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phia has taken a_ lease of ‘*Crom- 
the Merrill homestead on 
‘Smith’s Point and will arrive about 
the middle of June for the summer. 
Mrs. Lea is the widow of Prof. Lea 
of the University of Pennsylvania, 
the famous egyptologist. She spent 
last season at Cape May, N. J. 
“Tleadlands,’’ the summer home 
of the late_Charles Head, at Man- 
~ chester, has been leased to Mr. Kuhn 
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of Pittsburg, who will take posses- 
sion of the house on May 1. 
The Larcom house, near Lee’s 
crossing, Beverly Farms, has been 
leased for the season to Jesse Kosh- 
land of Boston. The house has been 
ereatly improved the last winter by 
the addition of an ell. A splendia 
living-room, some 18 by 32 feet, has 
been added. 
Commander Vassiclieff, naval at- 
tache of the Russian embassy, has 
‘leased a cottage at Windmere Park, 
Manchester, for the coming season. 
E. K. Arnold and family are expect- 
ed at their summer home on Sea 
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Manchester, tomorrow, for 
the summer. 
Francis Shaw has hired the Bur- 
ley Smith house on Smith’s Point, 
commonly known as the Dame cot- 
tage. 
The first wedding of the season 
on the North Shore, undoubtedly. 
will be that of Miss Beatrice Ayer. 
and Lieut. Geo. S. Patton of the 15th 
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U. S. Cavalry, now stationed at 
Sheridan, Ill. The eyent will take 
place on May 27 at the Ayer sum- 
mer home, ‘‘Avalon,’’ at Pride's 
Crossing, already open for the sea- 
son. 
Miss Frances H. Stearns, who has 
been spending the winter in New 
York city, having an apartment at 
The Waleott, is coming on to Boston 
the coming week and will be regis- 
~ -tered at The Lenox until the last of 
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the month, when she will come to 
her villa at Magnolia for the sum- 
mer. 
Councilman John L. Saltonstall, 
of the Beverly Cove colony, has just 
presented to the Washington hose 
company of Beverly an interesting 
relic of the railroad accident at 
Paradise crossing, nearly a score of 
years ago. The company had sever- 
al relics of the smash and the latest 
addition is the name board of one of 
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Papers were passed, this week by 
which 5John. li. sand, Isabella. Pierce 
transferred their estate. at Preston 
place, consisting of land and build- 
ings to Q. A. Shaw, 2nd. Mr. Shaw 
buys to increase his holdings, hav- 
ing recently bought the adjoining 
property from George H. Wyatt. 
Papers were passed yesterday by 
which Mrs. Catherine Riordan sells 
her house and land at Preston place, 
Beverly Farms, to Q. A. Shaw, 2nd. 
This makes the third parcel of land 
that Mr. Shaw has acquired on the 
westerly side of Hart street. 
Robert Robertson has the contract 
for new plumbing to be installed in 
the Smith house, West Manchester. 
The house is undergoing consider- 
able change and it is expected that 
it will be ready for its new owner, 
Mrs. Howard of Boston, by late sum- 
mer. The family will live in the 
bungalow on the estate this summer. 
IN YACHTING CIRCLES. 
- Alfred CG. Needham of Manchester 
has sold, through the agency-of B. 
B. Crowningshield, the 27-foot 
auxiliary cruising yawl, Mahdeena, 
to E. Hl. Penticost of England. 
Reginald Boardman has sold his 
sonder class Manchester Il. to Don 
Y. Pendes of the Indian Harbor 
Yacht club of New York, who will 
race her on Long Island sound, 
against boats of her size. 
Work is being rushed at the David 
Fenton Co. wharf on the Manchester 
Yacht club syndicate cup racer, in 
order that it may be completed by 
June 1, as called for in the contract. 
C. H. Tyler’s power boat ‘‘Tern,”’ 
which has been wintered at the Dav- 
id Fenton Co.’s yard at Manchester, 
was taken to Boston Tuesday. 
The sloop ‘‘Khalifa,’? owned by 
William A. Tucker, is being refitted 
at White’s yard and will go into 
eommission about the middle of next 
month. 
Bass Rocks. 
Dr. William Jarvis and family of 
Brooklyn will arrive at ‘‘Craige- 
moor’: May 1, and owill .establish 
their annual custom of being the 
first cottagers to arrive at the rocks. 
Henry Souther. of Hartford, prin- 
cipal owner of the Bass Rocks prop- 
erty, has been a recent visitor and 
will arrive early with his family for 
the season. 
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East Gloucester. 
Work on the new casino at Haw- 
thorne*Inn ‘progresses daily. Wal-: 
e¢e-r be, 
_ter Day of Gloucester. has the. con- 
tract. 
George OC. Crosby of Merrill Hall — 
has returned from New York and 
Stamford, Conn., where he spent the 
winter and is assisting his mother, 
Mrs. Grace Buell, in getting the hall 
in. readiness for the approaching sea- 
son. piste 
Mitchell Frieman, esq., of Boston, 
and party of ten gentlemen have se- 
cured rooms at the Rockaway, over 
the 19th. F. 8S. Elliott of Woburn 
has been registered at the hotel this 
week and Mrs. Keyes of Worcester 
concludes a month’s visit at the ho- 
tel tomorrow. Mrs. Merriam, Miss 
Helen Merriam and Miss Bertha 
Chamberlain of Woreester are at the 
hotel. Many improvements are not- 
ed at.this hostelry, including the 
finely enlarged dining hall, new sun 
parlor, spacious new tennis court 
and asphalt. walks about the 
grounds and to the tennis court. 
Mr. and Mrs. John Stacy of Chi- 
cago, annual Rockaway guests, who 
have been prominently identified 
with the artistic colony of Hast 
Gloucester, will summer abroad this 
season. 
Miss Anna V. Doyle of. Jamaica 
Plain, a summer resident here for a 
number of years, and proprietor of 
the ‘‘Anchorage,’’ died -recently : 
very suddenly in Jacksonville, F'la., 
where she conducted a winter studio. 
Iler demise has caused much regret 
here among her large circle of 
friends, both among the permanent 
and summer residents. 
The Griffins of Baltimore, and the: 
Calkins of Boston are returning this 
season to the cottage they annually 
occupy on Paradise Point. The Pill- 
ings of Washington are expected in 
“Rockmere’’ cottage which they 
had last season. Mrs. Pilling is a 
sister of Miss Anna Seaton Schmidt, 
the well-known art lecturer, who has 
been heard frequently in Boston this 
winter. 
The Y..M..C. .A., minstrel show 
will be repeated at the Town hall on 
Friday evéning, April 29, by request. 
There will be a few choice seats at 
50 cents, other ‘seats 25 and 35 cents. 
All will be reserved. It will be a 
fine show with a few changes from 
its first appearance, Sl 
