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SILAS HIBBARD AYER PUBLISHED BY THE BASS ROCKS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 318 Shawmut Avenue Boston, Mass. PHOTOGRAPHS BY Mr. R. W. Phelps, and Mr. A. C Thomson half-tones by Franklin Engraving Co., Boston press of Farrington Printing Co., Boston Copyright, iqos Bass Rocks Improvement Association This booklet is offered to lovers of Bass Rocks and old Cape Ann with the hope that it may prove of interest to them. Its object will be accomplished if its various articles give a clearer knowledge of the scenic and historic attractions of this delightful region. As the entire net proceeds of this souvenir are for the benefit of the Bass Rocks Improvement Association, it is hoped that the entire edition will be over-subscribed. Many thanks are due to all, who, by their kind co-operation, have made possible its publication. The Committee. August, 1905. photographs by Mr. R. W. Phelps, and Mr. A. C. Thomson half-tones by Franklin Engraving Co., Boston press OF Farrington Printing Co., Boston Copyright, K305 Bass Rocks Improvement AsssoctATlON This booklet is offered to lovers of Bass Rocks and old Cape Ann with the hope that it may prove of interest to them. Its object will be accomplished if its various articles give a clearer knowledge of the scenic and historic attractions of this delightful region. As the entire net proceeds of this souvenir are for the benefit of the Bass Rocks Improvement Association, it is hoped that the entire edition will be over-subscribed. Many thanks are due to all, who, by their kind co-operation, have made possible its publication. The Committee. August, 1905. Dr. William Jarvie President Bass Rocks Improvement Association BASS ROCKS IMPROVE MENT ASSOCIATION G L OUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS '-•it- • .- ' " „ ' Dr. WILLIAM JARVIE, President Mr. EDWARD ROTAN, Vice-President LEWIS G. FARMER, Esq., Secretary Mr. WILLIAM T. KIMBALL Treasurer Who, with Mr. HENRY SOUTHER and Dr. THOMAS CONANT, constitute the Executive Committee. •. MEMBERS AYER, Dr. SILAS H. BAILEY, JAMES R. BAKER, Miss SARAH B. . BALDWIN, L. F. BARKER, Mrs. M. M. BEALS, HORACE P. BREWER, D. CHAUNCEY BROOKS, Dr LAWTON S. BROWN, FRANK C. CARTER, HENRY C. CHICKERING, GEORGE E. CONANT, Dr. THOMAS COX, Mrs. ARTHUR M. DAVIS, FRED L. DENNEN, H. J. ELLIS, EDWARD ELSON, LOUIS C. . FARMER, LEWIS G. FARNSWORTH, CHARLES F. FOSTER, Rev. JOHN McGAW HALL, Mrs. LUCIA P. HOWE, Dr. O. T. HUMPHREYS, C. J. R. . JACKMAN, ELI Boston, Mass. Lawrence, Mass. Dedham, Mass. N, Woburn, Mass. Lowell, Mass. "... " Boston,- Mass. Springfield, Mass. Melrose, Mass. New York City Lawrence, Mass. Gloucester, Mass. Brooklyn, N. Y. Gloucester, Mass. Jacksonville, Fla. Boston, Mass. Memphis, Tenn. Boston, Mass. Needham, Mass. Lawrence, Mass. New York City Gloucester, Mass. JARVIE, Dr. WILLIAM . . Brooklyn, N. Y. KIMBALL, EDWARD P. Maiden, Mass. KIMBALL, WILLIAM T. . Lawrence, Mass. LIBBY, F. V. . . . . Jamaica Plain, Mass. LUFKIN, RICHARD M. . Gloucester, Mass. McDUFFIE, FRED. C. . . . . Lawrence, Mass. MENDELL, SETH . Boston, Mass. NEWELL, JAMES W. . Brookline, Mass. NEWTON, Rev. D. AUGUSTINE . Winchester, Mass. PARSONS, EDWARD D. . Gloucester, Mass. PERKINS, MELVIN H. . . n a PHELPS, A. W. . . . Nashua, N. H. PLIMPTON, HERBERT M. Norwood, Mass. PUGH, CHARLES E. Overbrook, Pa. REED, WILLIAM G. Memphis, Tenn. ROBERTSON, Mrs FANNY P. New York City ROCKWELL, FRED C. . Hartford, Conn. ROTAN, EDWARD . Waco, Texas SARGENT, EDWARD B. . . Cincinnati, Ohio SARGENT, WINTHROP . Haverford, Pa. SARGENT, Mrs. WINTHROP a n SCOTT, CHARLES Jr. Overbrook, Pa. SELDEN, GEORGE L. . . . . Lawrence, Mass. SHERMAN, Hon. EDGAR J. . Boston, Mass. SMITH, CHARLES P. Brookline, Mass. SOUTHER, HENRY . Hartford, Conn. SOUTHGATE, Rev. CHARLES M. . Auburndale, Mass. SPRING, Mrs. ARTHUR L. . . Brookline. Mass. STODDARD, GRANVILLE M. . Worcester, Mass. STURGIS, Miss MABEL B. TAFT, Dr. EZRA F Cambridge, Mass. WIER, FREDERICK NEWTON Lowell, Mass. WIER, Mrs. FREDERICK NEWTON Lowell, Mass. WHITTEMORE, GELSTON . Boston, Mass. WILKINSON, ALFRED H. WILLIAMSON, Rev. JAMES S. . Haverhill, Mass. WORCESTER, Mrs. EDWARD Waltham, Mass. YATMAN, JAMES 0. . . . <3s^2^a:^^^S% The Old Bass Rocks Hotel, Destroyed by Fire in ti BASS ROCKS — ITS PAST By Lewis G. Farmer, Esq. IT WOULD be difficult, if not impossible, to say what would have been the present condition of that section of Cape Ann which is known to us summer people as Bass Rocks, if the late George H. Rogers of Gloucester had not been the kind of man he was. He was born here, lived here all his life and died May 21, 1870, at the age of sixty-two. The " Cape Ann Advertiser," in its issue next following that date, in an extended obitu ary notice, said of him, that, starting in life as an apothecary, he soon found that that occupation did not offer a sufficiently adequate field for his activities. He became a merchant, carried on a considerable trade with Surinam, and upon its decline went into the real estate business in which he continued until his death, with such success that nearly every section of the city bears evidence of his wonderful business capacities. Anything he undertook he was determined to accomplish and the cost of it formed no obstacle The notice further says : " The crowning point of his efforts is the farm in East Gloucester which bears his name. We have alluded to this several times since he began the work of reclaiming that wild tract of land, but to fully appreciate the immense labor and capital which have been bestowed upon it, one must visit the premises and witness for himself; this, together with his other labors to improve his native town, will remain as monuments of his industry and public spirit." As early as 1845, he began to acquire what were then known as the "cow rights" in the " Harbor Pasture " and the "Sayward Pasture," which 8 Souvenir of Bass Rocks, Gloucester^ Mass. was substantially the tract which we now call Bass Rocks. These were rights of pasturage owned by certain of the " commoners " of Gloucester, and at that time they were fourteen in number. The price paid for the first one was $50, and the second was sold for $80 at public auction by the administrator of the estate of Hugh Parkhurst. In 1849 ne Paid #2I5 f°r three rights, and in 1862 he bought the four rights then remaining, the total amount paid for the whole fourteen being $1,359.98. The land included in the Harbor Pasture was bounded northerly by the road leading to Little Good Harbor Beach, now Bass avenue ; easterly, by said beach ; southerly, by Sayward's Pasture, and westerly by land of the heirs of Daniel Sayward. Adjoining parcels were bought from time to time until he finally became the owner of about two hundred and fifty acres, and the whole estate was then known as the " Rogers Farm." An interesting description of it may be found in the issue of the same paper of April 16, 1869, under the title "A Visit to the Rogers Farm at East Gloucester," from which we shall make frequent quotations. The writer says : " Seven years ago it was completely wild, abounding in swamps, rocks and berry bushes, presenting as rough a piece of territory as could be found on the Cape " — a statement to the correctness of which those of us who have approached the proposition of reclaiming even so small a tract as was required for the building and adornment of a summer cottage will willingly subscribe. "The soil, however," he continues, "is of excellent quality, the situation very fine, with a maritime view unsurpassed on the northeast coast. There is also easy access to Little Good Harbor Beach and Bass Rocks, which afford fine bathing, gunning and fishing facilities." These varied natural beauties and advantages are still ours. The gunning, however, is happily limited to the slaughter of a few vagrant sand-pipers and other shore birds on the beach, while the song birds build their nests and rear their broods with none to molest or make them afraid. The fishing facilities are as open as ever, but the catch, except at the Salt Island station, is confined to the ubiquitous "cunner" and the toothsome flounder, the "flummie" of local nomenclature. But it was not always thus ; the Bass Rocks which we know so well must once have been a famous spot for bass, otherwise, whence the name ? Not on the lucus a tion lucendo principle, certainly, for has not another contributor to the "Advertiser" in an account of a visit to Thatcher's Island, in August, 1868, handed down a tale of a lordly striped bass weighing fifty-seven pounds which had been caught a few days previously by the late Micah Dyer, Esq. of Boston, upon which he and his friends feasted sumptuously? The writer knew Mr. Dyer well. He was a mighty fisherman, and the rocks at the southeasterly end of the island were his frequent and favorite resort, where he and his fellow sportsman " Jimmie " Ring, of Boston Museum memory landed countless tautog and other denizens of the deep. Souvenir of Bass Rocks, Gloucester, Mass. But to return to the Harbor Pasture. The writer continues : " The change which intelligent labor has produced in this locality during the past seven years is indeed wonderful. Forty acres of tillage and mowing land (this must be our precious golf course) is now under a high state of cultivation, bearing most excellent crops; some four miles of first-class roads have been constructed, while rod upon rod of well-built stone wall is visible on every hand." It is now, a good deal of it, but loam and sod have concealed it here and there, and this we know only too well. " There are some forty head of cattle and neat stock kept on the farm and the sale of vegetables and milk form important items of income." Some of this stock was probably housed in the old Methodist meeting house which stood on Prospect street in the neighborhood of the present engine house and the Portu guese church and which Mr. Rogers bought at auction and either bod ily or in detail moved to the farm where he made a barn out of it, and where it stood, truly a "barn-like struc ture." This utilization of old material was characteristic. His summer residence, now the Bass Rocks Inn, and the boarding house on the other side of the way, afterwards altered and enlarged into the old Bass Rocks Hotel, contained numerous doors and window sashes from the mansions of Boston merchants on Summer and Franklin streets which were demolished to make room for the business blocks, which, in turn, crumbled to ruins in the "great fire" of 1872. It was his habit to buy this material at auction, send it to Gloucester in his brigs or schooners and use it over again in his building operations. The granite front of the block on Main street now occupied by the Cape Ann Savings Bank was once the front of the City Bank in Boston, and was bought by him and brought here in the same way. Our authority continues: "While strict attention has been given to the agricultural branch, those of horticulture and floriculture have also kept pace and there are now upwards of 300 fruit trees of various kinds in thriving condition, together with a large grapery, peach house, greenhouse and con servatory." One of these fruit trees just in front of the bunker going to the FROM a PHOTOGRAPH BV MR. K. W. PHELPS Old Mansion House, Summer Residence of the late George H. Rogers, now the Bass Rocks Inn. Souvenir of Bass Rocks, Gloucester, Mass. seventh hole still thrives in spite of threats and anathemas. "This depart ment," he says, "is worthy of careful inspection, especially the greenhouse, where a beautiful variety of flowers in various stages of development presents a scene which offers a feast for the eye, while their perfume renders the air redolent with sweetness. Mr. James Bennie, a man thoroughly versed in the profession of fruit and flower culture, has charge of the grounds devoted to the above specialties, and under his care they are in a thriving condition." Mr. Bennie is still with us, but where are now the "grapery," the "peach house," the "greenhouse" and the " conservatory" ? -.se FROM A PHOTOGRAPH ItY Thus much for the farm proper; .nik a. c. Thomson we reaci further: "There are two " One of these Fruit Trees . . . still large and substantial buildings on the Thrives in spite of Threats premises, one of which is occupied by and Anathemas" -.r t. Mr. Rogers as a summer residence and the other is intended for a first-class summer boarding house. Both occupy commanding positions and the grounds about the former are being laid out quite tastefully with terraces and flower beds, which, later in the season, will present such a scene of beauty as will be worthy of a visit. The boarding house is well adapted to the business, having every convenience, and the situation is such that the house, under a competent landlord, should not fail of attracting a class of patronage which would prove highly remunerative.'' A sagacious forecast ! We recall the days of Mr. Whiting, of Dr. Ammi Brown, of Mr. Nunns and Mr. Forbes, until that winter night when the match of the incendiary laid the whole edifice in ashes ; and the later period of the Pebbly Beach House which stood near the present site of the stately Moorland and which was burned to its foundations in 1884, giving rise to an insur ance litigation, the record of which is imperishably preserved in the reports of the decisions of the Massachusetts Supreme Court and which recalls a shrewd remark of the late Henry Souther, Esq. that, in examining the ruins he noticed a suspicious absence of broken crockery. The attractions of the resort were thus set forth in an advertisement in the same paper of June 3, 1870: "Good Harbor Beach. The spacious house built by George H. Rogers, Esq. on his farm in Gloucester, within a few minutes' walk of Bass Rocks, will be open for guests June 1. The view Pebbly Beach House, Destroyed by Fire in 1884 About the same site as tbe present Hotel Moorland Souvenir of Bass Rocks, Gloucester, Mass. 1 1 ¦of the beach and ocean near by and the unsurpassed facilities for bathing, fishing and boating render this a rare opportunity for those who wish to secure a choice of rooms in a first-class house with all the comforts of home. The best of references will be given and required." Those were, indeed, halcyon days. To make a final quotation : " This season (1869) it is contemplated to ¦erect four cottage houses and a stone cottage with a French roof and tower. This will occupy the site so familiarly known as 'Say ward's Lookout,' from the fact of its being the spot which the old pilot Sayward used to visit daily while expecting vessels from foreign ports. It is a most admirable situation, giving one of the finest views of Massachusetts Bay to be obtained anywhere on the Cape." The "old pilot Sayward" is no more; the present pilot, Nelson, scans the horizon for salt barks from the slopes of "The Ramparts," but the site is there and as yet unoccupied. A small summer house stood there for many years, and the views, notably that of the harbor and the Magnolia shore, at sunset, are still unsurpassed. The "cottage with a French roof and tower" remains unbuilt, but no more sightly or command ing spot for that or its more modern and picturesque equivalent can be found anywhere. In the words of the late Dr. Bartol, "the Creator will make no more seashore lots." When Mr. Rogers came to die he left a will, and in it he directed his trustees to sell any of his real estate which it might be thought to the interest of the trust to sell, "except the farm at Eastern Point, as now walled in and used as a farm, including the salt marsh which I bought of Isaac Patch ; " but, alas, for human hopes and desires. He had a fine property here at Bass Rocks, but it had cost him a fortune to create it. Mr. Francis W. Homans of Gloucester once told the writer that he personally superintended the work of clearing the land and building the roads, and that he disbursed on Mr. Rogers' account not less that $120,000 for these purposes alone. The result of this and other investments was that, although his estate was appraised at $200,000 his debts amounted to $85,000 more, so that it became necessary to declare the estate insolvent, and the farm was sold by the executors at public auction to the late Henry Souther, Esq. for $46,000, and was then conveyed to Henry Souther, Richard J. Monks and William F. Tufts, as trustees of the East Gloucester Land Association, who, April 30, 1873, con veyed it to John H. Brown, of Marblehead, who made two mortgages to the above-named trustees, one of which covered all the land lying east of Beach avenue and the other covered all the land lying west of it. The equity was conveyed to John H. Brown, Horace R. Barker and George Kempton, as trustees of the Gloucester Seashore Company, who sold several lots to individual purchasers, who received partial releases from Henry Souther and others, trustees ; but the greater part of the property remained subject to Souvenir of Bass Rocks, Gloucester, Mass. Bass Rocks About iJ the two mortgages, which were subsequently foreclosed, the title finally passing to Mr. Souther, who devised it in trust to Hon. Edgar J. Sherman, William F. Tufts and Henry Souther, Jr. Mr. Tufts died some years ago, and Arthur L. Spring, Esq. his son-in-law, has recently been appointed trustee in his place. Judge Sherman has resigned his trusteeship, leaving Messrs. Spring and Souther the owners of the property as trustees. In the hands of the elder Mr. Souther the development of the property was gradual and conservative. Several cottages of simple architecture and moderate cost were built, and the Bass Rocks Hotel was, as above stated, altered and considerably enlarged ; but it was not until after his death and the subse quent laying out of the golf links that more expensive and pretentious homes, with their attractive embellishments of lawns, shrubbery and flower beds, began to mark another period in the growth and development of Bass Rocks. Summer Residence of Dr. William Jarvie Summer Residence or Mr. Edward Rotan . FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY MR. A. C. THOMSON View from the Golf Links showing Salt Island BASS ROCK* — ITS PRESENT By Kate S. M. Rotan CAPE ANN, sixty minutes from Boston, in the Commonwealth of Massa chusetts, has somewhat the contour, on the map, of a half clenched hand, with a dislocated thumb. The Annisquam River, at flood tide, cuts the wrist in twain and makes an island of the cape. The "whole thing" on the cape, barring Bass Rock, is the fishing village of Gloucester — in the vernacular "Gloister." To the south, washed by the waters of the bay on the one side, and by the ocean on the other, stretches a narrow peninsula, a short three miles long, which stands for the inverted thumb of this topo graphic hand. Eastern Point Peninsula was doubtless at one time an island, but some vandal road-maker built a causeway across the little creek which meanders the "mash" — the vernacular again — and forever obstructed inland traffic betwixt the back bay and "Little Good Harbor." At the foot of the hill, skirting the marsh, a painted guide-post volun teers the information that hard by stands an inn, "directly on the ocean." *Note — The writer adheres to " Bass Rock," believing the singular to be at once more suggestive, distinctive and euphonious, and tending most to individualize the locality. i6 Souvenir of Bass Rocks, Gloucester, Mass. Why "directly," mine host of the Moorland has never told. A trifle steep and not over clean, Brightside avenue, so called, because here you leave cobble stones, trolley cars and smells, leads over the hill into Arcadia. "If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright ! Go visit it by the pale moonlight." Would you see Bass Rock aright, approach it for the first time on foot. On the hill-top, five minutes removed, stands the Mansion House, an old farm stead on the right, Goat Terrace Cottage on the left, with the ocean in the forefront, scarce a stone's throw away. This is Bass Rock, with strict injunction to observe the singular always. An imaginary line drawn from the center of Sunset Hill to infinity, parallel with Beach Road and precisely far enough south to escape the con tamination of Bass avenue, marks the northern boundary of the principality. The west line zig-zags along the crest of the ridge, which is the backbone of the peninsula, skillfully in-cluding the golf links and ex-cluding the Hawthorne Inners. On the east the Bass Rock dominions are bounded by the Bay of Biscay and the Kingdom of Spain. The south line is indeterminate. A few narrow-minded people hold to the belief that a tortuous fence, half wire, half stone, known as the "Patch," marks the spot where Bass Rock ends and Eastern Point begins. Others, better informed, drop the line at Grape Vine PROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY A bit of Atlantic Road A- C. THOMSON Souvenir of Bass Rocks, Gloucester, Mass. '7 Cove, where Atlantic Road leaves the ocean. And this is Bass Rock, twice told, lest you forget. Some half hundred shingled cot tages, silver gray to match the rocks, with here and there a splotch of paint, strag gle along the water's edge, or clamber upon the cliffs above. Two hostelries, with euphonious names, furnish enter tainment for man, if not for beast, and a stone bath house near a safe, superb beach, suggests the cleanliness which is next to godliness. The village abjures streets, but takes mightily to "roads," some accom plished facts, some blue-print fiction. Harriet road, Catherine road, Brier road, Breton road, Atlantic road, Windermere ft ¥£s£M «***» . •».,. ^i B ^ST^ii *fSk'J » ¦¦¦ H|{f Rw f %& ' ¦ '^ Mk JB ^^^| f^^y^^fo&jfl ,,jj £ Smk K FROM a PHOTOGRAPH BY MR. K. W. PHELPS FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY MR. K. W. PHELPS A Modern Fishing Schooner A Gloucester Fisherman road, Tragibigzanda road, King's highways and primitive cow-paths, all lure the Lotus Eater from the life strenuous, and lead his footsteps into paths of rest and peace. High Rock, Pebbly Beach, Sunset Hill, Salt Island, the Churn, the Devil's Kitchen and Little Good Harbor Beach afford variety for the antiquary and the idle sightseer. The moors, fragrant with daisies, June roses and October golden rod, abound in secluded paths where the contemplative 1 8 Souvenir of Bass Rocks, Gloucester, Mass. mind courts solitude and escapes the swish of the "Red Devil." Cape Pond wood, rich in mountain laurel, woodbine draperies, honeysuckle bowers, mossy pillows, pine-needle carpets and glorious autumn foliage, grown espe cially for lovers, lies back of Squatterville, half a league away. For the amusement of those who, "piazza-wise" or otherwise, prefer the life simple, the White Squadron plays hide and seek in the offing, and black tugs lazily tow stone boats from the Rockport quarries into Boston. The fisher boats come and go, white sails bespangle the sea, a random fog lends zest to tomorrow's sunshine, and unutterable content, stealing o'er the soul, beguiles spring into summer and summer into autumn with distressing celerity. The problem which distresses most the dweller in this haven of rest, the only unknown quantity in the Bass Rock mind, concerns his local patrony mic. Is he a Bass Rocker, Rockigan, Rockigoan, Rockigonian or Rockonese ? The best authorities accept "Rocker," much to the disgust of the provincial Rockonesonian s. Your true Bass Rocker is nothing if not loyal. Each cottage boasts the finest "ocean view." Each portico has the choicest "sea front.'' Each dining-room holds the broadest "water vista." Each lawn grows the "greenest grass." Each more or less honest man swears that he alone takes the true latitude and longitude of the August sun, as he rises between Mr. and Mrs. Thatcher, twin lighthouses, built of New Hampshire granite. Bass Rock, without doubt, in some remote age, possessed a past — there are "oldest residents" who affirm it. Perhaps it may some day be permitted to exploit a future — there are speculative seers who predict it. The wise man saith, "sufficient for the day be the good thereof." The proverb runs, "once a Bass Rocker always a Bass Rocker." The present Bass Rock is good enough for mortal men and women. It may come high, but like David Harum's champagne, of blessed memory, " it's wuth it." A Part of Gloucester Harbor Summer residence of Mr. Charles E. Pugh Summer residence of Mr. Gelston Whittemork Summer residence of D. Chauncey Brewer, Esq. BASS ROCKS — ITS FUTURE By D. Chauncey Brewer, Esq. THERE is a bow of promise in the sky for Bass Rocks ! It arches the tracks of the Boston & Maine R. R. to the north. If there were another bow over the municipal palace in the adjacent city, our cottage community would have no need to hitch its chariot to a star. With the city and railroad yoked to its vehicle, its future would be established. As quaint Dr. Boteler remarked of the strawberry : " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did," so it may be said of our shore. The Almighty might have created a stretch of rock, moor and ocean more seductive, but doubtless he never did. George E. Rogers appreciated it when he bought right and left in the '60s, and Henry Souther, when he got under Rogers' mantle. Before these men had been the Saywards of old Colonial times, farmers and seamen. True it is, that 'other men labor, and we enter into their labors.' In promising to provide the site for a new station, Benjamin Randall, the owner of Beaver Dam Farm, said : " I bought my property in this vicinity thirty years ago, foreseeing the movement which is now crystalizing." Thus keen men discount the future ! It is for us to share in the results of their endeavor and to get a good twist about opportunity's forelock. This latter being done, shall we not listen a bit to some conservative prophet, not a Cagliostro with his crystal, but a prudent business man, who read, when at school, about Grouchy at Waterloo, and the ruin wrought by dog Diamond. Such a one knows how small an agency can upset carefully devised plans and will base his prophecy upon fortunate conditions — mean ing of course that the favor of the neighboring city government (of Utopia, let us say) is essential. "I see," says the seer, upon being interrogated, "a rugged coastline. Its promontories and islands are the same that my forerunners in the craft pointed out to Champlain, when he entered the beautiful harbor (Beauport) in the sixteenth century, and gave its name to the little good harbor, near whose beach an Indian village then lay ; the same to which they led the sturdiest of Englishmen and Frenchmen for half a century before colonizing began. Aside from its scenic attractions, which are unsurpassed, it is more accessible than any like section (if indeed there be such) north of the forty- third parallel, while not a bit of shore south of the aforesaid mystic line can match the vigor and sweetness of its atmosphere. " Glad am I to note that its beaches and ocean-girdling rocks are unspoiled, and that pleasure-loving bipeds have accentuated its charms and 24 Souvenir of Bass Rocks, Gloucester, Mass. corrected abuses that, toward the close of the last decade, threatened its future. " As a twentieth century seer with business proclivities, I summarize the following admirable features : — (i) " Plenty of trees combine with the natural tangle of shrubbery to set out the beauty of marsh and moor, as in the olden time before the forests were cut away. (2) "A proper regard for decency has freed streams that for many years were choked with that which was noisome and offensive. (3) " Fields that August suns formerly baked brown are now soft as velvet and green as emerald, because swamps in which the pleasure seeker was once mired have been converted into reservoirs, and intelligent irrigation offsets the drying qualities of the south wind. (4) " Well kept avenues pass through meadows overlooked by country houses which have been substituted for decrepit barns, and wind through picturesque bits of moor where the cottages cluster together amid the bayberry and wildroses as if for mutual protection against the great gales. In their course from the harbor to Sandy Bay, these roads offer a hundred varying but soul-satisfying views of ocean, inlet, and promontory, which until recently were undreamed of by the average summer visitor. (5) " With all the gratifying changes, there is nothing to suggest a park, with its air of artificiality and smugness. You can still lose your way among the glacier dropped boulders on the backbone of the Cape, or in the forests of picturesque pines and sweet-savored sassafras, or, if you choose, can divert yourself by a turn on the merry-go-round in the region set apart for such frivolities. (6) " Notwithstanding the fact that nature is recognized as over lord, there are ample evi dences in the more frequented One of the Glacier Dropped Boulders sections of the sort of police protection that discourages rowdyism and makes for order." Thus the modern soothsayer, premising the good offices of Utopia, and finding in the conjunction of heavenly bodies that which leads him to believe Souvenir of Bass Rocks, Gloucester, Mass. 25 that everybody, in Bass Rocks and out, is prepared to co-operate for the wel fare of the whole southerly shore of the peninsula. It is a good horoscope, and if the right star is in the ascendant, a true one. This shall be, or else something more discouraging than boiled up amid vapors and smoke when the Almighty lined out Cape Ann's promontories. Progression there must be, or reversion ! Bass Rocks is too near a great municipality to stand still. For four months in the year it is to be a Riviera with air thrice as vivifying, or its beaches and rocks between stretches of tin cans and waste paper will present everything that is archi tecturally undesirable. Choose ye this day which ye will have, and let no one deceive himself by arguing that there is middle ground, and that the old times were better before the more sightly residences were erected and improvements made. That was before the trolley across the marshes and the changes of recent years. The point is granted without argument, but obviously that day is past. What we now need is an application of the force and intelligence abundantly represented in the community to the realization of our best con ceptions. " New occasions teach new duties. Time makes ancient good uncouth." There was a period when a certain cult in Utopia posed as did the Hellenes of old and regarded all born without their boundaries, as barbarians. In the light of a broader charity and with the growth of a business instinct which considers self-interest, we may expect the adoption of a new municipal motto, " Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur" and the hearty endorsement of a policy which nourishes the goose that lays eggs of gold. With the municipality thus disposed, there will be little reason why Bass Rocks should not follow up the notable improvements already made by bettering its roads and restoring the old ways that in the latter part of the seventeenth century united Eastern Point to Land's End. There is a beginning in the road across the marshes to the sightly bluffs and knolls bordering the Shepherd and Webster farms, which innovation has A Glimpse of Road to Proposed Station 26 Souvenir of Bass Rocks, Gloucester, Mass. the effect of pushing back our northerly frontier to Eastern Aveuue. With a -few similar changes the future of the colony will be assured. Why should these not eventuate ? There are many times the number of men now in this section that there were between 1650 and 1725, and their resources are unlimited in comparison. If the original settlers could build roads on either side of the marshes through the thick forests and along the thatch banks that border the beaches, what is to prevent the pleasure seekers of this generation from relocating the old trails and making them passable by pedestrians and vehicles ? "Old Road between Gloucester and Rockport now Planned to be Repaired." Persuasively entreated, the ancient paths now guide the adventurous to a hundred points of interest undreamed of by the casual visitor. Through thickets of catbriar and over barren stretches of meadow they lead to Cape Ann's highlands — the ancient site of Dog town, where boulders lie about like hail stones after a storm — and to the groves of Lanesville and Cape Pond. Two hundred and twenty-five years ago horses passed over many of these trails, and there is no reason why they should not do it again to the immense edification of those who are unable to make the physical exertion now neces sary before one becomes acquainted with the environment of Bass Rocks. S'OJ, Ahe Or Sccur. 28 Souvenir of Bass Rocks, Gloucester, Mass. To the southwest the present shore road may easily be made to connect with avenues that will make the harbor more available. To the north, con nections with the Joppa Road, (a bit of colonial New England), and avenues through the valley behind Starknought Heights, will lead either to the Popple Stone Beach, where one may hear the music of nature's organ as the under tow pulls the pebble stones towards the advancing breakers, or through thickets of mountain laurel and gale-twisted trees to Loblolly Cove, over against Thatcher's Lights. Thus a little enterprise promises well ! Meanwhile, by the road already constructed through the energy of the Souther Estate trustees, two advan tages are secured which signify much to the immediate future of Bass Rocks and Eastern Point. (i) A direct connection with Rockport and a way to reach Magnolia and Manchester via the picturesque old road between Gloucester and Rockport, now planned to be repaired, without going through the business section of Gloucester. (2) A convenient route to the new station. " Station !", do you exclaim, "is there anything practical about the talk long current? Is your station anything but a myth ? " Verily it is ! With their attention once called to the fact that Bass Rocks and Eastern Point have long been seriously prejudiced by the lack of proper railway facilities, and by the undesirable approach to the Gloucester depot, — the officers of the Boston & Maine R.R. have been quick to realize the importance of a change, and land midway between Gloucester and Rockport being gener ously offered, they have given orders for the laying out and maintenance thereupon of a new station to be called " Bass Rocks." Nothing in the history of the resort promises better for the future. Hereafter, if the plans devised are carried out, the tired traveler may, if he will, forget that men do congregate in cities, when he arrives at " Bass Rocks." A country and seashore road will take him and his family to hotel or cottage. There will be nothing to offend the senses, the eye will be satisfied ; the nostrils will inhale the salt of the sea and the sweet savor of the moors without the taint of odors more familiar to city dwellers and less desirable, and the pilgrim will be at peace. Enormous throngs have visited Gloucester in the past. '• The congenial people one meets in traveling through the Union are quite sure to know all about Cape Ann. They will endorse your most enthusiastic comments. Its ¦moors are unique, its outlook over the marshalled breakers and mighty seas unapproached. Incontestably superior to the south shore, to the Jersey coast, to the sound, they say ; and the tone of the air — it is that of Bar Harbor and the Adirondacks ! Souvenir of Bass Rocks, Gloucester, Mass. 29 Such people have come, have seen and have been conquered, but they do not always come again. Why ? Because of the city depot, the unattractive roads connecting the same with the shore, and the hundred annoyances of passing through crowded city streets, especially where there are men in the family who have to come and go. Because of the new station, and for other reasons, let us hope a mighty change is to be wrought. Multitudes will still come and marvel, but they will come to stay. Summer residence of Mrs. Edward Worcester ifrr^ *5! »a Summer residence of Mrs. Clara Mendell Summer residence of Mr. Setii Mendell < < O Summer residence of Messrs. William T. and Edward P. Kimball FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY Sailing on the Creek MISS JARVIE THE CHILDREN OF BASS ROCKS By Miss Frances E. Newell. FOR the children Bass Rocks is a playground full of infinite resources, — rocks, and berry pastures, and, best of all, a broad, flat beach cut off by a creek from the foot of the hill. To this beach they are brought as babies to creep about in the warm sand ; they come in little frolickers of blue or pink to dig with the smallest of shovels and carry sand in the tiniest of pails; they run about with bare feet tanned brown, now paddling in the water, now turning loaves of cake from fluted moulds, or planting gardens of goldenrod and early asters round a splendid palace of sand. When the tide is rising they dig moats for it to flow into and then try to defend the island thus formed against the incoming water, building dykes along the edge of the channel and leaping from them to the island to pile fresh sand there, and so again and again until the tide sweeps over the island and forces a sudden retreat. Sometimes they leave the beach to climb on the rocks by the shore, searching for other caves as cool and dark as the Devil's Den below the Sherman cottage, or scrambling down over the slippery seaweed at low tide 34 Souvenir of Bass Rocks, Gloucester, Mass. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY MR. A, \.. THOMSON Busy to catch crabs. They climb about the pools, on one day to find the prickly pink star-fish, the sea-anemones and the tightly clinging hat-shells, on the next to sail huge ocean liners manned by gallant snails across the waters from New York to London or Hong Kong. Sometimes they spend long hours in the berry pastures exploring the many paths that cross each other and wind and recross among the rocks and bushes. They find natural playhouses carpeted with fern in the deep groves of sumach or hawthorn. They play Indian, crawling on their hands and knees among the taller berry bushes to stalk the enemy. They search the fields and swamps for flowers. Some, perhaps, keep an herbarium, carefully pressing a specimen of each flower as the season brings it forward, and, with the help of Mrs. Dana's book or of some more technical botany, marking each with its name. There is hardly a wild flower known to New England which does not grow somewhere on Cape Ann and we have even been told that the hawthorn, which makes our point so lovely in May with its white blossoms, grows wild in only one other place in the United States. For the older boys and girls the amusements are more like those for grown people. There is good bathing along the beach, often with surf, and when the tide is high there is good swimming in the creek. Then the boys and girls gather on the float in front of the bathhouse, over which Rebecca Souvenir of Bass Rocks, Gloucester, Mass. 35 FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY Some of Rebecca's Pets MISS JARVIE from a photograph by mk. k. w. phelps Rebecca at the Bath House has presided for so many years, to dive and play about in the water, or they practice fancy diving from the bridge. No one can tell the gratitude which Rebecca has won for her careful over sight of the children in the years before we had a man especially to watch and help the bathers or the love which the children bear her for her constant good nature and friendship. At high tide, too, the creek winds in for a mile or more among the marshes behind the beach, deep and wide enough for a small boat and perfectly safe. Here the children row in their dories or paddle canoes, and here several years ago the boys and girls held a tub race which no one who saw it will ever forget. Several lucky boys have small sail boats which they keep near the float, going out at high tide to sail along the shore in the light southerly breezes. The boys and girls may also be seen day after day upon the golf links. Their names appear in the records of 36 Souvenir of Bass Rocks, Gloucester, Mass. Perfectly Contented baseball and send out a team every summer to play against their old rivals, Magnolia and Haw thorn Inn. Besides the out-of-door amuse ments there are the weekly hops at the hotels, the occasional pop concerts, and, of late years, at least one entertainment for which everyone works for the benefit of the Improvement Association or the tournaments, sometimes as winners; indeed, even in the annual " scratch " tournament the best player has more than once been a boy under twenty. Since 1894 there have been no tennis tournaments, but the revival of tennis is bringing more and more players to the club courts. Although the golf links now lie across the best fields where the Bass Rocks nine used to play its games, the boys still find a place to practice Four of a Kind FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY MR. a. i_. THOMSON Bathing of some popular charity. It is not these, however, but the golf links, the rocks, the ocean and the beach with its green background of low- wooded hills which gives Bass Rocks its peculiar charm. Once having seen them who will wonder that the children of Bass Rocks when they grow to be men and women come back summer after summer to let their children play where they themselves have played. -• - «a£ Summer residence of Dr. O. T. Howe Summer residence of Mrs. Fanny P. Robertson Summer residence of Mr. Winthrop Sargent GOLF AT BASS ROCKS By Mr. Winthrop Sargent WH EN Bass Rocks opened its beautiful nine- hole course in 1899, it added to its many advan tages a feature that has proved almost essential to the welfare of summer places all over the United States. SI ¦f^R! ¦¦¦^^^ » jk- 1IB *AlfP * 1 '' v -^ll1: '"' ¦¦>'-* .. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY Locker House FROM A PHOTOGRAPH HY MR. A. C. THOMSON Golf Links showing farts of first, second, fourth and fifth fair greens 40 Souvenir of Bass Rocks, Gloucester, Mass. THESE LINKS HAVE BEEN LEASED BY THE BASS ROCKS GOLF CLUB total length of course, .j072 yards Souvenir of Bass Rocks, Gloucester, Mass. 41 FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY MR. A. C. THOMSON Golf Links showing parts of seventh, eighth and ninth fair greens As always in America with our sports, we took up golf with a fervor that seemed to predict an early recovery ; but it looks as if golf had really come to stay with us. A sport of constant variety, not too violent exercise for the old, yet requiring so much "snap and go" that it holds the interest of the young, is well-fitted to be of permanent value and hold even our fickle favor as it has held that of Scotland from time immemorial. The links at Bass Rocks is one of the sportiest, most interesting nine-hole courses in the country. The element of skill enters largely in the golfing on a course so rugged, so beset with difficulties for the careless player. Very good, straight golf is needed to do this course in bogey, for each wild shot is promptly and surely punished, and consequently every stroke becomes of interest and value. 42 Souvenir of Bass Rocks, Gloucester, Mass. Not only does the course stand high from a sportsman's point of view, but it is also very beautiful in its whole extent. From every tee there is a lovely view of open sea or beach, and no one who knows Bass Rocks at all needs even a reminder of the quality of the air that blows over the moors of the links. Each year Bass Rocks has many friends to offer cups and other prizes for contests of all the many kinds possible in golfing which help to keep up interest in the sport and develop better golf among the players. The club members come from so many states that the trophies from Bass Rocks are proudly placed beside those of clubs all over the country. This summer the Bass Rocks Golf Club is to become more truly a club than ever before, and all who love Bass Rocks and its beautiful links trust, that under the new auspices, golf will continue to be a source of pleasure and interest to all. FROM A PHOTOGKAPH UY An Anxious Moment putting and approaching tournament MR. A. i„. THOMSON Summer residence of Rev. D. Augustine Newtc Summer residence of Mrs. Henry Souther THE COAST LINE OF BASS ROCKS By Mr. Henry Souther GAPE ANN is like an abutment of granite attached to the mainland to protect it from the inroads of the sea. It would be difficult to find in the coast line of the United States a more rugged, habitable place. It presents a tremendous contrast to Cape Cod so short a distance away. The dividing line seems to be at the mouth of Boston Harbor. Sand and low-lying land predominate to the south of that point and rugged granite rocks to the north of it. This rocky formation extends all the way around Cape Ann with little interruption as far as Annisquam River, and then again comes long reaches of sand and sand only, the line of demarkation on the north being as decided as that on the south. Judging from its name, a stranger might naturally think that good bass fishing would be found in the locality of Bass Rocks. The name is mislead ing; there are no bass there, and its name did not come from the fish. It did come from the bass (base) note characteristic at this point in the roar of the sea. In the old days before the fog horn, the bell buoy or the whistling buoy -%-^Sft i % a 'A o Souvenir of Bass Rocks, Gloucester, Mass. 47 were common, the shore fishermen were able to judge of their position in the thickest of fogs by the peculiar heavy bass roar, the result of the waves dashing against the very high granite rocks along this reach. Just what point gives this sound is not exactly clear, but it is undoubtedly peculiar to this whole mile or so of ocean front. The place might, therefore, more properly be called Bass (base) Rocks, and not Bass (bass) Rocks, which has grown into common use through a long term of years. Old records show that this land was richly wooded to the water, just as it still is both east and west of the Eastern Point of the peninsula. The tip of Cape Ann on which Bass Rocks is located is now an island. Nature almost made it one by Annisquam River with its mouth at Ipswich Bay and its head waters within a few hundred yards of Gloucester Harbor. A canal completed the formation — an island of granite. Gloucester Harbor is about as nearly landlocked as a harbor may be. About two miles from its mouth it turns nearly at a right angle and then penetrates the land in a narrow neck opening into a broader basin with two extending arms. Once around the angle a vessel is absolutely safe in any storm. The outer harbor makes a good refuge for vessels of large tonnage, and is so used in all but the most severe storms. Eastern Point peninsula is made by the harbor. This is not far from three miles long and is very high, nearly its whole length. At the tip end is the lowest ground, but even there it cannot be called low. The shore of the inner harbor is abrupt. The hills rise out of the water so sharply that they are all difficult for traffic to mount. A high plateau then prevails until the sea on the east and outer side is approached, about a mile distant. At the base of this peninsula and upon the ocean side Bass Rocks is located. It is not visible from the harbor, nor is the city visible from Bass Rocks, except from the extreme and high western edge of the plateau. All the rest is hidden, and one might easily forget the nearness to Gloucester were it not for such reminders as electricity, gas and water. Nature nearly made the Eastern Point peninsula an island too, in a like manner to the whole of Cape Ann, already described. At the innermost point of the harbor the land is low, merging into a broad marsh penetrated by a creek. This creek ends at the eastern edge of Bass Rocks, skirting for the last quarter of a mile a sand beach, which is unexcelled in its absolute cleanness. Not a pebble nor a bit of coarse sand nor anything foreign to a perfect beach is found. This extends in the form of a crescent from Bass Rocks eastward to Salt Island, a rock only a few acres in extent, and nearly a hundred feet high. The curious succession of rocks, immense in size, pure sand beach, and then again rocks, would be difficult to find elsewhere. Eastward, the next 48 Souvenir oj Bass Rocks, Gloucester, Mass. promontory, known as Brier Neck, is as high as Bass Rocks. This is followed by another mile of good sand beach, not as fine nor as level perhaps as that at Bass Rocks, but very good. Then follows Cape Hedge, a granite promontory, only a hundred yards or so across. At its eastern edge, in contrast with the sand on the west, is found another beach, this one nothing but pebbles, or " popples " as the old name runs. These, in sizes from a pea to that of one's head, all worn smooth by the action of the sea, are piled thirty or forty feet high. The tremendous roar of these rolling pebbles is plainly heard in a storm, and plainly felt, too. Easterly of this pebble beach, and just opposite Thatcher's Island, again appears rocky land as high as any of the rest. The explanation of these startling differences of sea coast has not yet been made. Why there is so sharp a dividing line between all sand and all pebbles is not known, but it is a fact. Even at Bass Rocks itself is seen this same succession of beach and ledge in miniature. There are little inlets among the rocks where the pebbles roll in, and further along a little beach where nothing but sand comes in among the ledges. Another phenomenon in connection with Bass Rocks is its unusual dryness, as compared with any other place so exposed to the full sweep of the ocean. This is illustrated by the fact that matches keep there uninjured the year round ; that the clothing and bedding does not become damp and moist, as is so often the case on the coast. Perhaps this is because of the very rocky formation combined with the high and dry soil in among the rocks, making perfect natural drainage. The coast at Bass Rocks, although rugged, has no outlying reefs, the water being deep almost up to the rocks on the shore. Just east, however, comes a succession of the most wicked reefs anywhere to be found. There are three islands as well, the largest Thatcher's, upon which two light houses stand. Next, to the south and separated from it by a narrow channel is Milk Island, very low and flat. Then a mile or two nearer Bass Rocks is the smallest and highest, Salt Island, already referred to. It is like a piece of Cape Ann broken off and separated from the shore by only a few hundred feet of water and joined to it at extreme low tides by a sand-spit. Thatcher's, lights of the first class, known as "Twin Lights," are two tall granite towers at the opposite ends of an island. They warn the seafarer away, but in times of fog and the baffling sound of the fog horn many a vessel has touched for the first and last time on these reefs and islands. Just east of these the government is building an immense breakwater. This is located off the harbor of Rockport and Pigeon Cove. The term "harbor" can hardly be applied, because without the granite-locked wharves with a good east wind (and the east wind furnishes the worst storms at this point), none would exist. Souvenir of Bass Rocks, Gloucester, Mass. 49 At Little Good Harbor Beach (the beach at Bass Rocks) a. good harbor might be apparently made. A breakwater closing the small gap between Salt Island and Brier Neck would make a shelter of small area, too small, however, to warrant the expense involved in building a breakwater at a point where the water is so deep and where it would have to be so substantial in order to withstand the fury of the open sea. When it is remembered that the sea dashes completely over Salt Island in the worst of storms, it can be readily understood that a breakwater beside it would have to be a wonderful one in order to endure at all. A shelter is hardly missed on account of the nearness and accessibility of Gloucester Harbor. FROM a PHOTOGRAPH BY MR. K. W. PHELPS Little Good Harbor Beach Summer residence of Mrs. Henry Souther Some of the Cottages belonging to the Estate of Henry Souther a| *'V£1£ '•rfifiWssra HI hh^bb ^^npsraanBi ¦£*l'- ,*k *!«« i--- * ^^VT. -¦ - v^ '...¦¦-' The Moorland and Moorland Hall 6 i The JVise Man Buildeth His House Upon a Rock." He uses Nauss' Lumber and our Colonial Paints Railroad Ave., Gloucester, Mass, C. S. Nauss L. ti. Nauss The Daylight Store Butman & French RELIABLE DRY GOODS Fancy Goods, Millinery, Draperies, Ready-to-Wear Women's and Men's Furnishings Fancy China, Etc. Courteous Clerks Fair Prices An Up to Dats Store in Every Way We are looking for YOUR trade Post Office Sq., Gloucester You are invited to inspect our stock of Fine China, Cut Glass, Japanese Wares, Russian and Indian Hand-beaten Brasses, Teco Art Ware and Lamps, Gas and Electric Drop Lights, Silver.Plated, Agate, Tin and Wooden Wares. F.S.THOMPSON Jeweler and Optician Extends to all A CORDIAL INVITATION To visit the Finest Jewelry Store in the State Reliable Goods and thoroughly Practical Repairing our only rule 164 Main St. Gloucester G. MONTGOMERY & GO. Wood and Coal Wood Sawed to Order 12 Montgomery Place, E. Gloucester Telephone 312-2 For Dry Goods Reliable in Quality and Reliable in Price :: :: Make ftbe : fl>atttllo : Store 122 flDain Street, Gloucester Your Shopping Place When in Qloucester. ¦¦ We make a specialty of Fine Hosiery, Underwear, Ribbons and Neckwear, Bathing Suits, Shirt Waists and Shirt Waist Suits. THEREASONc Grandma^ fish Cakes tasted so good in childhood days was because the codfish -was pure. *_ FISH CAKES will taste I like grandma's to-day when made from ^yCi « irk CODFISH ! SHUTE ©MERCHANT OloucesterMass. LOOK FOR THE NAME SHUTE & MERCHANT when purchasing your salt fish '/7s a Guarantee that it is GENUINE CODFISH Your dealer has or can procure our goods for you; and your insisting upon having them will assure you of Purity and Wholesomeness. "Over 250 Ways to Cook and Serve Fish" Our valuable cook book containing over 250 ways to cook and serve fish is free upon request, or will be mailed, to any address, upon receipt of two-cent stamp for postage. SHUTE & MERCHANT GLOUCESTER, MASS. ROGER H. TARR HORACE TARR D. CHESTER TARR L. E. Smith Company PLUMBING AND HEATING CONTRACTORS Dealers in Stoves Hardware and Kitchen Furnishings 221 and 223 MAIN STREET GLOUCESTER, MASS. Tel. 28, store Tel. 368-12, store Tel. 238-1 3 residence W. N. GRIFFIN Tel. 31-5 F. D. GRIFFIN GRIFFIN & CO. 50 Commercial Street Qloucester, Mass. — DEALERS IN BEST GRADES - Anthracite and Bituminous Coal Hard and Soft Wood Sawed and Split to Order L. D. Lothrop FISHING Real Estate for Sale on Cape Ann, Mass. pURNISHED cottage at Squam, near light-house and bathing beach. COTTAGE house.within 135 ft. of Plum Cove Beach, Bay View. 7-ROOM house at E. Gloucester. gEVERAL lots and houses, within short •distance of the shore, at Rockport, TACKLE Importer of "Arthur James" Fish Hooks Inventor Lothrop's Fog Horn 66, 68 and 70 Duncan St. Mass. Everett Lane Gloucester, Mass. THE NEW LIBRARY Of 563 Boylston Street, Boston Copley Square Has Opened a Branch Office With The Woman's Exchange Two Cents Per Day I5J ELM STREET : GLOUCESTER " CLOTHIER TAILOR Fred F. David 83=85 Main Street, Gloucester, Mass. HATTER FURNISHER * I * I * ! * I * I * I * Finest Studio on the K North Shore Studio, Dressing Rooms >J< and Skylight all on the ground floor. \%t Fine Portraits by Photography a — Specialty IjJ^ Telephone Connection *l*l*l*l*l*!*l*l*l*i*l* THE PHELPS STUDIO 73 Middle Street Y.M.C.A. Bldg. Gloucester, Mass. * * * * FOR SALE IN THE ART DEPARTMENT : Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Soule Carbons and Platinums, Statuary, Col ored Prints, Views of Cape Ann Scenery in Platinum, Carbon and Colore :1 effects. Pictures framed to order. f¥ ¥^* *i*i*!*i*i*!*;*i* 1 *i*'*i^i^!^[^i»i(i^ Anything About Cape Ann Realty ! // You Want to Buy a House If You Want to Buy a House Lot If You Want to Rent a House If You Want to Invest in Unimproved Property He will be dee=Hghted to talk with you Office at B&5? RocKs lop Tract 588 Acres Tract 100 Acres Tract 156 Acres Estate 160 Acres Our College Ices and Fruit Sundaes are the Best in the City Pineapple Raspberries Flaked Orange Creamed Pecans Pot-Pourri Peach Mint Cherries Maraschino Pineapple Golden Ginger COOL AND COSEY CORNER Utopian Chocolates — The taste tells Marquise Chocolates — The best is unsurpassable Fresh Strawberries Maple Walnuts Maraschino Cherries 102 Main Street NEWTON The Prescription Druggist Next door to car station GLOUCESTER, MASS. •IpEBECCA'S PETS (see page 35) in rainy weather, all wear oilskins bought at Levi Nickerson 90 Rogers St. Gloucester Telephone Booklets Catalogues NeatlyPrinted FARRINGTON PRINTING CO. 61 Essex St., Boston A. MANTON PATTILLO 67 Main Street Qloucester, Mass. Carpets : Furniture : Upholstery : Draperies : Window Shades Furnishings for summer cottages a specialty. ITSole agents in Gloucester for Old Hickory Furniture and Ostermoor mattresses. IfThe largest and most complete line of beds, mattresses, springs and pillows shown in this section. ITOrders for furniture, upholstery and cushion work attended to promptly. Telephone 167-4. Goods Delivered Promptly Herrick's Team Calls at Bass Rocks Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, Rain or Shine, With a Full Assortment of Choice Fruits Telephone 265-4. Choice Home-Made Cookery For Sale at The Woman's Exchange MISS MARY BROOKS, Manager 152 Elm Street Gloucester Telephone CAPE ANN BOSTON & GLOUCESTER STEAMSHIP CO. ^™£7XV?LC:°X "%Sft£$8S'i& Gloucester at 3.50 a.m. and 2.15 p.m. SUSDAYS, letve Boston at 10.15 a.m. Leave Qloucester at 3.00 a.m. and 3.15 p.m. No 3.00 a.m. boat Mondays. Subject to change without notice. OHces: 244 Atlantic Ave., Boston. Duncan St. Wharf, Qloucester. E. S. Merchant, Treas. and Gen'l Manager, Boston. Edgar Merchant, Agent, Gloucester. Thomas E. Reed Rear of 197 East Main Street Gloucester, Mass. STEVEDORE Lighters furnished at short notice for wrecking, lightering freight, coal, salt, etc. Teaming and Jobbing Stable BAGGAGE EXPRESS Teams Connecting With Ail Trains All Kinds of Ballast for Sale Telephone 104-2 IT will cost you only a few more steps to reach Post Office Square and find, What? A Jeweler who will use you right on all Kinds of Repairing of Watches, Clocks, Jewelry Herbert B. Winchester Jeweler Post Office Square, 182 Main Street Qloucester, Mass. James Cunningham House, Ship and Sign PAINTER Painters' Supplies 3 Main and 14 Commercial St. Qloucester, Mass. Gloucester Safe Deposit and Trust Go. 1 91! Main Street CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS AND PROFITS. DEPOSITS .... $ 100,000.00 90,000.00 2,038,918.97 Interest Paid on Deposits Safe Deposit Boxes to Rent SYLVANUS SMITH, PRES. C. E. FISHER, TREAS. H. A. SMITH, ASST. TREAS. WATSON BROTHERS Builoers ano Contractors AMI ano Case Mork OFFICE AND SHOP 108 Duncan Street Telephone 132-4. THADDEUS GRIFFIN Wallpapers ^ Paints Paper Hangers and Painters 271-275 Main Street Gloucester Telephone. Real Estate for Sale in Large Lots Between Bass Rocks and Eastern Point Golf Links ISSAG PATCH :: Bradford Building :: GLOUCESTER EDWARD A. POMEROY Contractor for All Kinds of Stone Work, Road Building, Tennis Courts, Grading, Etc. Special Attention Given to Developing Grounds at Seashore Residences 11 Colonial Street Gloucester, CQass. Connected by Telephone. SOUVENIR OF JSase IRocks GLOUCESTER, MASS. COMPILED BY DR. SILAS HIBBARD AYER CONTAINING Six Original Articles (for contents see front page) ILLUSTRATED BY Forty-five New Half-tones In Paper $ -25 In Cloth (without advertisements) . 1.00 Sent postpaid upon receipt of price. Bass Rocks Improvement Association 318 Shawmul Avenue Ask the Leader of the Orchestra to play The Latest Sons Hit " EVALEENALINA " PLAYED AND SUNG EVERYWHERE Evaleenalina. Word* by C. F. THOMPSON. Moderate NAT. D. AYER, njW\iifu±iff^ u a '^ u 'Li.tf HlujnEfffir f iDjumJ f..piri.hl UOIA* <¦"- P"' Ullk ht.C.BMn.lli.1, On Sale at all Music Stores or •ntAn sent postpaid upon receipt of BUT IT! 25 CENTS IT! Lee-Paul Music Publishing Go. 65 Federal Street Boston, Mass. ARCHITECT ARCHITECT JOHN ASHTON BLAKELEY BUILDING LAWRENCE, MASS. REFERENCES Howe ARCHITECT Residences \ ,,T ' ~ ,'r, „. , \ Bass Rocks I Wm. T. Kimball j Write for photographs of other work. ARCHITECT X ADIES' traveling alone, or young women going to Boston to work or study, should go direct to the Franklin Square House, 11 East Newton Street, Boston. Home- hotel exclusively for women. Cool in summer, warm in winter. Rates reasonable. Send for booklet. Hibbard iP r\*son INCORPORATED Tailor? 4 1 4 Washington 5tr*et, Boston Telephone Oxford 579 A few doors north of Summer Street Albin Swensson MASSEUR 198 Lamartlne Street, Jamaica Plain, Mass. Swedish Movements and Massage Graduate of Stockholm, Sweden GENEVA LITHIA WATER natures remedy) -HAS BEEN- For 20 Years the Standard for Purity and Therapeutic Value And if the testimony of those who have used it may be considered competent IT HAS CURED Insomnia, Incipient Bright's Disease, Diabetes, Kidney Troubles, Indigestion, Nervous Dyspepsia, Nervous Debility, Sick Headache, Fistula, Piles, Constipation, Gravel, Lumbago, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Catarrh of the Bowels, Liver Difficulties, Eczema, Salt Rheum, Hives, Inflammation of the Bladder, Paralysis, etc. office 65 Federal Street boston Send for descriptive circular. • •! i j all' A \ m-^^mm . ^Z^^t W$M3i Eastern Point Light and "Mother Ann The Plimpton Press H. M. PLIMPTON & CO. Printers and 3*nc*ers Norwood, Mass. Complete Book Makers from Manuscript to Bound Books Are the Hen Roosts of Bass Rocks to be Protected? THIS IMPORTANT QUESTION WILL BE DECIDED AT THE Mock Court Trial ! SECOND ANNUAL ENTERTAINMENT OF THE Bass Rocks Improvement Association MOORLAND CASINO SASS HOCKS Thursday Evening: August 24 We are extremely sorry to say that, upon the evening of the above date, one of our most honored and respected summer residents will be tried for the larceny of a rooster from the hennery of the Moorland. Why he did it, when he did it and how he did it will be brought out at this trial. Come and help the jury decide whether the defendant is GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY ! AH Seats Reserved One Dollar Each On Sale at Hotel Moorland, Hotel Tborwald; also by Mrs. A. M. Cox and Dr. Ayer. DOORS OPEN AT 1.30 COURT CALLED AT 8.00 GROCERY DEPARTMENT DAVIS BROS. Largest Grocery and Provision Dealers on Cape Ann Finest Stock :: Best Service :: Largest Stores Two Delivery Team? Daily at Bass RocKs Stores nearly opposite the Post-office. Telephojie Connection. 179 and 183 Main Street Gloucester, Mass. MEAT DEPARTMENT --«^aA jtr- -WTtr THE MOORLAND AND COTTAGES BASS ROCKS. GLOUCESTER, MASS, Kates, 83.00 a Day and Upwards Golf. Tinnis and Bathing @TaCT Si PaKSosg N R 9, fc£ 't«**' I* . -,-> r 1 •Vasi*-.