NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
UNITED SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY’S CLUBs- 
HOUSE, BEVERLY 
The tendency of the times among 
manufacturers, with reference to the 
relations existing between employers 
and employed, is illustrated notably 
by the opening at Beverly, of 
the new Country Club House pre- 
sented by the United Shoe Machin- 
ery Company to its employees. , 
The property of the company at 
North Beverly has been called “An 
Industrial City.” The great factories 
there, are models of their kind in the 
industrial world. The system, the 
co-ordination, the scale and scope of 
the operations from a manufacturing 
standpoint are impressive. 
The standard of efficiency attained 
has been secured, however, not by 
organization and equipment alone, 
but by a well-thought plan having as 
its aim the welfare and development 
of the individual. The conditions un- 
der which the work is done at the 
Beverly factory are a matter of pride 
with the employees themselves. The 
factories are equipped with every fa- 
cility which makes for the comfort, 
convenience and safety of the opera- 
tives. Hygiene ahd sanitation are 
safeguarded at every point. 
State statistics show that the ma- 
chinists at Beverly receive wages 
which average among the highest 
paid in the Commonwealth. 
However, the officials of the com- 
pany do not pause here. 
The personal interests of the em- 
ployees at the Beverly factory are 
given the widest range. Thrift is en- 
couraged. Wholesome pleasure is 
fostered. 
The United Shoe Machienry Com- 
pany has never undertaken to de- 
velop a “Model Community,” nor has 
it sought to regulate the activities of 
the operatives outside the factory, 
but the company believes in co-oper- 
ation and joins hands with the people 
in its employ in any movement which 
will promote the general welfare. 
Contributing activities are encour- 
aged; they are widely diversified. 
George W. Brown,  vice-presi- 
dent of the United Shoe Machinery 
Company, in presenting to the em- 
ployees the new club house, dedicat- 
ed the structure: “A Home for Play 
and Good Fellowship.” 
The United Shoe Machinery Ath- 
letic Association has existed for a 
number of years. Membership is 
placed within the reach of every em- 
ployee at the factory. The company 
early donated a large piece of prop- 
erty for use as an athletic field. Its 
area permits football, baseball, cricket, 
tennis and shooting. Here is held 
an annual field day. On the river 
boating facilities are afforded. All 
this is within sight of the great fac- 
tories themselves; the playground is 
within ten minutes’ walk of the 
workshop. And just now the new 
home of the association has _ been 
completed and presented outright by 
the company to its people. 
The club house is a handsome 
structure, of cement, and is fully 
equipped. In the basement are sep- 
arate locker rooms, toilets and show- 
ers, for men and women, and there 
are four bowling alleys. On the main 
floor are lounging rooms, writing 
rooms, and_a library filled with ref- 
erence books and fiction, a_ billiard 
hall with four tables, a card room 
and a cloak room. 
The second story is devoted to a 
hall, with a stage for theatricals, and 
a seating capacity of 450. The build-— 
ing is lighted throughout with both 
electricity and gas. 
The club house is located in a roll- 
ing and picturesque country, and the 
broad porches afford the delights of 
the ideal country club. 
TIME TO MOVE ON. 
She (pouting )—Today I am twen- 
ty-three and you haven’t wished me 
many happy returns of the day. 
He—No;_ don’t you think you’ve 
had returns enough of your twenty- 
third birthday ?—Boston Transcript. 
Former Summer White House to be moved to Marblehead 
The big shore cottage on Burgess 
Point, Beverly, occupied for the past 
two summers by President Taft and 
was necessary that the presidential 
cottage be moved. On this account 
Mrs. Evans last summer declined to 
COTTAGE ON EVANS ESTATE, BEVERLY 
his family is to be cut into sections 
and ferried across Salem Bay on pon- 
toons to Marblehead, 3% miles dis- 
tant, where it will be put together 
again on a lot adjoining the Crownin- 
shield estate. Mrs. R. D. Evans, 
owner of the house, recently bought 
the Marblehead land and after the 
building now known as the summer 
White House has been moved, she 
will convert its present site into an 
Italian garden. ‘The presidential cot- 
tage is on the Evans estate and ad- 
joins Mrs. Kvans’ residence. 
Since the death of Mr. Evans, 
nearly two years ago, Mrs. Evans has 
been contemplating the establishment 
of an Italian garden on the estate and 
in the furtherance of this project it 
renew the president’s lease of the 
property. 
When the president’s family ar- 
rives in Beverly next summer it will 
occupy Paramatta, a splendid mansion 
owned by the estate of Henry W. 
Peabody, on Corning street. Para- 
matta is situated on the top of a high 
hill overlooking the ocean, but about a 
mile back.from the shore. Although 
the president would have preferred 
a summer home directly on the shore, 
the fact that Paramatta is nearly a 
mile nearer the Myopia country club, 
where he indulges in his favorite 
game of golf, is popularly supposed to 
have outset the distance of the estate 
from the sea. 
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