splendid mansions, costly display 
and luxurious ease. 
THE SITUATION. 
There are at least these different 
classes of people on the Shore (nam- 
ing them without any un-demo- 
cratic intentions), the laborers who 
do rough work for contractors, or, 
on the estates; servitors on large es- 
tates, including gardeners, caretak- 
ers, watchmen, butlers, coachmen, tu- 
tors, riding masters, etc.; business 
men, who serve in the usual necessi- 
ties and luxuries, medicine, provis- 
ions, grocers, flower, harness, etc. ; 
carpenters, masons; business men 
who live here, but who work else- 
where; skilled workmen, and finally 
the owners and residents of the sum- 
mer estates. 
In every one of these different 
classess except the last the burden 
is felt. The boarding facilities of- 
forded the poor workman are lament- 
able. The Italian with his outdoor 
shack fares better than he. To illus- 
trate the siuation three examples 
may be given. First is a second 
gardener estate in West Manchester. 
The editor met him outside this of- 
fice on his way to a meal and learned 
that he walked seven miles and a 
half every day simply to eat. The 
second illustration is that of a young 
woman with skill as a nurse who in 
order to have a suitable place to 
live for the summer hires a suite of 
rooms fot a whole year in order to 
use them two months. The last is 
a steady, reliable, honest skilled 
workman earning good wages strug- 
gling to better himself and which 
he could in any place but the North 
Shore, forced by necessity to share 
a house with two other families and 
no bath-room. The situation is ser- 
ious and something ought to be done. 
THE CONDITIONS. 
The conditions would be helped 
some if every resident should 
build cottages and provide for 
all their workmen. It should 
beeen definite part of. the 
plan of every estate. This would 
help. What would help more would 
be the release of some of the land in 
Beverly Farms especially, by philan- 
thropic spirits so that for a reason- 
able amount, thrifty, industrious 
people may purchase a house lot and 
build a home. This to be accom- 
plished not as a charity, but as their 
just rights and privileges. 
In the last ten years it ‘would be 
almost an untruth to say that only 
an average of one cottage a year 
had been built in the village of Bev- 
erly Farms. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
13 
The situation is ‘‘black’’ and some- 
thing should be done and at once 
and to it no one should be blind. 
The present policy of the Shore resi- 
dents.and the other land owners is 
suicidal to the best social, moral and 
business interests of the towns along 
the Shore, especially Beverly Farms. 
FORWARD MOVEMENT AT THE 
FARMS. 
The purpose of the West Beach 
Corporation to proceed at once to 
the removal of the unsightly booths, 
and to the construction of a commo- 
dious and chaste pavilion at West 
Beach is the most commendable for- 
ward movement inaugurated in years 
at this place. The generous vote 
returning the President and _ the 
Board of Directors to office was an 
indorsement in itself of the good 
work of the Board. The new plan 
provides for a pavilion with an out- 
look of ample dimensions and many 
bath-house compartments. The Cor- 
poration under the efficient business 
leadership of its officers, James B. 
Dow, president, D. M. Linehan, vice 
president, Charles Hull, secretary, 
Elmer Standley, treasurer, John H. 
Linehan, William H. Gerrish, Wil- 
liam R. Brooks, Fred Williams and 
J. Millage Publicover, directors, has 
been piloted through a very serious 
financial crisis, entailed by the suit, 
which was brought against it. 
Thanks to good management the 
property is free from all financial 
obligations and  embarrassments. 
The property is a trust and cannot 
be mortgaged so that when the pier 
was built, which is now all paid for, 
the money was raised on a note en- 
dorsed by its public spirited officers. 
The financial situation is encourag- 
ing and bright days are ahead. The 
‘vote of the corporation gives the dir- 
ectors power to remove the present 
booths and construct without debt 
to the corporation a suitable pavil- 
ion. Already a comfortable sum has 
been suscribed. 
This is an important real estate 
movement and cannot but enhance 
the value of every estate away from 
the water and its priveleges. It will 
remove the present unsightly booths 
and afford for all the pleasant priv- 
ileges which have been enjoyed by 
the few. Let the subscriptions come 
in! 
A more detailed account of the 
building plan will appear in a later 
edition of the Breeze, but do not 
delay your endorsement for the 
directors should be assured of gen- 
erous support by the many who are 
being benefited. 
This has been agitated a long while 
and now that the die is cast the pro- 
TO BEGIN NEW BRIDGE 
Boston & Maine Planning a Draw 
Structure at Manchester, Mass. 
to Cost $50,000. 
The Boston & Maine is about. to 
begin building a new drawbridge 
across Manchester inner harbor, to 
eost with approaches between $50,- 
0OO and $60,000. This work is the 
result of a petition to the war de- 
partment and of strenuous objection 
to the old bridge by the citizens of 
this town. 
The objections come chiefly from 
the owners of small boats, most of 
whom tie up their power pleasure 
erafts at Town wharf, and who have 
been unable to get their boats out 
into the harbor at certain stages of 
the tides. 
In May, 1910, the war department 
pronounced the present bridge, built 
in 1896, an illegal structure, as de- 
partment approval of the plans had 
not been secured. It was ordered by 
the war departmest that the railroad 
increase the width of the draw open- 
ing to not less than 50 feet in the 
elear, and provide 6.5 feet above 
mean high water under the spans 
for the passage of small boats, that 
it instal am efficient mechanism so 
that the draw span can be promptly 
opened, and also required that with- 
in 12 months from the date of notice 
the work of construction of the new 
bridge shall be completed. 
A draw of the roll-lft type will be 
put in, and it is to be operated by 
either electricity or gasoline. The 
grade of the tracks will be raised 
three feet at the draw, dropping off 
at an easy grade in both directions. 
A temporary trestle will be built to 
take the trains around the draw 
during construction. 
Men who owe all they have and all 
they are to an industrious, econom- 
ieal wife, too often leave her out 
when they boast of their success, as 
most successful men are prone to do. 
With rushing winds and gloomy 
skies 
The dark and stubborn Winter dies: 
Far-of", unseen, Spring faintly cries, 
Bidding her earliest child arise ;— 
Mareh! 
jeet should be launched with an ade- 
quate financial backing. The plans 
from the office of Eben Day, con- 
tractor and builder, have been accep- 
ted. The open-handed, publie-spir- 
ited policy which has been adopted 
by the board of directors and en- 
dorsed by the Corporation ought to 
be liberaly and spontaneously sup- 
ported. 
