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Vol. XII 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, November 20, 1914 
No. 47 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Major Henry L,. Higginson, one of the North Shore’s 
oldest and best-beloved citizens, for generations a summer 
resident of Manchester, observed his 80th birthday Wed- 
nesday. Born in New York, Nov. 18, 1834, Mr. Higgin- 
son was educated in Harvad, which he entered in 185r. 
Gallant fighter in the Civil War; benefactor of Harvard; 
founder of the Symphony Orchestra; builder of business ; 
administrator of charitable funds; contributor to innum- 
erable good causes which the world in general knowns 
nothing of; and tireless server of his country and his 
community—such are the six decades which have been 
given to the service of his fellows by the “first citizen of 
Boston.” What word for the young men of today has 
this veteran who has been through it all; war and peace; 
good times and bad; public life and private life; business 
career and cultivation of the arts? In an interview re- 
cently Major Higginson gave utterance to the following 
wise and pithy sentences: “Think of your job and not of 
yourself.” “The only asset anybody bas i. coatacter.” 
“No single person amounts to much: it is all together that 
we count.” “The only lasting satisfaction any one gets 
out of life is what he does for other people.” “We get 
things that we don’t deserve; and we deserve thinks that 
we don’t get.” “The great thing about doing something 
well is that it gets you a chance to do something else— 
the same way.” “What pays the highest return is the 
human dividend.” 
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The J. Warren Merrills of Manchester, are still at 
Hamilton, where they went in the late summer, but they 
plan to move to Boston after Thanksgiving, where they 
have taken a house at 39 Bay ae Road. 
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Leland have been spending the 
autumn at their West Manchester estate as usual. They 
are returning to town, where they have a house at 422 
Beacon st., the day pete itera 
ed 
Amory Eliot, who was recently honored by being 
elected president of the Webster & Atlas bank, Boston, to 
fill the vacancy caused by the death of the former presi- 
dent, John P. Lyman, had been for some time a director 
of the bank. He is a member of the bar and identified 
with the mangement of real estate trusts. The Eliots 
are still at Manchester and will, as usual, be here practi- 
cally all winter. 
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Announcement was recently made of the engagement 
of Miss Alice Boit of Brookline to Wm. A. Burnham, aN? 
The marriage will take place in December, but because 
of the death of Mr. Burnham’s mother at Manchester 
this summer, the wedding will be very quiet. 
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North Shore people are interested in the play, “Yel- 
low Bird,” by Pauline Bradford Mackie, which will be 
given at the Wilbur Theatre on Friday, November 27, 
at 2.30 o'clock, and on Saturday, November 28, at 10.30 
o'clock. Mrs. Roger Noble Burnham of Magnolia 
will be one of the leading members of the cast. Mrs. 
Walter C. Baylies of Boston and Nahant is one of the 
members of the committee of endorsement. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
The Myopia drag fixtures for the rest of November 
are announced as follows: Saturday, Nov. 21—Ipswich 
Trotting park, 3.15 p. m.; Tuesday, Nov. 24—Topsfield 
Fair grounds, 3.15 p. m.; Thursday, Nov. 26—Thanks- 
giving Day. The Kennels, 12 m. Breakfast by invita- 
tion of Chas. F. Ayer, Esq., at Juniper Ridge at 1.45 p. 
m.; Saturday, Nov. 28—Details will be posted. The fox- 
hounds meet Monday and Friday mornings. 
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Mrs. George E. Barnard is to give at her country 
home in Ipswich, the Saturday after Thanksgiving, an 
auction bridge and tea for the benefit of the Red Cross. 
Those of the summer colony still lingering in that region 
have entered into this ca ena with active interest. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Prince have decided not 
to spend the winter at Pau, France, as is their custom, but 
will stay at their estate at Pride’s Crossing, where they 
have been for the summer. “Princemere” is really in 
Wenham, the estate bordering on one of: the beautiful 
inland lakes. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hunnewell, Jr. (Minna Ly- 
man), who are still at Pride’s Crossing, have planned to 
leave there on Dec. 1, and go to Wellesley, where they 
will spend the winter. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Robert Treat Paine, 2d, of the Cool- 
idge Pt., Manchester, colony, have sent out cards for the 
ball for Miss Ruth Paine at the Somerset, on the night of 
Friday, Dec. 4. 
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Mrs. John S. Ford of Youngstown, O., closed her 
house at University Lane, Manchester, Monday, and is 
in Brookine for a stay. 
The North Shore is represented at “the front” in the 
great European conflict by many who are well known and 
familiar to summer visitors here. Members of the Austro- 
Hungarian embassy were among those at Manchester this 
summer to leave at the outbreak of the war, and members 
of the French, German, Russian and British embassies, 
who were formerly here are taking active parts in the 
war, many of them on the field. Sir John Lane Harring- 
ton, son-in-law of Mrs. James McMillan of the Man- 
chester colony hurried from Manchester as soon as war 
was declared. He is a colonel in the army. “If one 
thing more than another should imbue the private soldier 
with the spirit of emulation,” says London Tib-Bits, “it is 
surely the record of those famous ‘rankers’ who fought 
their way upward to the position of General, and even 
to that of Field Marshal, the highest to which any soldier 
can attain. Col. Sir John Lane Harrington, who was 
British representative at the court of King Menelik of 
Abyssinia, rose from the ranks. He joined the Irish 
Fusiliers, and subsequently found himself a lieutenant of 
the Indian Staff Corps. For three years, from 1895 to 
1898, he acted as vice consul at Zaila, afterward occupy- 
ing the onerous position of British representative in 
Abyssinia, where he rendered invaluable service to his 
Sovereign and his country.” 
