Gloucester Section 
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GLOUCESTER OFFICE, 18 BROWN’S BLDG., PLEASANT ST. 
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all our Gloucester patrons that we are 
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Gloucester manager, Mr. Williams, 
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work. The Breeze employs only the 
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equipped with the latest and most 
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quality of work, price or time of deliv- 
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The next order you have to give out 
let the Breeze do it for you and you 
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SUNDAY SHOW SENTIMENT. 
‘The Holy Name Society of St. 
_Ann’s church, is the latest organiza- 
tion to take up the fight against Sun- 
day shows, and at a meeting held Sun- 
day, decided to appear in a body be- 
fore the municipal council and protest 
against the further granting of per- 
mits to the two local theatres. 
The objection to Sunday shows ap- 
pears to be very widespread in this 
city. Business and social: organiza- 
tions, churches and individuals have 
all registered a protest against the 
Sunday show and these people, collec- 
tively and individually, are certainly 
entitled to consideration from the au- 
thorities who have been chosen to rep- 
resent them in the government of city 
affairs. As the Breeze remarked a 
few weeks ago, this is a matter that 
should be settled by the sentiment of 
each community and the authorities 
should be governed by the sentiment 
as evidenced by the people of each 
city or town in which’ the ‘question of 
Sunday shows comes up for consid- 
eration. 
REVIVAL OF COASTING. 
Coasting on the hills of old Cape 
Ann has been the one popular sport 
during the past week. ° Sleds, tobag- 
gans and double runners have been 
much in evidence and merry parties 
of young people are to be seen every 
afternoon and evening wending their 
way to where the hills are highest 
and the coast the longest, while the 
“toot—toot” of the horn and the cry 
of “clear the road” resounds on the 
night air, and recalls to the older peo- 
ple reading by the evening fire the 
days of their youth when they too 
loved the fun and excitement of coast- 
ing. 
A NEW SALOON LAW. 
Gloucester will be no license for ‘at 
least one year from the first of next 
May, and it is very likely to remain 
in the no-license column for a num- 
ber of years to come. That at least 
is the opinion of many people well 
qualified to judge. Therefore the bar 
and bottle bill and other liquor legis- 
lation will not excite the interest it 
would if this city had voted for li- 
cense last fall. Nevertheless the ad- 
vocates of license as well as the no-li- 
cense people will watch with interest 
the ultimate fate of a bill that has 
just been introduced in the Massachu- 
setts legislature prohibiting the open- 
ing of saloons until 8.30 in the morn- 
ing. At present, saloons are al- 
lowed to open at 6.30, presumably 
for the purpose of allowing the early 
worker to get his morning nip before 
beginning the labor of the day. It is 
a question whether such a law. will 
pass the present legislature as there 
is much more important liquor legis- 
lation that is bound to be _ settled 
first. 
That the proposed law is a good 
one from the temperance standpoint, 
there can be no argument. With the 
saloon closed from 11 o’clock at night 
until 8.30 o’clock in the morning, the 
average drinking man, be he a moder- 
ate drinker or a toper, will have plenty 
of time to get the effects of the night 
before liquor out of his system, for 
if he cannot get a drink on his way 
to work in the morning, he will have 
to wait until the noon hour and by 
that time he will feel the need of food 
more than of drink. 
The man who stops on his way to 
work in the morning for a “‘bracer,” 
needs another bracer by the time he 
is ready to go home to dinner. Shut 
off the opportunity for the © first 
“bracer” and in the intervening hours 
BREEZE 
L. F. WILLIAMS, MANAGER 
before noon arrives, the desire for 
liquor will for the time being be least, 
have passed out of his system and a — 
healthy appetite for food will have 
taken its place. Such a law will of 
course work a hardship on the saloon- 
keeper for it would destroy a very 
profitable portion of his business, but — 
in view of the ever increasing senti- — 
ment against liquor everywhere, the 
saloon-keeper might as well realize 
that the halycon days of money making” 
in the liquor business is a thing of the 
past and that it is now only a question 
of time when-the saloon will become ~ 
one of the things that were, and that — 
alcoholic liquors will have as many 
restrictions placed about their sale as 
strychnine, arsenic, and chloral have 
now. . 
THE HARDEST PART OF WIN- 
TER. 
The hardest and most trying part 
of the winter has arrived, and this is 
especially true to those who are in 
poor or straightened circumstances. 
Thanksgiving, Christmas and New 
Year’s are all seasons of good cheer, 
charity and much giving. ‘The poor — 
are remembered, the needy are given 
help and a spirit of generosity and 
thoughtfulness is abroad in the land, 
but by the time winter has dragged 
its weary length along to the middle 
‘of February everybody is tired, bus- 
iness is poor and what with longing 
and expecting spring weather, the un- 
fortunates are more or less forgotten 
during the last few weeks of winter. 
It is then that the real suffering 
comes. It is then that the little chil- 
dren are most apt to be sold and hun- 
gry. Their winter shoes and cloth-- 
ing begin to wear out, the larder gets — 
low and they are easy victims to the’ 
slush and rains and bitter winds that 
are so conspicuous and disagreeable a 
part of our late winter and early — 
spring. 
There are many weeks yet before 
the grass sprouts green and the trees - 
begin to bud and those whose charity 
is not confined to the Christmas sea- 
son but is of the all the year round 
kind should remember that no time 
of the year offers greater opportun- 
ities for relieving suffering and dis- 
tress than the next five or six weeks. 
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