A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE NORTH SHORE ||@) 
Vol. IV. No. 11 
MANCHESTER, 
MASS., SATURDAY, SEPT. 15, 1906 
24 Pages. Three Cents 
BUILDING OPERATIONS 
A Busy Winter is in Store for North Shore 
Mechanics—Several New Houses to be 
Built—Contracts Being Awarded 
From present indications the com- 
ing fall and winter is to be a busy 
season for mechanics on the North 
Shore. Several contracts have already 
_ been awarded for work, and other 
deals are now on which will no doubt 
lead to the building of three summer 
residences at least. 
The contracts have been awarded 
‘this week and work has been started 
on the Frederick Ayer estate at Pride’s 
Crossing—the place which Mr. Ayer 
bought a year ago from the Royal 
Robbins heirs. The work will result 
in what will practically be a new estate. 
The old house—a wooden one—is to 
be demolished and a fine structure, 
mainly of brick, with the plaster exte- 
rior so extensively used on the shore, 
is to be built. The site of the new 
house will be on that of the old house, 
approximately. 
Large terraces, gardens, new ave- 
nues, regrading and extensive land- 
scape work will be included in the 
building up of the estate, which, when 
completed, will make one of the 
show places of the North Shore. 
The house plans are by Messrs. 
Parker & Thomas, architects of Bos- 
ton. The contract has been awarded 
to F. L. Whitcomb of Boston. The 
landscape designs are by Olmstead 
Bros., Brookline, and all the house 
foundations, terraces, avenues, grad- 
ing and landscape will be performed 
by Connolly Bros. of Beverly Farms. 
Manchester 
It is stated on good authority that 
A.L. Devens, who recently purchased 
a lot from Philip Dexter off Forest 
street, Manchester, is to build this 
winter. 
The party who bought a lot on 
Smith’s Point, next to the Unitarian 
church, will also build the coming 
winter, it is said. 
Two Large Greenhouses 
Beverly Farms 
Operations were begun this week 
upon the newly purchased land off 
Greenwood avenue, by Messrs. J. T. 
and W. S. Spaulding, for the erection 
of two greenhouses, each building to 
be some 150 feet in length, together 
with a work house adjoining. The 
structures, besides having the usual 
iron frame and glass, are to have walls 
and foundations of concrete masonry 
to conform with the present storage 
and garden buildings recently erected. 
There is also considerable drainage 
and grading to be done in coneection 
with the new plant. 
The houses are to be equipped with 
the very latest innovations in this line, 
and will be, probably, the best 
equipped in this vicinity for the grow- 
ing of plants, fruits and vegetables. 
A New Jersey firm has the contract 
for the greenhouse materials, Messrs. 
Morley, ue re & Co., the founda- 
tion, and J. A. Mayberry, the wood 
work. 
Vim Wins Roosevelt Cup 
Under rather poor conditions the 
final in the series of races sailed off 
Marblehead between the American 
and German boats for the Roosevelt 
cup was sailed Monday afternoon, 
after it had twice been postponed on 
account of the fog. The Vim, repre- 
senting the American Yacht club of 
New York, won, it being her third 
race. The Auk was second and the 
Wannsee, the only German boat in 
the finals, which had won on Satur- 
day, came in last. Many North Shore 
achtsmen attended the banquet ten- 
dered the visiting yachtsmen at the 
Eastern Yacht club Monday evening. 
S. Alexander Orr and family, who 
have been occupying the Owl cottage 
on Valley street, Beverly Farms, con- 
cluded their season on the shore this 
week, removing on Thursday to Troy, 
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FIRE AT MANCHESTER 
Blaze in the Building Opposite Manchester 
Police Station Called Out Fire Department 
Farly Yesterday Morning 
The Manchester fire department 
was called out yesterday morning a 
little after 5 o’clock for a blaze in the 
building on Central street, owned by 
Mrs. Siade, and occupied by Brion 
Manion as a fish market and by Chas. 
Francis as a barber shop. 
Being on one end of a row of 
wooden buildings in the square, in 
which there have been several bad 
fire scenes in the past three or four 
years, the firemen can consider them- 
selves fortunate to get out of it with so 
little work. 
The fire evidently started in the 
back room of the barber shop, in a 
corner where was located the little 
metal boiler in which water for the 
shop was heated by a little oil stove. 
Though Mr. Francis had not been 
there all of Thursday afternoon and 
evening and says the stove was not 
burning when he left, the fire started 
from all appearances in that corner. 
Eating its way through the thin board 
partition into Manion’s fish market, 
it was just gaining considerable -head- 
way when discovered. The most of 
the damage was done to the rear of 
the fish market. 
It was about 5 o’clock that the fire 
was discovered. Joseph Slade, whose 
mother owns the building, was on his 
way to his fishing dory at the town 
wharf. He was about to turn down 
by the police station when he noticed 
smoke oozing from the front doors of 
the building, and on close observation 
he could see a flame within. He hur- 
ried to the fire station and after a 
little delay the alarm was rung in 
from Box 52. The hose wagon was 
taken over and within a few minutes 
the flames were smothered. Mean- 
while crowds of people had assembled, 
The loss will not be so heavy. 
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