NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Mrs. J. Frederick Ayer of Com- 
monwealth avenue has been spend- 
ing the early sprng at Fort Sheridan, 
Ill., with her son-in-law and daugh- 
ter, Lieut. George Smith Patton, 
U.S. A., and Mrs. Patton, and mak- 
ing the acquaintance of her promis- 
ing little grandchild born a_ few 
weeks ago, whose advent into the 
world has been such a welcome and 
auspicious event. Mr. and = Mrs. 
Ayer have now opened their Pride’s 
Crossing residence, ** Avalon,’’ 
where the wedding was celebrated 
last year, and where Mrs. Patton and 
the baby are expected for a lengthy 
visit later in the season. 
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Newport is greatly interested at the 
prospect of having Mr. and Mrs. 
Charles P. Taft, brother and sister-in- 
law, of President ‘Taft, as cottagers 
the coming season. ‘They have been 
spending their summers abroad or else 
in Canada. Mrs. Taft, who was a 
Miss Sinton of Cincinnati, is known 
to be a woman of charming person- 
ality and a most delightful hostess. 
Charles P. Searle and his sons, Carl 
and John E., of Boston, spent Sunday 
at their country home in Ipswich. Mr. 
Searle arrived in New York last Sat- 
urday on the Mauretania. Mrs. and 
Miss Searle remained over Sunday in 
New York. but all will be at “Inglis- 
by” for Faster. 
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Harold $. Vanderbilt of. the New 
York Yacht club, who has been fre- 
quently entertained on the North 
Shore, is the first to make a formal 
entry in the ocean race from Boston 
to Bermuda, which starts early in 
June. 
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The fast sonder boat Eel, formerly 
owned by Herbert M. Sears of Pride’s 
has been sold by the Hollis Burgess 
Agency to Commodore FE. Walter 
Clark of the Philadelphia Corinthian 
Yacht Club, owner of the schooner 
Queen. Commodore Clark will use 
Eel for racing at Marblehead. 
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Frederick Law Olmsted, of Brook- 
line, Harvard, 1894, the Charles Eliot 
professor of landscape architecture in 
Harvard University, and Sarah H. 
Sharples, Radcliffe, 1898, were mar- 
ried in Cambridge, March 30, at the 
home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and 
Mrs. Stephen P. Sharples, by Rey. 
Samuel McC. Crothers, minister of 
the First Parish in Cambridge. There 
were no bridal attendants. Mr. Olm- 
sted is a member of the firm of Olm- 
sted Bros., landscape gardeners. 
The New Hotel for Pigeon Cove 
Courtesy Gloucester Times 
-The new hotel to be erected at Pig- 
eon Cove, is exciting much interest 
and comment. It will be erected on 
land recently purchased of the Phil- 
lips estate, and to be known as the 
‘New Pigeon Cove House.’ It is to 
be ready for occupancy, during the, 
summer of 1912. In fact work will 
be commenced on the new structure 
this spring just as soon as the frost is 
out of the ground and conditions are 
favorable for excavating for the foun- 
dations. 
‘The new structure will be a model 
one in every particular and as near 
fireproof as human ingenuity can 
make it. It will be four stories high, 
built of terra cotta blocks with 
stucco trimming, and will be 138 by 
154 feet. It will cost $80,000. Chas. 
A. Brigham is the architect, and the 
undertaking will be financed by a syn- 
dicate of Boston capitalists, who were 
interested- in- the enterprise through 
Henry P. Mason, a young attorney, . 
formerly of Gloucester, who has re- 
sided in Boston the past few years, 
and he is the originator and _ pro- 
moter of the undertaking. 
The basement will be divided up 
into a mammoth up to date kitchen 
and the servants will also have their 
quarters in this portion of the build- 
ing. 
The main entrance will be hand- 
some and striking in appearance and 
will lead to a great lobby, 13 feet, 
extending the entire length of the ho- 
tel. On the right of the lobby, will be 
the ladies’ parlor, 17.6 x 40 feet, and 
the reading’ and smoking rooms of 
similar dimensions. At the left of the 
lobby on this floor for the convenience 
of guests who do not care to travel 
up stairs, will be seven bedrooms and 
two private baths all of good size, 
and likewise the billiard room and 
private dining rooms. The _ officers 
and check room will also be on thus 
floor, leading off this corridor, 
Directly back of the lobby and run- 
ning parallel with it for some distance, 
facing directly on the ocean will be 
the main dining hall, 34 by 70 feet. 
Off of this will be the pantry and 
serving room, with dumb waiters lead- 
ing to the kitchen below. 
On the second floor will be 32 
chambers, mostly 11 by 121% feet, and 
some of them even larger, seven pri- 
vate and two public baths and those 
apartments are so arranged that they 
can be thrown into suites of two, 
three or four rooms, with or without 
baths. 
Directly over the dining room, and 
as. large as that apartment will be a 
splendid roof garden, facing the 
ocean. 
The third and fourth floors will be 
exactly the same as the second floor, 
divided up into bedrooms, with the ex- 
ception of the roof garden, and the 
space of that on those floors will be 
utilized for bedrooms. 
In all there will be 125 sleeping 
apartments in the building. All of 
the inside will be in the natural wood, 
beautifully stained and colored to 
correspond with the surroundings. 
New Hore, To BE ERECTED ON SITE 
oF CoLONTAL ARMS. 
Plans have been drawn for a new 
hotel on the site of the old Colonial 
Arms, Frank H. Shute of this city be- 
ing the architect. Mr. Shute will 
withdraw from the clerical force of 
the Gloucester national bank to enter 
the hotel business, and will be asso- 
ciated with George O. Stacy of Haw- 
thorne inn and Colonial Arms fame. 
Mr. Shute’s. plans are receiving 
much favorable attention. In a gen- 
eral way they resemble the floor plan 
of the modern resort hotel, a central 
structure with wings at an angle so 
arranged as to make every room an 
outside one or with a desirable view, 
