NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Vol. XV 
‘f HE Norru Suore is going to be a busy place the com- 
ing season, if the manner in which cottages and es- 
tates along the shore are being leased is any criterion. 
Real estate men say there is an unprecedented demand 
for summer property. The outlook is unusually bright, 
despite the war scare and the talk about people not want- 
ing to come to the seashore. We understand there is not 
a cottage to be rented at Nahant; everything was taken 
weeks ago. Along the Swampscott-Marblehead shore 
rentals are far ahead of any other season for years and 
years, and along the Beverly, Manchester and Magnolia 
shore the demand is unheard of. In addition to the large 
list of rentals published in last week’s, BREEZE, we report 
the following, all of which were made through the office 
of T. Dennie Boardman, Reginald and R. deB. Boardman 
of the Ames Building, Boston, and Manchester : 
The Brinley cottage on Hesperus avenue, Magnolia, 
to Robert L. Livingston and family of New York city. 
This is the same place they had last year. 
At Magnolia, too, Mrs. John T. Willetts, daugh- 
ter, Miss Theodora Willetts, and son, Howard Willetts, 
of New York City, will spend the summer. They will 
again occupy the Hayden cottage on Hesperus avenue. 
Dr. Elisha Flagg of 190 Conmonwealth ave., Boston, 
will be numbered among the new-comers on the shore 
this year. He has just leased the Ellis Dresel cottage on 
the top of Mingo Beach hill, Pride’s Crossing. This is 
the place Mrs. Robert Pitcairn of Pittsburg had last 
season. Mr. Dresel is still in Europe working among the 
prison camps. 
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William H. Wellington of Boston has released 
“Skerryvore,” the Longworth estate, off Hale street, 
Pride’s Crossing, for another season. 
Another Bostonian to return to the Shore this sum- 
mer will be George H. Swift, who has leased the Pickman 
gray house at Beverly Cove. Last year, Mr. Swift and 
iavily had Miss EF. P. Sohier’s place nearby. 
The Misses Edwards of 266 Beacon street, Boston, 
will return to Beverly Farms for the summer and will 
again occupy the cottage owned by Dr. J. H. Lancashire, 
and located near the home of the latter’s son-in-law and 
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. E. Laurence White. 
Mr. and Mrs. John Harvey Wright will also return 
to Beverly Farms for the season, and will occupy the 
Fenno cottage on Hart street. 
Senator and Mrs. Henry F. Lippitt (nee Laughlin), 
of Washington and Rhode Island, will again occupy 
“Willowbank,” the N. S. Simpkins place, off Hale street, 
Beverly Farms. 
Mr. and Mrs. Frederic R. Galacar of 74 Mt. Vernon 
street, Boston, will return to Beverly Farms. They will 
cecupy the Curtis yellow house the coming season. 
The Manchester colony will welcome the return of 
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Hall and family of Boston, who 
will again occupy the Cobb cottage on Masconomo street, 
Smith’s Point. 
Mrs. Jere Abbott, of Boston, will again occupy the 
Tibbitts cottage at West Manchester. 
Miss Katherine Ayer left Pride’s this week for Min- 
neapolis, where she will visit Mr. and Mrs. Eugene A. 
Merrill, parents of her fiance, Keith Merrill, to whom her 
engagement was announced on Christmas Day. Miss 
Ayer and Mr. Merrill are considering an April wedding, 
if Mr. Merrill’s duties connected with the 1st Minnesota 
Field Artillery will permit. Mr. Merrill was graduated 
from Yale in 1911 and from the Harvard Law school in 
1914. 
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Mr. and Mrs. J. Grant Forbes (Margaret Winthrop), 
who are now living in England, are receiving congratula- 
tions on the birth of a daughter, their seventh child. 
Mr. and Mrs. R. A ceynolde Hitt (Edith Romeyn 
Gray) of Washington, so well known in Boston and on 
the North Shore, have been at Newport on a visit to Mrs. 
John Clinton Gray at Zabriskie House on Rhode Island 
avenue. Mrs. Gray is Mrs. Hitt’s mother. The latter is 
a sister of Austen Gray, who married Miss Alice Burn- 
ham of Boston. 
Mr. and Mrs. ‘Clay Stiseicy of Grand Rapids have 
announced the engagement of their daughter, Martha, to 
Charles Wadsworth, 3d, of New York. Miss Hollister 
is a. Vassar (1914) graduate and a member of the famous 
Daisy Chain while there. Dr. Wadsworth is the son 
of Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Charles Wadsworth of Philadelphia, 
who have been for many years members of the Magnolia 
summer colony. Dr. Wadsworth is a graduate of Haver- 
ford college and of Harvard university, where he re- 
cently obtained the Ph. D. in chemistry. At present he is 
in charge of the research department of Merck & Co. He 
is a member of the Harvard club of New. York, 
Mrs. James D. Safford and daughter, Miss Gladys 
Safford of the Manchester colony, who have an apart- 
ment at the Connecticut in Washington this winter, gave 
a large bridge party last week. ~Mrs. Safford poured. 
The tables and rooms were daintly decorated with spring 
flowers. 
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Justice and Mrs. Holmes and Assistant Sec. of State 
and Mrs. William Phillips were among the guests at a 
dinner at the Willard in Washington given for the mem- 
bers of the Supreme Court. 
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Mrs. Marshall Field was of the dinner guests at a 
recent function given for Vice President and Mrs. Mar- 
shall by Sen. Phelan. Mrs. Field was a boxholder at the 
Riding and Hunt club ball given in Washington last week. 
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Miss Emma Mandell of the Hamilton colony has 
been attending a-house party at the home of the James 
B. Wallers in Chicago. One of the pleasant things ar- 
ranged by Mrs. Waller for her young guests was a dance 
at the fashionable ‘Casino club last week. The Wallers 
summer on Coolidge’s Point. Manchester. 
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Mrs. H. W. Farnum of Chicago and Magnolia has 
taken a house at Clearwater, Fla., for the remainder of 
the season. 
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Mrs. Horace Gray (Katherine Meeker) and her six- 
months’-old son, of Boston, are visiting in Chicago at the 
home of the Arthur Meekers. Last Tuesday Mrs. 
Meeker gave a dinner at the Casino for Mrs. Gray and 
Miss Christine Snelling, of Boston and Marblehead Neck, 
who is visiting at the home of her fiance, Loring Coleman, 
