4 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 17 
_ APe& ANN and the Gloucester-Rockport shore is ex- 
periencing the same activity in preparation for the 
summer season as other sections of the shore. The 
“Build Now’’ campaign has found two adherents 
among the summer hotel keepers at East Gloucester 
and as a result, these two landlords will be better than 
ever before able to meet with the increased demand 
which is expected the coming season. Beside this, the 
Back Shore will be the site of several more sightly sum- 
mer residences which have been in the course of erection 
at the hands of local builders all winter and are now 
fast approaching completion. 
Extensive improvements at Hotel Thorwald, Bass 
Rocks, are progressing. An additional story is being 
added to the big annex to the hostelry. The addition 
includes ten new sleeping rooms and six bath rooms. 
The annex will include fifty-four rooms when the im- 
provements will have been completed. Although there 
are five stories, on account of the slope of the ground 
and the raise of the hotel veranda, the new rooms will 
be only three flights up from the hotel office. The new 
rooms will be in natural finish and walls will be attrac- 
tively papered. A much appreciated feature will be the 
single room with bath, and all the sleeping rooms will 
have attractive lattice doors with locks, so that guests 
may have the advantage of the circulation of air. 
Merrill Hall on Eastern Point road, one of the 
earliest hotels in this section, being formerly known as 
Craig cottage when conducted by the late Mrs. Mary 
Merrill, has been almost entirely made over by exten- 
sive additions and improvements. The office and parlor 
on the first floor has been thrown into one, a long, com- 
fortable foyer being the result, with a fine open fire- 
place, which guests so much enjoy during the season, 
especially in September and October. The dining room 
has been enlarged many feet and the piazza has been 
extensively broadened. New sleeping rooms and private 
baths have been added to the hostelry. 
The new summer residence for the Farmers of 
Brookline, summer residents of Bass Rocks, which has 
been in process of construction this winter on Page st., 
Bass Rocks, is about completed. This thirteen-room 
house with bath rooms and modern conveniences is now 
receiving the interior touches, in beautifying it for the 
owners’ occupancy early in the season. There are the 
living room, dining room, kitchen and pantry and 
maids’ room on the first floor and nine rooms, including 
sleeping and baths on the second floor. There is a 
splendid wide veranda taking up the entire front side of 
the house, commanding a fine view of the golf links, the 
hills and the sea beyond. The house is nearly square in 
proportion, of dignified lines and attractive. 
The large new summer home for 8S. K. Ames of Mel- 
rose, the well known owner of butter and egg stores, is 
very nearly completed, the interior work now being 
taken in hand. Mr. and Mrs. Ames will probably take 
occupancy in a few weeks. The house is situated on a 
picturesque site near the “Sunset Rock,” so-called, at 
Eastern Point, facing the Niles beach and harbor. ‘he 
first story of the structure is of field stone and the upper 
part of stueco. It has a long overhanging roof of slate. 
A broad piazza, fourteen feet wide and seventy feet 
long, is a feature, and at one end of the house the piazza 
is built out to an angle which affords a much more 
extensive view of surrounding scenery. The house con- 
tains sixteen or more rooms. On the first floor are the 
large living room, dining room, den, kitchen, pantries, 
maids’ bedrooms and two baths. <A laundry is in the 
basement. On the second floor are six chambers, two 
baths and a large open sleeping porch. A big garage 
of stone and stucco of design kindred to the general 
architecture of the residence is built a short distance 
toward the golf links road, and it will accommodate 
three cars. 
The new tile house which has been in the process of 
construction this past winter on Grapevine road, Kast 
Gloucester, in the vicinity of the Delphine hotel, is near- 
ing completion, and Mr. and Mrs. William T. Gamage 
will probably take occupancy the middle of May. There 
will be fifteen or more rooms. On the first floor is a 
large living room, sixteen by thirty-six feet, and a very 
large hall is between this room and the dining room. 
The staircase in the hall will be an attractive feature. 
The dining room will have an alcove, then there are the 
pantry, kitchen and a fine laundry in the basement. A 
big enclosed porch is located off the living room. On 
the second floor are five chambers and three baths, and 
a baleony, while on the third floor are three chambers 
and bath for the servants. A garage also of tile accom- 
modates two cars. The house is erected on a solid ledge, 
being built of tile and fireproof. The roof is especially 
attractive, being of purple and green mottled slate. The 
house is a very attractive residence and the surround- 
ings with its shrubs and flowers will add to the beauty. 
L. C4 PRIOR 
Resident Manager of Hotel Lenox, Boston 
Mr. Prior has been actively identified with many 
hotels of a superior class for the past ten years, one of 
which is the Blackstone in Chicago. He is a member 
of the Bank Officers association, Boston City Club, In- 
dependent Order of Odd Fellows, Elks, and he is also a 
member of the Chicago Hotel Greeters association, now 
affiliated with the Boston Greeters. 
Expert HELP 
Joseph Breck & Sons, 51 and 52 North Market 
street, near Faneuil Hall, Boston, sells everything that 
is needed on a farm, landscape, garden or in a hot house, 
or floral conservatory. It is the oldest, one of the most 
complete and extensive concerns of ithe kind in existence. 
In addition to supplying implements, fertilizers and seeds 
of all varieties, the company furnishes expert help,— 
that is, help that may be depended upon for character 
and intelligent dilligence such as head and second gard- 
eners, farm foremen, and working farmers, superinten- 
dents, coachmen, general men, herdsmen, poultry men, 
caretakers, etc., married or single as may be desired. 
The Breck corporation takes a special interest in their 
help department and recommends only those who are 
qualified for high class service. 
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