6 NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
We are offering an unusual collection of 
PERENNIAL PLANTS 
And a choice lot of Conifers. 
NORTH SHORE NURSERIES & FLORIST CO., Beverly Farms 
F. E. COLE, Prop. 
We shall be better prepared than usual to store plants for the winter. 
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sent 
164 Main Street Gloucester 
HE removal of an old pre-Revolution house from 
Salem to Manchester Cove via the water route, in the 
near future, will be an interesting affair. The building 
belonged to Thomas F. Little and is located at 9 Elm 
street, Salem. Elm street is being widened and it was 
necessary either to remove the house or tear it down. 
It was sold to Mrs. Greely Curtis, who has a beautiful! 
summer estate at Manchester Cove. It was first decided 
to lighter it from Salem and move it through the trees 
and over the high rocks to a part of the estate, but after 
all preparations were made for this it was found that the 
feat would be too difficult, and it has therefore been de- 
cided within the last few days to move it onto the low- 
lands, near Crow Island. 
Foundations are already being built for it by Daniel 
Edgecomb, a Manchester contractor, and in Salem, new 
sills are being placed under the old house prior to turning 
it over to Edwards, the building mover, to haul to the 
water side. There it will be placed on a lighter and on 
a day when King Neptune wills and the sea is calm it 
will be brought along the shore to Manchester. Under 
ordinary conditions the trip would be an easy one as far 
as Manchester, following the shore from Salem and inside 
Mystery Island. But between Baker’s Island and Man- 
chester, and along by Singing Beach there is apt to be 
more or less swell. The Curtis estate is beyond Dana’s 
Beach. 
The house dates back to before the Revolution, and 
is in excellent state of repair. In the front hall and lead- 
ing to the upper story is as handsome a flight of stairs 
with Newell post and elegantly carved stanchions as can 
be found anywhere. The house is two and a half stories 
high, with gambrel roof, and has four rooms and a pan- 
try on the lower floor, four rooms on the second floor, 
and three large sleeping rooms in the attic. The windows 
have fine shutters and the house is Colonial throughout. 
There are magnificent arches in the cellar, supporting 
large chimneys, which have wide fireplaces. In the fire 
Nov. Be 1916. 
place in the lower story of the living room, was a fire 
back, bearing the date 1660 and the letter H in the center 
at the top, and on the sides the letters B and D. Mrs. 
Curtis will preserve it just as it is, to the great delight of 
antiquarians. 
This will not be the first time a feat of this kind has 
been performed on the North Shore. Five or six years 
azo Mrs. Robert D. Evans sold the house on her estate at 
Beverly Cove which had been occupied by President Taft 
and family, and it was moved across the harbor from 
Beverly to Marblehead. The accompaning picture shows 
the Evans house on its journey across the harbor. 
One of the unsolved mysteries is how two men can 
exchange umbrellas in the dark and each invariably get 
the worst of it. 
SOME interesting gifts were given to her attendants by 
Mrs. Harold L. Chalifoux (Elizabeth Burrage), whose 
wedding occured last Friday in Boston. ‘The maid of 
honor, Miss Priscilla May, received a handsome diamond 
and sapphire pin, and the bridesmaids gold manicure sets 
in small cases. Mr. Chalifoux presented James Curtis, 
the best man, with a gold cigar case, and the ushers 
received watch chains of platinum and pearl. 
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Marshall Shirk of Philadelphia 
are spending a few weeks with their son-in-law and 
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Albert C. Burrage, Jr., in Ham- 
ilton. They were among the guests at the Chalifoux- 
Burrage wedding, as were also Mr. and Mrs. Baxter and 
Miss Baxter of New York, the parents and sister of 
Mrs. Russell Burrage. 
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- The news of the cal death of Miss Marjorie Mc- 
Gowan of Indianapolis, Ind., comes as a great shock to 
North Shore residents, where Mrs. Hugh J. McGowan 
and her daughters have spent several summers in Man- 
chester Cove and Magnolia. She had been visiting in 
New York and was on her return trip to the city ‘after 
attending the Yale-Brown game last Saturday when the 
auto in which she was riding with friends from Indian- 
apolis was overturned after colliding with another, result- 
ing in her instant death. It will be recalled that in the 
summer of 1914 her brother-in-law, Spencer Wishart, 
was killed in an auto accident on the Elgin speed course. 
The McGowans spent last summer at Harbor Point, 
Mich. 
Shakespeare says “‘we are creatures that look before 
end after,” the more surprising that we do not look 
around a little and see what is passing under our very 
eyes.—Carlyle. 
“Contentment abides with the truth,” says an old 
adage, but very few men are in a position to vouch for 
the truth of it. 
