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VOLUME 5. NUMBER 8 
SATURDAY, FEB. 23, 1907. 
The whole Town Warrant is printed 
on pages 10 and 11 of this issue. 
Town Meeting talk is amazingly 
dull this year. Canit be there is a 
lull before the storm! Will there be 
a lively Town Meeting? 
The last opportunity for filing nom- 
ination papers will be Monday at 5 
o'clock, and the last opportunity for 
registering will be tonight. If your 
name is not on the list, attend to it 
tonight at the office of the selectmen. 
We call attention to the article in 
the Town Warrant, asking for an ap- 
propriation of $1,000 for adding an In- 
dustrial and Commercial course to the 
High school in Manchester. This we 
think is a step in the right direction 
and should be acted upon favorably 
by the voters. 
Thus far there is but one new can- 
didate for the office of Selectman— 
Jacob H. Kitfield of the Cove. Mr. 
Kitfield is a brother of the late Select- 
man Wm. E. Kitfield. Albert Cun- 
ningham has taken out papers for 
treasurer and tax collector. Other 
papers filed are: Ji Po Leary, 1-0; 
Lations and Leonard Andrews, con- 
stables; O. T. Roberts, trustee of 
cemeteries ; Geo. W. Blaisdell, trustee 
of Public Library, and O. T. Roberts, 
trustee of Memorial Building; F. J. 
Merrill, water comm.; A. S. Jewett, 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Townsiclerki atl Keo wettanlanios 
Knight and W. R. Bell, selectmen ; 
L. W. Floyd, school committee. 
We acknowledge with thanks a 
copy of the “* fatler,<isent~msoirom 
Florida by John H. Linehan of Pride’s 
Crossing. The ‘Tatler’ is the society 
paper of that section and is similar in 
form and size to the BREEZE. Its 
pages, however, contain accounts of 
boat races, golf and social events such 
as we record in the summer months, 
instead of sleighride parties, and the 
like. 
MEMORANDUM FOR BRANCH 
SOCIETIES OF THE AMERI- 
CAN NATIONAL RED CROSS. 
Washington, D. C., 
February 14, 1907. 
The enclosed sheet is an extract 
from a report just received at this 
office from the American Consul 
General, Mr. Rodgers, at Shanghai, 
China, relative to the famine condi- 
tions of that country. Mr. Rodgers 
is also the Special Representative 
of the American National Red Cross 
in China. 
This report is sent to the various 
Branch Societies with the request 
that it be published by as many pa- 
pers as possible. The information 
contained in this report from Mr. 
Rodgers has been withheld from 
the Associated Press and _ other 
préss. bureaus, in (orders thatwatnte 
newspapers to whom you may pre- 
sent it may print it as news. . 
‘Lhe? Reds Cross” hasithitsseian 
shipped to China three hundred 
tons of flour, . valued at about 
$10,000, and has cabled $45,000 in 
money. ‘Twenty-five hundred 
bushels of seed wheat for spring 
planting will be shipped to China 
on the 2°st instant and five’ thou- 
sand bus’els, which have been con- 
tributed;:a Portland, will bestor- 
wardad as soon as arrangements 
for its transportation have been 
completes! 
C. L. Magee, 
Secretary. 
“The conditions are almost  un- 
seeable, if not unspeakable. I only 
saw a portion of the camps at 
Chinkiane and at Nanking, and I 
was told that they are _ infinitely 
better than those which line the 
canal to and at. Tsingkiangpu. Yet 
the wretchedness, the misery, the 
almost appalling horror of the 
- camps | saw are practically inde- 
scribable. It must be borne in 
mind that no rain of any  conse- 
quence bas fallen in this part of 
China for many weeks; as a conse- 
quence the camps are located not 
adjacent to reasonably dirty and 
filthy canals and pools, but beside 
foul ditches and stagnant ponds; 
there is no attempt at sanitation 
and the mat huts are crowded to- 
gether and each contains many men, 
women and _ children, who are 
clothed in rags, who are dishevelled 
beyond description, and who are 
living on a scanty tea cup of rice a 
day and besides such roots and 
other vegetable substances as can 
be gleaned from a country already 
swept nearly bare. This is the con- 
dition of these people segeamentar 
prosperous cities of Nanking and 
Chinkiang, and they only constitute 
a small percentage of the whole, 
the refugee in the river cities and 
towns probably numbering  alto- 
gether 75,000. What it is all like 
at places within the famine district 
can perhaps be imagined. If such 
a disaster as an epidemic of small 
pox or typhus fever should: occur 
this refugee population will cer- 
tainly spread somewhat, although 
some assert that they will prefer to 
take their fate and misery in com- 
pany with their fellows. 
“Be all that as it may, the climax 
of this famine condition in the es- 
sential quantity—that of starvation 
or not—will not come for six or | 
seven weeks, the time when the real 
Chinese winter of the latitude is 
on. That there will be a great loss 
of life goes without saying; the 
only question now is how much can 
it be limited. 
“There is no question about the 
feeling of gratitude entertained by 
the Viceroy for the charity of the 
American people toward these  af- 
flicted members of his race. He re- 
iterated his expressions in that re- 
spect time and again and gave every 
evidence of his appreciation.” 
Money is urgently needed to re- 
lieve as far as possible this terrible 
suffering in China. All contribu- 
tions will be gladly received and 
promptly forwarded, by Mr. Gardi- 
ner Martin Lane, 44 State street, 
Treasurer of the Massachusetts 
Branch, or by Mr. W. O. Chapman, 
Treasurer of Essex County  Di- 
vision, Asiatic National Bank, Sa- 
lem, Mass. - 
Louisa P. Loring, 
Secretary Essex Division. 
Postmaster Appointed 
Postmaster Samuel L. Wheaton of 
Manchester has been re-appointed for 
another term of four years. He was 
notified of the fact Wednesday of this 
week. 
