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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
MANCHESTER, MASS., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1908. 
TWO RALLIES AT MANCHESTER NEXT WEEK. 
+ MASCONOMO HOUSE, AGAIN. 
Promoters of Sanitarium Contradict Our Arti- 
cle that Property Would Continue to be 
Used as Hotel. 
Several weeks ago we published in 
these columns an article on proposed 
improvements on the Masconomo 
House in Manchester, and gave in brief 
an interview with Mr. Hamilton, man- 
ager of the hotel the past season, as to 
his plans for next year. It seems in the 
light of further developments that Mr. 
Hamilton’s story was all wrong. In 
justice to the promoters of the move- 
ment to change the Masconomo over in- 
to a sanitartum we publish the following 
letter bearing on the matter: 
Boston, Sept. 21, 1908. 
Mr. J. Alex. Lodge, 
Editor, Norra SHoRE BREEZE, 
Manchester, Mass. 
My Dear Sir:--- 
My attention was called to the article 
in your issue of Friday, Sept. 18, en- 
titled ‘“ Masconomo House. to be Re- 
modeled.’’ Notwithstanding {the state- 
ment made by Mr. Hamilton and_ pub- 
lished by you, I venture to say that no 
lease has been made to anyone for The 
Masconomo, for the reason that having 
control of the property it could not have 
been done without my sanction. Nfr. 
Schoeffel only this morning tells me that 
there isn’t a particle of truth in the state- 
ment made in your paper and that no 
one ought to kuow better than myself as 
I held papers from him which prevented 
him from doing so had he so desired. 
If you had simply published the  state- 
ment reported to have come from Mr. 
Hamilton, | might not have felt called 
upon to write this letter. But you say 
in the article, alluding to the circular 
which has been sent out, that presumably 
this circular was sent to members of the 
Summer Colony as it was worded in 
such a way as to ‘‘interest’’ them in the 
scheme. 
You know that I have not attempted 
to use your paper to influence anyone, 
simply asking for news when I was 
ready to have it published. 
‘The proposition which I am_ putting 
up, of establishing a sanitarium at Man- 
chester-by-the-Sea is a straight, legiti- 
mate business proposition. I intended, 
when I started into the scheme, to carry 
it through. The prospects never were 
brighter than at the present time, and 
the time will come, when, if you chron- 
icle the facts instead of hearsay, you will 
have to chronicle that fact that one of 
the best modeled, best located, up-to- 
date sanitariums in this country will take 
Republicans Hold Torchlight Proces- 
sion Thursday Evening. Compan- 
ies from Out of Town. Speeches 
in Town Hall Afterward. 
The Republicans are to havea big 
rally at Manchester next Thursday even- 
ing, of which a torchlight procession 
with perhaps four or five companies in 
line, and speechmaking in the town hall 
by leading campaign speakers, will be 
features. 
Though the arrangements cannot be 
given in detail as regards the parade, it 
is likely that the Red Riding Hoods and 
the Red Devils from Beverly, the West 
Beach Tars, the Gloucester company, 
and possibly the Satem Witches will be 
on hand to take part in the parade, and 
these will be augmented by a_ local 
battalion made up for the occasion. The 
Town committee has procured a hun- 
dred torches and the boys are invited 
‘without further notice to fall in line’ on 
that night. The parade will be headed 
by Clark’s Military band of Gloucester, 
22 pieces. 
‘The parade will start from the local 
station about 7.30, immediately after the 
arrival of the train from Beverly and 
Salem, at 7.20. The line of march 
will be through the principal streets. 
The citizens are asked to join in the 
occasion by lighting up their houses on 
the line of march on that night. 
After the parade hot coffee and sand- 
wiches will be provided for the marchers. 
The speakers procured for the even- 
ing are Attorney-General Dana Malone; ° 
Congressman Gardner, Ex-Speaker John 
Democratic Rally on Friday Evening. 
No Torchlight Procession, but plenty 
of Enthusiasm and Good Speakers. 
7.45 the Hour of the Meeting. 
The Democratic rally will be held on 
the following night,---Friday, and while 
there will be no torchlight procession, 
there will be more or less red fire and a 
fife and drum corps will head the speak- 
ers and faithful followers on their way 
to the Town hall. But what is lacking 
in this direction will be more than offset 
by the speakers. There will be plenty 
of enthusiasm within the hall and good 
speakers will be on hand. 
The hour set for the rally is 7.45. 
The speakers procured include Arthur 
Withington, Esq., of Newburyport, the 
candidate for Congress from the Sixth 
district; Charles D. Smith, Esq., of 
Gloucester, candidate for senator; 
Charles A. Russell, Esq., of Gloucester, 
and the Hon. Frank C. Richardson of 
Essex. 
As three of the speakers arrive from 
Gloucester on the 6.31 train the com- 
mittee has arranged a small gathering of 
the committee and speakers at the home 
of Benjamin Corliss on Lincoln street 
previous to the rally. On the way to 
the Town hall the speakers will be lead 
by a fite and drum corps, probably, and 
there will be no lack of red fire to light 
their way. 
N. Cole and Rept. Walter Webster. 
The speaking, of course, will follow the 
parade. 
the place of The Masconomo-by-the- 
Sea, a place that will be a benefit to 
those who are over-worked and need 
rest, and a sanitarium that no one can 
object to. 
Now, after such a statement made in 
your paper, I deem it only fair to myself 
that you publish this letter, which will set 
me right in the matter and set you right, 
and if you have been misled by Mr. 
Hamilton or anyone else, then the pub- 
lic will know, and I trust and _ believe 
that you will do the square thing in the 
matter. 
Yours truly, 
GeorcE E. Lovejoy. 
Meeting at the Cove. 
There was a sort of ‘“‘ warming up’’ 
at the Cove Tuesday evening, the first 
ime anything in the nature of a rally had 
been held in that section of Manchester. 
Members of the Republican town com- 
mittee and a few others left the square 
in a barge a little after seven o’ clock and 
made an uneventful trip to the Cove, the 
entrance into the village being made mid 
a glare of red fre. “The Cove school 
house was the gathering place and after 
coffee and sandwiches, cheese and 
doughnuts and cigars had been passed 
around some informal speech-making 
was in order. 
E. P. Stanley was in charge and in his 
remarks he said that the meeting was 
held in an endeavor to arouse some en- 
thusiasm this fall and so as to get out a 
large republican vote Col. Joe. Peter- 
son of Salem said at a recent meeting he 
had attended that voting precincts ought 
to be provided in the outlying districts of 
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