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ILLUSTRATED LECTURE ON SOUTH 
AMERICA IN Town HALL, 
HE meeting of the Manchester 
Woman’s club took place Tues- 
day evening at Town hall instead of 
Tuesday afternoon at the Congrega- 
tional chapel. Albert L. Squiers was 
the speaker of the evening and in 
view of the fact that his lectures are 
of such a high standard and his stere- 
epticon pictures, which illustrate 
them, of such extraordinary beauty, 
the meeting was opened to the pub- 
lic. Many tickets were sold to school 
children who sat in a section of the 
hall reserved for them, and formed 
an interested and attentive part of 
the audience. 
Mrs. FE. S. Knight, the Presidents, 
opened the meeting at 8 o’clock, and 
announced that the usual business 
would be omitted. Mrs. Knight 
made announcement of the entertaiu- 
ment which the Woman’s club is to 
give Monday, December 13, for tne 
benefit of the Visiting Nurse fun:l. 
Miss Marion Hertha Clarke, of New 
York city, will be the entertainer and 
will give a delightful monologue, 
‘Daddy Long Legs,” which is sure 
to be well received. Miss Clarke will 
be assisted by the Ladies’ Orchestra 
of Beverly, of which Miss Isabelle 
Lee of this town is a member. 
Mrs. Knight then introduced. Mr. 
Squiers, who proved to be every- 
thing delightful in a speaker. He 
is a man of more than ordinarily 
pleasing address, widely travelled, 
humorous, appreciative, and interest- 
ing Having taken 2000 pictures of 
the republics of South America, he 
said. that his embarrassment was 
really the embarrassment of riches 11 
having to choose 200 that should be 
representative. The route he chose 
for Tuesday evening’s journey led 
from Kingston, Jamaica, through the 
Panama canal, down the west coast 
of South America nearly to the 
Straits, across the continent, and up 
the east coast to Rio Janiero.  Sel- 
dom does one see stich exquisite 
colorings of artistically chosen sub- 
jects as those which held | Mr. 
Squiers’ audience fascinated for an 
hour and a half. The pictures were 
all taken with his own camera and 
colored with his own brush. 
His was not a lecture that can be 
-well detailed, it should be witnesse'l 
to be appreciated. 
The pictures of 
the canal were good as showing it as 
it is today, when constructive work 1s 
The speaker made a posi- 
tive statement that the canal is being 
fortified. Everyone who was pre;ent 
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will recall Mr. Squiers’ “prophetic” 
picture, taken as he was leaving 
Vralboa. 
From Balboa the route lay along 
the western coast. Mr. Squiers di- 
vided South America into two parts 
the West a desert, the East a garden, 
and the Andean mountains as the di- 
viding line. Along the west coast, 
life is primitive and the people but 
one short step removed from the say- 
ages they were yesterday. The pic- 
tures showed splendid examples of 
native life and customs. The eastern 
countries are quite cosmopolitan and 
their cities correspondingly modern. 
Beautiful buildings and parks are 
points of interest, 
From such a wealth of material as 
Mr. Squiers showed his audience, it 
is difficult to make distinctions, but 
certainly some of his mountain pic- 
tures cannot be <stirpassed “7 nere 
were the cold white mountains of the 
West, there were mountain tops of 
the early morning just rising from 
the bedclothes of the night, there were 
warm, beautifully colored mountairs 
of the East when the night shades 
were creeping over them. The pic- 
tures of the monasteries were typical 
and very fine. The Isle of the Sun 
was the subject of several interesting 
views. The beauties of Valparaiso, 
reminiscent of Whistler’s Nocturne in 
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Green and Gold, were beautifully set 
forth, and, in fact, all the pictures of 
the western countries were artistic to 
« degree. The last pictures of Rio 
Janiero, the journey’s end, were we'll 
calculated to leave pleasant memories 
of that city, “perhaps the most beau- 
tiful in the world, certainly the most 
beautiful in the wonderful southern 
continent whose sun is just rising up- 
on a glorious day of prosperity and 
civilization.” 
1916 AUTOMOBILE NUMBERS. 
The usual scramble for the low 
register numbers by Massachusetts 
automobile owners is expected this 
year by the Massachusetts highway 
commission and plans are now being 
made by that board to eliminate the 
rush which always occurs the first of 
every year. In an attempt to start 
the ball rolling in the right direction 
the highway commissioners will send 
out in a few days to automobile own- 
ers who hold registration number 
plates from I to 5000, a notice stating 
that “A person to whom a register 
number, below the number 5000, was 
issued in 1915 will be re-assigned that 
number for his use in 1916, provided 
his completed 1916 ‘application, to- 
gether with the necessary fee, is re- 
ceived on or before December 3, 1915, 
and that it is accompanied by a writ- 
ten request for the re-assignment of 
such number.” This arrangement 
will apply only to register numbers 
below 5000 but not to commercial 
numbers. 
Try Manchester Laundry for 
Quality and Service. Always at your 
call—Tel. 85 Manchester. adv. 
Buy your wall papers from H. S. 
Tappan, 17 Bridge street,. Manches- 
eng adv. 
Latest things in neckwear at E. A. 
lL ethbridge’s. adv. 
Fresh Scallops. Swett’s Fish Mar- 
ket. adv. 
Boston Trip Books for sale at F. 
W. Bell’s, Beach street. adv. 
Men’s and Ladies’ rubber sole boots 
and oxfords at W. R. Bell’s. adv. 
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