Gloucester Section 
NORTH 
GLOUCESTER OFFICE, 
18 BROWN’S BLDG., 
SHORE 
PLEASANT ST. 
The Gloucester Office of the Breeze. 
The Gloucester office of the North 
Shore Breeze is now permanently 
located in room 3, Brown’s_ bloek, 
Pleasant street. Orders for print- 
ing and advertising will be prompt- 
ly attended to and we solicit the bus- 
iness of the merchants, manufactur- 
ers, societies, clubs and individuals 
of Gloucester and Cape Ann. The 
Breeze office 1s equipped with the 
most modern and up-to-date type 
and printing machinery and has ev- 
ery facility, (ineluding the latest 
model notype machine), for hand- 
licg all classes of printing. We are 
bere to do business and we. guar- 
antee satisfaction both as to quality 
of work and price. 
The Fish Question. 
Gloucester 1s not by any means a 
unit in opposition to the reciprocity 
measure submitted by President 
Taft. There are many who claim 
that a majority of the citizens are 
distinetly in favor of free fish; that 
the city will prosper under the reci- 
procity treaty as it did in the years 
prior to 1885. 
Without attempting to discuss the 
merits of the reciprocity measure as 
it relates to fish, it is certain that 
under the present tariff law, Glou- 
cester and her fishing industry have 
not prOser ery The idle wharves, 
the tumble down buildings, along the 
water front and the decrease in pop- 
ulation all tell their silent, but 1m- 
pressive story. Every argument in 
'e world cannot overcome facts, 
and it is a fact, that instead of be- 
ing a growing, progressive city, 
leepirng pace with the development 
snd growth of other cities of the 
‘ommonwealth, Gloucester is not on- 
at a standstill, but is dropping be- 
hind. What is the remedy? 
Grov ing Demand For Farms. 
ITenry Parsons who has 
een engaged in the building moy- 
ing business on Cape Ann for many 
rs. savs he has noticed a growing 
on the part of the wealthy 
ndeneyv 
Kx-Mavor 
. 
neople to huy estates for summer 
emes a few miJes inland rather 
ban directly on the seashore. He at- 
reasons for this 
one of which is 
several 
of sentiment, 
ibutes 
‘hange 
less fogs and dampness, 
a desire on the part of a great many 
to go more or less extensively into 
farming, and good farm lands are 
scarce along the seashore. The de- 
velopment of the automobile and 
the building of good roads has made 
the seashore easily accessible to 
tl ose living a few miles inland. The 
climate is more equable; there is 
and the 
homes are better adapted for winter 
parties and the winter sports than 
when they are located directly on 
the sea front. 
Then again, says Mr. Parsons, 
there are few desirable places left 
directly on the seashore, that could 
be converted into large estates 
without the expenditure of a great 
deal of money. The land is not pro- 
ductiye and while one has the con- 
stant charm of the sea there is 
lacking much of the beauties of the 
pastoral scenes that can be found a 
few miles inland. 
It is probable that few men are 
in a better position to judge of these 
facts than Mr. Parsons. His bus- 
iness carries him to all parts of the 
Cape, and to every point on the 
North Shore. The sea front will 
always be popular and estates dir- 
ectly on the shore will always com- 
mand a large figure, but the demand 
for large and fertile estates that are 
of easy access to the sea and yet far 
enough away to provide the joys of 
country. life will grow in popular 
demand, as the years roll by. 
There is many a farmer tilling the 
soil a few miles back from the ocean 
and bewailing the difficulties of win- 
ning a livlihood by farming, who, 
within .the next few years will re- 
ceive a sum for his holdings that will 
place, him above want for the bal- 
ance ob his days. 
a 
Essex Avenue improvements. 
The contemplated improvement. of 
Essex avenue, by the Municipal 
Council should, and doubtless will, 
receive the commendation of every 
citizen who takes a pride and an in- 
terest in the appearance of the main 
approach to the city. For several 
vears the work of improving the 
water front along Western avenue 
in the vicinity of Blynman Bridge 
and Kent, Mprele has been in pro- 
BREEZE 
L. F. WILLIAMS, MANAGER 
gress, and the beautiful marin 
park that, has been laid out for a 
distance of several hundred feet is 
a source of great pride and enjo: 
ment to all of Cape Ann as well a 
to thousands of summer visitors whe 
appreciate the efforts Gloucester. is 
constantly making to enhance ne 
natural beauties of this old seaport 
town. 
Gloucester is peculiarly situate 
in that it has only one main artery 
over which, practically all land tray- 
el into the city must come. This 
great thoroughfare is Essex avenue 
The shore road by way of Manche 
ter and Magnolia has a comparitive- 
ly light traffic compared with that 
which comes into the city over 
Essex avenue. | 
The road from the foot of Lovett’ 
hill to Kent cirele is built across 
the marshes and from it one receiv- 
es a very beautiful view of the har- 
bor, the East Gloucester shore, and 
Eastern point. The road ‘of late 
years has been kept in good repair 
and in the summer time thousands 
of automobiles and earriages pass 
daily in and out of the city over 
this picturesque and _ interesting 
stretch of marsh road. Its appear- 
ances has, however, been sadly mar. 
red by a dilapidated and tumble 
down fence that lined each side of 
the causeway and which has for 
many years been an eyesore to the 
thousands who travel over the road. 
This spring the city will tear 
down these old fences and replace 
them with brand new © structures 
that will lend a dignity and a fin- 
ish to the otherwise magnificent 
roadway. It is an improvement 
that has long been needed and there 
is no dcubt that it will be greatly 
appreciated by the public. 
Another improvement that should 
be made as soon as the city fathers 
can see their way clear to make it, 
is the curbing and turfing of the 
triangular plot of ground at the: 
junction of Western and Essex av- 
enues. It would add a finishing 
touch to that section which would — 
not only delight the eyé but would 
create a most favorable impression” 
upon all who enter the city by the 
only avenues leading into Glouces- 
ter from the outside world, 
