8 Bias ie NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
there is probably no such swimmer under 190 pounds. 
In fact, it is claimed in England that no man weighing 
less than 200 pounds can hope to accomplish the feat of 
swimming the Channel. Therefore, a male endurance 
swimmer, endowed with the same qualities of buoyance 
and warmth as a woman can outswim her, due to brute 
strength alone. 
Woman has been laboring under a great handicap 
for until recently she has been kept out of athletics the 
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same as she has been denied a voice in public affairs, but 
now that she is beginning to assert herself and demand 
that she be given a place in the business and _ political 
world she is also insisting that she be given a chance in 
athletics as well. In no other sport does woman make so 
wonderful a showing, and considering the short time she 
has had to become proficient, it would not be surprising 
to see her add many new laurels to her records and make 
the men work hard to maintain their supremacy. 
Early Jitneys of Somewhat Different Type From Those 
Now in Use 
HETHER you bless it as a convenience or revile it as 
a nuisance—however you regard it—do not think 
of the “jitney” as of modern origin. When a noisy lum- 
bering, converted auto-truck goes thundering by with its 
load of human freight do not look askance at it as an 
evolution in method of travel. It is not the result of 
evolution, but of revolution. The jitney represents 4 
backward instead of a forward step in methods of trans- 
portation. It is a reversion to first principles. 
Over the North Shore roads which now boast their 
‘Sitney” or “bus” routes there passed every day “‘jitneys”’ 
of a somewhat different type, almost a century ago. So 
the jitney is not a Twentieth Century innovation. Jitneys 
of the early part of the last century evidently did not 
thrive as do the jitneys of today. Population was not so 
dense and the citizenry of that day looked upon the con- 
veyances in the light of luxuries rather than necessities. 
In some localities the prototype of the modern jitney 
did a flourishing business up to the date of the intrusion 
of the steam railroad, when the latter put it out of busi- 
ness. So, perhaps, we need not sympathize so strong!y 
with the poor railroad which the jitneys threatened to 
nearly put out of business. One of the early North Shore 
*bus lines was established in the ’30s by Thomas Dodge. 
3y a coincidence the name this pioneer jitney magnate 
gave his “stage” was the “Mayflower.” His line was 
operated between Salem and Beverly so there is ample 
record to support the contention of many Beverly citizeus 
that their ancestors “came over in the Mayflower.” The 
Mayflower jitney made hourly trips between the tw» 
points and, as it was the only means of transportation, it 
was well patronized. Then along in 1839 came the ex- 
tension of the Eastern railroad to Ipswich and the “May- 
flower,” like its historic namesake, passed into memory. 
About the time the Salem-Beverly line was estab- 
lished another line was inaugurated between Boston and 
Beverly. The driver, Woodbury Page, was evidently an 
individual given to indulgence in repartee with those along 
his route, if there is any truth in the anecdotes related 
about him. Once as he was passing through Charlestown, 
it is said, he paused to take on a passenger. The wrath 
of a local cabdriver, whose path was obstructed, was ex- 
cited and he shouted, , 
“Get your old bean-pot out of the way.” 
The unruffled Mr. Page retorted, “Yes, when I get 
the pork in.” (Pork was the nickname applied to Charles- 
towners of that day). 
The Page ’bus was a commodious affair with a name 
more or less descriptive, “The Rambler.” | When the 
stage reached the end of its route at night it was housed 
in a barn on the site of the First Baptist Meeting House, 
Beverly. Later the quarters of the stage were changed 
to a barn at the junction of Ocean st. and Hale st. The 
career of the “Rambler” came to a sudden and unexpected 
close—fortunately about the time of the coming of the 
railroad. One evening the barn was destroyed by fire 
and the “Rambler” rambled no more. 
The owner of the deceased “Rambler” became the 
first agent of the railroad, the station of which was lo- 
cated near the bridge to Salem. About this time Andrew 
Standley saw possibilities in the jitney industry, although 
he never dreamed of calling it by that name. He secured 
a two-wheeled cab, capable of carrying four persons, and 
began carrying passengers to the railroad station. But, 
if the jitney was a novelty a few years ago, it was not 
nearly the innovation that the cab proved to be in Bey- 
erly. Instead of welcoming the convenience the people 
shunned it. None of those “new-fangled” things for 
them. Eventually the cab business was given up by Mr. 
Standley. 
It is no wonder the originals of the jitney failed to 
succeed when we read that the merchants of Beverly 
were accustomed to walk to Boston to make their pur- 
chases. Even so, these pioneer “free lance” vehicles 
paved the way for the modern “jitney.” 
One of Magnolia’s Interesting and Useful Shops 
T the foot of Lobster Lane is a quaint, white cottage, 
containing the loveliest of hand-made and home-made 
things,—frocks and smocks that are beautiful to wear, 
delicious cakes and tempting candies, teys and dolls that 
make you wish you were just half past six again. It is 
the summer home, perhaps one should say “The Summer 
Shop,” of the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union 
of Boston, which is to open July 1, for its second season 
at Magnolia. 
It’s a place in which to spend an hour of pure de- 
lignt,-—and a thoughtful hour too, for like the Union’s 
e-tvities, the little shop “has a purpose,” and that pur- 
pose is social and educational as well as industrial and 
artistic. For more than a quarter of a century the Hand- 
work Department, of which the Shop is a part, has been 
reaching out to women who, possessing the skill and the 
ability to do some one thing exceptionally well, have felt 
the need of earning money without leaving their own 
