NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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Vol. XI 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, February 21, 1913 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Washington B. Thomas of Pride’s 
_ Crossing has sold the auxiliary schoon- 
er “Arbella” to Captain McClurg of 
Chicago. She was taken from her 
mooring at Neponset this week and 
was started on a oss to Bermuda. 
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Miss Rosamond Bradley, Miss Alice 
Cotting, Miss Elizabeth Porter and 
’Mrs. Chas. A. Porter of the Prides- 
Beverly Farms colony are numbered 
among those on a yachting cruise to 
the West Indies and the Panama 
Canal. They sailed on the Laurentic 
recently from New York and are due 
back March 9g. 
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Norman Prince sailed from New 
York last Saturday on the Philadel- 
phia for Southampton. He will go 
to Pau, Southern France, to join his 
perents who sailed in the late autumn 
after closing their North Shore es- 
tate. 
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Miss Katherine Ayer of Boston and 
'Pride’s Crossing, who went to New 
Orleans for the Mardi Gras carnival 
on Shrove Tuesday, was one of the 
attendants of the Queen of Rex, im- 
_ personated by Miss Dorothy Wilmot, 
at the “Comus” ball, which, as usual, 
was given in the old French Opera 
House. Miss Wilmot’s gown was a 
‘wonderful piece of art and_ hand- 
work, the mantle alone, it is said, hav- 
ing cost of a couple of thousand dol- 
lars. She has been a frequent visitor 
of the Ayers on the North Shore. 
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When President Taft retires his 
wife will carry with her one of the 
handsomest tokens ever presented to 
a resident of the White House. Just 
what form the gift will take is as yet 
not known, but the general belief is 
‘that it will be a Tiffany necklace of 
unique design and great value. It is 
thought that the presentation will be 
ade when the President and Mrs. 
“Taft leave the Congressional club af- 
ter the reception to be given in their 
honor on Feb. 28. The gift will rep- 
resent the unanimous good will of 
Washington’s official and unofficial 
citizenship. Miss Mabel Boardman 
‘and her sister, Mrs. W. Murray 
Crane are among those instrumental 
n bringing this about. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Mrs. Wm. D. Sohier of the Beverly 
Cove colony, sailed on the Berlin last 
Saturday from New York for Europe 
via the Mediterranean route. 
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Mr. and Mrs. George E.. Cabot were 
among those motoring down from 
Boston, to their Manchester estate 
over the last week-end. 
Boston OpsRA House 
Farewells are the order of the day 
at the Boston Opera House, now that 
the season is fast speeding toward its 
close. Last Monday Mme. Edvina 
sang for the last time and sailed for 
Europe the following morning. This 
Saturday evening Miss Mary Garden 
in “Louise” will make her final ap- 
pearance for the season, leaving im- 
mediately after to join the Philadel- 
phia-Chicago Opera Company on its 
tour to the Pacific coast. 
Next week it will be the turn of 
Mme. Weingartner-Marcel, Felix 
Weingartner and Vanni Marcoux to 
say good bye. All three will make 
their last appearance on Wednesday 
night, when “Faust” will be sung for 
the first time this season. 
Monday will also be a Weingartner 
night, as Mme. Weingartner will sing 
the title role in ‘“Djamileh,” a short 
opera by Dizet, the composer of 
“Carmen,” which will be given its 
American premiere at that time. 
“Djamileh” will be followed by 
“Pagliacci” in which Mr. Zenatello 
will sing Canio as he alone can. 
On Friday evening Miss Frieda 
Hempel, the Berlin coloratura soprano 
whose debut in “The Barber of Se- 
ville’ a few weeks ago was one of 
the season’s notable events, will re- 
turn to sing Violetta in “La Traviata.” 
On Saturday afternoon there will 
be another matinee of “The Jewels of 
the Madonna.” 
The week-end popular perform- 
ances with the prices of seats reduced 
in every part of the house, will be 
resumed on Saturday night, when 
“Rigoletto” will be sung. 
On Sunday Feb. 23d, the soloists 
at the afternoon concert will be Mme. 
Lina Cavalieri, Lucien Muratore, 
and Aline van Baorentsen the pianist. 
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SOCIETY NOTES 
Beyond question, a larger number 
of prominent women of Boston, New 
York, Philadelphia and other places 
will appear in the ring showing dogs 
at the all-breed show of the Eastern 
Dog club, to be held in Mechanic’s 
Building, Boston, Feb. 25-28, than 
ever before in Boston. Mrs. Mal- 
colm Whitman, who was Miss Jennie 
Crocker, San Francisco’s greatest 
heiress, and owner of Wonderland 
kennels, brought from the Western 
Coast in a special car at the time of 
her marriage to the Brookline man, 
will show several dogs. Miss Hope 
Gaston, daughter of Col. W. A. Gas- 
ton, is the youngest owner and exhi- 
bitor. She will personally show her 
Pekinese that was bought for her by 
her father while the family were in 
China last year. Mrs. Charles Dana 
Gibson, of New York, wife of the 
celebrated illustrator, will show her 
great assembly of White West High- 
land terriers. Miss Edith Deacon of 
Boston and Newport, after the death 
of her fiance, George Lee Peabody, 
went in to some extent in the dog 
show game, and last year her fox ter- 
riers cleaned up at the Newport show. 
She will have her dogs in competition 
in Boston. Mrs. Robert Jordan, like 
many other women, favors the Peki- 
nese, and she will show that breed. 
Others who are prominent and will 
show dogs are Mrs. Arnold Lawson, 
Mrs. Herbert Mason of Ipswich and 
Boston, Mrs. Harold W. Read of 
Cambridge, Miss Maud Kennedy of 
Long Island, N. Y.; Mrs. A. Henry 
Higginson, Mrs. George H. Post, of 
Bronxville, N. Y.; Mrs. Rainey of 
Huntington, Long Island, N. Y.; Mrs. 
Gaspar Bacon, daughter-in-law of 
Robert Bacon, former ambassador to 
France; Miss Elsie Dorr of Boston, 
Mrs. J. L. Frothingham of Beverly 
Farms, Mrs. Jack Minturn of Syoscet, 
Long Island, N. Y.; Mrs. Hollis Hun- 
newell of Wellesley. 
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Augustus P. Loring of Pride’s 
Crossing, who spends a part of each 
summer at one of the many little is- 
lands on the Maine coast, has had a 
33-ft. government launch converted 
into a cargo boat for use in carrying 
supplies to the island. Power will be 
supplied by a 25-h. p. motor. . 
