NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Work is about completed on the 
the two combination stable and gar- 
age buildings being built at Pride’s 
Crossing for R. T. Paine and Chas. 
K. Cummings, respectively. The 
building used by the two families 
jointly heretofore was destroyed by 
fire last fall. Publicover Bros. are 
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aye Up and Down the North Shore... 
the contractors. ‘This firm has also 
nearly completed the new house for 
R. P. Snelling of Milton on the Bev- 
erly Farms shore. Painters are now 
at work on the inside and the house 
is practically ready for the paper- 
hangers. 
Boston Opera Housé 
Flotow’s ‘‘Martha,” the first and 
only opera to be given in English at 
the Boston Opera House this season, 
will be the week’s attractive addition 
to the repertory. It is the last of the 
eight novelties promised by Director 
Russell and such interest has been 
taken in the revival that it gives indi- 
cations of being one of the season’s 
most popular successes. With few 
exceptions the cast will be composed 
of American singers. 
Miss: Alice Nielsen, who recently 
triumphed in another Patti role,— 
that of Herlina in “Don Giovanni,” 
will be the masquerading Martha. 
The first performance will fall on 
Saturday night, March 22 and Mr. 
Moranzoni will direct. 
On Monday night will be given the 
final presentation for this season of 
Rubert’s ‘“‘La Foret Bleue,’ the new 
fairy-tale opera. 
On Tuesday evening there will be a 
special performance outside of the 
subscription series at which the great 
and only Enrico Caruso will be the 
bright and shining star. ‘‘Pagliacci,” 
with the most famous of tenors sing- 
ing his greatest role, will be the fea- 
ture of the evening. 
On Wednesday evening and again 
at the Saturday matinee “The Girl of 
the Golden West” will be given for 
the last time. On Wednesday night 
Miss Elizabeth Amsden will appear 
as the “Girl,” a role which she took 
with much acceptance last season. At 
the matinee Mme. Melis will sing the 
part. 
On account of the holiday, the usual 
Friday performance will be given on 
Thursday evening. “Faust” then will 
have its last hearing with Miss Nielsen 
as Marguerite. 
For the following week ,which will 
be the last of the season, and the first 
after Easter, Mr. Russell has arranged 
a program which will make the wind- 
up a blaze of glory. On Wednesday 
evening “Tristan und Isolde” will be 
sung and on Friday “Tales of Hoff- 
man” will be heard again. The last 
performance of the season, on Satur- 
day March 29, will, in response to 
numerous requests, be one of “The 
Jewels of the Madonna,” the success 
of successes. 
RUNNING RouND IN CIRCLES 
(Banker and Tradesman. ) 
Without entering into any lengthy 
discussion of the railroad situation in 
New England, it seems to us that, in 
the heat of the row, the fact that we 
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SOCIETY NOTES 
The Gannetts of Boston and Cam- 
bridge, who have been coming to the 
Brownlands in Manchester for years, 
will make a change the coming sea- 
son. Thomas B. Gannett, Jr., and his 
bride of last year, the daughter of ex- 
Gov. Eben S. Draper, will have the 
Dr. Rotch cottage on Blossom Lane, 
near. Singing Beach, while the Senior 
Gannetts will have the Cobb cottage, 
so-called, on Cobb avenue and Mas- 
conomo street, nearby. 
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The J. Newton Gunns of New 
York city—Mr. and Mrs. Gunn and 
three daughters—will have the Cush- 
ing cottage at Beverly Farms again 
the coming cae 
Mrs. Albert Ivins Croll and Miss 
Pauline Croll of Boston and Man- 
chester, sailed last Saturday for a 
month’s sojourn in Bermuda. 
are running around in circles has been 
lost sight of. What the people want 
from the railroads is the best possible 
service, the lowest rates consistent 
with this kind of service, and the max- 
imum of safety. Likewise, the stock- 
holders want a fair return on their 
money. ‘This looks like a pretty siz- 
able job for any man, and yet our 
various legislative bodies and the yel- 
low press insist on keeping Mr. Mel- 
len so busy defending and explaining 
his operations and plans that it is a 
wonder he finds any time at all to at- 
tend to his job of running his roads. 
And the worst of it all is that it seems 
to lead nowhere. We have on our 
statute book law enough now to con- 
trol the situation. 
Mr. Melln is not the ogre that the 
yellow press paints him. He is one 
of the greatest railroad men of his 
time. Why not give him a chance to 
exercise his real genius as a railroad 
man in giving the people what they 
demand in the way of service, rates 
and safety? If he don’t or can’t do it, 
then the state can step in, but it is not 
a square deal to ask him or any other 
man to run a big railroad system and 
then proceed to keep him away from 
his job. 
The suggestion made by Governor 
Foss, that we have a New England 
railroad commission is the best one 
yet, and looks more like real co-opera- 
tion than anything yet offered. It’s 
time Mr. Mellen had a little co-opera- 
tion instead of constant and_ profit- 
less opposition. This is not a plea on 
behalf of Mr. Mellen, it is on behalf 
of the public that wants the service 
that Mr. Mellen can give. 
