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North Share Breeze 
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Vol. XI. February 28, 1913. No. 9. 
THE QuEsTION OF LICENSE FoR MAN- 
CHESTER 
Frankly, we are against the licensed 
saloon in a small community like 
Manchester, on general principles. 
But—there comes a time when all 
rules—good or bad—must be broken. 
The no-license regime has worked 
itself out ridiculously in the last few 
years. It is a case of where the cure 
is worse than the disease. It has been 
said that there is more liquor sold in 
Manchester under no-license than if 
there were saloons. There are times 
when it is as free as water; there are 
other times when there is a drought. 
Much of the trouble in regulating the 
thing comes with the selectmen and 
the man they appoint as chief of po- 
lice. The past year has been particu- 
larly noteworthy in this respect. One 
week everything is wide open; the 
next some are closed, others sell; the 
next week the lid is on tight, and then 
it begins to loosen up a little here and 
there, It is a, farce, withal. 
The chief of police of Manchester 
received his first written instructions 
from the present board of selectmen 
to enforce the liquor laws stringently 
on Tuesday, Sept. 17—five months 
after he was elected—and incidentally 
the night after the finding of Mrs. 
Roberts’ body in the river. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
There is a very strong sentiment in 
town in favor of license this year. 
This paper does not advocate li- 
cense, though it must admit that un- 
der the present conditions, license 
would serve as a splendid physic for 
the town. The sale of liquor could at 
least be under control and instead of 
ten or a dozen places selling, only one 
or two could then have the licensed 
privilege. It would do the town good 
to clean out its “system” for one year. 
With proper police supervision in 
Manchester the average citizen would 
be unable to tell whether or not there 
were licensed saloons in the town. 
We cannot blame the summer resi- 
dents for their activities in behalf of 
license. The Essex County club 
means much to Manchester and the 
North Shore. The mismanagement 
of affairs the past summer on the part 
of the Town authorities in closing up 
the club, practically, did not work to- 
ward the best of feeling and harmony. 
HarsBor IMPROVEMENTS MEAN 
Mucu For MANCHESTER 
If there is any one appropriation 
which we feel like urging the citizens 
of Manchester to favor at the Town 
meeting next Monday, it is that per- 
taining to dredging. The great bene- 
fits accruing from the development of 
the harbor will be felt ere long. The 
good work started several years ago 
ought to be carried on. It must be re- 
membered that the state has done 
much for Manchester in this line, it 
being the open policy of the state to 
help those towns that help themselves. 
It will be a matter of only a few years 
when yachtsmen will come to know 
of the splendid yachting facilities of- 
fered in the inner harbor. 
Keep up the good work! 
There are few towns in the com- 
monwealth, the size of Manchester, 
that has such an opportunity as Man- 
chster of furnishing that all import- 
ant commodity—coal, direct from the 
great mines. Only within the last 
few years has this been possible. 
From the great coal docks of the 
Pennsylvania and New Jersey coast 
barges of coal are brought direct to 
Manchester, thus allowing a great 
saving over what would necessarily 
be demanded in the cost of double 
handling as formerly. This of itself 
warrants continued attention to the 
development of our harbor. 
League, which is doing much to pro- — 
for autoists, 
mote better conditions 
presents an interesting and exhaustive 
account of the automobile situation — 
in Massachusetts for the year just. 
past. Perhaps the most significant 
and at the same time appalling figures — 
compiled in the report are those of © 
the auto casualties in this state for 
There were 142 people killed — 
and 1962 injured during the past | 
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twelve months. 
This statement is almost in the na- 
ture of a question as to the cause, and 
an answer is being 
and autoists. 
League, which has been 
check the appalling increase in casual- 
ties after having completed its first 
year of existence reports its investi- 
gations and activities. 
The reasons for the numerous ac- 
cidents are attributed to many causes. © 
country roads — 
Drivers who “hog” 
seem to be in the majority, while 
careless and incompetent drivers of 
machines enter as a close second as ~ 
the “reason why.” As the report of 
the League says, “Somehow the ex- 
hilaration accompanying rapid tran- 
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sought by hun- — 
dreds of pedestrians, drivers of horses 
The Highway Safety © 
trying to. 
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sit in a motor car seems to cause” | 
drivers to lose that sense of propor- — 
tion which under different circum- 
stances enables them fairly to weight” 
their rights against the rights of 
others.” This would indicate that of- 
fenders of auto regulations should. be 
punished and proportionate sentences 
be meted out to them. 
The automobile has come to stay, 
and if the police, the autoists and the 
courts cannot get together and stop” 
the recklessness of pedestrians and 
drivers of horses and autos alike, the 
list of casualties will continue to grow 
yearly. Perhaps if some of the au- 
toists would band themselves together 
to obey the law as the Highway Safe- 
ty League has instead of attempting 
to evade the regulations there would 
be less trouble with the police. 
The money of Harry K. Thaw, still 
in the Matteawan Hospital, seems to 
be insistently working for his release. 
The last effort to release the murderer 
of Standford White is the most odor- 
ous of any former moves 
relatives and their “attorneys.” It 
would indicate that his friends have 
been bribing state officials in their 
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