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The following Pittsburg matrons, of 
the North Shore colony, will serve as 
patronesses for the Pittsburg charity ball 
held in that city next Monday evening, 
Jan. 3: Mrs. Harvey Childs, jr., Mrs. 
John R. McGinley, Mrs. H. M. Curry, 
Mrs. Alexander Laughlin, jr., sister-in- 
law of President Taft, and the Misses 
Mellen. 
Miss Helen C. Frick gave a lunch- 
eon for Mrs. George Westinghouse, jr., 
at the Pittsburg Golf club Monday even- 
ing of this week. The Fricks enter- 
tained the Westinghouse family at Pride’s 
during the past season. 
Mr. and Mrs. John R. McGinley 
gave a dance at the Pittsburg club, Tues- 
day evening of this week, in honor of 
Miss Marion McGinley. 
Miss Martha Childs of Pittsburg was 
hostess of a luncheon on Wednesday in 
honor of Miss Helen C. Frick who ison 
to Pittsburg from New York for the 
holidays. 
The death of ‘‘Mark Twain’s’’ daugh- 
ter, Miss Jean Clemens, has more than 
a passing interest for the North Shore 
contingent, since she wasa summer re- 
sident on the shore during the season of 
1908, making one of a party of ladies, 
who secured the Garland cottage at East- 
ern Point, East Gloucester, near “‘ The 
Ramparts,’’ the former H. C. Rouse 
mansion, and with the following party of 
ladies spent the season there: Mrs. 
Kaehaus, wife of the noted New York 
sculptor; Mildred and Edith Cowles of 
the Tiffany studios and Mlle. Schmidt, 
all of New York. Miss Clemens drove 
a great deal and was a familiar figure on 
the East Gloucester and North Shore 
drives and was always accompanied by a 
groom. She was always quietly and 
simply gowned and had a scholarly mien. 
Her distinguished father visited her dur- 
ing the season she was at Eastern Point. 
W. Gould Brokaw, the New York 
millionaire, whose matrimonial troubles 
are being aired in the New York courts, 
was a visitor to Magnolia a few seasonsago 
**Town and Country’’ finds the uni- 
que summer home of Henry Davis 
Sleeper at Eastern Point, East Glouces- 
ter, worthy of special notice since Mr. 
Sleeper, who has become a citizen of 
Gloucester, has practically put all the 
historical treasures of the Cogswell and 
Choate mansions of Essex, Mass., with- 
in its walls. Since “* Little Beauport,’’ 
as the cottage is called, frequently opens 
its hospitable doors to Mrs. Jack Gard- 
ner, art connoisseur and society leader 
of Boston, one will readily see that a 
unique artistic atmosphere must induce 
Mrs. Gardner to frequent its environ- 
ment and that she has a deep admiration 
for the artistic taste of the young host, 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
BLIZZARD DOES MUCH DAMAGE. 
First Store of the Winter Bounds in Like a Lion; Highest 
Tide since 1851. 
The big snow blizzard which swept 
over New England last Saturday night 
and all day Sunday, doing so much dam- 
age, did not let the North Shore go un- 
touched; the storm hit us with all its 
fury. Notsince the great storm of 1898, 
when the Portland went down, has a 
storm of such violence fell upon us. 
The full moon, 
wind, brought the highest tides of years. 
Not since 1851, it is said, had there been 
such a high tide. The newspapersspoke 
of it as a tidal wave. ‘This would give a 
wrong impression, asthere was no wave; 
it was simply an extremely high tide. 
In some places this tide wrought heavy 
damage,—Chelsea for example. At 
some places along the North Shore much 
damage was caused by it; but ona whole 
the effect of the high water was nothing 
more than a temporary inconvenience. 
The beaches, especially, suffered. At 
Magnolia, for instance, the large bath- 
house owned by the hotels, was almost 
toppled over and the bulkhead along the 
beach was destroyed. 
The bath-houses along Singing Beach 
at Manchester were not seriously dam- 
aged, though some of them were under- 
mined. At West Manchester the large 
pier at the Miss Helen Hooper estate was 
broken and partly washed away. Other 
piers, floats, etc., were damaged. 
The water was sufficiently high to rise 
over the road at West Manchester sta- 
tion and almost lap the station platform 
steps. It flowed over the Lester Leland 
gardens, put out the fire in the 
greenhouse and as a consequence many 
valuable plants were destroyed. It 
put outthe fires in the Hooper green- 
house, too, and a great loss of valuable 
plants and bulbs was suffered here. 
It rose far over Knight's coal wharf in 
the center of the town; passed in 
through a waste pipe to the basement of 
the Town hall, andalmost put the fire 
in the large boilers out. It rose eighteen 
inches at the railroad station and very 
nearly put out the fire in the furnace 
there. 
But the Gerona ie tie UL damage was done by 
aided by the strong 
the fury of the wind and the driving 
snow. ‘The snow was wet at first, but 
as the storm grew ‘the snow became 
lighter. Wires broke under the weight 
of the ice and snow and as’a consequence, 
telephone, telegraph, electric light (in 
places outside of Manchester), police, 
fire alarm, etc., were entirely out of 
commission, and even now only in a 
few cases have these been repaired. 
‘Trains were blocked and were unable: 
to run on anything near schedule. The 
six o’ clock train from Boston Sunday did 
not arrive at Manchester until after two 
o’ clock Monday morning. 
Seldom, if ever, have the trees, laden: 
with snow and with branches bent over 
to the ground, looked prettier. Scores 
and scores of valuable trees, and much 
shrubbery were entirely destroyed by the 
storm. [he whole North Shore has 
been a veritable white forest, and the 
buildings have been veritable ice palaces. 
The sides and roofs of the buildings are 
even now coated with snow and ice, and 
the trees have not yet (Friday) lost their 
mantel of snow. 
Christmas Day was one of the fairest 
days of the winter. It was crisp, but 
not toocold ‘There was hardly a cloud 
in the sky. In the early evening, how- 
ever, the snow began to fall lightly at 
first, but it steadily grew in force until 
midnight when it had assumed the force 
of a blizzard. 
Bright and early Monday morning 
Supt. of Streets Crombie of Manchester 
had out a force of men and teams clear- 
ing away the snow. One hundred men 
were put to work that morning and these 
have been lessened each day until this 
morning only a score were put to work. 
One has only to go out of town to real- 
ize the excellent service Manchester has 
had in having the streets and sidewalks 
cleared of snow. By Monday night 
nearly every street in town had been gone 
over in one way or anorher and Tuesday 
the outlying streets and sidewalks were 
reached. The streets are probably in 
better condition than in a majority of the 
cities. 
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MRS. PERCY A, eet 84 School 
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Somewhere on School street or 
Reward if returned to. 
HOUSE LOT £2, Sale, over 12,000 
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Very easy terms. Apply to E. P. STANLEY, 
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on Norwood Avenue, 
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