NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
SOCIETY NOTES 
The Essex County club continues 
- to be a popular place for week-end 
_ parties, and for those who come to 
_ the shore to stop for lunch or to re- 
main over night. Mr. and Mrs. Ran- 
_ dolph Tucker of Chestnut Hill were 
_ there the last week-end with party 
of ten. Walter Yates was down also 
with party of three. Reginald Fos- 
ter, Lester Leland and G. M. Lane 
were others who were noticed at the 
elub recently. 
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Mrs. S. V. R. Thayer has taken the 
E. L. Dresel large house on Boyle 
street, Beverly Cove, for the coming 
season, | 
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The marriage of Miss Lancashire 
the latter part of April will be one of 
the brilliant early season social 
events at Manchester. The Dr. Lan- 
cashires will come on from their 
home in Alma, Mich., next week and 
will settle at the Hood cottage, Man- 
chester, for a long season. Many 
functions are being planned in honor 
of the coming marriage. 
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The Frederick Ayers house at 
Pride’s is being put in readiness for 
the arrival of the family from 
Boston the first of April. 
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It is reported that Lathrop Brown 
and his fiancee, Miss Helen Hooper 
of Boston and West Manchester, 
and Leonce Fuller, their intimate 
friend, are to open a racing stable 
after the marriage of Mr. Brown 
- and Miss Hooper, April 5. Miss 
Hooper is the daughter of the late 
Robert Chamblet Hooper, one of the 
fathers of steeple chase racing in 
this country. Miss Hooper has 
opened a memorial stake in the 
name of her father, which has a 
value of $2,000 in money and a lov- 
ing cup prized at $1,000. The 
horses for the future Brown stable 
are said to be in training at Bel- 
mont Park, New York. Bobby En- 
glish is the stable jockey. 
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Bryan S. Permar of Boston, who 
was recently elected vice president of 
the Massachusetts Yacht Racing As- 
sociation, is a summer resident of the 
North Shore. The Permars summer 
home is at The Delphine, East 
Gloucester. Mr. Permar secured the 
Lipton honor shield for the associa- 
tion. 
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Mrs. John M. Graham of Boston 
and Beverly gave a tea at her resi- 
dence on Commonwealth avenue, 
Tuesday. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
By the death of the late Nathaniel 
Thayer, North Shore society loses 
one of its Boston leaders in financial, 
social, railroad and club life, who 
has long been prominent in Boston, 
New York and Newport society. He 
was a member of the Eastern Yacht 
club of Marblehead. Countess von 
Moltke, wife of the Danish am- 
bassador, is a daughter of the de- 
ceased. The family formerly sum- 
mered at Pride’s. 
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The New England Kennel Club 
will hold its spring show in Mechanics 
Building, Boston, April 11, 12 and 13. 
Prize money amounting to $5000 will 
be offered. 
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Samuel Bradford Dana, a promi- 
nent retired cotton merchant of 
Boston, died at his residence, 12 
Brimmer street, Boston, Tuesday. 
He was 76 years of age. He had 
been for several years a summer resi- 
dent of Beverly Farms. He occu- 
pied the Knowlton cottage on West 
street near the Farms depot. One 
son, Dr. Harold Ward Dana of 
Brookline, survives him. 
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A notable dinner was given in 
Washington last Thursday evening by 
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Southerland 
in honor of the Countess Alexandra 
von Bernstorff and Count Pourtales, 
who are being continuously enter- 
tained until their wedding day, 
March 27. The guests included mem- 
bers of the bridal party now in Wash- 
ington, with a few other close friends 
of the bride-elect, and Miss Mary 
Southerland, the youngest daughter of 
the hosts. Last Friday evening for- 
mer Senator and Mrs. Aldrich en- 
tertained about the same company, 
and on Saturday night the Secretary 
of the Navy and Mrs. Meyer were 
their hosts. Miss Alys Meyer is one 
of the prospective bridesmaids. There 
was a dinner for young people at the 
White House, Monday night, which 
was in honor of the bridal party, and 
Tuesday bachelor friends in the diplo- 
matic corps gave the count a farewell 
dinner. Wednesday, Ambassador von 
Bernstorff of the German Embassy 
and his wife gave a dinner, and Count 
Pourtales has since given a dinner 
for the men of the bridal party and 
others. Count Guenther von Bern- 
storff, the bride’s brother, arrived 
from Europe Sunday. 
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Mrs. John C. Phillips, of Boston, 
spent the week-end at the home of 
her son, Dr. J. C. Phillips, Enon 
Bluffs, North Beverly. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Mrs. Grover Cleveland, widow of 
the former President, sailed for Eur- 
ope Saturday on the liner Adriatic 
for a visit to her son Richard, who is 
at school in Switzerland. With her 
was her-son, Francis Cleveland. Mrs. 
Cleveland and children have been en- 
tertained on the North Shore by Mrs. 
John Hays Hammond. 
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Among those who sailed on the 
Romanic for Naples on Saturday 
were Robert S. Rantoul with the 
Misses Harriet, Eleanor, Edith and 
Margaret Rantoul, of Salem. The 
Rantoul summer home at _ Beverly 
Farms is to be let for the coming 
season. 
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Mrs. Amory Eliot of Boston and 
Manchester and her mother, Mrs. 
Clark, who have been abroad _ since 
October and in Paris all winter, have 
now gone to Italy and will sail for 
home in a few weeks. 
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The Boston grand opera season 
closes tomorrow night. It has been 
a very important social and musical 
era of the winter season. North 
Shore society folk have been promi- 
nently identified as box holders and 
attendants and by their generous sup- 
port Boston has made for herself 
memorable musical history. The 
fine public spirit of Eben D. Jordan 
of Boston and West Manchester has 
been particularly exemplified finan- 
cially and otherwise during the 
opera season. Boston is justified in 
feeling that she is a better city in 
every way by the existence of her 
fine grand opera house. 
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Count Leo’ Tolstoi, son of the late 
Russian author and philosopher, has 
been in Boston this week. In the 
course of his visits to Harvard, 
Wellesley and other notable places in 
Boston, he met many North Shore 
society folk. At President Lowell’s 
home in Cambridge, he met Ambassa- 
dor Robert Bacon of New York and 
Paris, who is in this country for the 
post-nuptial preparations of his son, 
Robert Bacon, of Washington, and 
Miss Cecilia May of Washington and 
Manchester. 
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The officers of the Sharon Sana- 
torium, for which North Shore society 
so generously gave their aid at the 
Boston Opera House last evening, in- 
cludes Dr. L. Vernon Briggs of Bos- 
ton and Manchester. Mrs. Charles A. 
Porter of the Beverly Farms colony is 
the secretary. Mrs. Henry P. King 
of the Pride’s colony is a director, 
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