playground of wealth, distinction and fashion, both na- 
tional and international. 
To the older inhabitants, the cove stands for epochs 
in Manchester when she retained strong individuality, 
historically and industrially. The cove today retains its 
historical name, and as a namesake of this now scarce, 
Gelicious and essentially expensive shell-fish it recalls 
the tradition that lobsters were so plentiful in the olden 
days in the rockweed of Manchester’s beaches and mill 
streams, that at low tide one could select as many as 
ne eared for right on her shores. In those prodigal 
days the lobster was never valued as an article of food. 
Lobster Cove has twice in Manchester’s history put 
aside her present day aspect of quiet aristocratic seren- 
itv to be hilarious and festive. 
"Twas a popular Fourth of July rendezvous for 
young and old to give vent to the pent up enthusiasm 
of Independence. The general jollification included 
feasting, speech-making, toasts and games. On the 50th 
anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 
4, 1826, Manchester made the holiday a very gala oc- 
cesion, with joyful ringing of bells, booming of cannon 
avd a street procession with uniformed young men 
dressed in blue coats and white pants representing the 
states of the union. A Gloucester company also partici- 
pated. There were exercises in the church followed by 
a banquet in the Town hall. 
The modern Fourth of July spirit is evident each 
year in Manchester with a special program admirably 
emulating the spirit of her ancestors. 
The summer estates now bordering on Lobster Cove 
include those of Mrs. Chas. P. Hemenway, Geo. N. 
Black, J. Randolph Coolidge and Richard Stone of 
Boston. The trip to or from Lobster Cove by way of 
Beach and Masconomo streets and around Smith’s Point 
give lovely vistas of Nature’s generous distribution of 
her beautiful gifts of rock bound coast, verdant forest 
and field or in poetic phrasing. 
ce * * * * * * * * a rude 
and broken coastline, 
Wood and rock and gleaming sand-drift, jagged capes with bush 
and tree 
Leaning inland from the smiting of the wild and gusty 
sea.’? 
Only thoroughly trained 
competent servants (male 
or female) supplied. Re- 
ferences personally and 
carefully investigated. 
MISS 
305 Fifth Ave., 
Registry Office 
N. E. Gor. 3ist St. N. Y. 
WILD 
Special attention given 
to out of town orders, 
Telephones 8822, 8823 Madison $q. 
