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VOLUME 5. NUMBER 25 
SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1907. 
The Casco Bay Breeze is the first 
of our summer Exchanges to arrive. 
This is the paper published at Casco 
Bay by John S. Crowley and Clarence 
H. Lunt, publishers of the Beverly 
City Directory, and it is starting on 
its seventh season, though it is pub- 
lished at monthly intervals during the 
winter. It is brimming over with 
good, wholesome advertising, and 
breezy, live reading matter. 
On Beacon Hill 
(By Our Special Correspondent.) 
SSS ET 
The question of the merging of the 
Boston & Maine and the New York, 
New .Haven and Hartford Railroad 
companies has again held the atten- 
tion of the members of both branches 
of the State Legislature the past 
week. Out of a rather complex situa- 
tion in which the Committee on Rail- 
roads found itself, it finally settled 
down and took definite action by re- 
porting unanimously a combination 
bill, which embodies the essential 
features of the Governor’s recom- 
mendations contained in Attorney 
General Malone’s draft, together with 
the ideas of Speaker Cole, Senators 
Faxon and Feiker. 
The bill provides that the New 
York, New Haven & Hartford Rail- 
road company cannot make use of the 
stock acquired by parties friendly to 
the New Haven road and that the 
Boston & Maine corporation must re- 
main an entity until hearings have 
been held by the Railroad Commission 
and thier report submitted to the 
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General Court for its action. Of 
course, it cannot be submitted this 
year. A penalty clause was also in- 
corporated in the bill providing for a 
fine of $10,000 for a violgtion of the 
provisions of this bill by the corpora- 
tion or any of its servants or agents. 
The bill providing for the dredging 
of Manchester Harbor was sent to the 
House for enactment on Friday, and 
if no opposition is made will probably 
reach the Executive Department the 
first of next week. 
Now that the merger question has 
taken definite shape in the reporting 
of a billin the House, it is -thought 
that the Legislature will be prorogued 
the latter part of next week. Last 
year the Legislature prorogued on the 
twenty-ninth day of June and this 
year it will not be very far from that 
date. 
Our Reporter has an Interview with 
Mr. Martin who has recently 
sold his Brickyard 
Property 
One of our reporters had a short 
talk one day this week with Israel 
Martin, who has conducted the brick- 
yard :in Manchester the past 20 years, 
but who recently sold his property to 
T. J. Coolidge, G. M. Lane and F. M. 
Whitehouse, — members of the sum- 
mer colony. The brickyard has been 
a landmark for the past quarter 
century. 
“Yes, sir! twenty years have I run 
that brick-making machine,” he said, 
“commencing on Feb. 28, 1887. I 
came to Manchester 20 years ago, 
coming here from Vermont, where I 
learned my trade, starting when 16 
years old, at 50 cents a day. J was 
born in Montreal. I stuck to this 
work a few years, when the war broke 
out and I enlisted in Co. H, 1st Ver- 
mont Cavalry.” 
Mr. Martin saw some very hard 
fighting, and saw the walls of three 
prisons from capture. All efforts to 
have him describe some of his hard- 
ships during the war, were to no 
avail. 
The pit from which Mr. Martin has 
been taking the clay to make the brick 
is some 15 or 20 feet deep. When 
the reporter endeavored to have Mr. 
Martin describe the process by which 
he makes brick he elicited the follow- 
ing answer : 
“Oh, never mind! Everybody 
knows that; yet they don’t know 
that to every 2,000 bricks burnt it 
takes a cord of wood. We fill our 
shack, which has no top when in use, 
with thousands of brick, usually 
10,000, and we use 5 cords of wood at 
a baking. Our power to churn is one 
horse.” 
“Now that you are advancing in 
years and have made a large amount 
of money, you will take life easy,” 
suggested the scribe. 
“Well, hard telling. I will never 
work as hard again, but shall keep 
busy and enjoy my health. I am 65 
years old.” 
Mr. Martin replied to a question 
that he laid his success to “good 
sound judgement, and steadiness to 
my labors.” 
W heaton--Fish 
A pretty home wedding took place 
last Saturday evening at the home of 
Supt. and Mrs. Chas. E. Fish, on 
Lincoln street, Manchester, when 
their daughter, Miss Larah Dwinall 
‘Fish, and Percy Allen Wheaton, were 
united in marriage. Rev. E. J. V. 
Huiginn of St. Peter's Episcopal 
church, Beverly, performed the cere- 
mony. ‘The rooms were prettily dec- © 
orated with palms and flowers for the 
occasion. 
Miss Lois Brewster of Plymouth 
was the bridesmaid and Charles L. 
Beal of Roxbury was best man. 
The bride wore a beautifully em- 
broidered gown of Swiss muslin over 
white silk and her veil was caught up 
with a diamond solitaire. She also 
wore a gold and amethyst bracelet, 
and carried white rose buds. , 
Following the wedding a reception 
was held for which about 125 invita- 
tions were issued. 
At the Old Corner Store a fine 
assortment of Ladies’ Shirt Waists. 
Geo. F. Allen. x 
DOCG LOST. 
Friday, June 14, lost, strayed or 
stolen, an Airdale Terrier, male, aged, 
collar without name. Will answer to 
call “‘ Rex,’”’ Black with tan colored 
points. Reward offered if returned to 
Mrs. GORDON PRINCE, 
Grove Street, 
Beverly Farms. 
Telephone 105. 
Social and Danc 
Under the auspices of. 
Fr. Shahan Court, 220, M.C.0.F. 
TOWN HALL, MANCHESTER 
Friday Evening, June 28, 1907 
Ladies’ Ticket, 25¢ Gent’s Ticket, 50¢ 
