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NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
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MANCHESTERITES IN OKLAHOMA. 
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley A. Lutz Write of Their New Home in the Middle West. 
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley A. 
Lutz and family, who recently moved 
away from Manchester and went to Ok- 
lahoma City, Okla., for the benefit of 
Mr. Lutz’s health, willbe interested in 
reading of their new home in the middle 
west. Mr. Lutz was formerly of the 
force of employees at Standley’s black- 
smith shop and he has engaged in this 
line of business in his new home. The 
letter follows: 
OKLAHoMa~ Clry, Okla., 
Dec. 13, 1908. 
Editor North Shore Breeze. 
~ Dear Mr. Lodge: 
As we promised before leaving Man- 
chester, we will write through you to 
all our friends in the east. 
We have located in Oklahoma City 
for the present at least. Everything is so 
strange and so entirely different than the 
east. Onesees quite a lot of Texans 
and Mexicans here and colored people 
without number. They keep the poor 
““niggers’’ down; can’t travel in the 
same car, nor come in the same_ waiting 
room, nor attend the same schools nor 
churches; they think nothing of calling 
them “black niggers;’’ but the colored 
people are so used so it they don’t mind 
what the white folks say to them. 
Convicts work on the roads here and 
they work very hard, too. The dirt is 
very red and some very black and while 
it is dry weather it is alright, but when it 
rains it is very bad and sticky. They 
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try to keep the city in good condition, 
but it is not as clean a city as either Salem 
or Boston. 
They have some very fine buildings 
here; fine hotels and bank buildings. 
Business seems to be quiet, but real estate 
is booming. The city is really land 
mad. One hears nothing but buying or 
selling land, and houses are going up 
like hot cakes. The streets in the cen- 
ter and for quite a way out are paved, 
and this year there is a contract for 
$600,000 more paving to be done. I 
have forgotten, but I wish I could re- 
member the amount of money to be put 
in buildings after the first of the year. 
One has to get a permit to build a house 
here. 
The people are very sociable and 
pleasant and make one feel right at 
home. ‘They have that broad southern 
dialect which sounds so strange to us. 
The houses are low,—one story mostly, 
with no cellar, and with well at the back 
door. ‘They have the city water, but it 
is seldom carried into the houses. It 
seems so strange to see the water outside. 
They donot have faucets, but it is -a 
long curved pipe standing about 18 inch- 
es from the ground with a shut on and 
off attached. Ofcourse, they have two- 
story houses, but these are very few. 
‘The new houses going up now have all 
the modern conveniences, water, etc., 
but, my, you have to pay for them. 
Rents are something terrible; little three 
or four room tenements are $15 to $20 
a month. There are lots of two-room 
houses that let for $15. The houses 
with improvements run from $30 to $50 
and $60. 
The ’phone is used here all the time; 
there is hardly a family, no matter what 
their circumstances are, but hasa ’ phone. 
This city is laid out very nicely. The 
streets are all wide with a nice wide al- 
ley running in between the blocks giving 
a fine back entrance. ‘The ‘streets run 
east and west, north and» south, and 
house lots run from the street back to 
the alley north and south and are about 
50 feet wide. 
There are four railroads entering the 
city, at four different depots. Three 
are in the east side and one in the west. 
There are four principal thoroughfares, 
---Main street, Grand avenue, California 
avenue and Reno avenue, running east 
and west, and Broadway running’ north 
and south. Main street separates north 
and south and Broadway east and. west. 
There is very little winter here. -The 
ground never freezes enough to hinder 
farmers from ploughing all winter. 
‘There is never more than a flurry of 
snow once or twice in a'winter, and.of- 
ten no snow at all. 
Canadian River runs through this state 
and it is from this they get the water sup- 
ply. The water is very impure and has 
to be filtered before it is fit to drink. A 
great many buy spring water. We buy 
five gallons of Puritas: Spring water a 
week. A new filtering plant is being 
built now and when that is ready no 
doubt the water will be better. We 
have very heavy rain storms and after a 
storm the water is as red as a brick. 
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hard time of it. Mr. Lutz’s health is 
much improved; he has a hard time 
when he takes cold, but he seems to be 
able to shake off a cold here better than 
he ever could anywhere in the east. 
The weather is beautiful. The nights 
are cool and frosty, but one can do with- 
out a fire in the day time. 
There are four newspapers here: 
The Times, daily and weekly; News 
and Oklahoman, daily and weekly, and 
The Pointer, given free every night but 
Saturday, and another given free every 
Sunday morning to every house in town. 
The cost of living is about the same 
as in Boston with the exception of meats, 
which are very reasonable. Pork and 
beef are the principle kinds, and a few 
places carry lamb and veal. All poultry 
is bought alive. One has to dress all 
poultry himself. It seems so funny to 
see the crates of all kinds of live poultry 
setting out on the sidewalk,---124 to 
16 cents a pound is the price just now, 
the highest of the year. 
The walnut is the most common tree - 
here and there is also a bean tree that is 
very common. ‘These are the usual 
street trees and the long beans,——l6 to 
18 inches—hang down so that one’s hat 
almost touches them. 
The women dress in grand style. 
They seem very fond of dress. “They 
dress as warm in winter here as they do 
in the east. 
This is a wicked city. Everything is 
in full swing on Sunday, theatres, dance 
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Marine Railways, Boat Builders 
Paints, Oils, Varnish, Cordage, and all kinds of Hardware constantly on hand 
Yacht and Boat Repairing of every description, Yacht Tenders always in stock 
We carry everything appertaining to the aban 
Boats stored for the Winter. 
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Work done at Fair Prices. | Estimates given on all kinds Steam and Hot Water Heating. 
halls, some stores, the captenters work, all our friends in Manchester. 
in fact one would never know it was Very cordially yours, 
Sunday; but at the same time there is a Mr. and Mrs. Sraniey A. Lutz. 
large attendance at the churches. They Pp 16) Spd enclased £1:00.. Plewe 
say they are always crowded to the doors, seid the Breeze for-one year. 
so we are glad to say there must be some 
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