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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1916
Page
11
The Finance Commission urged the city to dismiss five penal institutions department employees by removing their annual salaries. One post allegedly favored a political ally, another indicates payroll padding, others deemed superfluous. Civil service rules are cited as evaded.
The Finance Commission urges striking all salary increase estimates and trims $60,749 from Mayor Curley’s expenditures of $316,124. It targets staff pay, finds abuses in appointments before Civil Service rules, and calls for dropping certain positions including Dennis O’Neil and Cawley. It also objects to probation officers and to advancing advertising funds.
Obituary note reports the death of Steve I king of American gypsies prompting mourning and lament in the community. Further details and tributes promised in the next Sunday Post Magazine.
Cambridge Mayor Rockwood prepared a new budget of estimates to submit to the City Council but did not send it. The council previously objected to omitting appropriations for departments and sought nine month estimates to consider shifting the financial year to Jan 1. He cited questions about the legality of a nine month budget and the need to establish Jan 1, 1917 as the start of the next year.
Charley Weinert defeated Porky Flynn in a sensational 10 round bout at the Broadway Sporting Club New York. A rope broke sending both fighters and the action out of the ring but neither was injured and Weinert won on the stoppage after the collapse.
Two workers at the Merrimac Chemical Company plant in North Woburn were injured when a formic acid vat exploded. James Coleman, 40, suffered internal injuries and Frank Marotte, a mason's helper, hit his head. John Reddy sustained minor injuries as the blast damaged the building and surrounding structures.
Today Waite remained violently ill delaying arraignment at Bellevue. Assistant District Attorney Dooling pursues Waite sanity evidence as reporters and witnesses like M. D. Berlitz weigh in on his mental state. The investigation traces embalming funds, a missing 1200 dollars, and a tainted telegram tied to the Peck family case. Mrs. Horton seeks restitution from private detective Schindler over a ring Waite gave her.
Mrs Clara Louise Peck Waite files for divorce from Dr Arthur Warren Waite of New York in Superior Court Grand Rapids. Waite has confessed to murdering Mrs Waite's father.
Mrs. Alice E. Doe aged 19? No, 0 widow, was fatally struck by an inbound express at the Winter Hill station Boston and Maine railroad in Somerville. Police report no witnesses, body found 60 feet from the crossing. She lived 11 Dartmouth Street since September, moved from Wolfboro New Hampshire with son L Adrian Doe a Boston art student. husband deceased 17 years.
Albert J. Roper of Tewksbury pleaded not guilty to the murder of his father, Albert Roper, a Tewksbury florist, arraigned before Judge McLaughlin at East Cambridge Superior Criminal Court. An indictment was returned by the Middlesex grand jury two weeks earlier. The father was found dead in a greenhouse on the night of March, and the son was arrested the following day.
The Rev. Fred P. Haggard, longtime secretary of the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, sails from New York to Russia to organize Y M C A camps among prisoners. He, his wife, and two sons travel aboard the Oscar II, choosing the northern route via Christiania to Petrograd to establish headquarters.
Postmaster Murray announces a quarterly net increase in postal savings of 106 942 dollars, compared with 74 076 dollars the previous year. March deposits reached 153 520 dollars while payments totaled 122 454 dollars. Since inception in Boston, deposits total 6 359 630 dollars and payments 4 465 550 dollars, leaving 1 894 080 dollars on April 1. This excludes stamp sales for savings amounting to 36 321 dollars.
Anniversary exercises at St. Pauls Church served as a lead in to the New Hampshire Methodist conference. The Rev Lucius H Bugbee of Centre Street Church Malden Mass delivered the address. Tomorrow the conference opens with Bishop Richard J Cooke of Portland Ore presiding and Mayor Harry C Spaulding delivering a welcome.
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