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The automobile show in New York 
the past week was a brilliant affair and 
society folk of the metropolis and the 
leading cities were out in force. There 
was a big display of foreign machines 
and wonderful mechanical progress was 
evident in the manufacture of the cars. 
Glaring schemes of painting cars were 
absent, the dull serviceable black being to 
the fore. Practical innovations to test 
strain and wear were gexerally apparent; 
their assets were simple elegance, utility 
and comfort. 
John Hayes Hammond recently ad- 
dressed the finance ciass of the West 
Side Y. M. C. A. in New York on 
mining speculation. 
Dr. Ellwood E. Shields and Dr. Ed- 
win C. Town of Philadelphia are at Mrs. 
Sophronia E. Lane’s boarding house at 
Annisquam and enjoying the scenes of a 
good old fashioned North Shore winter. 
The engagement of Miss Marion 
Blake of Brookline and Bass Rocks, and 
Frank Schornfuss, shot-put of the Har- 
vard team, is announced. Miss Blake is 
a granddaughter of Mrs. Henry Souther, 
sr., whose late husband was the owner 
of the entire Bass Rocks property. 
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Cunningham of 
Boston (nee Frances Newell of Brook- 
line and Bass Rocks) spend the week- 
ends frequently at the Cunningham es- 
tate, Hovey street, Gloucester, which 
was willed to Mr. Cunningham by his 
late brother, Sylvester Cunningham. 
Mrs. Cunningham isa recent bride and 
her family are pioneer summer cottagers 
of Bass Rocks. 
The Phillip Dexters of the Beverly 
Farms colony are settled in their new- 
home on Marlboro street. Work is por- 
gressing well on their new summer man- 
sion at Manchester. 
The executive committee of the Cru- 
cible Steel Company of America at their 
special meeting in Pittsburg, Dec. 31, 
elected Herbert A. DuPuy, president, 
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of 
Frank B. Smith. Mr. DuPuy and fam- 
ily were among the prominent Pittsburg- 
ers on the North Shore the last season 
coming in their auto and making the 
Masconomo at Manchester their head- 
quarters. During the season of 1903 
they were cottagers on the Shore occu- 
pying the Wm. Endicott estate at Pride’s 
Crossing. The late F. B. Smith, who 
Mr. DuPuy succeeds, was a brother of 
Mrs. Knox, wife of the Sec. of State 
and for that reason the secretary and _ his 
wife were obliged to recall their invita- 
tions to a diplomatic breakfast on New 
Year's Day and to go immediately to 
Pittsburg. 
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Mrs. Hall McAllister, whose summer 
musicales on the North Shore are always 
popular events, is holding delightful 
musical mornings at Hotel Somerset. 
Mrs. Susan Longworth of Cincinnati 
and Mingo Beach, Beverly, is due in 
Washington this week to visit her son- 
in-law and daughter, Count and Count- 
ess de Chambrun of the French Em- 
bassy. 
Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. George 
von L. Meyer of the Hamilton colony 
were “at home’’ officially on New 
Year’s Day at their Washington resi- 
dence on Scott Circle. 
Gloucester and the North Shore col- 
ony are much interested in the announce- 
ment of the spring wedding of Miss 
Alice Blech, the social secretary of Mrs. 
Taft, at che White House, and Lieut 
Richard Wainwright, jr., U. S. N., son 
of the commander of the Gloucester at 
Santiago in ’98. Mrs. Wainwright, 
wife of the Rear Admiral, gave a tea, 
Wednesday of this week in honor of her 
son’s fiancee, who is a native of Alexan- 
dria, Egypt, and is accomplished and 
gifted. Rear Admiral Wainwright and 
family were at Hawthorne Inn, East 
Gloucester, during the season of 1903. 
Harry Pratt McKean of the Pride’s 
colony was among the fashionable mar- 
ried men of the Quaker City who con- 
ducted the Benedicts’ Ball at Horticul- 
tural Hall, Philadelphia, Dec. 28. Mr. 
McKean sailed for Europe Tuesday of 
this week. Mr. and Mrs. McKean 
were also responsible for one of the most 
enjoyable functions of the holidays for 
the younger set, for on Dec. 29 they 
gave a dinner dance at the Bellevue- 
Stratford, Philadelphia, in honor of their 
sons, one hundred guests being present. 
Among the prominent spectators who 
witnessed the Yale College Dramatic 
association, Dec. 27, in ““‘ London As- 
surance’? in Washington were Robert 
Taft, his mother and sister, and Mrs. L. 
Z. Leiter, the latter the tenant of the 
Dudley Pickman cottage at Beverly Cove 
the past season. Mrs. Leiter has ac- 
quired property at Beverly Farms for a 
permanent summer home,. and thereby 
the North Shore contingent is very much 
interested in the trans-atlantic rumor that 
Mrs. Leiter’s son-in-law, Lord Curzon, 
is a suitor for the hand of Mrs. Ava 
Willing-Astor of Philadelphia, New 
York and Newport, divorced wife of 
Col. John Jacob Astor, who is now in 
London as the guest of Mrs. Waldorf 
Astor, jr., the latter at one time a well 
known habitue of the Shore, when she 
was Mrs. Robert Gould Shaw, 2d, of 
Boston, 
VITAL STATISTICS. 
Manchester Records for 1909 Show 53 Births, 
31 Deaths and 31 Marriages. Death 
Rate Exceedingly Low as Usual. 
In this week’s issue we are printing 
the vital statistics of the Town of Man- 
chester for the year 1909, just closed. 
In brief there were 31 deaths, 53 births 
and 31 marriages. 
Asa health resort Manchester must 
certainly be the banner town of the state. 
A record of only 31 deaths in a town of 
nearly 3000 population the year around, 
and over a 1000 in excess of this num- 
ber for four months, is remarkably low. 
The figure is all the more interesting 
when it is realized that of the 31, 15 
were over 60 years of age, and four of 
those were over 80; and of the number 
remaining only four were between 20 
and 50 years. Deacon Francis A. P. 
Killam was the oldest,—85 years, 8 
months, 6 days. 
Of the 53 births 28 were males and 25 
females. 
The number of marriages, —31, would 
indicate that Dan Cupid hasn’t met with 
phenominal success in Manchester the 
last year, but he was more successful 
than in 1908 when he succeeded in tie- 
ing only 20 knots. 
In 1908 there were 37 deaths, 65 
births and 20 marriages; in 1907 the 
figures were 32, 58 and 22, respectively. 
MARRIAGES. 
Michael Joseph Kelliher and 
Katherine Gertrude Lynch by 
Rev. John Patrick Flysen, at 
Lowell. 
William Choate Rust and Mar- 
garet Louisa French, by. Rev. 
Theodore Lyman Frost, at 
Manchester. 
Edward Gardner Heath and 
Marian M. DeVeaux, by Rev. 
W. H. Rider, at Gloucester. 
Henry H. Witt and Amy B. 
Crombie, by Rev. L. H. Ruge, 
at Manchester. 
Franklin Wallace Dunbar and 
Jessie Ruth Andrews, by Rev. 
L. H. Ruge, at Manchester. 
8, Frederick William Vigor and 
Edith Helen Rush, by Rev. 
Herbert S. Johnson, at Boston. 
Alexander Begg and Rachel 
Chalmers, by Rev. E. H. By- 
ington, at Beverly. 
George C. Moulton and Belle 
McGarrigle, by Rev. L. H. 
Ruge, at Manchester. 
Ernest Choate Soulis and Grace 
Horton Speers, by Rev. Chris- 
topher R. Eliot, at Boston. 
Michael Holloran and Mary 
McHugh, by Rev. James F. 
Kelly, at Newton. 
Frazier Curtis and Gladys Mar- 
garet Raper, by Rev. Reuben 
Kidner, at Manchester, 
Jan: 16, 
Feb. 9, 
1: 
Mar. 31, 
April 7, 
21; 
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June 15, 
