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this seems like a sort of a 
-erusade against 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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As the Hearing Appeared to the 
Looker On. 
‘Editor North Shore Breeze, 
Referring to recent hearing on 
widening Proctor Street, Manchester. 
The idea of rounding both corners, 
Masconomo and Proctor St., good. 
Proctor St., on the north side 
should be widened, making an ave- 
nue of at least 50 feet in width, up 
to the Morgan house. To the writer 
mutual 
benefit proceeding, increasing the 
probability of a sale of the Smith 
property, and if sold, resulting in 
“new buildings and bringing more 
taxable property into the town. 
The line from the Morgan House 
is not so pleasing; with all due con- 
sideration for the new resident in 
our midst, it does not seem fair to 
the tax payer across the way of 50 
years standing, to take land to with- 
in one foot of his front door, when 
he owns only a third as much as does 
his neighbor on the opposite side of 
the street. 
What Manchester needs (many 
people to the contrary notwithstand- 
ing) is a first class summer hotel, re- 
sulting in bringing new blood to the 
‘town. and the selling of much of the 
property now on the market. In the 
early days the Masconomo did vast- 
ly more in developing Manchester 
than they ever received credit for. 
TAX PAYER 
_ Advocates Crusade Against Screech- 
ing Automobiles. 
A Breeze subscriber, one of the 
‘summer residents, writes: ‘‘I wish 
you would start in your Breeze a 
these sereeching 
If there is not ere long 
made people 
motors. 
some radical change 
will not choose this shore for these 
~ summer months. 
make many important friends and 
be of benefit to this village if.it 
The Breeze would 
would come out in ‘‘defense of the 
man who sits by the side of the 
road.’’ That the automobile has 
come to stay is fact, and we are all 
of us glad of it, but this shore al- 
lows such an unbridled use of it 
that those who live near the road 
are made miserable. I know of 
‘nothing so terrifying and so noisy 
as a hungry chauffeur when he is 
masterless. The noise and speed 
travel hand in hand.”’ 
Prosecuting Violators of Motor Boat 
Muffling Law. 
That the prosecution of violators 
of the motor boat muffling law will 
be carried on from this date with 
even greater energy is evidenced by 
When Knighthood Was in Flower 
Whene’er I read in pages of romance 
Of deeds heroic wrought with sword and lance 
) 
And how the valiant and victorious wight, 
With royal recognition, rose a knight, 
The 
echo of whose virtue and renown 
Has thro’ the ages to our time come down, 
—I think twere nobler to have fitly borne 
Life’s peaceful tasks and manhood’s honors worn; 
Still to be gentle, pure yet valorous, 
Aye kind and duteous without boast or fuss. 
These were a patent of true character 
More valid than king’s touch or gilded spur. 
If but these virtues you and I achieve 
We care not the world’s honers to receive. 
the fact that the Motor Boat Mut- 
fling associaton, which has been as- 
sisting the State and local police of 
the Commonwealth in their efforts 
thus far this season, has chartered a 
large sixty-six foot gasoline launch, 
the Kasagi, and has placed it at the 
disposal of the State Police. Officers 
Grady and Daley of the State Police 
have been assigned to her, and will 
spend the next few weeks in eruls- 
ing along the entire Massachusetts 
coast in a determined effort to ap- 
prehend every offender whose. boat 
is not properly mufiled. 
The activities of the State and lo- 
eal police, assisted by the Motor 
Boat Muffling Association, have 
thus far secured three convictions in 
Nantucket, two in Hyannis, six in 
Salem, two in Nahant and five in 
East Boston, with other cases pend- 
ing in various courts, and these 
convictions have already resulted in 
considerable activity on the part of 
motor boat owners in properly 
equipping their boats, and reports 
from various sections of the coast 
indicate that the nuisance has al- - 
ready considerably abated. 
Heretofore the Motor Boat Mut- 
fling association has been content to 
have the offenders given time in 
which to properly equip their boats, 
but in the future it is expected to 
ask that more severe penalties be 
meted out to those found guilty. 
Moth Pest at Magnolia. 
In the communication in last 
week’s Breeze, from T. W.  Pres- 
ton, advocating the destruction of 
—dJoseph A. Torrey. 
the moths, in the Magnolia section 
of the North Shore, by one of those 
mis-prints of the type which are 
hard to account for, we made Mr. 
Preston say that the work of anni- 
hilation is now ‘‘impossible.’’ His 
original manuscript said very plain- 
ly that the work is ‘‘possible,’’-- 
and indeed it is, for the moths are 
now gathered in compact masses 
awaiting the next stage of develop- 
ment in their transition; and the 
advise which Mr. Preston gave of 
burning these masses with torches 
would mean the annihilation of mil- 
lions of these moths and eggs. The 
condition of this pest at Magnolia 
is much worse than at any other 
point along the entire North Shore. 
Somebody ought to get busy. The 
subscriptions called for ought to 
bring liberal responses from the 
summer visitors. 
MANCHESTER 
Miss Mary Rust is taking a vaca- 
tion from her duties with the 
Hood Rubber company. She is at 
camp at Annisquam. Her sister, Miss 
Hester Rust is with her. 
Mrs. Frank Bullock is spending a 
month in New York as the guest of 
her brother, George Scott, and his 
wife. 
The Military Ball given by the S. 
of V., was one of the most success- 
ful affairs that organization has 
ever held. A large crowd attended 
and all enjoyed the evening. Music 
was furnished by Long’s orchestra 
and punch and cakes were served. 
