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Manchester was glad to forego the 
band concert last week with the wel- 
come rain as a compensation. The 
“showers of blessings’? were im- 
measurably beneficial. 
The new fire steamer at Beverly 
Farms paid for itself the first time 
it was used. It does not pay to sac- 
rifice efficiency for economy. 
Oh Ye Elder Brethren! Congratu- 
lations and good luck for many 
years to come! 
*“‘The House of Seven Gables’ 
at Salem. . 
Do all our North Shore people 
know that unique settlement in 
Salem ‘‘the House of the Seven Ga- 
bles?’ It has a beautiful situation 
at the foot of Turner St., overlook- 
ing Salem harbor, and the embower- 
ing trees give to the ancient gray 
mansion, with its acutely pointed 
gables, an air of romance and dig- 
nity. 
You enter through Miss Hepgi- 
bah’s little shop where you can buy . 
almost everything from gingerbread 
men, toys and gibralters to really 
beautiful embroidery suitable for 
Christmas presents. 
You can go over the house for 
A competent guide shows 
the rooms furnished with old-fash- 
ioned furniture and the most stolid 
visitor feels a thrill of romance when 
he climbs the secret stairway. | 
This is the ‘‘residence’’ of the set- 
tlement and the grand old rooms 
with their fine paneling owe at least 
part of their charm to the fact that 
they are lived in. 
In the grounds close to the House 
of the Seven Gables, and almost as 
old, stands the Hathaway house dat- 
ing from 1683. It was formerly 
known as the“‘Old Bakery’’ and was 
moved jhere from Washington St. 
about a year ago. It is now used 
for the Settlement clubs and classes. 
In summer the two front rooms 
are furnished with antiqué furniture 
and the guide who sits weaving like 
the Lady of Shallott tells a most in- 
teresting story of the house. Visitors 
are shown in addition the model 
tenement and the club and_ class 
rooms and no one who sees_ this 
building begrudges the 10 cents ad- 
mission which helps to earry on this 
work. 
Tea is served under the grape ar- 
bor and from there the visitor can 
look across the beautiful garden, 
which lies between the two 17 cen- 
tury houses, to the harbor beyond. 
Surely this is a scene which cannot 
be duplicated on this side of the At- 
lantie. 
Tales of the Moths. 
Great patches of brown, five or 
six feet long and as wide as the 
trunks or limbs of the trees, acres 
of fine oaks, maples, and ash, as 
leafless as in January, tell of the 
ravages of the Gypsy moth in the 
Magnolia woods in and _ surround- 
ing the locality of Rafe’s chasm. 
The patches of brown on the trees 
are thousands of caterpillars now 
in a quiescent state, their work of 
destruction done, waiting only for 
the next transition of form to 
emerge from the ‘‘nest’’ as egg-lay- 
ing moths to commence again the 
eyele of their lives. In April we 
saw their nests, late in May the 
hatching of the caterpillars, and 
now on Sunday last we found their 
great army drawn up shoulder to 
shoulder to begin their next sortie. 
And apparently no attempt has 
been made to wipe out or even stay 
this pest—at least in the much fre- 
quented locality referred to. A few 
men just now, could, by torches or 
other means, destroy millions of 
these creatures, massed as they are 
within convenient reach. If noth- 
ing is done the transformed cater- 
pillar, a moth, will fly over areas 
as yet untouched and next year the 
war on the ‘‘Gypsy’’ will be still 
more hopeless. Delay action for a 
few days and the time for effective 
work is past. The moth army has 
drawn in its outlying squadrons 
and its pickets. It is gathered in 
compact masses where the work of 
annihilation is impossible—at least 
to a large extent. Will not some 
one in authority act and act quick- 
ly? <A visit to the locality will con- 
vince a sceptic of the truth of the 
above facts and the need of immedi- 
ate action. 
T. W. Preston 
Magnolia, July 16, 1912. 
To Enforce Law Relating to Muf- 
flers on Motor Boats. 
That a motor boat, muffled or un- 
muffled which can be heard for a 
distance of 1-2 mile or more is violat- 
ing the law is the substance of a 
ruling given Wednesday of this 
week by Judge Frank E. Dimick of 
the East Boston Police court, at 
which time and place were tried the 
first offenders against the muffling 
law for this season. Captain Hird 
of the Harbor Police had sum. 
monsed in two Boston fishermen on 
the charge of making an unreason- 
able noise, and the trial of the two 
was made a test case. Testimony 
was put in by several officers show- 
ing the amount and character of the 
noise made, and the distance it 
could be heard, and expert testi- 
mony was also introduced showing 
conclusively that mufflers are made 
and sold today which will limit the 
sound to practically nothing, wheth- 
er the engine be high-powered or 
low-powered, without loss of power, 
and at a low cost. Testimony was 
also introduced by means of a dicta- 
phone showing the sound of the ex- 
hausts as recorded by the instru- 
ment upon the police boat, and as a 
result a vivid illustration was given 
the court of the character of this 
disturbance. The men were found 
guilty and the cases were continued 
a month for sentence in order to 
give them an opportunity to secure 
a mutfler satisfactory to the Harbor 
and State Police. 
Further trials and convictions are 
expected to follow in rapid succes- 
sion for many offenders have al- 
ready been caught by the State and 
Salem Police as a result of several 
excursions in Salem and Beverly 
harbors, and the noisiest among 
them have been summonsed into 
court for trial this coming Satur- 
day. The State Police have spent 
several days at Cohasset and vicin- 
ity, and also in and around New- 
buryport, where several violations 
of the law were found. The local 
police in most of the cities along the 
coast have offered to cooperate with 
the State Police and the Motor Boat 
Muffling Association in this move- 
ment and it is expected that from 
now on a vigorous and effective en- 
forcement of this law will follow. 
Under the auspicies of the Motor 
Boat Muffling association it is ex- 
pected to put a large power boat in- 
to service very shortly to be manned 
by officers of the State Police for 
the purpose of cruising the entire 
length of the North and South 
Shores until this nuisance is 
thoroughly stamped out. 
The July Resorter, profusely illus- 
tated, at Floyd’s. 15 cents the 
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