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Tree Warden William Young of 
Manchester thinks he can explain why 
the beautiful tree on Union street, 
opposite the Manchester Public Libra- 
ry, is called a horse chestnut tree. 
Tuesday, while trimming the tree, re- 
moving dead branches and twigs, far 
up in the tree, some twenty-five feet 
from the ground, one of the men 
found a horse shoe, aged by exposure 
to the elements, reposed in the fork of 
a large branch. How it came there 
is somewhat of a mystery, but there 
it was, and that is why the tree is 
called a horse chestnut, says our 
friend, the tree warden. 
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Some idea of the heavy automo- 
bile travel now-a-days may be gained 
from the figures kept by one person 
Sunday afternoon. In the space of 
two hours 1100 cars passed through 
the square in Manchester, which, to 
use the vernacular, is some parade. 
Another person counted the cars he 
met in driving last Sunday afternoon 
between the Allen estate in Beverly 
Cove and the square in Manchester, 
and in the sixteen minutes that 
elapsed he counted 170 cars, all going 
in one direction. 
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The popularity of Singing Beach, 
Manchester, was attested last Sunday 
during the noon hour, when 75 cars 
were counted at one time, lined up 
along Beach street, adjoining the 
beach. The need of a policeman was 
never more apparent than last Sun- 
day, when Officer Gilmore had _ his 
fiands full regulating traffic at this 
congested spot. The beach was alive 
with people, several hundred enjoying 
the wonderful bathing on the clear 
white sand bottom. The capacity of 
the town bath-houses was taxed all 
day long—as it is very often, as 
many as four being forced to use 
the same apartment at one time. 
There is need of more accommoda- 
tions. Thirty-two apartments are 
hardly sufficient to take care of the 
crowds that seek a chance to enjoy 
the free privileges of a bath at Sing- 
ing Beach. 
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An echo of the good old days dur- 
ing the ’49 gold excitement in Cali- 
fornia was heard yesterday when 5S. 
M. Calain received from a friend in 
Calaveras County a well preserved 
copy of a bill of fare of the El Dor- 
anda Hotel at Placerville, Calif., 
showing what the early miners had to 
NOREH SHORE BREEZE and Rendndey 
“No One on the Line” 
When you answered your telephone did the operator say, 
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There is no’ one on the line now, please excuse it’? 
She was right—there was no one at that moment; but, unless 
she accidently rang by mistake, there had been someone who asked 
for your number and at whose request the operator rang your bell. 
The reason there was no one there may be any one of the 
following: 
Perhaps you were up-stairs and you could not run down-stairs 
to the telephone quickly enough; or you thought some other mem- 
ber of the family might respond to the ringing bell; or you waited 
a few moments before you started to go to the telephone, or were 
delayed in so doing. 
The result was that the person who called was unwilling to 
wait for you to respond and hung up the receiver; it may have 
been with the belief that you were inaccessible, or it may have 
been impatiently. 
There is another possibility: The person who asked for your 
number may have been in error and have given the wrong number; 
then discovering the mistake, have hung up the receiver and pro- 
ceeded to call the right number. 
There is also the possibility of occasional human error, where 
an operator has misunderstood the number given or has made a 
mistake in her switchboard work. 
The greatest satisfaction in the use of the telephone comes 
from clear enunciation in giving numbers and in speaking, and in 
a prompt response when called. 
NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE 
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY 
IRVING W. ROLFE, Manager 
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eat and what they had to put up for it. 
The gold scales mentioned were for 
weighing gold dust— Nevada State 
Journal. 
And here are some of the items: 
“Bean soup, $1; hash (low-grade) 
75 cents; hash (18-karat), $1; plain 
beef, $1; tame beef (from the States), 
$1.50; roast grizzly, $1; jackass rab- 
bit (whole), $1; baked beans 
(greased), $1; baked beans (plain), 
75 cents; two potatoes (peeled), 75 
cents; rice pudding and brandy 
peaches, $2; rice pudding with mo- 
lasses, $1; square meal, with dessert, 
$3. Payable in advance—gold scales 
at end of bar.” 
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That $1.20 tax rate jump was a 
those in Manchester 
rude shock to 
who had figured that the rate would 
be about the same as last year. Ex- 
tensive improvements to the high- 
ways are responsible for the increased 
rate. > Which reminds us of the old 
saying, “You can’t have your cake and 
eat it too.” 
