’ gradually opening up. 
that the next fifty years will mean as great an advance ~ 
.in real estates values over the present values as the pre- 
Nature Has Been Krnp to our Shore and man has 
not been long in discovering the beauty that has been 
spread for his admiration and skillful development. The 
great sea rolls in, beating now upon the rock ledges of 
Magnolia or Marblehead or breaking in musical precision 
upon the hard sea beaches at Beverly Farms, Manchester 
and Gloucester. Down to the very water’s edge the for- 
ests grow. Ina minute’s walk one may pass from the 
pleasures of the sea-side to the primeval beauty of the 
“checkered shade” of forest lands. ‘The wooded heights 
may have been God’s first temple and if they be temples 
where can one find better groves than on the North Shore. 
Intervale, N. H., boasts of its Catherdral ‘Woods and a 
Mount Susprise, but many an estate rivals in beauty the 
reputed splendor of the mountain resort and the road 
that skirts the Shore constantly surprises the motorist go- 
ing from Beverly to Gloucester. The Shore has attrac- 
tions that constantly allure nature lovers. Here the 
speculator and the real estate boomer has no place— 
now and never has. In the history of the development 
of the real estate of the beauty belt along the sea there 
has never been reason for recourse to artificial methods 
in booming land sales. The progress has been normal 
and natural. Yet there has been an unprecedented in- 
crease in land values here during the last fifty years. 
Land that could be purchased for a yoke of oxen in the 
memory of men now living cannot be purchased now 
for love——or money. On the Shore itself the opportuni- 
ties of obtaining shore land are few. Hardly a plot of 
land is now available and such real estate as reaches the 
market is usually placed there in the settlement of some 
estates. The destiny of the Shore is marked and as the 
years go by the entire district from Montserrat to Glou- 
cester must according to the natural law of changes be- 
come one great summer residential district. The develop- 
ment of the Shore has only begun. The real estate pro- 
gress could not end with the transformation of the Shore 
line. It did not end in the development of the ridge of 
foothills back from the Shore. The automobile has 
annihilated distance and the roads from Beverly Farms 
to Wenham and from Manchester to Essex are now 
It is a reasonable forecast to say, 
sent values are greater tan those of five decades ago. 
The day of small holdings becoming large may have pass- 
ed but in the future large holdings of the present will 
yield large returns. 
Tue Conservation or Heat/sH has become now an 
accredited scientific study. It has long been realized that 
communal sanitation presents a large field for preventive 
medical research. Disease is not left in these days as a 
study in effects, but is studied from its causes. The 
very nature of the physician’s work is self-destructive. 
Unlike other professional men his work seeks to make 
his services unnecessary. He seeks to keep people well. 
There is no stretch of shore property that has been more 
carefully guarded by the work of health officials than on 
the North Shore, In Manchester the water problem has 
been solved for generations to come and the new sewer 
system now under construction will complete another 
great link in the general plan of scientific sanitation. 
No price is too great for a community to pay for the 
conservation of public health. It is evident that Man- 
chester, Magnolia and Beverly are meeting the problem 
of scientific health conservation with an heroic progres- 
sive spirit. 
It Has BEEN WELL Satp by the energetic and enter- 
prising Mayor of Beverly that “All Beverly Farms is a 
breathing spot,” and this is true of Magnolia and Man- 
chester and Marblehead as well; Yet there is a need 
of public areas for recreation and pleasure. Magnolia 
has its own pride. Manchester its own wonderful Sing- 
ing Beach unrivaled in beauty of shore line and surf, the 
admiration of all visitors and enjoyed by poets of worth. 
Beverly Farms is justly proud of the progress made in 
the rehabilitation of West Beach property. The new 
bath house that replaced the disgraceful row of “huts and 
shanties” is now a reality. Its long lines running parallel 
with the beach are natural and appropriate. It is low, 
and unobstrusive. In design it is a credit to the architects 
and an honor to the Corporation and the pride of the the 
community. 
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“PLAY Bat,’ the umpire cries and the ball passes 
to the pitcher’s hands. The season of sport and recrea- 
tion is on. ‘The winter is past; the snow is gone; the 
snow clad hills and the broken roads heavy with the win- 
ter’s mud are but memories. The juncoes have taken 
their flight and the blue bird, the song sparrow and the 
summer songsters are here again and when the Balti- 
more Oriole begins to build her nest in the tall elm and 
in the wide spreading apple tree the season will be on in 
force. What matchless sporting grounds for legitimate 
outdoor pleasure the shore affords! ‘The school house 
playgrounds in Manchester has already had a “double 
header” played. Every Saturday the senior club will try 
its skill with a neighboring baseball team. Beverly Farms 
has reorganized its baseball club and its playground will 
be the gathering place of happy boys and girls. The folk 
of larger growth will enjoy the Saturday afternoon games. 
In Beverly because of the generosity of an unknown pub- 
lic benefactor and a city appropriation a new recreation 
field is under construction. Manchester has its Essex 
County club, Montserrat has its Golf club and Hamilton 
has its Myopia Hunt club. With all these recreation 
centres with the pleasures of the sea as well, the pleasure 
seeker may choose the way in which to spend his leisure 
in wholesome recreation. The North Shore realizes its 
advantages are not unappreciative. 
Tue Cuurcu Lift on the North Shore has never 
been more carefully organized than in the present years 
of development. In Beverly Farms the old mother 
church is doing its regular work with faithfulness and is 
meeting as well the needs of the new Americans with a 
social service work for Italians and Swedish church ser- 
vice during the summer for these industrious Scandina- 
