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A Happy New Year! 
Tue Breeze had 53 issues in the year 
just closing,—there were 53 Fridays in 
1909. 
CONSTANTINOPLE, with about 1,000,- 
000 inhabitants, has no electric light, no 
trolley, no telephone system, poor water 
works and an inadequate ice plant. 
Our neighboring town of Essex at a 
special town meet this week decided to 
introduce electricity for lighting the 
A contract has been 
signed for a seven years’ term with the 
Gloucester Electric Light company, for 
104 incandescent lights and one arc light, 
at a cost of $1600 per year. 
town’s streets. 
Prosperity! United States Census 
Director Durand is considerably per- 
turbed over the prospective shortage of 
census enumerators.. The difficulty is in 
the west and south, and especially in the 
cities. Director Durand explains the 
lack of applicants for census jobs only on 
the theory that there is so much general 
prosperity in the country that the govern- 
ment jobs are not wanted. The time 
for applications for these jobs ends on 
Jan. 25, and Mr. Durand invites public- 
spirited and patriotic people to join in the 
census work, even if the pay proves no 
inducement. Applicants are required to 
pass test, but only a common school edu- 
cation is needed to qualify. There are 
68,000 enumerators’ places to be filled. 
-. G. E. WILLMONTON ... 
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law 
WE call the attention of our readers to 
a departure which we are making this 
week in publishing the first installment 
of acontinued story We have never 
tried this. We have made arrange- 
ments with the American Press Associa- 
tion to supply us with “‘The Guest of 
Quesnay,’’ one of the latest stories from 
the pen of the gifted author, Booth 
Tarkington. Mr. ‘Tarkington wrote 
such works as ‘“The Man from Home,’’ 
‘*The Conquest of Canaan,’’ ““The 
Gentleman from Indiana,’’ ‘““The Two 
Van Revels,’? and ‘‘Monsieur Beau- 
caire,’’ —works which have been pub- 
lished in book form, as will also this 
newest work. It is a story of 14 chap- 
ters, the first chapter of which we print 
this week. Ifthe departure meets with 
favor on the part of our readers we will 
probably follow this work with another. 
As vehemently as we upbraided the 
Manchester Electric Co. a few weeks 
ago for the poor service received 
Thanksgiving week, we now wish to 
praise it forits part in maintaining good 
service during the troubles of the last 
week. ‘Though Sunday’s storm put the 
electric power in most of the cities and 
towns along the coast, and inwardly, too, 
out of commission, Manchester people 
were able to use their lights through it 
all, with the exception of a short space 
of time on Sunday. Beverly, whence 
our power comes, was in darkness. No 
““ blow-outs’’ were caused here this time 
by high tides. But it was largely to the 
hard work and indefatigable efforts of 
Manager Cushing that this was so. 
He is working under a great disadvan- 
tage. He hasto runthe whole system 
alone. 
Whatever good we can say of the 
company and the system, however, we 
must still reprove it for trying to serve 
Manchester and its citizens with insuffi- 
cient help. A manager ought not to be 
expected to run the whole plant night 
-and day. 
THE purchase of a combination hose 
and chemical wagon for the Manchester 
fire department, as agitated in the Breeze 
last summer after the department had 
been given two or three long runs to 
fires in distant parts of the town, is being 
talked up for the forth-coming March 
meeting. 
The following clipping was sent in a- 
few days ago by one of our summer re- ‘ 
sidents, who is evidently interested in> 
the efficiency of Manchester's fire de-. 
partment, as he writes over the clipping 
**this is what Manchester needs.’’ 
“Tn order to be thoroughly up to date 
the town of Brookline has just purchased 
a combination hose and chemical wagon 
of the new type manufactured by the - 
Knox Automobile Company of Spring-— 
field. “The new machine will be a val- 
uable addition to the equipment of the 
town, which has always had an _ enviable 
reputation for all-round efficiency. In. - 
responding to alarms the new machine 
will be able to cover a great deal of ter- 
ritory. 
‘The gasoline machine will be located 
at station A in Village square, and from 
this central point the new piece of ap- 
paratus will be a great help in protecting 
property. It will carry an emergency 
crew of picked firemen, who will be 
selected by Chief (George Johnson. 
The machine will be equipped with 800 
feet of hose and as Brookline has a high 
pressure water service the new machine 
is expected to render prompt and effici- 
ent services’ 
And we might add that what Brook- 
line does along this line is a good ex- 
ample for Manchester, or any other place 
that can afford it. Brookline is very 
conservative in its expenditures and be- 
fore doing anything the town generally 
knows well what sort of a move it is 
making. 
Tue higher rate of living is a subject 
of universal discussion. Editorials are 
written about is, housewives discuss it, 
the head of the house pays the bills with 
a bitter realization that he is being rob- 
bed. 
The Secretary of Agriculture at Wash- 
ington has investigated the high price of 
meats and has made some discoveries. 
Among them is that the wholesale price 
of beef and that paid by the last purchas- 
er shows a difference of thirty-eight per 
cent. He claims, however, that this. 
great difference does not indicate great: 
profit for the retailers for a large portion. 
is attributed to the expense attached ‘to 
the special delivery of the product. — The. 
Secretary says that the retail business: is 
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