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VOLUME 8. March 18, 1910 NuMBER 11 
I TA RE OT SY 
Mar. 19—25. 
SUN FULL TIDE 
Rises Sets | 4. wu. P.M. 
19 Sa. S751 $755 he baa0 6 16 
20 Su. 5 49 5 56 6 37 of eHh 
21 M. Dy. Sell 557, Vers 8 32 
22 Tae 5.85 § 153 i 8545 9-27 
23 W. 5 44 OSL Sede 10 15 
24 ni 55) 42 60 |10 06 10 55 
25 Fr. 5 40 61 hnah Ae 1132 
In the next issue of the Breeze 
we contemplate the beginning of a 
series of articles on the rapid devel- 
opment of the Atlantic coast line. 
Few people are aware of the 
phenomenal growth of summer cities 
and colonies of recreation along the 
sea board, the buying up of large 
choice territories for great estates 
and choice hilltops for beautiful 
bungalows commanding views of 
land and sea, mountains and cities 
and plain, until the sea shore bor- 
der from Cape May, N. J., to Rock- 
land, Me., is beginning to look like 
the gorgeous hem of a royal robe. 
The populous west, growing rich 
with rapid strides, is colonizing our 
coast line with magnificent estates 
and summer homes, with its infinite 
variety of club and yachting inter- 
est and beginning to dispute su- 
premacy with the east. 
Each season sees the still remain- 
ing available shore acreage and hill- 
tops at reasonable figures growing 
G. E. WILLMONTON 
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law 
| Willmonton’s Agency 
SCHOOL AND UNION STS., MANCHESTER OLD SOUTH BLDG., BOSTON 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
less and being absorbed by the mil- 
lonaire and wealthy classes, and 
prices for choice sites increasing 
until it would seem there will be no 
limit to the valuation of such lands 
in the near future, for the interior 
population is fascinated with the sea 
and the sea shore is like a hair-line 
in comparison to the vast interior 
regions. 
The articles will be of interest at 
this time, especially when people all 
over the country and from abroad 
are contemplating their annual re- 
turn to our magnificent coast re- 
gions and when the market for es- 
tates and acreage and cottages is 
active. 
As the spring season opens up on 
the North Shore, there is great de- 
mand for tenements and, as usual, 
the demand is much in excess of the 
supply. It would seem as though 
some enterprising citizens in the 
various owns along the Shore would 
build cottages and tenements suit- 
able to rent to coachmen, chauffeurs 
and others, who are brought here 
yearly for the summer season. - But 
on the other hand, the cost of build- 
ing and maintaining property of 
this sort is so high, that the proposi- 
tion is not altogether an attractive 
one. Rents in Manchester and other 
points along the Shore are about 
twice as high as they were 20 years 
ago. The advance is not due so 
much to the demand for dwelling 
houses as to the cost of building 
houses and keeping them in repair. 
It costs nearly twice as much to 
erect a dwelling house today as it 
did 20 years ago, and it costs twice 
as much to keep it in repair. More 
repairs are needed today than ever 
before. People live up to higher 
standards. The handy man about 
the house who could do most any- 
thing from building a coal bin in 
the cellar to patching the roof is 
a rare individual in the community. 
It is necessary to employ a skilled 
mechanic to make repairs today. It 
costs about twice as much to emply 
them to day as 20 years ago, as the 
money wage is higher and ne hours 
of labor shorter. ' 
A welcome visitor to the North 
Shore the coming week will be Mr. 
Official Spring. He will arrive at 7 
o'clock Monday morning, March 21, 
and let us hope nothing will occur 
to mar his return. 
were seen on every hand the last 
week. The North Shore is awaking 
from its winter sleep and activity is 
now seen in every line of work. Con- 
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Signs of spring — 
tractors are busy; improvements are — 
being resumed, or started, on numer- 
ous estates. Last Sunday’s warm 
weather brought out scores of autos 
and all through the week hundreds 
of auto parties have been noted on 
North Shore roads. There appears 
to be more activity than usual along 
the Shore, which would indicate an 
early opening of many houses. Al- 
ready a number of families have 
moved down, and by the first of next 
month there will be scores Ae houses 
open. 
There appears to be a definite in- 
tent on the part of the state offi- 
cials to bring about a change in the — 
methods of handling municipal 
funds, as will be seen in the follow- 
ing communication sent out to city — 
and town officials the last week by — 
State Treasurer Stevens. 
ter received by Chairman Swett of — 
the Manchester board of selectmen 
is as follows: 
‘‘Sir:— During the year the 
treasurer and receiver-general of the 
commonwealth is required to make ~ 
many payments to the cities and 
towns, such as the return of their 
part of the corporation tax, national 
bank tax, Income of the Massachu- 
setts school fund, ete., checks for all 
such settlements being sent directly 
to the city and town treasurers. 
‘‘After due deliberation it seems 
wise at this time to make some 
change in the method of paying 
money from the commonwealth 
treasury to the municipalities. Ac- 
cordingly, in the future, all pay- 
ments to towns will be by special 
checks made payable jointly to the 
board of selectmen and town treas- 
urer, and payments to cities will be 
made jointly to the mayor and city 
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