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son. Extensive improvements to Hotel Thorwaid 
include an additional story to the big annex of the hos- 
’ Farmer for the season. 
carpenters. 
fore extinguished by the fire department. 
telry. This addition has ten new sleeping rooms and six 
bath rooms. The annex now includes 54 rooms. Al- 
though there are five stories to the annex, 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 are in natural 
finish. Much appreciated features will be single rooms 
with bath, and all the sleeping rooms will have attrac- 
tive lattice doors with locks, so that guests may have 
the advantage of the circulation of air. H. L. Torrey 
of East Gloucester was the contractor. 
On Page street, Bass Rocks, a new summer resi- 
dence has been completed by James U. Cranton, builder, 
of Gloucester, for Malcolm Farmer of Brookline, a Bass 
Rocks summer resident of years’ standing. This 13-room 
artistic home will be occupied shortly by Mr. and Mrs. 
A fine veranda taking up the en- 
tire front side of the house, commanding a splendid view 
of the golf links, and the sea beyond, is an attractive 
= feature. 
The house is nearly square and of dignified 
lines. H. M. Hanson of Gloucester was the architect. 
_' Farther up, on Page street, ground has been broken 
for a new cottage on the estate of Dr. J. H. Broughton 
of Boston. The structure will be the second house on 
Dr. Broughton’s property. The first house is receiving 
* an addition and the Paul family of Baltimore will take 
~ occupancy this season. 
The Moorland cottages on Atlantic Road, south of 
the hotel, have all received improvements, by the house 
The most important improvement to the 
Moorland property is the addition of 20 feet to the 
“casino, making that building a most commodious one for 
the largely attended social affairs at the resort. A re- 
cent brush fire endangered the casino, the flames reach- 
ing within nearly a foot from the wood foundation be- 
The former 
long veranda facing the tennis court, where afternoon 
' teas are often held, has also been extended the 20 feet. 
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh J. Dennin of Jacksonville, Fla., 
_have opened their cottage “Wyoming” on Beach avenue. 
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Baker of Houston, Texas, 
the former a prominent attorney, will occupy the Seth 
Mendell cottage on Atlantic Road this season. 
BASTERN POINT, East Gloucester, hotels now open 
are the Rockaway, Pilgrim House, Harbor View, 
Delphine, Fairview and Mailman House. Guests are 
coming gradually. The college students made their us- 
ual spring visit here. ‘The Rockaway, Rocky Neck was 
the mecca for the great majority. There were 57 from 
Simmons college, 12 from Wellesley, eight from Rad- 
cliffe and also eight men from Technology. Ralph and 
Otis Dana of Brookline are now stopping at the Rock- 
away. 
The Rockaway has a novel addition in its newly 
erected tea house. This building 20x30 feet, to which a 
piazza has been added, was the cabin of a large ship 
which was wrecked during the past year at Eastern 
Point, near the lighthouse. The tea houses will not be in 
operation this season, but next year Proprietor Publi- 
cover plans to.make it a feature of his hostelry, besides 
building a new casino on the Pagoda Rocks, on the at- 
tractive harbor front. New cement walks have been 
laid about the hotel this spring. 
George S. Noyes the Boston artist, who with his 
family was at the Rockaway, has leased the studio cot- 
tage of Col. Charles F. Wonson on Rocky Neck. The 
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Bass ROCKS is also being prepared for a busy sea- 
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Noyes will arrive early in the season at East Gloucester. 
Mrs. Lawrence of New York has taken the resi- 
dence of Commodore Benjamin H. Colby of the Glou- 
cester Yacht club, situated on Wiley street, near the 
clubhouse, for the season. Mrs. Lawrence and her son- 
in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ingo Simons, have 
been located at the Colby house the past winter. They 
will stay here till next October. Last season they occu- 
pied the E. P. Wonson cottage at Grape Vine Cove. Mr. 
Simons is a grand opera singer. The wedding of Mr. 
and Mrs. Simons last summer was a society event at the 
Hawthorne Inn. ‘The Lawrences were guests at the Inn 
for many seasons. 
The Hawthorne Inn will open the first of June and 
Proprietor George O. Stacy has a large booking for 
early guests at this popular summer abiding place.  Al- 
ready the large Hawthorne Inn casino has a festive at- 
mosphere, many attractive dancing parties being held 
there each week by various social organizations of Glou- 
cester. 
The family of Colonel Sidney Hedges of 
is at the Hedge’s cottage, Eastern Point. 
Mrs. Annie Weeks and three daughters of Bristol, 
N. H., are at the beautiful Weeks Spanish villa at East- 
ern Point, near the new Ames summer residence. The 
late Mr. Weeks was owner of extensive paper mills in 
sristol. 
Rev. J. 5. Williamson and wife of Lansing, Mich., 
are at their lovely villa at Eastern Point, occupied for 
several seasons by the Siamese Legation. | Rev. Mr. 
Williamson is a prominent clergymen of Lansing form- 
erly of Haverhill. Owing to ill-health, the pastor has 
been granted a two months leave of absence from his 
church and no doubt he will find beneficial rest at this 
delightful spot at Eastern Point. Besides the Eastern 
Point cottage the Williamsons own “Gray Gables’ at 
Grape Vine Cove occupied by ex-Governor John Dix of 
New York last season, and “Brown Boulders” at Bass 
Rocks. 
Mrs. S. A. Raymond and son Jack were recently at 
the Rouse Mansion, “The Ramparts,” at Eastern Point, 
from Cleveland, O. The Raymonds will come again in 
June for the season. Mrs. Raymond is mourning the 
loss of her husband, the late Samuel A. Raymond, who 
died in Cleveland during the winter. ; 
3oston 
PIGEON COVE. The season of 1915 promises to be a 
very successful one at Pigeon Cove. Cottagers are 
beginning to arrive and servants are at several houses 
preparing them for the occupancy of their owners. The 
Hotel Edward, which is the leading social center for the 
wealthy clientele, will open in June under the usual man- 
agement of Louis Wilson. 
EVERETT A. FLYE 
Registered 
Optometrist and Optician 
The best Optical service in Gloucester 
Office over Street Railway Station 
GLOUCESTER 
