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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
ST. JOSEPH’S CHAPEL, MAGN OLIA 
Preparations are being made for 
the dedication sometime this month 
of St. Joseph’s Chapel, the new 
Jatholhe chureh at Magnolia. 
The Catholics have held services 
at Magnolia for a number of years, 
worshipping in Library hall, a priest 
from St. Ann’s chureh being as- 
signed for early morning service. 
A year ago Patrolman Martin J. 
Burke conceived the idea of making 
a canvas among the summer resi- 
dents to secure a lot for a Catholic 
ehurch. This he did after consulta- 
tion with Fr. Dwyer at Gloucester. 
The result was that not only was 
enough money secured for a lot, but 
also enough money was in hand to 
start building the edifice itself. 
Accordingly a lot was secured in 
the rear of Norman avenue, about 
three minutes walk from the centre 
of the Magnolia summer colony. The 
lot on a corner of two roads is ample 
in capacity for present and 
spective needs. 
Plans were secured and the build- 
ing continued. The design is Gothic 
of the Elizabethan period. The 
ground plan is about 46 by 90. For 
about nine feet from the ground 
split granite, peculiar to the local- 
ity, is used, the continuance of the 
walls for 16 feet . being  half-tim- 
bered stucco. A small tower is on 
the westerly end, and the whole har- 
monizes with the woodland — sur- 
roundings. The church accommo- 
dates about 500. 
Inside the finish is in mission style 
North Carolina wood being used. In 
the rear of the body of the church is 
the pastor’s retiring room with ac- 
cessories. There is a small cellar, 
where a heater may be installed if 
wanted, although the church is de- 
signed for use only in summer. 
The grounds have been graded 
pro- 
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and everything about the edifice is in 
finished condition. The entire cost 
was about $18,000, and while the 
chapel is not free from debt it is 
expected to be before long. 
The architect of the building was 
HK. P. Graham of Boston, who was 
the most successful competitor for 
the design for the new City hall to 
be built in Boston, and the contractor 
was Dennis C. Ballou of Magnolia. 
Battleships Coming August 10 to 16. 
According to information  re- 
ceived this week two divisions of 
North Atlantic fleet will visit Rock- 
port between the 10th and the 16th 
of August. Inquiries have been re- 
ceived at the hotels for rooms from 
the 10th. 
The vessels assigned are the 
Rhode Island, New Jersey, Nebras- 
ka, Missouri, Ohio and possibly one 
other. A letter was received this 
week by Fred W. Tibbetts, of Glou- 
cester, secretary of the Gloucester 
Day Committee, from Rear Admiral 
Osterhaus confirming the above 
statements. 
Another View of an Important 
Question 
Iditor North Shore Breeze. 
Dear Sir: As a subscriber to the 
North S! ore Breeze, and a long-time 
summer inhabitant of Magnolia, I 
feel impelled to answer a paragraph 
in the July 19 number, which, ad- 
vocating the use, no doubt excellent, 
of the White Lime lines at dangerous 
crossings, speaks in contemptuous 
terms of the faithful policeman who 
is simply doing his duty when in- 
sisting on the more careful driving 
of reckless automobilists. All pedes- 
trians know well how difficult it is 
to eross the streets at Post Office 
Square, Magnolia, without danger, 
and are grateful to Mr. Garland, 
the ‘‘tall lanky cop’’ who enables 
them to do so.—Your correspondent 
evidently does not appreciate that 
perdestrians, to say nothing of the 
occupants of non-electric vehicles, 
have some rights,, and that more 
than one of the inhabitants of this 
and neighboring towns have been 
seriously injured from the careless 
driving of automobiles. 
I forbear to criticise the sugges- 
tion that Magnolia might do well to 
get along wihout any police! Prob- 
ably even the ‘‘pleasure seekers’’ 
would soon discover why police were 
necessary here should they be 
dropped. 
GEORGINA LOWELL, 
Magnolia, July 23, 1912. 
