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J. M. Sturgis, advertising agent, Manchester. 
Charles P. Curtis, lawyer, Boston. 
Edmund W. Longley, auditor, Salem. 
Julian Codman, lawyer, Hamilton. 
Randolph Dodge, salesman, Wenham. 
Raymond L, Whitman, retired, Hamilton. 
George Checketts, garage, South Hamilton. 
. Hazen R. Wildes, builder, Topsfield. 
Charles R. Wait, architect, Topsfield. 
C. H. Tyler, lawyer, Beverly. 
William A. Rolfe, physician, Boxford. 
SHORE BREEZE 7 
Many of these names, it will be observed, are well 
known members of the North Shore summer colony and 
local men, leaders in the towns they represent. 
Early in December there will be a meeting to elect 
officers, so as to apply for a charter this year. The club 
will be under the auspices of the National Rifle Associa- 
tion of America approved by the National Board of 
Promotion of Rifle Practice and by the secretary of war. 
it is planned to make application on regular government 
rifle-club form. 
Corinthian Yacht Club to be Enlarged 
ONTRACTS will at once be awarded for enlargement 
of the home of the Corinthian Yacht Club at Marble- 
head, following unanimous adoption of recommendations 
to the executive committee at a meeting last Tuesday 
evening. Cost of the improvements will be in the vicinity 
of $15,000. This announcement ought to be received with 
genuine pleasure by the rank and file of yachtsmen, be- 
cause the Corinthians have done more than any other or- 
ganization to foster the sport in local waters. The en- 
larged clubhouse will further add to the attractiveness 
of Lighthouse Point, perhaps the sightliest spot on shores 
of the famous harbor. 
The changes contemplate a ladies’ dining room suite 
at the northeast end of the building, to be entered from the 
yard by a private corridor, with a special new and spacious 
piazza overlooking the harbor and Salem bay as far as 
the Beverly shore, conceded one of the most beautiful 
views in American waters. Heretofore the very large at- 
tendance on the two days of each week when ladies are 
admitted to the clubhouse have caused congestion in che 
parking space for automobiles, which, it is hoped, will in 
future be somewhat relieved by this opportunity for more 
level patronage. The ladies’ dining room suite is to he 
open every day and evening. 
The general plan provides more space for the main 
dining room, which on music nights, Mondays and Fri- 
days, will be thrown open a distance of 100 feet through 
the entire length of the northern front of the building for 
dining and dancing. The present large vaulted billiard 
room will be converted into a lounging room and library 
and a new billiard room of the same area will be built 
connecting the present tap room with the Dearborn cot- 
tage, which is club property. Eight additional sleeping 
rooms, six of them overlooking the harbor, are secured by 
the proposed arrangements. Members of the good oid 
days when the annual dues were $2 and oilskins were 
trumps, will rejoice to learn that a new and attractive en- 
trance from the yard is planned for their sole use. De- 
mand for accommodations is so great that some of these 
new rooms already have been spoken for. 
Architect Bowditch’s rearrangement of the building 
has transformed the old chart room into an entrance .This 
room with its shippy furnishing, is held in fond memory 
as the retreat of regatta committees when figuring sum- 
maries of regattas. A room adjacent to the present office 
is to be specially furnished to replace the old chart room, 
with its leather-cushioned benches and ample chest -f 
drawers. Generally speaking, the appearance of the pres- 
ent building is not to be much changed looking from the 
bay. From the harbor and town, however, the structure 
will present an aspect of greater length and height, into 
which the Dearborn cottage will be harmoniously blended. 
An especially pleasing feature in connection with this 
improvement is the knowledge that every department of 
the club in 1915 was financially successful, the treasurer, 
as result of the season’s operation, having been enabled 
to pay off the last $2000 of the floating indebtedness, But, 
after all, it is as a racing organization that the Corinthians 
are best known. Coming into existence in 1885 as the 
patron of small boat racing the club has offered every en- 
couragement. © The club’s wonderfully successful mid- 
summer series is a magnet that attracts more boats than 
any other race week in this country, as many as 200 yachts 
baving started in one day—Geo. ». Hudson in SUNDAY 
TIERALD. 
PropasLiy Never BeFore in the history of journai- 
ism have editorials been more widely read, which means, 
hy the same token that never before have newspapers 
exercised so wide an influence. The editorial is an ex- 
pression of the newspaper’s belief or sentiment. To be 
ef any value, it must have behind it the paper’s reputation 
for fearlessness, truth, and fettered incorruptibility. With- 
out these, the influence of the editorial is nullified before 
it reaches the printing press. The newspaper’s first duty 
is to give the news. Its second duty is to comment on 
the news—show toward what end the news is tending, 
whether political, educational, social or religious, crystal- 
ize the sentiment in its particular community in regard to 
that tendency, and, finally, to give its own honest, un- 
biased opinion. The editor’s duty is a sacred one, and he 
should be fully alive to its responsibilities. His opinion 
on any subject should be given only after serious study, 
but, when it is given, it should be frank and above board. 
No one else is bound to think as the editor thinks, but the 
editor’s opinions go down in black and white and te 
o.ght to have good grounds upon which to base them. 
Those reasons, expressed in the editorial, make it valu- 
able. In fact the editorial stands or falls because of the 
reasons it sets forth showing how- the editor arrived «t 
his opinion. The “fighting editor” is usually a man of 
deep thought—one who bases his opinions on solid found- 
ations and is willing afterward to come into the open and 
ficht for them.—Exchange. 
“What on earth are you doing?” demanded the indig- 
nant dining-car conductor of the novice waiter; “serving 
soup on a straight track? Why don’t you wait till we 
strike a curve? You don’t know the first principles of 
railroading.” —Punch. 
Mother—Why don’t you yawn when he stays too 
late? He'll take the hint and go. 
Daughter—I did, and he told me what beautiful teeth 
