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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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VOLUME 4. NUMBER 4 
SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1906. 
TIDES 
Week of July 28— Aug. 3, 1906. 
Forenoon Afternoon 
Da High Low High Low 
y Water Water Water Water 
Saturday 4.6 10.25 4.35 10.58 
Sunday 6:3 911.20 6i83> ©1455 
Monday 64. — 6.34 0.18 
Tuesday 7.5 0.57 7.35 1.18 
Wednesday | 8.7 2.0 | 833 2.18 
Thursday 9.8 2.59 9.30 3.15 
Friday 10.5 3.55 | 10.25 4.11 
YE ELDER BRETHREN 
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the breeze, the pennant of the associa- 
tion. Only once a year is this flag 
unfolded, ana this is a day of happi- 
ness for every member of the organi- 
zation. 
The Elder Brethren is one of the 
most unique organizations in the 
country. Over a quarter of a century 
ago-a number of Manchester men for 
several years went to the chowder 
house fora day’s outing, enjoying a 
chowder and all the fixings. Twenty- 
eight years ago the 15th of next 
month, 75 were present at one of 
these gatherings, and the Elder 
Brethren was organized. Every year 
since that time an outing has been 
held. Of the 75 men present at the 
organization only six now survive,— 
George Forster Allen, Dea. A. E. 
Low, W. C. Rust, Jacob Cheever, 
A.M. Merrian and Wm. H. Tappan. 
All of these were present Wednesday 
except Dea. Low whose increasing 
feebleness—he is now on the road to 
his 97th birthday—would not permit 
his presence. 
It is said that the Old Home week 
idea originated in Manchester from 
this unique organization. 
One of the requirements for mem- 
bership to the assuciation is that the 
applicant must have passed the half- 
century mark. Mr. Henry S. Grew 
said at the outing Wednesday that 
men don’t die in Manchester, they 
dry up. An outsider who could see 
the hundred or more men between 50 
and 95 years, who attend these gath- 
erings, would agree with this state- 
ment. This year there were 98 pres- 
ent, all but two or three of whom were 
50 or over. 
Librarian D. L. Bingham was the 
oldest man present. His age is 91 
years. Among the others present 
80 years or over were : Jacob Cheever 
86, William Johnson 89, Andrew J. 
Johnson 85, F. A. P. Kilham 82, 
Joseph Knowlton 80, John Lendall 
GEORGE FORSTER ALLEN 
$19 J) L.vStory 81, [2 ai Stanley, cou: 
A. F. Bennett 82. 
Among those present were former 
ambassador to France, T. Jefferson 
Coolidge ; Gen. James M. Curtis and 
Commodore J. K. Winn, U.S.N., re- 
tired, of Chelsea. 
Several hours before noon they 
began to arrive and toward 11 o’clock 
the barge began to bring others from 
town. The hour or two before dinner 
was spent In renewing acquaintances, 
for there were many from out of 
town, and many of those in town had 
not met since the Jast reunion. At 1 
o’clock came a most interesting feat- 
ure, the annual chowder. It is needless 
to say that the steaming bowls of 
clam and fish chowder were thor- 
oughly enjoyed, for chowder has al- 
ways been the feature dish of these 
gatherings. 
It was 2.15 when George F. Allen 
called the gathering to order, after the 
tables had been removed. Mr. Allen 
was the original president of the 
Elder Brethren and he has been re- 
elected every year since. W. J. 
Johnson, who succeeded Wm. H. 
Tappan as secretary-treasurer a couple 
of years ago, was re-elected this year. 
T. B. Stone was added to the execu- 
tive committee to succeed the late H. 
C. Leach. 
In his report Secretary Johnson 
gave the list of those who had passed 
away during the year as twelve, as 
follows : William Lynn of Beverly ; 
Geo. Bartol, Lancaster ; Geo. J. Kerr, 
Salem ; N. P. Sanborn, Manchester, 
and J. Crowell, Beverly Farms; H. 
C. Leach, .Wm..H:-Haskell> Geo. 
Willmonton and H. S. Chase, John 
Collins, Albion Gilman and John 
Lomasney, Manchester. 
The treasurer's report showed the 
receipts in 1905 were $50.50 and the 
expenditures $53.39, a deficit of $2.79. 
The amount on deposit is now $112.19. 
The committee appointed last year 
in the matter of a monument to Mas- 
conomo reported as follows : 
“The lamented death of our friend 
and brother, Henry C. Leach, has left 
the undersigned to act without his 
valued counsel. 
“The committee recommends the 
erection in some public place,—prefer- 
ably the Common, if the consent of 
the town is obtained,—of a rough 
boulder monument, or some other 
memorial, to the memory of Mas- 
conomo, chief of the Agawams, who, 
according to tradition hospitably re- 
ceived the first settlers and lived 
always on terms of amity with the 
white man. 
«We recommend that a committee 
be appointed to act with a committee 
already appointed by the Historical 
society to prepare a more formal and 
detailed plan to be submitted to the 
Historical society for further sugges- 
tions, with the view of presenting the 
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