Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-25
NATIONS SUMNER CAPITAL
Locality Chosen by the Presidents
Family for Vacation Time.
DOWN BY THE SOUNDING OCEAN
Bay state Town of Beverly Wakes to
Find Itself Famous, with Lively
Real Estate Boom In
sight.

The selection OF Beverly. Mass, as the
summer home Of President Taft and family,
has generated a real estate boom in the
town, and the natives. young and old, are
sitting up and taking notice. Although
unused to such activities. they make no
Nprotest and show marked skill in showing
up the price. Not because they like the
money. Perish the thought. They desire
select society, with means of gratifying the
luxury of living in Beverly.
Citizens Of Beverly. especially those In
the neighborhood of Burgess Point, where
the stetson House is located, are fixing up
their lawns, trimming their trees, and
painting their houses in the effort to have
everything spick and span by the time
the president arrives. Real estate men
have tried to get options on everything
available in the way of residences, but
many OF the citizens have refused to move
out for the summer, because they want to
be near the president.
Beverly has far reaching beaches and n
sounding ocean. Two. miles away is Salem,
with its reminders of Cotton Mather and
the witches. In all that stretch of beautiful
Massachusetts coast, with the picturesque
indentations, its rocks, bold headlands,
iniets and bays, Beverly is accounted one
Of the fairest spots. 1t is of this seafront
that scioolboys stll recite:
The breaking waves dashed high on a
stern and rock-bound coast;
The trees against a stormy sky their giant
4 branches tossed.
Beverly rs sixteen miles northeast Of
Boston. on the north side of a narrow bay
Separating it from Salem, with which a
7 BRUCE connects it.
The entire country round about teens
with historic interest. In Salem, Nathaniel
Hawthorne was born and passed the
greater part of his life. Salem was also
the site of the first permanent settlement
in the old Massachusetts colony.
One cannot pick up a book dealing with
the early days of American history with
out finding 1t fpll of interesting refer
ences 10 this and that place along the coast.
North of Cape Cod.
beverly n not so far from Portsmouth,
N. H, flfty-seyen miles from Boston, where
tae treaty of peace between Japan and
Russia waR signed. Beverly is we'll north
of Capeycod. south of which the ocean
sends In a long. crooked arm with Buzzards
Bay at the tip. where another president OF
tho United States had his summer home
That was Gray Gables, residence of Grover
Cleveland.
Beverly is an ancient town with a'popu.
lation of 15.OOO or more. 1t is in Esse,
county. Important Industries are carried
on there, and fisheries and navigation oc-
cupy the attention of a large proportion
of the. inhabitants. The manufacture , of
shoes is an activity of prime Importance,
just as 1t is in the city of Lynn, nearer
Boston,
From Beverly to Manchester the strip of
coast is lined with beautiful homes stand
ing amid gardens. In the words of the
guide book; .sa., ~ ~ s
F'Beverly has its main village near the
roint of junction with the mainland Of the
promontory known as Cape Ann. From
Beverly the Gloucester branch-of- the Bos-
ton & Maine railroad runs from end to end
of Cape Ann, following closely theAsouth
shore Of that nromtntory. and through the
midst Of natural beauties ana fascinations
that must he seen to be appreciated. II
has been said that this region is one of the
great GUNNER parks of New England.
Beverly has a. shore front of more thar
sever miles in extent, made up of alterna
ting beaches. hcadlands, and rocky sur
lines scattered about in the most pic
turesqua manner. Practically every mile o
the coast within Beverly limits Is mad,