NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
MANCHESTER, MASS., 
FRIDAY, 
MARCH 12, 1909. 
Correspondence 
4D GEES GD CSREES 2D 
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The Manchester Parks. 
Editor of North Shore Breeze, 
and, with your kind indulgence, 
Citizens of Manchester: 
The question of the hour is Manches- 
ter Parks. 
It has been said, and rightly, may be, 
that it would be a good thing to abandon 
the Park Commissioners; but should the 
whole community be deprived of beauty 
spots here in Manchester because men 
have been elected to the high office of 
Park Commissioners that have only the 
one thought of spending the money lav- 
ishly? Isthere aman in thetown, who, 
if he owned the land of the so-called 
Masconomo Park, would in the first 
place undertake to fill it with rubbish? 
My personal view of the matter would 
be, first, to procure a drawing of the 
land and from this to have a solax print, 
showing the walls running to the water's 
edge at alltimes of tides, the walks on 
same, the grass plots, shrubs and trees, 
that all might see the Park and comment 
on something at sight. 
Under this plan any one or all of your 
Park Commissioners could be unseated 
from office (if called upon to do so), 
and any new board could take up the 
work where their predecessor left off. 
When any appropriation was called for 
everyone would know just what was to 
be done with the money. [think even 
at this late day there should be something 
of the kind produced by the present com- 
missioners, which might help them to 
great advantage. 
I am much interested m Masconomo 
Park and feel that with close study of the 
surroundings and good management, that 
the board of commissioners, working in 
harmony, should strive for the best re- 
sults at the least expense. 
There most certainly should be some- 
thing done and-done at once to stop the 
waste of land on the Old Mill point, as 
so termed. ‘That point of land is and 
has been wasting away quite as fast as 
the Beach street side has b°en making. 
This has got to be done. Why not do 
itnow? It would be better to stop all 
other operations on the park, and remedy 
this one by doing this. You are laying 
HOPE. 
( After Emerson. ) 
All I have seen, 
All that has been, 
Leads me to trust for all I have not seen. 
The good Power will abide, 
And greater good for, me will yet provide. 
IDEALS. 
Not pearls, nor flowers, nor poesy, 
Nor even a home in another heart 
Contents the awful soul that dwells in clay. 
It rises from endearments free, 
As toys from life apart, 
For vaster, universal aims to find a way. 
COURAGE, 
Hang not the dismal picture on the wall, 
Nor daub with sable glooms withal, 
Your conversation. Nor rail at Fate. 
Do not bewail, bemoan, berate. 
Omit the negative, 
Nerve with affirmative. 
Let nothing daunt. 
Reject not in your angry mood. 
Bark not against the bad but chant 
The beauty of the good. 
JosepH A. TorREY. 
Boston Transcript. 
a foundation to receive the dredging of | 
the river at any time you see fit for the 
work. 
The whole marsh surface and side of 
the park should be filled with small stone 
and after these have settled, place your 
flat stone and rip-rap to thedevel. These 
stones could be pasture stone, of which 
Manchester has an abundance. 
‘The money spent on this work would 
come back into the town,. and each 
would feel a little pride in assisting to 
procure a Marine Park for Manchester. 
Most Respectfully, 
J. S. REeEb. 
Park Commissioners. 
The Park Commissioners have- or- 
ganized for the year with Frank A. 
Rowe as chairman and Jeffrey S. Reed 
as secretary. Horace Standley will act 
as sand agent as in the past. 
The commissioners have reappointed 
John Desmond as caretaker of Masco- 
nomo Park and Arthur U. McCormack 
as caretaker of Singing Beach. 
School Committee. 
The School Committee met last Satur- 
day evening and organized for the year 
with the choice of E. A. Lane as chair- 
man, Dr. W. H. Tyler as clerk and 
Lyman W. Floyd as purchasing agent. 
Charles R. Peart and S.S. Peabody were 
reippointed truant officers, and Clarles 
R. Peart was reappointed janitor of the 
Story High and John Price Primary 
schools, and Benjamin F. Merrill, 
janitor of the G. A. Priest grammar 
school. 
power to charm the most 
ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE 
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 
BY D. F. LAMSON. 
Oliver Goldsmith was a man who left 
a mark on English literature which will 
never be effaced. And yet he was far 
from being either a deep or an accurate 
scholar, and was wanting in many of 
those traits which are supposed to be in- 
separable from lasting renown. Born 
in a poor and obscure Irish hamlet, re- 
ceiving but a haphazard kind of educa- 
tion, deformed and weakly and an ob- 
ject of ridicule to his youthful compan- 
ions, in some way he got into college 
and out again, vibrated for atime be- 
tween squalid poverty and reckless dis- 
sipation, a mere waif apparently upon the 
current. When he found himself ob- 
liged to do something for a living, he 
tried several occupations but failed in all, 
he somehow got a smattering of medi- 
cine, managed to be called ‘‘doctor,’’ 
and set out on foot on a ramble through 
Europe, with only his clothes and_ his 
flute; with the latter he could often pro- 
cure a supper anda bed, and after tramp- 
ing as far as Italy he returned to England 
without ashilling, but with material for 
his future poem, ‘‘ The Traveller.’’ 
Again he tried his unskilled hand at 
several callings; now as a strolling play- 
er, now as usher in a school, at one 
time obtaining an appointment under 
the East India Company, which was 
speedily revoked, and then betaking him- 
self to the lowest literary drudgery, that 
of a bookseller’s hack. Few more Pie 
able instances are on-record than Gol 
smith’s incompetence and blundering a 
capacity for any pursuit by which a man 
could gain .a livelihood; at the age of 
thirty he seemed doomed to toil all his 
life like a galley slave at the oar. 
But Goldsmith, with all his defects of 
education and character, with his many 
weaknesses and shortcomings, had some- 
thing which many of the wits of his day 
Jacked; and that was a command 
of pure, mellifluous language, and the 
erudite as 
well as the most ignorant by use of sim- 
ple incidents, and with meagre and _ in- 
accurate knowledge, which the greatest 
writers in England might strive to equal 
in vain. After six years of desultory 
work, he at last astonished the literary 
world of London with his poem, ‘‘ The 
Traveller,’’ and soon after with the 
novel which made his fame, ‘* The 
Vicar of Wakefield;’’ not a work of the 
