8 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
cupies the fifth building of its long history, a fine and 
beautiful Colonial structure. In 1801 Hon. ‘Timothy 
Pickering, formerly a Cabinet officer under Pres. Wash- 
ington and Pres. Adams, became owner of a fine estate 
on Larch Row, upon which he settled in 1806. The 
present owner, Mr. Charles L. Allen, is glad to point out 
the many traces of his distinguished predecessor, among 
them a circle of thirteen bass-wood or English linden 
trees planted by Pickering in commemoration of the 
American union.  Pickering’s friend, Hamilton, set out 
a similar group of trees on his Grange in New York city. 
Unfortunately the Hamilton grove has fallen before the 
growing city; but Wenham’s memorial still thrives. 
Hamulton received its name as the result of ‘efforts 
put forth by its pastor, Rev. Manasseh Cutler, in 1793. 
Dr. Cutler was a remarkable man, serving a single church 
from 1771 to 1823. Incidentally, the people of Essex 
county were as proud of their Congressman between 1801 
June 18, 1915 
and 1805 as they are today; and then, as now, he came 
from Hamilton. Then he was a clergyman, none other 
than Dr. Cutler. Manasseh Cutler was a warm admirer 
of Alexander Hamilton, and consequently induced his 
fellow-townsmen to give the great statesman’s name to 
the newly incorporated community. It is, perhaps, in 
order to say that the family name of Hamilton is a slight 
corruption of Hambledon, a manor in co. Buckingham, 
England; and signifies “the town of Hamlet.” 
It is well to conclude a tour of the North Shore at 
the “Myopia.” There is no Colonial significance to this 
name. It merely commemorates the fact that most of the 
charter members of the famous hunt club wore eye-glasses, 
and were open to suspicion of myopia or near-sightedness. 
Certainly the glasses must have been good ones; as they 
enabled the nearsighted huntsmen to pick out one of the 
most charming sites in all Essex County for their reser- 
vation, 
American Relief Clearing House 
Miss Winthrop Writes of Excellent and Far-reaching Work in France 
Manchester, June 14th, 
To the Editor of the Breeze, 
Dear Sir: 
Should any of your readers be en- 
gaged in making hospital supplies for 
France and are in doubt as to where 
or how to send them, they may be in- 
terested to know of the excellent and 
far-reaching work which the Amer- 
ican Relief Clearing House has been 
doing since the beginning of the war. 
This organization has its  head- 
quarters in Paris, and is run_ by 
American business men who volun- 
tarily give their time to the work. 
Its committee investigates the needs 
of the hospitals which apply to them 
for help, unpacks and distributes the 
goods sent to them, and is in touch 
with various relief organizations for 
Belgian refugees and needy Frene! 
women. All cases addressed to the 
American Relief Clearing House are 
entered free of customs duty, trans- 
ported free of charge to the Clearing 
House, and reshipped from there to 
their destinations also free of charge. 
The cases will also be delivered by 
the Clearing House, to any recog- 
nized Relief Organization, or to a 
special hospital designated by the ad- 
dressee, or the contents may be 
handed over to the Clearing House 
at the discretion of the. Committee. 
Free entry and transportation privi- 
leges do not apply to goods address- 
ed to private individuals, and conse- 
quently in the event of cases arriving 
so addressed the Clearing House 
should be furnished with a list of 
contents and given authority to open 
and inspect the cases. 
At present the special needs of the 
Clearing House are: 
Money 
Outing flannel shirts 
Pajamas 
Socks, large sizes 
Undervests and drawers 
Colored handkerchiefs (not red-ones) 
Cotton sheets and pillow-cases 
Bandages 
Gauze 
Unbleached cotton batting 
Yarn 
Outing flannel in the piece 
Linen thread No. 20 and 30 
The last three articles are used in 
the workrooms for needy | belgian 
and French women, who make lace 
for sale, and socks and shirts for the 
soldiers. 
Money is especially needed because 
applications come in from small hos- 
pitals all over France for all kinds of 
supplies such as clinical thermo- 
meters, instruments, basins, feeding 
cups, drinking mugs, ete., and though 
the French government does its best 
to meet the hospital needs, so many 
new hospitals are constantly being in- 
stalled and the want is so wide- 
spread, that it is impossible to equip 
them even tolerably without the aid 
of the Clearing House and other Re-, 
lief Organizations. 
I shall be very glad to give the full 
address for boxes designated to the 
Clearing House to any one who may 
wish to have it, or to take charge of 
any articles myself and will attend 
personally to packing and_ shipping 
them. If any clubs or groups are 
working for hospitals and would be 
interesting in hearing details of the 
running of a large French military 
hospital, | should be very glad to 
meet them informally to tell them 
something about the one in the North 
of France where | have lately spent 
several months. 
Very truly, 
—CrarA B. WINTHROP. 
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