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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1919
Page
5
The mayor won the first skirmish over raises granted by the Chelsea Board of Aldermen. Department heads submitted payrolls on the old schedule without increases. The mayor warned the Aldermen and said illegal raises would be disapproved if included. The board may act again Monday night, but mayoral supremacy in budget submission remains.
Radcliffe girls present Al Jennison’s Minstrels a minstrel show with blackface acts and college chorus to raise 1919 yearbook funds. Louise Jennison leads the cast with Helen McNair Noreen Mathews Doris Underhill Esther Wood and Kitty Brown among principals. Margaret Hanlon directs music at Somerville venue.
The Massachusetts State Branch A F L backed by its executive board opposes House bill 1502 by John L Bates. It urged printing advertiser names and addresses at bottom of ads and endorsed Harvard professors’ industrial hygiene bill. The group supported child education welfare and planned staff actions with state labor leaders.
Edward R. Warren argues Boston will install two Phillips Brooks statues. Justice Rugg ruled against replacing the St Gaudens Bishop Brooks statue with Bela Práit’s recent work, keeping the original statue in place.
Warren asserts Boston will host a permanent statue site near Copley square with a committee to select location. The Pratt statue, bronze with pedestal, costs 35000 and is owned by the sculptor’s widow until placement. Court rules cannot move the St Gaudens statue to free space for Pratt.
A letter to the Post from H. P. W. Springfield dated March 27 1919 asks for grandstand seating along the 26th Division parade line for the surviving veterans of the Second and Ninth Massachusetts Regiments who suffered in Cuba in 1898.
Henry Ford's steam yacht Halcyon Sr will join the flotilla welcoming the transports Mt. Vernon and America coming from France with Yankee Division units. The vessel, purchased by the government, is at India Wharf freshly painted and ready to greet homecoming soldiers under Lt. McDonough of South Boston.
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