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VOLUME 6. Nov. 27, 1908 NUMBER 48 
Nov. 28—Dec 4. 
SUN FULL TIDE 
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28 $a. 6 51 4 14 2 00 2720 
29 Su. 6 52 4513 2 55 3e15 
30 M. 6.53 2A 365) 415 
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‘Ninety per cent. of the passengers 
from Gloucester to Manchester or the 
Farms every Saturday night are drunk.’’ 
The above statement was made in 
court at Salem last Monday in connection 
with the cases of two men arrested as a 
result of the drunken row on the ttrain 
last Saturday night. The statement was 
given wide circulation through the daily 
papers and we regret to say it reflects 
badly on our two towns,——Manchester 
and Beverly Farms. 
While the statement is greatly exager- 
ated we do not pretend to defend the 
towns, for anyone who has had occasion 
to ride in the smoking car on the last 
train Saturday nights know all too well 
how near the truth the statement is. It 
is a shameful disgrace. The number of 
young men who take their week’s wages 
Saturday nights and go to Gloucester, _ it 
is safe to say figures over two score, 
and there are not many of them who 
bring much of their wages home. They 
don’t spend it all in drink, necessarily. 
‘They make other purchases, and our 
merchants loose thereby. 
Now, there is food for thought is 
this. Conditions have always been bad 
enough. ‘They have been worse the 
past six months than ever before, claim 
those who are in a position to know. 
What is the best remedy? We believe 
in enforcing our laws. Does a “‘strict’’ 
enforcement of laws always bring about 
the best results? A 
The newspapers have talked about 
the B. & N. buying the Manchester 
electric plant because they wanted ad- 
ditional power for the Beverly, Glouces- 
ter & Essex branch. 
This must be an error, as Manches- 
ter does not make electricity. It buys 
the current wholesale of Beverly and re- 
tails it to consumers. The plant consists 
of a transformer and distributing wires. 
The current is sent through underground 
cables — Beverly Citizen. 
FURTHERMORE quite the reverse is 
nearer the truth. They have the ca- 
pacity for furnishing more power at their 
power station in Essex now than they 
need, and it may be their ultimate in- 
tention to send some of their spare 
‘juice’ over through Essex woods to 
Manchester. It is very likely this is 
what will be done, if the company buys 
the plant. 
A considerable number of $3. bills 
seem to have shown up lately in one 
place and another, none of them, how- 
ever, of very recent date. Charles F. 
Evans of Peabody has one dated 1861, 
- drawn on a Lynn bank; Victor E. Dur- 
gin of Salem one of 1854 ona bank of 
that city, and another Salem man a 
Danvers banknote of 1849, 
It is noticeable that most editors con- 
tinue to call it “that $29,000,000 fine,’’ 
although in fact the amount of the fine 
was $29,240,000. What's $240,000 to 
an editor?—Boston Globe. : 
Not much, as long as ciphers hold 
out. 
Why not have your Printing done at the 
office of THE BREEZE PRINT? 
Rreeze advertising pays. 
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An Old-Time Thanksgiving. 
In 1714, Rev. Lawrence Conant, of 
the Old South parish in Danvers, wrote 
a letter giving an account of a Thanks- 
giving church service and dinner. It is- 
quaint enough to form interesting reading 
at this time. The following will serve 
as extracts, to give the flavor of the ori- 
ginal. 
““Ye governor was in ye house and 
her majesty’s commissioners of ye cus- 
toms, and they sat together in a high seat 
by ye pulpit stairs. Ye governor ap- 
pears very devout and attentive, although — 
he favors Episcopacy and tolerates ye 
Quakers and Baptists. He was dressed 
in a black-velvet coat, bordered with gold 
lace, and buff breeches with gold buckles 
at ye knees, and white-silk stockings. 
When ye services at ye meeting- 
house were ended ye council and other 
dignitaries were entertained at ye house 
of Mr. Epes, on ye hill near by, and we 
had a bountiful Tnanksgiving dinner, 
with bear’s meat and venison, the last of 
which was a fine buck shot in ye woods 
near by. Ye bear was killed in Lynn 
woods near Reading. After ye blessing 
was craved by Mr. Garrish of Wren- 
tham, word came that ye buck was shot 
on ye Lord’s day by Pequot, an Indian, 
who came to Mr. Epes with a lye in his 
mouth like Ananias of old. Ye council 
thereupon refused to eat ye venison, 
but it was afterward agreed that Pequot 
should receive forty stripes save one for 
-lyeing and profaning ye Lord’s day, and 
restore Mr. Epes ye cost of ye deer; 
and considering this a just and righteous 
sentence on ye sinful heathen, and that _ 
a blessing had been craved on ye meat, 
ye council all partook of it, but Mr, 
Shepard, whose conscience was ASHES. 
on ye joint of venison.’ 
The last sentence is a delightful bit of 
unconscious humor, perfectly in keeping 
with the spirit of the time; it shows 
what a strange mingling of devout and 
scrupulous piety and of worldly sagacity 
and prudence there often was inthe char- 
acter and acts of our fathers of New 
England, especially in tbeir dealings with 
the Red men. Deak 
Fishermen's Institute. 
The Gloucester Fishermen’s Insti- 
tute are sending out their usual appeal at 
this time of year, for magazines, reading 
matter of any kind, etc. A fire at the 
institute recently burned out all their 
magazines, so that help in this. direction 
at this time is especially needful. Boxes 
should be sent ‘‘prepaid’’? to A. E. 
Tuttle, chaplain. 
GEO. E. WILLMONTO 
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