NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
‘SEWAGE DISPOSAL FOR MANCHESTER.” 
Subject to be Discussed at a Meeting to be Held at the Residence of Mr. 
W. L. Putnam on Smith’s Point This Afternoon. 
At the residence of William L. Put- 
nam on Smith’s Point this afternoon,— 
Friday, October 1,—a meeting will be 
held at which the question of sewage dis- 
posal for Manchester will be discussed. 
The meeting will be held at 4.30 and 
the invitation is extended to anyone in- 
terested in the question to be present. 
Professor William T. Sedgwick of the 
Massachusetts Institute of “Technology, 
will speak. 
This question of disposal of sewage is 
getting to be of much concern all along 
the North Shore and it would seem that 
itis high time to make some definite 
move along this line. At Manchester, 
particularly, this question is assuming 
important proportions. Ina notice sent 
to members of the summer colony and a 
number of our leading citizens, a state- 
ment signed by the doctors of the town, 
was enclosed. This statement follows: 
‘* During the past few yearsthe Town 
of Manchester has undertaken and suc- 
cessfully accomplished a number of use- 
ful projects. One very important one 
has yet to be carried out, viz.—the dis- 
posal of sewage. 
““ Some portions of the town are too 
closely populated to allow of the safe use 
of cesspools or other individual methods. 
The drainage froma considerable num- 
ber of houses flows into the brook and 
thence over the flats of the harbor. ‘This 
is becoming an increasing menace to the 
health of the town. It is of small value 
to have a good water supply if the men- 
ace of inadequate and improper drainage 
is to accompany it. 
“* We, the undersigned, would urge 
on the people of Manchester the import- 
ance of an early provision for proper 
sewage disposal. 
(‘*Signed) ‘ 
GeorcE W. BraispELL, M. D., 
R. T. GiLenpennina, M. D., 
Maynarp Lapp, M. D., 
Wa po H. Ty er, M. D., 
Gero. H. WasHgurn, M. D.’’ 
It would seem, too, that this same 
anxiety for the well-being of the health 
conditions of the shore is felt by resi- 
dents outside Manchester. The follow- 
ing circular was prepared some weeks 
ago and was sent to many people in Bev- 
erly, Salem and Marblehead, and this 
week a number have been sent to Man- 
ehester residents. “The circular is dated 
September 1 and is as follows: 
** Every one has probably noticed the 
greasy streaks that extend over the harbor 
in all directions, the unpleasant odors 
that prevail near the Haste and between 
Tucks’ Point and Salem Willows; the 
fainter odors that drift into shore with 
the sea air, aboutan hour after sunset, 
as well as the accumulation of rotting 
fruit, vegetables and other stuff on the 
beaches. 
“* Five years ago most of these things did 
not exist: they mean now that, owing to 
a careless optimism, the unfiltered and 
unprecipitated sewage of Peabody, Salem, 
parts of Marblehead and of most of 
Beverly, with the sewage and offal of 
some two hundred vessels, representing 
the waste of about 70,000 persons, is 
discharged daily into a limited harbor, 
with narrow outlets and a moderate tide. 
At this moment dysentery is almost 
an epidemic along the shore: last week 
there were one hundred cases in Beverly 
alone. Is it pleasant to think that the 
resultant germs are freely distributed in 
the water you bathe in, and on the sand 
where the children play? 
‘‘ Sanitary engineers have invented 
means of reducing such poisonous prod- 
ucts to harmless conditions before letting 
them escape, as in the case of the River 
Thames, the drainage area of Paris, and 
the great undertaking now in progress to 
purify the harbor of New York. 
Finding that no notice had been 
taken of the conditions in our harbor, 
nor any plan proposed to improve them, 
I engaged, some two months ago, a 
lawyer, a competent engineer with con- 
sulting chemist, to make a thorough re- 
port on the subject. This report is al- 
most ready for publication and it shows 
unexpectedly bad conditions. 
I am now writing to you and to a 
certain number of other intelligent per- 
sons in Beverly, Salem and Marblehead, 
to engage their support in a hearing be- 
fore the State Board of Health in early 
November. I hope that I may receive a 
favorable answer from you. 
“©The expense of the investigation 
and report will be $1,000 more or less. 
Contributions of $10 from all interested 
persons to help pay it will be gratefully 
received; if any money is left over it 
will be refunded to the donors. 
at Very truly yours, 
bi. 
George R. White was the winner last 
Saturnay of the members’ handicap golf 
tournament at the Essex County club. 
He netted 77, with a handicap of 18. 
The Eben Richards have closed their 
summer home at Pride’s Crossing and 
have gone to their winter home at Tuxe- 
do Park, N. Y. 
Secretary of the Navy Geo. von L. 
Meyer and family are back to Hamilton 
after a visit with friends in Lenox. They 
have also been taking in the Hudson- 
Fulton celebration in New York. 
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¥ @ Suoricty Notes « ¢ 
The drag hounds of the Myopia Hunt 
club will meet in October as follows: 
Saturdav, 2nd, Hamilton Meeting house, 
12.45 p.m. Breakfast at ‘‘ Windacre,”’ 
by invitation of S. Dacre Bush, at 2 
p.m. ‘Tuesday, 5th, Day Farm, Dan- 
vers; , 5.30 “p..em:* ”Thursday.-s7tee 
morning run. Details at Kennels on 
day previous. Saturday, 9th, Newbury- 
port Fair grounds, 2.30p.m. Tuesday, 
12th, Ipswich Trotting park, 3.30 p. m. 
Thursday, 14th, morning run. De- 
tails at Kennels on day previous. Break- 
fast at Baldpate by invitation of Wm. H. 
Moore, at 2 p. m. 
rest of the month £will be announced 
later. Geo. S. Mandell, master. 
Mrs. S. Fisher Corlies and her daugh- 
ter, Miss Margaret Corlies, who were 
among the first to arrive at Magnolia the 
last summer, and who are remaining at 
the Oceanside until it closes next Mon- 
Fixtures for the — 
day, are returning the coming week to — 
their home in Philadelphia. 
The Brownland cottages at Manches- 
ter are keeping open later than ever this 
year. 
9th of October. 
It is planned now to close on the — 
Among the departures from Manches- 
ter this week are the George Wiggles- — 
worth’s, who have closed their cottage 
on Sea street and returned to Milton, and — 
Mrs. George Pierce, who closed her 
place on Sea street and returned to 
Brookline. 
Myopia B. beat Dedham in the final 
for the Karlstein cups at Karlstein, Ded- 
ham, last Saturday afternoon, by a score 
of 54 to 3% goals, ina close and inter- 
esting contest. Score: 
6 goals, lost 3 goal on foul by Ames, net 
Myopia earned — 
score of 55 goals; Dedham earned 4 
goals, lost + goal on safety by Bowditch; 
net score 3} goals. Referee—Allen 
Forbes. Scorer and timer—Dr. H. A. 
Souther. 
a moment of excitement when Joshua 
Crane of Dedham and H. L. Tweed of 
Myopia collided in a rush for the ball 
with such force that Tweed’s stirrup was 
torn from the saddle, unhorsing the rider, 
who, however, escaped injury. 
summary: Myopia B—No. 1, D. P. 
Rogers, 1; No. 2, H. L. Tweed, 4; 
In the ninth period there was — 
The 
No. 3, A. Ames, jr., 4; back, George | 
Amory, 1; total handicap, 10. Ded- 
ham—No. 1, P. W. Wrenn, 2; No. 2, 
J. A. Amory, 1; No. 3, Joshua Crane, 
6; back, J. P. Bowditch, 1; total handi- 
cap, 10. 
Judge Wm. H. Moore has just import- 
ed from England the bay hackney stallion 
Chellaston Baronet, by Lord Kimberly 
(son of Rosador), dam by Cadet. 
will be csnverted into a heavy harness 
horse for show purposes. 
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