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“NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
THE MEN'S CLUBHOUSE IN MAGNOLIA. 
Next Week Will be 
Next week, Aug. 16 to 21, is to be 
Men’s Clubhouse Week in Magnolia. 
Everybody along the North Shore is_ in- 
vited to iuspect from top to bottom the 
handsome building which has been 
erected during the past winter for men 
who work in Magnolia. And everybody 
will be asked to lend a hand and help put 
the enterprise on a self-supporting basis 
from this the first year. To effect this 
the indebtedness must be reduced by 
$6000 and the efforts of next week will 
be directed towards this definite end. It 
means 
A THOUSAND DOLLARS A DAY 
but with one or two large gifts and many 
smaller ones the full amount will be con- 
tributed, as the history of the clubhouse 
shows. 
It was just a year ago last Tuesday 
that Mrs. William McMillan headed the 
subscription list for a men’s clubhouse 
with a pledge of $1000. Miss Elizabeth 
Houghton followed with a subscription 
of $500, which she increased later to 
$1000. Miss Fannie M. Faulkner and 
Mrs. H. G. Curry pledged $1000 each. 
T. Jefferson Coolidge, jr., though not 
living in Magnolia proper, with his ac- 
customed public spirit gave $600, which 
. Jefferson Coolidge, sr., raised to 
$1000... James S. Lee the architect gave 
a month of his time and that of his 
draughtsman drawing the beautiful plans 
without charge, And Mrs, Rebecca 
‘** Clubhouse Week.” 
FREDERICK J. Lippy. 
McM. Colfelt gave the lot and at Christ- 
mas added $2000 towards the building, 
making her contribution to the success 
of the enterprise $4350. Is it unrea- 
THE MEN’s CLUBHUUsF, MAGNULIA 
sonable to believe that there are two or 
three left in Magnolia as benevolent as 
these and as able and willing to help? 
If this faith is justified, if $2000 or $3000 
are contributedin large sums, there is 
every reason to believe that the contribu- 
tions ranging in size from $250 to $1.00 
will be numerous enough to bring the 
total up to the desired sum. For the 
Men’s Clubhouse has already justified 
the effort put into it by its unqualified 
success from the very day of its opening. 
After only two months’ existence it 
has a large place in the life and thought 
of the majority of the men in Magnolia 
who work. 
itis home. It is always full of sunshine. 
There is always something going on. 
There is always somebody there to talk 
with. Every part of it is attractive. 
How could it help succeeding? 
Moreover, it was needed. There are 
three or four hundred men in Magnolia 
in summer in the employ of the summer 
colony. For these men there was no 
adequate place of amusement when they 
were through their work They could 
steal a car and goon a “‘joyride’’ to 
Gloucester, if they got desperate. They 
could stand on the street corner. They 
could make love in dark places. But as 
To men away from home . 
Bverybads Invited to Inspect Building. Effort Will 
be Made to Reduce Indebtedness. 
for wholesome honest recreation there 
was none. This was a demoralizing 
situation. To Christian people with a 
just sense of responsibility for employees 
it seemed intolerable. A little club- 
room containing two pool tables and 
some magazines was maintained by a few 
of the old Magnolians as an earnest of 
what they would like to do. This cost 
$400 a year and was wholly inadequate 
at that. 
The success of the Women’s Club- 
house was encouraging. This had been 
built three years and with its enthusiastic 
membership of 275 each season and 
its record of self-support from the outset 
was an unmitigated joy toits friends. Ac- 
cordingly there seemed but one thing to 
be done. This was to build a’clubhouse 
forthe men. To be permanently use- 
ful it must be a proper building, ‘‘good 
enough for anybody.’’ It must provide 
wholesome amusement in wholesome 
variety. It must contain rooms to let as 
a source of income in order that the 
building might hope to become self-sup- 
porting. And it must contain a restau- 
rant, both because of the men rooming 
in the building and because Magnolia 
needed one and this clubhouse was the 
best place for it. 
The clubhouse that has been built was 
planned to meet these needs. After two © 
months’ trial it is pronounced Earractaay 
in every particular, 
