NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Brotherhood Holds Interesting Meet- 
ing at Manchester Baptist Church. 
The meeting of the Manchester 
Brotherhood Monday evening, in the 
vestry of the Baptist church was largely 
attended and was, withal, one of the 
most interesting of the winter. 
The president, Rev. A. G. Warner pre- 
sided and in the absence of the secre- 
tary, Robt. M. Baker, read the records 
of the previous meeting. Arthur Walk- 
er was elected secretary pro tem. It 
was voted to hold the next meeting 
Monday evening March 10th, when 
Rev. E. J. Van Huiginn of Beverly will 
be the speaker. 
George 8. Sinnicks of this town was 
introduced as the speaker of the even- 
ing who gave a graphic and most in- 
teresting account of his trip to Bermu- 
da a year ago last fall with the Ancient 
and Honourable Artillery Company of 
Boston of which he is a member, first, 
however, giving a short account of his 
trip to his old home at the northern 
extremity of the straits of Belle Isle 
in Labrador. He referred to this, he 
said, for the sake of comparison of eli- 
mate between that country and the 
semi-tropical conditions at Bermuda. 
“<Tt was in June that I sailed from 
Boston for Halifax, changing steamers 
there for St. Johns, Newfoundland, then 
changing again for Port Au Basque, 
Bay of Islands and thence across to the 
Labrador shore. As we neared our 
destination we ran into an immense 
field of ice and the captain was a good 
deal puzzled to know what to do. We 
finally turned back and 24 hours later 
every particle of the ice field has dis- . 
appeared, and on the fifteenth day of 
June, a beautiful day, quite cool to be 
sure, we landed on the Labrador shore 
on the very spot where I was born 
and 38 years after I had left there. 
**Tt was in October that we started 
from Boston for Bermuda. We were 
all dressed in our regimentals and it 
was planned to have a march about the 
city before we started to show off our 
fine uniforms but a heavy rain came up 
and took all the glory out of that al- 
though we had to march just the same. 
We went to New York that evening by 
the Fall River line boat and we had 
the Salem Cadet band with us and you 
all know that that means we had good 
music and we had a very nice concert 
on the boat that evening. Arriving in 
New York the next morning we were 
ferried across to Jersey city and board- 
ed the steamer ‘‘Oceania’’ for Ber- 
muda. The boat had German officers 
and crew and had a German band on 
board so between the German band 
and American band we had plenty of 
good music during the trip. Bermuda 
lies about 700 miles S. E. of New 
York and 620 off Cape Hatteras. It 
generally takes 46 hours for the voyage 
but we did it in 44. 
‘<The first conspicuous object coming 
to notice on sighting land is a great 
white object which as we draw ree Mjuniform, many of the local dignities be- 
proves to be a great reservoir. Th 
are no natural springs on the island and 
all the water they have to use is rain 
water and so every drop possible is 
saved. As the water of the harbor at 
Hamilton is very shallow, we were 
obliged to land on transports. We had 
our headquarters at the Hamilton ho. 
tel, a very fine building. That after- 
noon we took a carriage ride about the 
city having a very intelligent negro 
driver. I noted that the buildings were 
all of pure white, built of the stone 
of the island which is soft, light-colored 
coral rock. This is sawed out in blocks 
and laid up, the outside cemented and 
then whitewashed. The roofs are 
treated in the same way. So much 
white is very glaring in the sun and 
fearfully hard on the eyes. 
“<The roads are built of lime rock 
and are very good. One place we -visi- 
ted of great interest was the Devil’s 
pool which is 30 feet deep and fed from 
the sea. It is filled with many kinds 
of fish and we could see them for a 
considerable depth in the pool. And 
then an interesting thing happened; the 
keeper created some disturbance among 
them and instantly they changed color 
and the pool became so dark you could 
see nothing in it. This is the way the 
fish have of protecting themselves from 
their natural enemies. 
‘¢Another place of interest was the 
erystal cave from the roof of which 
hung many stalagmitites which were 
very beautiful but their beauty was 
sadly marred by many ends_ being 
broken off by tourists who are bound 
to carry away souvenirs. We also pass- 
ed on the way a hedge of oleander in 
full bloom which was very beautiful. 
‘<That evening there were band con- 
cents in the open air, an English band 
and the Salem Cadet band playing al- 
ternately. The night was very pleasant 
and the concerts much enjoyed. The 
next day we visited the aquarium and 
saw a very fine collection of fish native 
to those waters and some of very beau- 
tiful hues. As we, (my chum and I) 
were walking down the street we were 
haled by someone in a large building 
and going in found ourselves in a yacht 
club house and we were most royally 
entertained all the afternoon, being 
taken out fora sail to the fishing 
grounds, and everything possible was 
done for our pleasure and yet we were 
entire strangers to them. and this was 
characteristic of the peonle as a whole; 
everyone we met were always ready to 
give us 2 hearty greeting and do any- 
thing they could to make us feel wel- 
come, 
‘¢ Another interesting ride was to St. 
George. the first settlement on the is- 
land, The island was discovered by the 
Enelish and the Enelish flag has al- 
wavs fiown there. That evening the 
grand banquet was held. always the 
feature of these trips by the Ancients. 
and all were ordered to annear in full 
ing present as guests. 
‘‘Our last half day there was spent 
in shopping and it is the money that 
the tourists leave that keeps business 
alive at the island. In 1909 American 
tourists left one million dollars on the 
island and our own party left $15,000 
there, so of course they are glad to 
have American tourists come. Agri- 
cultural pursuits have almost died out. 
Texas is now a serious rival in the 
raising of onions. In fact almost all of 
the vegetables used on the island are 
imported. There are no automobiles, no 
electric cars, no factory whistles, no 
smoke, no rush, no worry. Everybody 
seems to be prefectly happy and con- 
tented. 
‘*On the return trip we ran into a 
storm in the Gulf stream which made 
it very interesting, for some of the 
passengers at least, but I was on hand 
every time the dinner gong sounded. 
We arrived in Boston without ac- 
cident and the cost of the whole trip 
outside of souvenirs was $26.00. Of 
course the cost was brought down some 
from the fact that everyone in our 
company is assessed for the trip 
whether they go or not and last year I 
was assessed $19.50 for a trip which I 
did not take, so I helped pay for some 
one else’ good time.’’ 
CHILDREN’S GARDENS 
The agitation in favor of providing 
gardens for the _ school 
meeting with much favor among the 
people of Manchester. The followinyg 
is an excerpt from the ‘‘Child Welfare 
Magazine’’ for January, and bears on 
the subject: 
“Tf every study but gardening were 
taken out of grammar grades, and 
gardening were brought up to the ex- 
cellence it has attained in a few schools, 
we should be further along on our way 
to better parents of better children. 
We shall be still further along when it 
is brought up to its full educational 
possibilities. ” 
*«Hrasmus Behwad. the founder of the 
school garden movement in Austria, 
wrote: ‘A hundred years hence it will 
seem inexplicable that for centuries 
there could exist among cultured na- 
tions publie schools without school gar- 
dens, and that in the nineteenth cen- 
tury communities and nations in gen- 
erous emulation could furnish the school 
with all things dictated by common 
sense and profit and care, excent, in 
thousands of cases, an educational me- 
dium that should suggest itself to the 
mind of even the common man. 
‘<¢The school garden will exert a 
rowerful influence upon the heart of 
the child, and upon his character; it 
will plant in the child the Jove of na- 
ture, inculeate the love of work, a 
generous regard for others, and a 
wholesome esthetie sense. The school 
garden, as Austria is earrying if out, 
is a nursery for a practical knowledge, 
and a noble enjoyment of home nature, 
for the culture of the understandiny, 
for better morals and higher prosnerity 
of the people; it is an ideal thought but 
united with realism and aiming at full 
life in all its relations.’ ’’ 
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