NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
THE ATLANTIC SEA SHORE DEVELOPMENT 
LL OvER America there is 
a great and enthusiastic 
interest in outdoor living. 
Everyone is today begin- 
ning to realize the value of pure 
air and sunshine, of association with 
the fields and hills and the saline 
tonic of the sea, of the inspiration 
of singing birds and smiling gar- 
dens and gladdening sports. It is 
in this life in the open that body 
and mind are safe, in the natural 
closer ties between the soul and the 
sunshine, the woods and the sea. 
The old and eternal instinct of na- 
ture calls and calls, until we make a 
break for the open to breathe and 
laugh and play. In all the swing 
of the cycle of evolution there is no 
turn where we do not hear and an- 
swer to the ‘‘call of the wild’’ with- 
in us. 
Above the ceaseless hum of this 
nervous American energy, nature is 
ever making greater appeals to live 
in the open, to drink from clear 
springs, to bathe in pure waters, to 
breathe pure air, and bask in the 
sunshine undimmed; and there is 
wisdom in this annual rest and rec- 
reation now indulged in by the 
great mass of nature’s tired chil- 
dren. 
God bless the haunt of wild things, 
the pas iehie oF meadow and hill 
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Few peopie seem to realize the 
extent of the increase of the sum- 
mer population of the country and 
this increase is largest along our 
Atlantic sea coast. This building of 
summer homes and estates from 
Cape May, N. J., to Bar Harbor, Me., 
issignificant and is arousing the com- 
ment and interest of thoughtful 
financiers and investors throughout 
the country. Popular resorts, bunga- 
low colonies, and landed estates, 
with the very latest word in the con- 
veniences and luxuries of the me- 
tropolis added, is a movement con- 
stantly accelerated as shown by the 
unprecedented provisions made by 
the steamship, railroad, telegraph 
and telephone lines, to meet the de- 
mands of this growing population 
along the Atlantic seaboard. Land 
values are constantly increasing and 
have reached metropolitan figures in 
certain placeslike Manchester-by-the- 
Sea, and yet values at their highest 
are still at nominal figures as com- 
pared to future figures that must 
prevail as the available supply di- 
minishes, when the inereased de- 
mand for desirable locations will be 
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beyond anything that is conceived 
of at the present time. 
In taking a broad view of the sit- 
uation we find that each particular 
section of the coast naturally takes 
but a local interest in the movement 
and thinks itself especially favored 
and therefore is not aware that what 
it sees growing within its range of 
view is but a detail of a vast terri- 
tory growing thus simultaneously. 
Rapid as has been the develop- 
ment of the Atlantic coast in the 
past quarter of a century there is 
no ‘question but that future devel- 
opment must be even more rapid in 
the momentum that is now in full 
swing, especially when one considers 
the massive foundations laid for the 
movement in the colossal and sub- 
stantial work being done in landed 
estates, bungalows and resorts. 
Many of these estates and resorts, 
not only equal but surpass those 
abroad. Every desirable forest tract 
and field and lake is being taken 
from the market for private shoot- 
ing, for game and fish preserves by 
exclusive clubs. 
Many of the summer estates and 
homes that are within convenient 
distances and comfortable travel to 
the cities are occupied from early 
spring to late in the fall and some 
all the year. 
Up to wituin a comparatively few 
years ago only temporary and desul- 
tory attempts were made to colonize 
certain places on inferior and flimsy 
lines, except in a ease like New- 
port and that was through the 
caprice of a few New York million- 
aires. But that day is gone. The 
former country house has been re- 
modelled into the coachman’s and 
superintendent’s cottage or into the 
stable or garage. Today there is a 
systematic and substantial coloniza- 
tion of the coast, as safe and secure 
for investment as the founding of 
any great national movement, and 
the prediction is freely made by con- 
servative business and financial in- 
terests that the next decade will see 
a far greater and more substantial 
development on these lines than we 
have seen for the last quarter of a 
century. 
Hotels and homes and landed es- 
tates and clubs are everywhere 
building and being enlarged and in- 
creased in capacity, extent, stabil- 
ity and beauty. 
The sea shore is becoming the 
summer home par excellence of both 
the millionaire and the families of 
moderate means. 
The rapidity with which desirable — 
shore fronts and hilltops with water © 
views. are disappearing from the 
market everywhere is seen when a 
purchaser begins to look around for 
a location at any reasonable and 
nominal figure. 
rapid absorption of sea shore lands. 
Then the situation — 
becomes a surprise. There is, in fact, — 
no parallel in modern times for this — 
By many of the wealthier class — 
the pursuit of money is no longer 
the greatest aim, the era of the pur- — 
suit of pleasure is here and the pur- ~ 
suit of happiness that is found in © 
home building of the house beauti- — 
ful, to possess a sea shore or country 
home up to the great exclusive es- 
tate. 
And in seeking the most ideal lo- 
eation the multitude has found that 
there is a strange fascination in the 
call of the singing surges, in the 
surf swept reaches that seem to 
stretch into infinity over which un- 
seen voices tone a never ending 
symphony. By the drone or roar 
of the ceaseless tides they never 
weary of listening to the story of 
rature’s inscrutable power. Here 
are forgotten the strife of tongues, — 
the contentions and hatreds of men, 
the sin and sorrow of the soul. 
There is something luring in the 
voice of the channel bell, something 
fulfilled within us in the gleam from ~ 
a lonely wave-buffeted tower, some- 
thing thrilling in the madness of 
tumbling breakers rolling in foam- 
ing crests of green waters at our 
feet or climbing the eternal rocks. 
Something thrilling in the lifting 
up of a helpless ship above the sky- 
line only to sink it out of sight and 
see a score of sturdy guards risk 
their lives in its rescue. 
There is no stage setting like the 
sea, no drama or tragedy like the 
experiences there. And in her tend- 
er moods who has ever been able to 
resist the sea? Her nights are full 
of magic suggestions, her days full 
of seductive dreams. 
The Atlantic coast is unequalled 
in the world in its magnificent 
stretches of clean, hard sands, so 
eradual in their slope into the sea 
that life lines in bathing are not 
needed; unequalled in its beautiful 
bays and rivers and land-locked har- 
bors, into which are projected bold 
and secluded promontories covered 
with beautiful trees; unequalled for 
its fine cities and towns and world 
renowned fishing and hunting 
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