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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Vol. X. 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, March 22, 1912 
SOCIETY NOTES 
An engagement of much interest 
to North Shore society folks is that 
announced this week in Philadel- 
phia of Miss Cintra Hutchinson, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sydney 
Emlen Hutchinson, and Hallowell 
Vaughan Morgan, son of Mr. and 
Mrs. Charles E. Morgan of German- 
town. Miss Hutchinson, who is one of 
Philadelphia’s younger set, was in- 
troduced in society by Mrs. Hutchin- 
son at a tea in November, two years 
ago. Several brilliant affairs were 
given in her honor during her debu- 
tante year, among them being an 
elaborate dance at the Bellevue 
Stratford, at which Edward T. 
Stotesbury, Mrs. Hutchinson’s father, 
her education abroad and has travel- 
led extensively. With her parents 
she spends a portion of each summer 
at Sydith Terrace, their home at 
Beverly Farms. Mr. Morgan was 
eraduated from Harvard in 1910. He 
is a nephew of Randall Morgan. 
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Charles Loring Jackson, ’67, Er- 
ving professor of chemistry at Har- 
vard, has resigned. He is the oldest 
man in point of service on the Har- 
yard faculty, having been in the de- 
partment of chemistry since 1868. 
He was assistant in chemistry from 
1868 to 1871. In 1871 he was made 
assistant professor and was made a 
full professor in 1881. He was ap- 
pointed Erving professor in 1894. 
The resignation will go into effect 
Sept. 1, at the close of his 44th year 
in the service of Harvard University. 
He was born in Boston, April 4, 1847, 
and received his A. B. in 1867, and 
his A. M. two years later. He 
studied in Berlin and Heidelberg 
from 1873-75. He is a member of 
the National Academy of Sciences, a 
Fellow of the American Academy of 
of Arts and Sciences, a correspond- 
ing member of the British Associa- 
tion of Advanced Science, the Deut- 
sche Chemische Gesellschaft and the 
American Chemical Society. Prof. 
Jackson is a summer resident of 
Pride’s of long standing. 
At the recent annual meeting of 
the Longwood Cricket club at 
Young’s hotel, Boston, Philip Stock- 
ton of Manchester was elected a 
vice president. 
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SOCIETY NOTES 
The Manchester Yacht club and 
the Corinthian and Boston Yacht 
clubs of Marblehead, have accepted 
the challenge of the Quincey Yacht 
elub for the Quincy challenge cup 
now held by the club, which origin- 
ally offered it for competition in 
1898. Of the three clubs to chal- 
lenge, only one, the Boston Yacht 
club, has named its representative. 
This will be the Ellen, owned by 
Charles P. Curtiss which competed 
last year and was defeated by the 
defender, the Harpoon, owned by 
Charles Francis Adams, 2d. Changes 
will be made in the Ellen with the 
object of increasing her speed. 
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Major Henry L. Higginson, Har- 
vard 755, of Boston and West Man- 
chester, president of the Harvard 
club, was a speaker at Hotel Somer- 
set, Boston, Thursday evening of 
last week. The occasion was the Har- 
vard dinner to promote the plan for 
the new Harvard clubhouse. 
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Through the generosity of Gardin- 
er M. Lane of Boston and Manches- 
ter, a course of public lectures of the 
literature and life of classical an- 
tiquity holds an honored place in the 
departments of classics at Harvard 
University. On March 18, Prof. 
Shorey of the University of Chicago, 
opens the 1912 course with a series 
of six public lectures on ‘‘Life and 
Letters at Athens, from Pericles to 
Alexander.”’ 
The Dr. Brown cottages on Sea 
street, Manchester, have been rented 
for the coming season. Thomas B. 
Gannett, Jr., of Boston, who mar- 
ried Miss Draper, daughter of form- 
er Gov. and Mrs. Eben 8S. Draper, 
has secured one, and the other has 
been rented to Mr. Leve of Bay 
State road, Boston. 
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Mrs. Fannie Goodman, widow of 
Learner R. Harrison, died at Cincin- 
nati, last Friday. Mrs. Harrison, 
with her sons and daughters, oc- 
eupied the Cobb cottage, corner of 
Cobb avenue and Masconomo street, 
Manchester, the past two seasons. 
The deceased was 82 years of age. 
SOCIETY NOTES. 
In the Berkshire Registry of 
Deeds the October Mountain prop- 
erty of the estate of William C. 
Whitney has been conveyed to Harry 
Payne Whitney, Payne Whitney of 
New York and Thomas J. Regan of 
Westbury, N. Y., as trustees of the 
October Mountain Real Estate Trust. 
The recording fee was $175.50, the 
largest in the history of the Berk- 
shire registry. The grantors of the 
deeds were [Harry Payne Whitney, 
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Payne 
Whitney, Helen Hay Whitney, Paul- 
ine P. Paget, Almerie II. Paget and 
Dorothy Whitney. The declaration 
of trust calls for a stock company; 
to which 16,000 acres of land in 
Lenox, Lee and Washington in con- 
veyed. It is capitalized at $100,000 
with 100 shares of the value of $1,000 
each, held as follows: Harry Payne 
Whitney 50, Dorothy Whitney 30, 
Payne Whitney 10, Pauline P. Paget 
10. The late William C. Whitney 
was attracted by the scenery from 
October Mountain while he was a 
Lenox cottager during his ocupancy 
of a portfolio in President Cleve- 
land’s Cabinet. He set agents at 
work and they bought up 100 farms 
in the three towns, covering all of 
the mountain to its base. At one time 
the mountain was stocked with buf- 
falo, elk, deer, moose and pheasants. 
Most of the big game Mr. Whitney 
gave to Bronx Park and other zoos, 
however, the Payne Whitneys sum- 
mered at Manchester last season. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bacon, the lat- 
ter formerly Miss Mary G. Souther- 
land of Washington, are in Boston 
for a visit with relatives of Mr. Ba- 
con. 
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Mesdames Charles Francis Adams, 
W. Murray Crane, Augustus P. 
Gardner, Preston Gibson, Levi Lei- 
ter, Henry Cabot Lodge, James Me- 
Millan, Clarence Moore and Hunt 
Slater, Miss Martha Codman and 
Miss Mabel Boardman were among 
the patronesses for the recent recital 
Miss Estella Neuhaus, the Boston 
pianist gave in Washington at the 
Belasco Theatre. Mrs. Taft and her 
daughter were of those who occu- 
pied boxes. 
