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NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
“Manchester is Fast Reaching the Danger Point and Civil Service Examinations for Postal 
Should Take Up the Matter of Sewage in 
Season,” 
A meeting of persons interested in the 
disposal of the sewage of Manchester 
was held at W. L. Putnam’s, Smith’s 
Point, Manchester, last Friday afternoon. 
Dr. George H. Washburn presided and 
pointed out the bad condition of the pond 
and the great danger that the flats would 
become polluted and illness would re- 
sult. 
Professur Sedgwick of the Massa- 
chusetts’s Institute of Technology said 
that the introduction of town water and 
the increase of population leads every- 
where to the need of sewage. He told 
of other seashore places which had been 
and were now being forced to take vig- 
orous steps to keep their harbors and 
beaches clean and wholesome. 
Manchester is fast reaching the danger 
point and should take up the matter in 
season and deal with it in a permanent 
fashion, he said. He spoke of the 
Blackstone river at Worcester, which 
became a public sewer pure and _ simple, 
or rather, impure and complex, so that 
the State had to require that city by law 
to dispose of its sewage otherwise; and 
he warned us against permitting our 
brook and pond and river to get into such 
condition as that. 
Looking at the question from a finan- 
cial stand point he said that any suspic- 
ion that the sewage conditions were deé- 
fective would deter tenants and purchas- 
ers from coming here and greatly check 
prosperity. 
From an esthetic standpoint the grad- 
ual silting of polluted mud onto the flats 
The Greatest Food Fair with Greatest 
List of Free Attractions Ever 
Held in Boston. 
It must not be forgotten that every one 
on the great list of attractions at the 
World’s Greatest Food Fair and Home 
Furnishing Exposition now being held in 
Mechanics Building, are free to all pat- 
rons. These attractions include the 
celebrated old time circus of J. W. Gor- 
man where one can enjoy the very fin- © 
est of arena acts in an environment which 
seems like the real thing in the circus 
line. For the week the acts to be seen 
here include bareback equestrian feats by 
the great De Mott, for several years the 
champion rider of the Barnum & Bailey 
circus; acts also upon horseback by the 
dashing Mlle Elise; educated ponies and 
_ dogs of Torelli’s school; Yager and 
Kemp, the acrobatic comedians; Max- 
imo, king of the wire; the De Motts in 
a double carrying act on horseback; 
Cora, a very pretty girl on the flying 
rings; White and Eager, white faced 
clowns especially engaged to make the 
says Prof. Sedgewick. 
will in time give them a yellow color 
and a disagreeable odor, not unlike that 
of rotten eggs. 
But most of all, from the point of view 
of health, we are running the risk of an 
epidemic of typhoid fever or other dis- 
ease which may come upon us_ suddenly 
so long as conditions remains as they 
noware. He said that although the 
flow of salt water in the harbor was a 
great cleanser, yet the limit of its cleans- 
ing capacity could readily be reached, it 
could be given more sewage than it could 
digest, and that if the flats were once 
polluted it would be very difficult and 
expensive to purify them. 
If a suitable location for a filter bed or 
sewage garden could be found that would 
probably be the best means of solving the 
problem, but the situation should be 
thoroughly studied by a competent ex- 
pert. 
Among those present were Mr. and 
Mrs. S. Parker Bremer, Geo. N. Black, 
B.A, Beal; Mrs..o Bradburys)* Pick? 
Boyle, Mrs. G. W. Blaisdell, Miss A. 
G. Thayer, Mrs. Greeley S. Curtis, 
Mrs. Hopkinson, Mrs. Prescott Bigelow, 
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Tyson, Dr. R. 
T. Glendenning, Dr. W. H._ Tyler, 
Mr. and Mrs. George Warren, Mr. and 
Mrs. J. Warren Merrill, Miss Katharine 
Loring, Miss Louisa Loring, A. M. 
Merriam, Geo. R. White, Miss Sturgis, 
J. F. Rabardy and Mrs. Hemenaway. 
Letters were also received from others 
expressing their great interest. 
children happy; Maud, the famous 
* Hee-Haw’’ mule aN sends every- 
body away in aright merry mood; and 
many others. Prof. Walberti is the 
ring master. 
There are many other free attractions 
such as the daily concerts by the famous 
band of Marco Vessella with its fifty 
talented musicians; the concerts by the 
students from Booker T. Washington’s 
Tuskegee Institute at Tuskegee, Ala- 
bama, and the exhibition of the wireless 
telephone. 
Letters remaining unclaimed at Manchester, 
Mass. P. O. for week ending Oct. 2, 1909. 
Mrs H Alward, Elizabeth Allen, Mrs James 
D Colt, Mrs Chase, Dr H D W Caroelle, T 
W Donahue, Mrs George Dunn, Miss L L 
Dresel, Harold Furlong, Mrs § E Hutchinson, 
Miss E P Hamlin, Mrs F A Johnson, John 
Kennedy, Miss C Klemens, Miss L M Ken- 
nedv, A Krelon, The Messrs Lane, Daniel 
Little, John Lethbridge, Miss Frances Morse, 
Mr and Mrs Albert Mitchell, Miss Sarah 
McNeil, Mrs Walter M Parker, F B Pitman, 
Miss Rosenbloom, Mr and Mrs J F Wesson, 
Prof Karl Young, Miss Sybil Young. 
SAMUEL L, WHEATON, Postmaster. 
Clerks Tomorrow. 
Twenty-two applications were 
ceived, that were eligible to take the ex- 
amination to be held tomurrow, Satur- 
day morning, for postal carriers for 
Manchester’s new service to be installed 
the first of December. The examin- 
ation will be held at the High school at 
9.30 o’clock and will be in charge of E. 
L. Reynolds, an assistant secretary of 
the commission. 
N. S. H. S. Notes. 
“*Novelties and Their Value’’ was 
the subject of a very interesting talk by 
Morris Fuld of Boston, before the mem- 
bers of the North Shore Horticultural 
society at their meeting last Friday even- 
nig. 
Ten years ago, said Mr. Fuld, novel- 
ties were a great drawing card and were 
often described beyond truth. He de- 
re-. 
aie, 
cried the standard of value set by horti- — 
cultural societies, based on exhibition 
table judging, and mentioned the large 
gold medal dahlia as an example. This 
had no stem to hold it and it was there- 
fore worthless except for the exhibition 
table. He urged the gardeners, how- 
ever, to wake up to the opportunities to 
gain glory and, perhaps, ducats in the 
production of novelties. He. spoke of 
how the hybridizers of today were every- 
thing but gardeners by training. They 
were journalists, barber, mineralogist, 
shoemaker, groceryman, carpenter, clerk. 
Why not the men trained in the grow- 
ing of plants! 
The speaker was of the opinion that 
there was a limit of size to which flow- 
ers may be bred. Color, he said, is the 
first requirement in a novelty. One 
color may go well in Newport, but it 
may not find favor in Brookline. Find 
out what is needed ina plant and work 
to produce it. ‘‘ Cactus dahlias are per- 
fect, but they need not be bred with stiff 
stems.’’ 
The incorporation of the society is 
progressing as favorable as can be ex- 
pected. At the special meeting held for 
this purpose two weeks ago John D. 
Morrison was chosen clerk and mostof the 
by-laws were adopted. Tonight anoth- 
er special meeting will be held and it is 
expected that the balance of the business 
will be transacted and that the papers will 
be ready for the incorporation commis- 
sioners. 
Under the auspices of the society a 
stereopticon lecture will be given in the 
Town hall, Manchester, next Friday 
evening, Oct. 15, at 7.30 o'clock, by 
Prof. E. H. Forbush, state ornithologist. 
His subject will be ‘Birds and Their 
Work,’’ in the destruction of insects, 
weeds, etc, The public is invited, No 
charge will be made. 
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