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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1917
Page
3
Pacifists marshalled by the Emergency Peace Federation prepare to descend on Washington on April 2 to persuade Congress to avoid any move toward open hostilities with Germany. Organizers say at least 5000 will join the gathering.
A coalition of pacifists and a large bloc from New York Philadelphia Baltimore Chicago and Buffalo plan Capitol Hill visits to press peace. Special trains bring thousands and both sides expect mass gatherings before Congress amid White House telegram deluge.
More than 3000 men at a Boston College High School retreat breakfast heard Father Lyons exhort Americans to stand as one behind the President during wartime. Mayor Curley former Governor Walsh and James J. Mahar praised the event and Cardinal Oconnell offered blessing. The Young Men's Catholic Association announced a Cardinal OConnell Scholarship in accounting with June exams for parochial high school graduates.
The 800 members of the general Boston Committee on Public Safety will meet at City Hall Old Aldermen Chamber. Mayor Curley will preside and address aims of the organization with opportunity for suggestions.
The Somerville fire chief calls smokers as bad as incendiaries in the annual report. He says users of cigars cigarettes and pipes and incendiaries divide the doubtful honor of causing a like number of fires. The difference is smokers act from carelessness not design.
Edith McFarlane swallowed a four ounce bottle of disinfectant in her room at 252 Newbury Street yesterday forenoon. She was found seriously ill but is expected to recover.
The Celtic Club and Clan-na-Gael unanimously approved resolutions urging Irish Americans to protest U.S. entry into the European war on any side. They called against declaring war on any enemy of England at their National Hall meeting last night.
A Celtic Club and Clan na Gael statement denounces British propaganda and renegade Americans pushing for U S entry into war with Germany. It warns Congress against declaring war and accuses press and administration allies of plans to fund England with American loans. It calls for true Americans to resist war and defend constitutional rights.
An unidentified man was found dead in a room at 27 Bowdoin Street West End yesterday afternoon by landlord Walter H Lamere. Gas escaped from an open jet while door and window were closed. The stranger had rented the room only since 9 p m Saturday.
Evangelist E. L. Cardey told Tremont Temple listeners yesterday that Russia’s revolution and unrest in Germany and Austria signal a global breakdown of monarchies and the eventual overthrow of royal rule.
The armed British liner Etonian arrived at an American port from England after crossing the German blockade zone without incident. It carried 62 returning horsemen, all but a few American citizens, and a stowaway, Canadian Frederick Perry.
A posse of fire department members and townspeople recovered the body of Mrs. Martin J. Buss from a small pond near her Marlboro home. She had been missing since early morning and was 68, with long standing poor health.
Cornelius J. Lynch of 58 Norris Street North Cambridge drives an auto with Mrs. John McCauley and Miss May McCauley of 36 Jay Street Boston. While attempting a sharp turn on Powder House boulevard West Somerville the machine overturned. None of the occupants were injured.
Prominent authors and works listed including Rabindranath Tagore from Bengal and others such as Churchill Morris and Oppenheim. The note highlights Tagore’s Bolpur school in India and his message to educators and boys, published in Hearst's Magazine April issue.
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