‘pea See NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
Points of Historic Interest in Salem 
HE other day Julian Hawthorne, son of the great ro- 
mancer, with his niece paid a visit to the scenes of 
his father’s life in Salem and 
in the Sunday American he 
described the visit and ex- 
pressed the feelings that 
arose in his * thind’ “as: he 
wandered about. He seemed 
most impressed with the Dr. 
Grimshaw House on Charter 
street and said: 
“I found myself, how- 
ever, in livelier sympathy 
with the old Grimshaw house 
on Charter street overlooking 
‘Burying Point.’ There lived 
the young girl who was to be 
my mother, with her sisters 
and brothers, a large family ; 
and in the sitting room look- 
ing on the graveyard she first 
saw and spoke with the man 
whom God had made for THE DR, 
her.” 
Of the House of Seven Gables he wrote: ‘Here 
you may see seven gables, and by the payment of a 
quarter of a dollar, usable strictly for the upkeep of the 
HOUSE 
show and for no less impersonal a purpose, you may see 
Hepzibah’s shop and Clifford’s and Phoebe’s chamber 
and the room in which Judge Pyncheon sat dead, and the 
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GRIMSHAW HOUSE. 
garden, and a well crub which must designate Maule’s 
Well; and many other interesting things appertaining to 
the period. . 
“Tt is all entertaining and 
curious, and the fact. that 
Hawthorne declared, both in 
his ‘House’ was ‘built of 
materials long since in use 
for constructing castles in 
gables in Hawthorne’s time, 
or that antiquarian dissection 
recently discovered that it was 
originally possessed of eight. 
History is not only written, 
but occasionally it is made, 
in this way.” ) 
The Seven Gables Settle- 
ment Association is doing 
good work among the for- 
eign element in old Salem, 
with its classes in sewing and domestic science, its clubs 
and gymnasium under the competent management of 
Miss Dunham, the head worker. Miss Caroline Emmer- 
OF SEVEN GABLES. 
ton is the moving spirit in the understanding and a liberal 
contributor to the work, and many of the young society 
girls and matrons of Salem give volunteer service. 
Tur Amprrious and successful young republican 
Guy A. Ham is to try the political lists again. Now it 
is the lieutenant governor’s throne that attracts him. Mr. 
Ham has had an excellent training and has principles of 
honesty and fair-dealing that have won for him many 
friends. The results of his endeavors will be watched 
with interest, 
Yearly subscription to North Shore Breeze, $2.00. 
AN ApoLocy prompted by policy, an indemnity in 
money and a new sea policy will not cover the sins of 
Germany in Belgium nor their guilt for sinking the Lusi- 
tania. 
PresIDENT WILSON did not use adjectives in his 
message, but “growing concern, distress and amazement” 
were telling substitutes. 
May 21, 1915 
writing and in speech, that 
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the air’ makes no difference; 
nor does it matter that the - 
present house had but three — 
