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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Oceanside Hotel Co. Buys Famous 
Hesperus Property at Magnolia 
The Hotel Hesperus property, at 
Magnolia, owned by the estate of 
Mrs. Susan L. Clapp, has been pur- 
chased by the Oceanside Hotel Co. 
The Hesperus is acquired to pro- 
vide accommodations for the over- 
flow of the Oceanside, the two 
hotels being within a very short dis- 
tanee of each other. 
The Hesperus House is one of the 
oldest of the Magnolia summer ho- 
tels, and was erected about 1870 by 
the late Daniel W. Fuller. Some 
five years or so afterwards an ex- 
tension was made to the house. It 
was first run as a summer hotel by 
Mrs. Orra Paige for Mr. Fuller, and 
after his death by Mrs. Paige and 
Mrs. Fuller, and later by the former 
alone until the retirement of her- 
self and her husband from the sum- 
mer hotel business. Of late years it 
has been leased to different parties, 
being run the last two seasons by 
Mrs. J. C. Francis. 
It has been reported within the 
last few days, by the representa- 
tive of the owners of the property, 
that. it has not been sold. The 
Breeze gives its news of the sale 
after a letter-to that effect has been 
received from Treas. W. S. Warren 
of the Oceanside Co. 
Playground Association of America 
to Hold Institute at Brookline 
The New England Recreation In- 
stitute of the Playground and Rec- 
reation Association of America will 
take place at the Brookline Munici- 
al Gymnasium, February 15th, 
16th and 17th. The sessions will be 
addressed by experts In many 
branches of public recreation, and 
the program will include several 
speakers of national reputation. 
Among these will be Lee IF. Han- 
mer, of the Sage Foundation, New 
York City; Dr. J. H. McCurdy, of 
Springfield; George A. Parker, of 
Hartford, Conn:; Mrs. C. UH. Israels, 
of New York City; Professor Geo. 
P. Baker of Cambridge; and Joseph 
Lee of Boston. 
The wide range of subjects dis- 
cussed will include: Boys and Girls 
at Play, Athletics for All, The 
Wider Use of Public Parks, Holi- 
day Celebrations, Playground Man- 
agement, Boy Scouts, Boys’ Clubs, 
Evening Recreation Centers, Com- 
mercial Recreation, The Civie Pa- 
geant, and The Place of Musie in 
Publie Recreation. An instructive 
part of the exercises will be the 
demonstration of games for all 
ages, scouting, folk dancing, gym- 
nastic dancing and dramatic play. 
Persons concerned with any of 
these phases of public recreation 
will have the privilege of attending 
as delegates, and the evening ses- 
sions will be open to the public. 
Of especial interest to the visit- 
ing delegates will be the luncheon 
at which officials in charge of recre- 
ation in the cities and towns of New 
England are expected to speak. 
The newly appointed Playground 
Commission of Brookline will have 
charge of local arrangements. 
Boy Hanged for Setting Fire 
Albert Johnson, the Beverly 
Farms driver for Smith’s Express 
Co., came across ‘some interesting 
old papers while going over the be- 
longings of his late father, B. U. 
Johnson, who died at Georgetown 
at the age of 92 years, a few weeks 
ago. One of the papers is a sort of 
poster, printed nearly 100 years ago 
on the ‘‘Execution of Stephen Mer- 
rill Clark, which took place on Win- 
ter Island, Salem, Thursday, May 
10th, 1821, for the crime of arson.”’ 
It appears that this lad of less than 
17 years, was hanged for the crime 
of setting fire to a building in New- 
buryport, a fact that reveals the 
great changes in the law since that 
day. The boy was convicted of 
‘‘arson committed at Newburyport, 
Aug. 17, 1820, by setting fire in the 
night time to a _ stable of Mrs. 
Phebe Cross, from which the fire 
was communicated to and consumed 
the dwelling house of Andrew 
Frothingham, esq.’’, ete. The pos- 
ter says after describing in detail 
the execution: ‘‘Thus died Stephen 
M. Clark, aged 17 years, cut off in 
the morning of his life, for a heinous 
offense, and made a public example 
of the terrible retributions of the 
present. world, and held up as an 
awful warning to all survivors and 
especially to young persons, to shun 
the paths of vice. May the warning 
not be lost.’’ 
AUTOMOBILISTS’ NOTICE 
A long felt want in Manchester 
is finally taken care of as Perkins & 
Corliss have put on a large rein- 
foreed cement addition to their 
garage, equipped with hot water 
heat, hot and cold water, new toi- 
lets, and all the latest improvements 
found in a modern garage. This 
garage is strictly fireproof, and the 
only one in Manchester; also fur- 
nished with a mereury rectifier for 
charging storage batteries and elee- 
tric cars. ' 2-3-4, 
Bill for Constructing System of 
Sewerage for Manchester 
Our representative to the General 
Court H. Bert Knowles of Glouces- 
ter has filed in the house a bill upon 
the petition of Fred K. Swett, Geo. 
W. Blaisdell, Oliver T. Roberts, 
Frank P. Knight and Walter R. 
Bell comprising the Manchester 
committee of sewerage investiga- 
tion. 
The bill authorizes the town to 
construct a system of sewerage and 
provides for the election of a board 
of three commissioners for three 
years to install the system. The 
town shall by vote determine what 
portion of the cost of the system 
the town shall pay, providing that 
it shall not pay less than 2-3 of the 
whole cost. 
For the purpose of paying the 
necessary expense incurred under 
the same, the town is authorized to 
incur indebtedness to the amount 
not exceeding $250,000 and may is- 
sue from time to time bonds or notes 
payable not exceeding thirty years 
from date of issue and bearing in- 
terest not exceeding 4 percent. The 
receipts from sewer assessment and 
from premiums if any _ received, 
from sale of these bonds or notes 
shall be applied by the board to the 
payment of expenses incurred by 
the operation of the system of sew- 
erage and to the extension thereof. 
This act is to become effective 
upon its passage, but no expendi- 
ture shall be made or liabilities in- 
curred until the act has been ac- 
cepted by the majority vote of the 
voters in town meeting. 
Rajah at B. F. Keith’s 
Princess Rajah, the world famous 
Oriental dancer, whose ‘‘Cleopatra 
Danee’’ has been in turn the sensa- 
tion of four continents, will come 
to B. F. Keith’s Theatre next Mon- 
day for one week only. Since her 
first appearance in Boston three 
vears ago, Rajah has appeared in 
the principal music halls of the 
most famous capitals in Europe, 
and everywhere her performances 
have proved the sensation of the 
hour. For her return to America 
Rajah has arranged one of the most 
remarkable series of dances ever 
staged in this country, including a 
new and spectacular production of 
the ‘‘Cleopatra Danece’’ and the 
‘‘ Arabian Chair Danee,’’ a new di- 
vertisement. Two elaborate scenes 
are employed, one representing a 
terrace in Cleopatra’s palace on the 
Nile, and the other a_ beautiful 
Turkish garden. , 
