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NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder SIT oni 
Cape Cop CANAL, cut through Massachusetts soil at 
a cost of $12,000,000, was formally opend for traffic 
Wednesday. Although its cost, compared with the Pana- 
ma, the Suez, the New Erie or the Manchester Ship 
Canal in England, appears small, its possibilities of traffic 
are enormous. Panama Canal cost $400,000,000: the 
New York State Barge Canal cost $100,000,000; Suez ate 
up $100,000,000 before the waters of the Red Sea and 
the Mediterranean were joined between its banks; Cape 
Cod Canal starts business on the comparatively modest 
outlay of a dozen millions. But the tonnage figures are 
suggestive. The yearly tonnage of the Suez is twenty- 
one million tons ; of the Manchester Canal fifty-six million 
tons; of the Erie about four million; Panama (estimated) 
some eleven million tons. The estimated tonnage of 
Cape Cod Canal is laid at twenty-five million tons. New 
England people, as a whole have not been taking much 
notice of this interesting piece of brave enginering, which 
for three years, has been progressing right at their door- 
steps. They have been going down to Panama by the 
shipload to see the sights of the big ditch which makes 
the world wonder. Some day New Englanders should 
train their telescopes on Buzzards Bay and take a sweep- 
ing view of what has been accomplished in the way of the 
dreadful voyage around the Cape and its toll of death, 
which has earned for that strip of Massachusetts coast- 
line the grim appellation of the: marine graveyard of 
America. 7 
Tue Warcu and Warp Society has thrown down 
the gauntlet on all forms of petty gambling and is mak- 
ing a wide-spread campaign against all devices by which 
a bonus is given by chance, although the full value may 
be given in all instances. The society interprets the law 
to mean that all devices are illegal where there is any 
determination by chance (not skill) of what one receives 
—in the words of Chief Justice Waite of the United 
States Supreme Court, “It matters not even if every pur- 
chaser was to receive full value for his money in any 
event.” Thus it is not merely illegal to dispose by chance 
of a doll, a ton of coal, etc., but illegal as well to sell 5 
cent cigars for 5 cents apiece with a chance of getting 
more than a 5 cent cigar—illegal to sell goods at regular 
prices with any bonus or prize determined by chance, 
or by having the purchase price rebated if the sale hap- 
pens to have been made on a certain day, etc., ete. Any 
and all devices or methods are illegal where the chance 
element without skill comes in. 
Tue Porrrica, AtTMospHERE has changed remark- 
ably in Massachusetts in the last year. Weteat was in- 
evitable for the republican party last year with the align- 
ment of forces as they were. This year the democratic 
party may well look to its laurels. McCall will make a 
vigorous campaign for Governor and tray win. How- 
ever that may be, a success for the republican parity in 
its contest for the lieutenant governorship will give the 
organization an opening that will spell <tecess later. ‘The 
democrats have had a free hand in bea the state and 
the nation and as tar as their doctrines are concerned 
the party has “made good.” Its doctrines have won their 
way to operation through the election of the party to 
power, but the doctrines have not “made good”-in the 
sense of assisting the prosperity of the people. What 
reasons can the demorcatic party advance for its return 
to power in the face of present conditions? 
LABRADOR 
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to thank them for. 
One of Dr. Grenfell’s associates, Dr. Guive of Battle 
Harbor, during the winter covers some 2,000 miles with 
his visiting the widely scattered settlements along the 
Canadian Labrador and the Atlantic seaboard as far north 
as Nain. The phrase “missionary hardships” is frequently 
an inaccurate one, but it would take a bold critic to decry 
Dr. Guive’s performance. 
If space permitted I would write also of the Moravian 
stations in the northern part of. the peninsula, of the 
Hudson Bay Company with a.record of two centuries and 
a half of achievement, of the copper mines, the deposits 
of labradorite, and a dozen other things of interest. Since 
it does not I can only hope that in time people will realize 
that close at hand is scenery equal to Norway’s, unrivalled 
fishing and hunting and a climate that in the summer 
months is unsurpassed. 
The article on Labrador, printed in this issue will 
prove of interest to the large number of North Shore 
people who have some knowledge of Dr. Grenfell’s. won- 
derful work in that northland. Scores of Boston’s best 
known familes have been represented in Dr. Grenfell’s 
corps of helpers in seasons past. Dr. John Mason Little, 
Jr., of Boston, son of John Mason Little of Boston and 
Swampscott, has now been connected with the work of 
Dr. Grenfell for seven years and is the surgeon in charge 
of the largest hospital, which is at St. Anthony. Dr. 
John D. Adams, a Boston Orthopedic specialist, is ‘giving 
his time this present summer in helping in that Northern 
country, as is also Dr. Joseph Andrews anveye specialist 
of Santa Barbara, California. Miss Rosamond Bradley 
of Boston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Bradley of 
Pride’s Crossing, who has been associated with Dr. 
Adams in his work at the Boston Dispensary is also at 
st. Anthony, Newfoundland, this summer. Dr. Little’s 
two sisters, Miss Louisa and Miss Grace Little have giv- 
en good service in the north. Miss Amelia Forbes has 
in the past assisted in the hospital at Pilley’s Island, as 
has Miss Anne Cabot as well. Miss Esther Williams of 
Milton and Marblehead is this summer acting as house- 
keeper at Battle Harbor; she was a classmate of Mrs. 
Grenfell’s at Bryn Mawr College. Mr. Leverett Salton- 
stall has given a summer in the north, also. Among 
those who have gone up this year, are James White, 2nd 
J. Amory Jeffries, William T. Bowditch, Winthrop Burr, 
Paul B. Roberts, Goodhue Livingston, Lansing MacVie- 
kar and others. All of these volunteers give actual hard 
labor helping in whatever way they can. They have help- 
ed build reservoirs, unload schooners, shingle the build- 
ings, and anything that is necessary. This is Dr. Gren- 
fell’s twenty-first year of service on that coast, which is 
one of the most needy places on this continent. 
, 
A CURRANT EVENT 
He was seated in the kitchen 
Picking currants from their stems, 
The blushing, gushing globules 
Redder than ruby gems. 
I marked his skill and patience 
And watched him quite a spell, 
Till methought I heard him murmur 
“Jam the jam things to jell’! 
—J.A. T, 
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