NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
MANCHESTER, MASS., FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1909. 
ADJOURNED TOWN MEETING 
Not a Dissenting Vote on Matter of Dredging Channel at Masconomo Park, Man- 
chester. 
Plans for Expending $5000 on School Playgrounds Accepted, 
$800 Appropriated. Committee Appointed to look into 
Subject of Sewage for Manchester. 
The adjourned Town Meeting in 
Manchester Monday evening brought 
out more or less talk along the line of 
sewerage for the town andacommittee of 
five citizens was appointed to look into 
the matter and report at some future 
meeting. 
The matter of dredging a channel at 
Masconomo Park was brought up again, 
and much to the credit of those who 
have worked so hard to bring this about, 
.the town voted to spend $4250 for this 
work. In March it was voted down, 
but when it was brought up this week 
not a vote was cast against it. 
The channel to be dredged will be 50 
feet wide, and the basin on the easterly 
end of the channel, near the pier, will 
be 150 feet long by a little over 100 feet 
wide. ‘The motion to do the work was 
made by Walter C. Calderwood, who 
has worked indefatigably to bring about 
the desired end since the original motion 
was voted down at the March meeting. 
It is because of his work largely that the 
unanimous vote was brought about. 
As to the question of sewelage, no 
direct talk was made on the subject, 
though a committee was appointed to 
look into the matter and report to the 
town at the next annual meeting, or at 
some special meeting. 
The proposition to clean out Central 
Pond, which has been termed a “‘ cess- 
pool’ at various times in town meeting, 
or to make any improvements along this 
line was voted down, for this year at 
least. 
Plans for improving the school play- 
grounds were presented by the special 
committee appointed at the March 
meeting. ‘“[he:plans call for an expend- 
iture of some $5000, and $800 was 
raised to do part of the work this year. 
The field is to be graded and a wall 
built along by the brook. 
The total appropriations of this meet- 
ing were $5350.00, which, added to the 
$193,123.42 already appropriated, brings 
the grand total to $198,473.42. It was 
voted to raise by taxation $120,000.00. 
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PRESIDENT TAFT IS TO HAVE THE STETSON HOUSE AT 
BURGESS POINT, BEVERLY. DEFINITELY DECIDED. 
It has been definitely decided now that 
President Taft is coming to the North 
Shore, and Monday the announcement 
was made that the Stetson house at Bur- 
gess Point, owned by R. D. Evans, 
would be the one occupied by the chief 
executive and his family. 
The report was verified by Mr. Evans 
Tuesday, when the Breeze man called 
on him at his Boston office, and also by 
T. Dennie Boardman, through whose 
office the house was leased to the presi- 
dent. 
Though several places were visited by 
Mrs. Taft on her recent visit to the 
North Shore the choice was finally sifted 
down to two. places,—the Robinson 
house at Manchester and the Stetson 
house at Beverly Cove."! As regards loca- 
tion the Robinson house was the choice, 
but the house was too small, and it is for 
that reason, chiefly, that the Beverly cot- 
tage was taken. ‘This has 24 rooms, 
besides servants quarters in another build- 
ing. 
The Stetson house is owned by R. D. 
Evans, who also owns Dawson Hall, the 
beautiful place occupied by Mr. Evans 
and family summers, which is just across 
the avenue from the house to be oc- 
cupied by the President. 
The house is reached by a long avenue 
leading off Ober street. On the corner 
are the summer homes of A. Shuman 
and Mrs. F. H. Peabody, while on the 
aveuue are the cottages owned by N. 
W. Rice, Thomas P. Beals and Col. 
William H. Sohier. 
With autombiles at their disposal Bur- 
gess Point is not so far from Manchester 
and the rest of the North Shore as one 
would imagine. The distance from 
Manchester is about six miles. The 
Montserrat station would be the one used 
by the Tafts, probably, in preference to 
Beverly. Corning street, running from 
Montserrat to Hospital Point, would 
give almost a straight road from the 
Montserrat station to. the President’s 
house. 
It is said that the Tafts will move on 
to the North Shore early in June. 
AN EASTER SERMON 
Rev. L. H. Ruge Preaches on ‘The Great 
Apocalypse in Nature” at Congregational 
Church, Manchester. 
At the Congregational church, Man- 
chester, on Easter Sunday morning, 
Rev. Louis H. Ruge, the pastor, 
preached an Easter sermon on “‘ The 
Great Apocalypse in Nature.’’ He said 
in part: 
Text: “‘ Waiting for the apokalupsin 
of our Lord Jesus Christ.’’ I Cor. 1: 7. 
“The Greek word apokalupsin signi- 
fles an uncovering, an unveiling, a re- 
velation. From apokalupsis we get the 
word apocalypse. Let us then read the 
text in all its simple significance: 
‘Waiting for the uncovering, the un- 
veiling, the revelation of our Lord Jesus 
Christ.’ 
‘*Thereare many wonderful revelations 
in nature, but we walk through the fields 
with eyes holden and see nothing. In 
the buttercups and bees under our feet, 
in the whispering trees and the song of 
the thrush, in the lights and shadows on 
the hills, in the pastel tints of the fading 
light of day there is a revelation, an apo- 
calypse in natural history. 
‘Tclimbedthe rocksand slanting ledges 
of the North Shore here in company 
with aman the other day and we were 
like the two disciples on the way to Em- 
maus, our eyes were holden; but had a 
geologist gone with us he could have un- 
veiled the stony face of nature and caused 
her to tell the tale of the making of a 
planet. We have an apocalypse of na- 
ture in the science of geology. 
*“We live inthis form of flesh and yet 
comparatively few know even the first 
things about the body in which they live. 
But the whole structure is unveiled to the 
physiologist. It is an apocalypse of na- 
ture in the science of physiology. 
‘‘We might go on to illustrate still fur- 
ther only that we should waste time in 
this thought in the lower realm of nature. 
The highest realm of creation on earth is 
man. Let us then look for the greatest 
revelation there. Strange that science 
should look for a revelation of God in 
the lower realm. The naturalist looks 
for him in a bug, the geologist looks for 
him in astone; but when we begin to 
look for God in the soul of man we lose 
faith in finding him. 
“Jesus Christ is the highest type of 
man, look for God there. He is re- 
vealed there if anywhere in nature. We 
have a number of unveilings in Christ. 
On the Mount of Transfiguration he re- 
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