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VOLUME 7. June 25, 1909 NUMBER 26 
June 26—July 2. 
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That Ideal Hotel Again. 
‘WE hear people complaining today 
of lack of opportunity to make money,”’ 
said a retired multi-millionaire, who 
spends his summers in Manchester, the 
other day, ‘‘ yet right here in Manches- 
ter is an opportunity of exceptional 
worth. If some of these fortune seekers 
would get together, form a corporation, 
build a big, modern, reliable hotel, all of 
them could store away fortunes in a few 
years. Of course they might not be bil- 
lionaires the first year, but they could lay 
away enough to keep them happy and 
comfortable for any number of years.”’ 
This is but a reflection of what THE 
Breeze has often said before. At pres- 
ent Manchester is merely a summer re- 
sort—in the winter everything falls flat. 
The first step in encouraging winter trade 
and winter industry is to establish a mod- 
ern hotel. 
The site of the present Masconomo 
House is an ideal place for such a hostel- 
ry. The hotel should be capable of ac- 
«=. G. E. WILLMONTON ... 
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
commodating alarge summer patronage. 
It should also be- planned to reduce its 
forces and supplies in winter time in_ or- 
derto handle a limited winter patronage. 
This patronage would be made up largely 
of automobile parties and city folk who 
would come out to spend the week-end 
in the country. The winter hotel should 
be of the quiet, hospitable, old English 
type with broad fire-place and other feat- 
ures to make it home-like. Such a place 
would grow to be a mecca for travelers 
from far and near, just as the winter ho- 
tels at Lenox are to hundreds who go 
from Boston every Sunday during the 
winter to partake of their hospitality. 
The hotel would not be a mere social 
feature either. It costs money—a great 
deal of money—to run a hotel, stock it 
completely and keep it in readiness for 
its guests. Much of that money would 
be spent in Manchester, thus assuring the 
town a larger circulation of cash. Then 
too, it would be a fitting place of enter- 
tainment for many of the town’s festivi- 
ties as well as a fitting abiding place for 
distinguished visitors to the town, some- 
thing in which Manchester is now wholly 
lacking. These are but a few purposes 
which a good hotel could serve. 
Come now, where is the man who 
will organize the corporation ! 
An Ounce of Prevention. 
THE complaints of many of the sum- 
mer residents against the shameful de- 
struction of Manchester’s forests by fires 
in the fall and spring are more than 
It is a signal case where 
an ounce of prevention is worth a pound 
justly founded. 
of cure. 
Hundreds of dollars worth of timber, 
always an asset to a town, to say nothing 
of the beautiful wood drives and scenery 
so attractive to the summer residents, are 
annually destroyed —simply _ because 
somebody did not think. 
Somebody! Who is that somebody? 
‘That is always the question—to fix the 
responsibility. In this case the respon- 
sibility is divided—on the one side with 
the man who, in cutting trees, leaves the 
twigs and branches where they fall to 
dry and become like tinder and, on the 
other, with the automobilist, the horse- 
‘Willmonton’s Agency 
man or the stroller who, in passing 
through the woods, is not careful what 
he does with the lighted cigar stub; or, 
possibly, it is the huntsman or stroller 
who leaves a fire burning. 
It is high time that the state regulated 
these abuses. There are plenty of ex- 
amples at home and abroad where state 
regulation has well-nigh eliminated, not 
only forest fires, but other dangers as 
well. In Germany, for instance, the 
man who cuts down a tree must burn the 
brush which he trims from the trunk and 
extinguish the fire when the work is 
done. Some such law is needed here 
and now. 
Investigation following the agitation 
for forest preservation in the last few 
years, has proved beyond a doubt that 
forests are greatly conducive to the 
health, prosperity and productiveness of 
a locality. In farming districts where 
the forests have been cut away, for in- 
stance, the disappearance of the woods 
has been followed by yearly droughts 
which devastated the crops, but which 
were never known in the years when the 
land was partly forest-covered. In 
Maine, right near at hand, it has been 
found that the destruction of the forests 
seriously crippled the water power which 
is so widely used in the industry through- 
out the state. : 
The North Shore has a special reason 
for preserving its forests. Its woods are 
one of its greatest attractions. It is safe 
to say that without its woods, the North 
Shore would be nothing but a country 
locality instead of the thriving summer 
resort that it is. If is is important to 
protect the trees from the gypsy moth i 
is still more so to preserve them from 
fire. Ifthe state is slow in acting, then 
the towns should take proper steps on 
their own responsibility. 
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