VHAT A BOSTON TUNNEL 
'* WILL DO 
eans Much to the Development of 
North Shore and Cape Ann. 
reams of railroad builders of half 
century ago, and a commercial and 
idustrial development of New Eng- 
ind such as is only dreamed of now, 
ill be made possible of realization, 
ccording to Vice-President Byrnes of 
e New Haven railroad, if the plans 
f that road for a’tunnel under Boston 
varbor and electrification between 
Readville and Beverly are allowed to 
yo through. 
_ Mr. Byrnes, addressing recently the 
committee on railroads and metropo- 
jitan affairs of the legislature, sitting 
jointly at the State House, Boston, 
rave a comprehensive review of the 
conditions which 
make the proposed improvements 
lesirable, and explained in detail 
low, with the legislation asked for, 
the fullest benefits of the union of 
the Boston & Maine and New 
Javen lines will accrue to the peo- 
ple of Massachusetts and New 
Ingland. He said in part: _ 
“Greater Boston will practically be 
extended to Cape Ann by the swift 
transit facilities planned for the en- 
region. This means a fairly mar- 
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in his opinion,. 
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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
velous acceleration in population and 
industry for this great region, which 
beyond Lynn includes Swampscott, 
Marblehead, Salem, Peabody, Dan- 
vers, Beverly. The electrification of 
the Gloucester branch must soon fol- 
low as a matter of course. 
National Pleasure Ground. 
“The effect upon the North Shore 
as a national pleasure ground will be 
momentous. No other great city in 
the United States has so close at hand 
a stretch of coast at once as beautiful 
and so attractive for high-class sum- 
mer homes. With its increased ac- 
cessibility for the country at large 
the value and wealth of the North 
Shore will increase correspondingly. 
Through trains will be run from dis- 
tant points, wealthy residents will 
naturally take advantage of the op- 
portunity for private cars in such 
connection, and a ‘‘Cape Ann Lim- 
ited” to and from New York may be 
counted upon as a regular summer 
feature. 
“The transportation axis of this 
belt is coincident with the main rail- 
road line between Providence and 
Boston, and the orginal course of the 
old Eastern railroad. The line from 
Providence to Beverly by this route 
is practically as direct as topographi- 
cal circumstances will permit. It is 
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doubtful if there is to be found any- 
where else in the United States an- 
other opportunity for developing trat- 
fic by means of commensurate new 
facilities comparable with what is 
here presented. 
“The entire project denotes one of 
the greatest advances in transporta- 
tion efficiency ever proposed for New 
England. It promises benefits as 
enormous as they are diversified. 
“The difficulty in getting across 
Boston, the necessity of breaking the 
journey and transferring from one 
side of the city to the other, with 
incidental discomfort and delay, has 
been tending more and more to di- 
vert through travel to routes that cut 
across Massachusetts through the in- 
terior. Trains between New York 
and Portland and New York and 
Bar: Harbor now run that way. The 
creation of this great trunk line route 
will naturally divert the greater part 
of this travel back through Boston to 
the line of the densest traffic move- 
ment, correspondingly efficient in de- 
velopment. All this means new train 
facilities for Boston.” 
Classified Advertising rents rent- 
able property quickly—and makes 
all good property ‘‘rentable.”’ 
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of Boston. 
GRAND SPRING OPENING 
OF MILLINERY 
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, March 22, 23 and 24 
The women of Essex County are very cordially in- 
vited to see the grandest display of Spring Milli- 
nery, Suits, Costumes and Waists ever brought to 
Salem, a showing that is far better than any Kast 
