NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
EVELYN’S DIARY. 
D. F. LAMSON. 
Part I. 
The fashion of keeping a Diary which 
was quite common in England with lit- 
erary people some centuries ago, and 
was followed in our country to some ex- 
tent in colonial times, has helped much 
to a more familiar knowledge of the 
manners, customs and daily Jife of our 
forefathers. In distinction from history, 
which concerns itself mainly with public 
events, with matters of state, politics, 
battles, sieges, diplomacy and conquest, 
the diary hasto do with the individual 
and family and the narrower circle of 
common, every-day life. It may have 
references, perhaps, though incidental 
and casual and for that reason all the 
more valuable, to events taking place on 
a broader stage, and thus often confirm 
or correct the more formal history. <A 
diary has the advantage of reflecting 
passing occurrences as presenting them- 
selves to a contemporary if not an eye- 
witness. Such diaries are of great value 
to the historian and often of great inter- 
est to the general reader. 
One of the most famous of English 
Diarists is Samuel Pepys, 1633—1703. 
He was a keen observer and a racy 
chronicler of the events of his time, es- 
pecially as they centred in the city and 
the court. He was a good deal of a 
gossip and his tastes were not over re- 
fined; he is often volatile and egotistic; 
but his Diary has a secure place in _liter- 
ature as a transcript of a picturesque, if 
frivolous and depraved, order of political 
and social life. 
A man of much sounder grain was 
John Evelyn, 1620—1706. His name 
is less known than that of Pepys, but 
it is deserving of more honor. Both 
were contemporaries and both held 
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Talk about the increase in the price 
of land in Manchester! Iam told that 
when the late Stephen Bullard bought 
the property at Singing Beach where the 
family have spent their summers for a 
great many years, back in 1862, he paid 
some $1900 for it. And it included be- 
sides the land which has been known in 
recent years as the Bullard estate, Image 
Hill and several acres of land beyond, 
where are now located the Wiggles worth 
residence, and others. A few years ago 
Image Hill was sold for some $45,000, 
and within the last two weeks the Bullard 
estate has been sold for something in 
excess of $50,000,—probably nearer 
$75,000. 
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offices of state; they were also personal 
friends, though the intimacy does not 
seem to have been great between them. 
They were unlike in their tastes, their 
pursuits and their friendships. Evelyn 
spent many years on the Continent, was 
for his time an extensive traveller, and 
interested himself in many things aside 
from his official and public life. He 
wrote on Architecture, Navigation and 
Commerce, besides an elaborate work on 
Arboriculture. He was well born, was 
educated at Oxford, and was a man of 
culture and refinement. His Diary 
which he began when eleven years of 
age and continued through life, is a 
record of the observations and reflections 
of an intelligent and thoughtful man, 
one who was conversant with men, so- 
ciety, literature and art, of temperate 
judgment, and of purity and integrity of 
character that in an age of general pro- 
fligacy remained unstained. He _ took 
little interest in the fripperies and the 
gossip and goings-on of the court and of 
high life; but had an alert and inquiring 
mind for notable public events, for an- 
tiquities, works of art, prodigies, discov- 
eries, inventions. Evelyn was a royalist 
and churchman in the deepest centre of 
his being; but he deprecated the perse- 
cution of republicans and dissenters, and 
though he wrote against the Jesuits, he 
refused to join in the popular clamor 
against Papists. 
The Diary affords much curious and 
interesting information of affairs both in 
England and Europe during a time of 
great upheaval and change in the secular 
and religious world. It is written in a 
simple, straightforward manner, without 
pretence or egotism, but bears on every 
page the marks of a cultivated and gen- 
erous mind. In another paper an at- 
tempt will be made to give a little idea of 
its varied contents. 
Were he not a prohibitionist and one 
of the old stand-bys of the party and its 
cause in Manchester, one might suppose 
that the subject of this item may have 
been to Salem for some purpose other 
than to buy his Sunday’s dinner. At 
any rate, last Saturday night he was re- 
turning to Manchester on the train which 
arrives here shortly after eight o’clock. 
When the brakeman called out ‘‘ Bev- 
erly Farms’’ my good friend picked up 
his bundles and hustled off. It was not 
until some friend spoke to him after the 
train had started that he realized he had 
alighted at the wrong station. And the 
next train for Manchester left two hours 
later! 
George P. Brown of Beverly, trustee 
under the will of John L. Story of Bev- 
erly, conveys to Sarah A. Porter of Man- 
chester land and buildings on Mulberry 
street, Beverly, 60 by 80 feet. 
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Launch Club Elects Officers. 
The annual meeting of the Manches- 
ter Launch club was held Monday even- 
ing when the following officers and com- 
mittees were elected for the coming year: 
Alfred C. Needham, commodore; L. 
O. Lations, vice com.; R. L. Cheever, 
secretary and treasurer; Frank L. 
Decker, collector; David Fenton, 
measurer; Dr. C. L. Hoyt, Roger L. 
Putnam, Fred H. Mosher, and officers 
of the club ex-officii, executive commit- 
tee; R. L. Putnam, F. J. Merrill, E. P. 
Stanley, Thomas Baker, and L. O. 
Lations, membership committee; W. 
B. Calderwood, E. P. Stanley and. L. 
O. Lations, regatta committee; F. L. 
Decker: Le Ox. Eations and... WV 
Carter, house committee; A. C. Need- 
ham, David Fenton and W. B. Calder- 
wood, legislation com. After the meet- 
ing a collation was partaken of, consist- 
ing of steamed clams, crackers, coffee, 
Gte: 
Will Run Next Year. 
Frank C. Richardson, Esq., of Essex, 
Democratic candidate for senator from 
the third Essex district, is not at all cast 
down by his defeat at the election last 
week, but announces that he will be a 
candidate again next year. 
Mr. Richardson says he has no one to 
blame for his defeat except himself. He 
did not enter the campaign with any idea 
of success, and because of that did not 
make a very active campaign. In Essex, 
Ipswich, Manchester and Newburyport, 
he made such decided gains, that he 
feels that if he had covered the entire 
district, the final story of the election 
would have been different. 
“‘T am not at all discouraged by my 
defeat,’’ said Mr. Richardson, “‘the re- 
sult of the election has satisfied me _ that 
I could have done better, and I will bea 
candidate next year if I receive the nom- 
ination, and will enter into a vigorous 
and aggressive campaign.”’ 
Lawyers to Organize. 
Lawyers in Salem and vicinity have 
voted to form an association tobe known 
as the Salem Bar Association, the 
membership to include attorneys of 
Salem and surrounding towns, the object 
being to further purely local interests per- 
taining to the practice of their profession. 
A constitution will be adopted and 
officers elected at an adjourned meeting 
to be held at the law library, in the 
county court house at Salem Saturday 
morning. 
Oysters—the best Oysters, fresh from 
the pure waters of Warren river, R. I. 
Have your orders attended to at Reed’s 
restaurant, Beach stteet. . adv. 
Lamson & Hubbard Fall and Winter 
Hats at Bell’s. ady 
