The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-05-05
TAF7'S SUMMER HOME.
President Locates Hot-Weather
Capital on the North Shore.
High Compliment Paid to Beautiful
Region That is the Abiding Place
of Millionaires and Diplomats.

| President Taft has made selection
that will surprise no one who Is IA
miliar with the natural beauties and
attractions of this peerless vacation
section"
| Already the summer resting place
of half of the foreign legations in
Washington, and socially, architec-
turally and financially sort of COM
posite of Bar Harbor and Newport,
the President and his family certainly
will find themselves in congenial
company, as we'll as in the midst
of some of Americas finest seacoast
scenery.
| Within the last few years the
"North Shore" has been quite con-
spicuously in the social limelight,
for it not only has been the refuge
of sundry ambassadors, ministers and
their families and retinues and the
abiding place of multi-millionaires
and men and women of distinction in
literature and society, but it has fig
ured, In way, in international poll
| tics.
That is to say, in 1905, during the
famous Peace Conference between the
representatives of Russia and Japan,
held at Portsmouth, 1t was the sum-
mer home of Baron Rosen, one of the
Russian representatives of the con-
ference; and it was in his house,
overlooking the shining waters of
Massachusetts Bay, that M. de Witte
/ Il Ipr
talked over the progress of the ne
| gotiations.
| Generally speaking, the north
shore begins at Nahant, the home of
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and ends
at Gloucester, on the tip of old Cape
Ann. This means that it includes
Nahant, Lynn, Salem, Swampscott,
Marblehead, Beverly (where the
President is to reside), Manchester,
Magnolia and Gloucester, all of these
| picturesque communities and most of
them of great historic interest.
Sometimes the term north shore" is
held to include also the more east
erly side of Cape Ann and the shore
of Ipswich Bay, taking in Rockport,
Pigeon Cove, Annisquam, Essex,
Hamilton and Ipswich. Hamilton, in
social sense, certainly is member
of the north shore family, for some
of the Swell" citizens of Massachu-
setts live there, and the town is the
seat of one of the most popular clubs
in that vicinity.
The entire region is one pictur-
! esque, breeze swept beauty spot.
One is never far from the sight and
sound of the restless sea, and the
shores are alternately bold and shin
gly, with surf-swept reefs and islands
breaking the surface of the bay here
and there. 1t is an ideal place for
boating and yachting, and the little
| coves and harbors at Beverly and
Manchester always have flotilla Of
sail or motor craft at anchor or under
way. Some of the cliffs are almost
high and bold enough to suggest the
Frenchman's Bay region, and then
at Manchester there is one of those
rare freaks of nature, a patch of
Singing" sands.
|
for Cape Ann and the north shore, in
Guiding the gift of a salubrious cli-
mate; and enterprising and artistic
man has not been far behind it. His
appreciativeness is exemplified in the
magnificent mansions and villas that
have been erected by the wealthy
during the last few years; by the
splendid lawns, grounds and groves
with which they are surrounded; by
the oiled highways that help to give
1t touch of Santa Barbara or Mon
terey, and even by the well-kept right
of way and flower and vine-embow-
cred stations of the Boston G. Maine
Railroad, upon which most of these
north shore communities are located.
The President will not be able to
look in any direction without seeing
the oliage-surrounded red roofs of
some multi-millionaire or diplomat,
unless he looks in the direction of the
sea, and there he will always find
marine picture both restful and in
spring.
Illustrious Americans who at one
time and another have made their
summer homes upon the north shore,
include Henry w. Longfellow, James
Russell Lowell, Rev. DR.. Edward Ev-
erett Hale, Richard Henry Dana, Jr.,
N. P. Willis and Daniel Webster. 1t
was Charles Sumner, who, visiting
the Manchester neighborhood for the
first time, declared the place to be
more beautiful than Biarritz, the
summer home of Napoleon III.
Norman's Woe, immortalized by
Longfellow; Rates. Chasm, Kettle
Cove, Eagle Head and Thunderbolt
Rock are few of the points of in
terest in the neighborhood. The
drives, of course, are magnificent,
and may be said to form the chief
pastime of the sojourners there.
They may be extended around the
entire native cape for many miles.
OF the many summer palaces" in
this regal vacation section, the most
magnificent is the home Of Henry
Clay Frick, the Pittsburg steel