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VOLUME 6. Nov. 20, 1908 NUMBER 47 
Nov. 21—27. 
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Tue Masconomo House property 
again! A while ago we had an article 
in our columns about changes that would 
be made in the famous Masconomo 
House property at Manchester toward 
bringing it tothe fore again as a_ hotel. 
Later developments, the details of which 
need not be entered into here, showed 
that our article was wrong, and a com- 
munication from the promoters of the 
sanitarium proposition published a few 
weeks ago would seem to show that their 
scheme meant business. 
Some people have thought, and _ still 
think, probably, that this scheme to turn 
the Masconomo into a sanitarium is a 
**bluff.’? We are convinced, however, 
after careful investigation that it is no 
bluff, and before many months, we shall 
see the property transferred to a corpora- 
tion, whose purpose it is to utillze it as a 
sanitarium. 
We have learned froma source which 
is perfectly reliable that the corporation 
which is being formed is about to apply 
for its charter, has money enough sub- 
scribed to take over the property and 
start the work of changing the building 
over, and that it intends to be ready for 
business before many months shall have 
passed. 
‘The company is being organized along 
practically the same lines as the famous 
Battle Creek sanitarium. “The man who 
is putting the project through has put 
through some of the biggest deals in the 
city of Boston. The Doctor who is 
heading the sanitarium end of it is one 
of the best known © specialists in the 
country, in his line. He has been look- 
ing for a suitable place for an_ institution 
of this kind along the New England 
coast for several years. When he start- 
ed to organize this company he intended 
to establish it if he 
couldn’t procure the Masconomo. 
somewhere else 
An option on the Masconomo was 
procured last spring ‘The option was 
given to October of this year. At that 
time the plans had not been far enough 
advanced to ‘‘make good.’’ The 
option which Mr. Hamilton had on the 
property to improve it as a hotel was 
given with the understanding that he 
could have the place if the sanitarium 
promoters did not make good on Octo- 
ber 1. But Mr. Hamilton had “ dis- 
appeared’’ in the meanwhile and Mr. 
Schofield extended the option to the 
sanitarium promoters to March 1, 1909. 
The citizens of Manchester, we be- 
lieve, are opposed to an _ institution. of 
this nature being established in our midst. 
In Town Meeting assembled last spring 
the citizens informally expressed them- 
selves as opposed to any such move. As 
far as we know, however. the town as a 
town can do nothing to hinder such a 
project. If aman, or number of men, 
can obtain from the secretary of state a 
charter permitting them to conduct a 
sanitarium within the town, as long as it 
is a Sanitarium and not a place to harbor 
consumptives or contageous diseases, 
there is nothing that can prevent him, or 
them, from so doing. 
The promoters of this particular pro- 
position say they are establishing a place 
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where wealthy people may come and re 
gain lost health, recuperate, be re-built, 
etc., etc., which is all well enough as 
far as it goes. 
But as one interested in the welfare of 
Manchester and the North Shore we urge 
the establishing and introduction of such 
things here as will attract as a summer 
resort. A sanitarium is a sanitarium, 
whether rich or poor people are treated 
within it. It is a place for sick people 
and nothing else. It will not attract, 
but rather detract. Who of our citizens 
wants a sanitarium bordering along our 
beautiful Singing Beach? 
It is for the business men of this town, 
and interested citizens, to get together 
and see what, if anything, can be done 
to avert the establishing of such an_ insti- 
tution in-Manchester. We arealtogeth- 
er too dependent on our natural attrac- 
tions to allow anything in the nature of a 
blemish to become a part of the town. 
So ‘Win’? Lufkin is not going to 
give up his job as private secretary to 
Congressman Gardner to accept a similar 
position with Henry C. Frick. The 
papers made much ado about the report 
that Mr. Frick had offered the job to 
Mr. Lufkin and politicians hereabouts 
were doing codsiderable thinking, all of 
which goes to show that ‘‘Win”’ is a 
mighty popular fellow, and efficient, too. 
No wonder Cong. Gardner was given 
such a magnificent majority vote at the 
last election. It would help any man to 
have a good “secretary.’’ 
Revision of the Beverly city charter, 
a movement which has been received 
with great interest in all sections of the 
city has been taken up by the Beverly 
Business Men’s association and the asso- 
ciation which represents every branch of 
business has taken up the matter of the 
revision in conjunction with the com- 
mittee on municipal affairs of the Beverly 
board of trade. 
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