NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
AND REMINDER 
Vol. XII 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, July 24, 1914 
No. 30 
New Rockport Golf Club 
PERCHED high on a rocky ledge in the picturesque, 
rockbound region of Cape Ann, where it commands 
a wide view of the land and ocean, and, what is rarer 
still, a view of every hole in the 3800-yard golf course 
which has been laid out in the 90 acres which have been 
acquired by the association, the handsome home of the 
Rockport Golf club will be open in the near future. A 
picture printed on page 6 of this issue shows the general 
exterior of the clubhouse. 
The club already has a large membership of men 
well known in the business and professional life of Bos- 
ton, Gloucester, Lowell and other cities, and includes also 
some who have come from distant places to make their 
summer homes on the Cape. 
Primarily the club is intended for golf, and the course 
will be one of the most ‘‘sightly” in the state, while its 
abundance of natural hazards has caused Alexander 
Campbell of Brookline, who helped lay it out, to say 
that it reminds him of some of the famous courses in his 
native Scotland. 
But in addition there has been laid out a number of 
tennis courts for those who prefer that game, and as the 
club numbers a group of baseball enthusiasts among its 
members, some of whom have played in their college days 
upon clubs that were well known, there has been planned 
an excellent baseball diamond. 
The wide piazzas which will run the full stretch of 
three sides of the building measure a good 175 feet in 
length, and the visitors will have from almost any point 
on the veranda a wide sweep of the sea all the way from 
Pigeon Cove to Bass Rocks. 4 
The 90 acres belonging to the club lie at the rear of 
the town poor farm on the main thoroughfare from Rock- 
port to Land’s End, perhaps a mile from Turk’s Head, 
on South street. It is in the neighborhood of Laurel 
Ledge and the favorite walk through the woods to Long 
Beach. 
The main approach to the clubhouse will be up a 
country lane which now leads under the shoulder of the 
ledge on which the building is perched. This road will 
be made double for the convenience of automobilists. 
There are about two acres on the summit of this out- 
cropping ledge. Along one side of the clubhouse a sort 
of open balcony or terrace is to be constructed. 
The clubhouse, of which Alden & Parker are the 
architects, is to be a wooden building with stone masonry. 
The central feature of the house will be the big 
clubroom, which will correspond exactly to the living 
room in a summer home at the shore or in the mountains. 
This big apartment will measure 4o feet by 32. 
Through a sort of vestibule access is had to a hall 
which opens upon one side of the clubroom and upon the 
other to the ladies’ room. ‘his hall is lighted by dormer 
windows, but has a small mezzanine gallery, with stairs 
to it and down to the basement. What is called the 
“store” will be located in one corner of the vestibule, 
where materials for golfing and other sports will be sold 
and clubhouse supplies kept. From the hall, also, there 
is access to the pantry and by way of a passage to the 
kitchen—this for the convenience of dining parties. 
The ladies’ room measures 30 feet by 20, and has a 
large brick fireplace. It will be a panelled room, and like 
the hall will have a beamed ceiling. 
The basement, which will be on the level of the con- 
crete terrace with a door opening directly upon it, will 
have the men’s lockers and their shower baths. 
The floors of the principal rooms on the main level 
will be of hard wood, designed for dancing. The roof, 
long and sloping, will be broken with dormer: windows. 
The total expense will be $50,000, of which $20,000 
represents the value of the building. . 
The committee in charge of the work for the club 
are: George W. Harvey, James E. Cotter, attorney of 
Boston and Hyde Park; Clarence W. Seamans, of New 
York; Arthur C. Baldwin, with Kidder, Peabody & Co.; 
George F. Babbitt, Charles Burnham, a retired business 
man, much interested in many forms of amateur sport; 
Timothy Sheehan of Rockport; Charles Evans of Boston ; 
William J. Hobbs, vice-president of the Boston & Maine; 
Harry Dutton of Houghton & Dutton; Dr. J. A. Gage, a 
Lowell surgeon; Charles Liffler of Boston; Judge S. D. 
York, who resides in Rockport; Charles Locke, a Boston 
leather merchant residing at Chestnut Hill; Joseph R. 
Worcester, a civil engineer of Boston; Edward H. Clark- 
son of Boston; George D. Hall and Francis E. Smith of 
Boston. 
A Welrome Garren 
Bu LD. M. Gall 
H little town of Rockport, 
How picturesque you lie 
Your fishing boats in harbor 
Their tall masts ’gainst the sky. 
I love your dark stained fish wharves 
With all their clust’ring boats 
The sloop that lies at anchor 
The pleasant tink’ring notes. 
From off your rocky headlands 
A panorama grand 
Of sea and sky and sail boat 
And clear cut points of land. 
To pass your neat white houses 
Along the shady street 
Fills one with strange contentment 
With restfulness replete. 
Oh little town of Rockport 
So quaint and erstwhile dear 
When tossed upon life’s ocean 
I love to anchor here, 
