NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Vol. X. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
The engagement of Miss Claire 
Whitman Means, daughter of Mrs. 
Arthur Little of 35 Commonwealth 
avenue, Boston, and Andre Nicho- 
las Reggio, son of Mr. Andre C. 
Reggio of the Empire, Common- 
wealth avenue, Boston, which has 
been announced by Mr. and Mrs. 
Little, was not entirely in the na- 
ture of a surprise. She is_ the 
daughter of the late Robert Law- 
“rence Means, and granddaughter of 
the late William Gordon Means. 
Her sisters are Miss Anne M. Means 
and Miss Jessie K. Means, and her 
brothers are William Gordon Means 
of Boston and Beverly Farms, who 
married Miss Marjory R. Rice, and 
Robert Whitman Means, whose 
wife formerly was. Miss. Alice F. 
Hubbard. Miss Means is a member 
of the Vincent Club. Mr. Reggio 
is a young architect, and is con- 
nected with Mr. Little’s offices. 
His grandfather was the late 
Nicholas. Reggio, a Boston mer- 
ehant, and his sister is Miss L. 
Erdna Reggio. An only brother is 
A. William Reggio, a senior at the 
Harvard Medical School. The en- 
gagement was announced last Sat- 
urday at an ‘‘at home’’ given at 
35. Commonwealth avenue, and in 
honor of the event, Mr. and Mrs. 
Little were ‘‘at home’’ Sunday af- 
ternoon. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Sias of 
Bay State road, Boston, and Wen- 
ham, left Boston Monday for the 
south, where they will spend a 
couple of months. | s 
Mrs. J. Murray Kay of Brookline 
and East Gloucester, whose son, J. 
M. Kay, Jr., is to wed Miss Anna 
Welch Pollard of Beacon street, 
Brookline, and East Gloucester, to- 
morrow afternoon, will entertain 
some twenty of the bridal party this 
evening. Her son gave his bachelor 
dinner at the Union Club last eve- 
ning, when his guests included Wil- 
der Pollard, brother of the bride- 
elect, Gilbert and Victor Mather of 
Philadelphia, Byron Whiting, Har- 
old Morgan, John Wing Prentiss of 
New York, who-is to be best man 
tomorrow, George S. West, Bayard 
Tuckerman, James G. Blaine, 3d, 
Gordon Prince and others. 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, February 2, 1912 
No. 5 
SOCIETY NOTES 
The bachelors’ ball, to take place 
this evening in the white and gold 
ballroom of the Hotel Somerset, 
Boston, will be one of the most brill- 
iant affairs of the winter and one 
long anticipated by the debutante 
set, as a novelty predicted is the 
leap year feature of the cotillon. 
The list of patronesses is a very 
smart one, headed with Mrs. J. 
Bryce Allan, and the committee in 
charge includes Samuel D. Parker, 
who is chairman, while the subserib- 
ers include some forty bachelors. 
A large number of dinners will be 
given prior to the affair, the many 
hostesses taking their guests on to 
the dance. 
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Yacht racing next season should 
prove fully as interesting as_ last 
year for the reason that new boats 
are to be brought out, or to put it 
more correctly, boats new to the 
classes will be in the running. The 
18-foot knockabout elass will have 
a new one from designs by E. A. 
Boardman of Beverly Farms, for A. , 
E. Whittemore, who has raced the f 
Kittiwake V., consistently several 
years. This boat is now in frame 
at Fenton’s, Manchester, and was 
designed to beat H. N. Bloomfield’s 
Moslem, II., the class 1 sensation of 
1911. C. H: Porter, .owner. of the 
Maritza, is having another boat 
built for class S and in elass C one 
or more strange sloops are likely to 
be found in the running. 
There will be no Seawanhaka cup 
race during 1912, the Canadians 
having failed to challenge before 
the time limit expired last Decem- 
ber. Perhaps a long period of time 
will intervene before the cup, now 
held by a syndicate of Manchester 
Yacht. club. members, is again 
placed in competition. This trophy, 
won by the Massachusetts in 1910, 
is stored in a vault. The Massachu- 
setts, herself, may be sold to a syn- 
dicate of the Southern Yacht Club, 
negotiations having been re-opened 
within a week. Designer E. A. 
Boardman, speaking of the defender 
says she can, in his opinion, be 
made considerable faster in event 
of another challenge without alter- 
ing the hull. The boat, therefore, 
will not be sold except at a fancy 
figure. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
The engagement of Mrs. Robert 
C. Heaton of Boston and Beverly 
Farms, widow of Robert C. Heaton, 
and Leonard D. Ahl of Boston and 
Pride’s is announced. The cards 
have been sent out from Palm 
Beach, Fla., where both Mr. Ahl and 
Mrs. Heaton went last month from 
the North Shore. Mr. Ahl has a cot- 
tage there presided -over by his 
mother, Mrs. Daniel Ahl. The 
friends of Mrs. Heaton and Mr. Ahl 
were not surprised, as the engage- 
ment of the couple has been known 
for a long time, and ecards have been 
expected by their intimate circle of 
acquaintances. Mrs. Heaton is a 
daughter of Mrs. Hall Curtis of 2 
Spruce street, Boston, and Beverly 
Farms, and a sister of John $. Cur- 
tis of Chestnut Hill, who several 
years ago was married to Mrs. Louis 
A. Shaw, widow of:the late Louis A. 
Shaw. Mr. Ahl and his mother, Mrs. 
Daniel Ahl, formerly made _ their 
home on Commonwealth avenue, 
Boston, but as Mr, Ahl has a cottage 
at Palm Beach, they have gone there 
directly from their summer home at 
Pride’s Crossing for the last season 
or two. Mr. Ahl is a member of the 
Union, Athletic, Country, Easterp 
Yacht, Tennis and Racquet, <Auto- 
mobile and several other clubs. 
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Ogden Mills Reid has been elected 
president of the New York. Tribune 
newspaper..company. For nearly 
eight years Mr. Reid has been work- 
ing on the Tribune, learning all 
branches of newspaper making. 
He is thé ‘son of Whitelaw Reid, the 
ambassador from the United States 
to the court of St. James. Follow- 
ing his graduation from Yale Law 
school in 1904 Mr. Reid took a long 
trip abroad and then returned to go 
to work as a reporter. He ‘‘‘ecov- 
ered ’’ political headquarters and 
did general assignment work like 
other members of the staff. Mr. 
Reid was married at Racine, Wis., 
last March to Miss Helen Miles 
Rogers, who was’ graduated 
Barnard college and was for some 
time social secretary to Mrs. White- 
law Reid. Mr. Reid is a member of 
the New York bar, the chamber of 
commerce, the Union and Union 
League clubs. His sister is the Hon, 
Mrs. John H. Ward of London, — 
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