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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1915
Page
5
The Boston Port Directors report to the Legislature proposes ending free terminals for ocean shipping by railroads. It calls for independent transportation development to position Boston Harbor among leading world ports.
Port directors outline 80 acres of State flats for industrial and recreational use near Castle Island and South Boston. Proposals include 10 piers five miles of quay, an 8 million square foot inner basin, union lighterage links, a freight tunnel, electrified Union Freight Railroad connections, and a Grand Junction extension to South Bay. The narrative also covers wartime signaling and a German ship warning, with a court case resuming at 10 o'clock.
Massachusetts harbor directors urge Congress to end free terminal facilities for world ships to curb price fixing by shipping lines. They map a future port expansion in South Boston with 80 acres reclaimed for industry and a major provision market. Proposals include rail connections, a harbor tunnel, and a car storage yard.
The Austrian postal department announces the suspension of parcel post to America. The move cites alleged confiscation by a French warship of packages from Austria on Italian steamers, reported from Venice via London.
Two Boston steamship firms awarded contracts for six steamers to be built and flown with the Stars and Stripes. The New York Shipbuilding Company of Camden, New Jersey will construct them at a cost well over 2,000,000 dollars. Three ships go to the Coastwise Transportation Company and three to the Pocahontas Navigation Company, with four expected to operate from Boston.
Philadelphia March 31 The Rev Samuel F Bacon the oldest minister in the presbytery of Philadelphia died today from paralysis He was stricken last Sunday just before he was to have preached his 91st birthday sermon
Funeral services were held yesterday for Lucy Williams Keyes age 102, the oldest resident of Cambridge. Rev. Richard Wright of Pilgrim Congregational Church read prayers at the Baptist Home on Brookline Street. Burial followed at Evergreen Cemetery.
An old-time advertisement proclaims Adamson's Balsam as a remedy for colds, urging readers not to trifle with the illness and promising a cure.
Harvard red flag measure clears House and moves to Senate. Law allows carrying socialist and anti suffrage banners in parades and other red flags not tied to anti government groups. House rejects repeal bids while advancing hotel registry and cafe booth bills and a hospital room requirement for large employers. Senate compromise pension bill shifts Boston school funding to 4.07 per tax dollar. A state pension overhaul plan was rejected by the Ways and Means committee.
At the state house the red flag bill allowing Harvard and other red flags in parades passed the House. Several measures moved forward including a liquor delivery restriction and pony express license option, now engrossed and sent to Senate. Additional items advanced include hotel registration name rules, cafe booth bans, new dance hall regulation, and a hospital rooms requirement for manufacturing workers. The general pension bill for public employees was reported leave to withdraw by the ways and means committee. The west wing completion bill was noted.
State House committees reported adversely on a bill to permit payments to firemen and their families in disability or death cases. A repeal of the bar and bottle bill was turned down. Mayor Curley’s pay-as-you-go bill went to committee with reference to the next General Court. A compromise teachers pension bill, tied to Curley and Boston teachers, was substituted for original measures and placed on the senate orders. A bill to raise Boston school funding to 4.07 tax rate moved to engrossment. A permit bill for placing awnings signs and marquees over sidewalks passed to engrossment in the Senate despite street commissioner protests. A measure to compel age ertain adults to support destitute parents passed to a third reading in the Senate.
Nicholas J Mooney 66 of 15 King Street Worcester died at St Vincent s Hospital from bronchial trouble. A prominent citizen he served on the Common Council and in the police force and was a director at Bay State Savings Bank Mt St Joseph s School and the Firemen s Underwriters Association of Massachusetts. He is survived by a son four daughters two brothers and a sister.
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