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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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‘VOLUME 5. NUMBER 3 
SATURDAY, JAN. 19, 1907. 
J. Murray Howe says that a num- 
ber of years ago a well known Boston 
clergyman invested pretty much all 
the money he had in vacant land on 
the Shore at Manchester, remarking 
at the time that he had an idea that 
the Lord was not going to make any 
more New England seashore. With- 
in a few years his land was sold at a 
very large profit, perhaps for four or 
five times its cost. In later years a 
well known real estate operator, who 
had invested largely in shore land 
much farther east, and who, after 
holding it for 15 years, saw no way of 
selling it for as much as it had cost 
him, said that what Dr. Bartol had 
said about the Lord’s never making 
any more seashore might be true, but 
that he had made a hanged sight too 
much of it to start with.—JSoston 
Herald. 
District Court in Beverly? 
A move is on foot in Beverly, and 
steps have been taken with the object 
of getting a district court in Beverly, 
the district to include the towns of 
Manchester, Hamilton and Wenham. 
A communication has been received 
by the Manchester Board of Select- 
men asking them to take some action 
on the matter. 
It is doubtful whether Manchester 
would be benefited by a change in this 
direction, and the town will probably 
put itself on record as opposed to it, 
when the hearing is given in Boston. 
At present Manchester court business 
is transacted in Salem, and as the dis- 
trict court is along side the station, 
this arrangement is very convenient, 
and when cases are held over, it isa 
very easy matterto reach the jail. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
With Beverly as the district court, 
this condition would be very much 
changed, as the court house would 
necessarily be seven or eight minutes 
walk from the station, and another 
journey would have to be taken to 
reach the jail in Salem. 
The Song of the Hours 
Every child knows the rhyme “Sing 
a song a sixpence,’”’ but very few peo- 
ple have any idea that it is anything 
but a nursery jingle. It is, however, 
an ancient and interesting allegory. 
The four and twenty black birds 
represent the hours, the bottom of 
the pie is the world and its crust is 
the sky which over-arches it. 
The opening of the pie signifies the 
dawn when the birds begin to sing, 
which is indeed a sight for any king. 
The king, who is represented as 
“sitting in the counting house count- 
ing out his money,” is the sun and the 
golden pieces which slip from his fin- 
gers are the golden sunbeams. 
The queen, sitting in the parlor, is 
the moon and the honey is the moon- 
light. 
The diligent maid who is at work in 
the garden before the sun, her king, 
has risen, is the daybreak, and the 
clothes she hangs out are the clouds. 
The black bird which comes by-and- 
by and ends the song by nipping off 
her nose is the sunset. 
Thus, says Home Notes, we have 
the whole day in a pie, if not in a nut- 
shell. 
WHISPERINGS 
Varied, indeed, are the experiences 
of a policeman. Officer Lomasney 
was called upon Thursday morning to 
take care of a woman taken off the 
Boston bound train, said to be de- 
mented. Though the experience was 
new to him, he acted the part of an 
experienced hand, and, though others 
had failed to pacify the woman, he 
calmed her and landed her back in 
Gloucester without the least trouble. 
Conductor Sullivan had a telephone 
message sent ahead from the Mag- 
nolia station and Officer Lomasney 
was on hand ready for the worst. 
The woman, who was about 21, and 
rather good looking, was working un- 
der the delusion that she had killed a 
man in Gloucester and she was on her 
way to New York to be electrocuted. 
The train hands thought it would take 
three or four men to handle her when 
she was taken off the train, but the 
bright shining buttons on the officer’s 
coat attracted her and she was as 
gentle as a lamb. The officer told 
her she would have to change at Man- 
chester in order to get to New York 
and started with her for the station. 
They had proceeded but a short dis- 
tance when the woman suggested 
that it would look better for her to take 
the officer's arm, instead of vice 
versa. At the station she was given 
some hot coffee, and she was taken 
back to Gloucester on the noon train 
and. turned over to the Gloucester 
police. 
Society Notes 
Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner M. Lane are 
guests over the week-end of Mr. and 
Mrs. F. M. Whitehouse at Manches- 
ter Cove. Mr. Whitehouse has been 
over to New York most of the week, 
returning last night. 
Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Mitchell 
left Manchester Thursday and have 
gone to Fernandina, Fla., for another 
visit with the Andrew Carnegie, 2ds. 
They will be there a week or ten days. 
Their house at Manchester is closed 
for the balance of the winter. 
Walter D. Denegre went over to 
New York the first of the week and 
he will be joined. there early next 
week by Mrs. Denegre, who is still at 
Manchester. They have taken their 
automobile over to New York and 
will probably remain there the rest of 
this month, returning to Boston the 
first of February for the big ball at 
the Somerset. They are as yet unde- 
cided whether to go abroad or to 
spend the balance of the winter in 
Southern California. 
Francis L. Higginson, jr, has been 
admitted to membership in the bank- 
ing house firm of Higginson, Tottle 
& Co., of London. 
So far as is known the only North 
Shore people in Jamaica at the time 
of the earthquake this week was Man- 
ager C. H. Mowry of the New Mag- 
nolia, who runs the Hotel Titchfield 
in Jamaica, and Dr. E. A. Dakin of 
the Magnolia summer colony, who 
spends his winters at the Titchfield. 
Beverly’s Valuation 
The annual report of the board of 
assessors of the City of Beverly sub- 
mitted Tuesday shows the valuation 
of the city to be $23,297,550, which is 
divided as follows: buildings, $9,155,- 
825; land, $8,663,600; personal prop- 
erty, $5,478,125. 
The total valuation of Ward 6 
(Beverly Farms) is $2,940,500, not 
including the non-residents, which for 
the whole city is $6,734,850. The 
total number of polls in this ward is 
489; the assessment for street water- 
ing was 75 cents, while the next low- 
est ward was $147.92; the assessment 
for extermination of moths was $119.- 
54, the lowest of any ward in the city. 
There was no sidewalk assessment. 
