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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1914
Page
6
The Public Service Commission releases its report on New Haven expenses and improper relations with State House reporters. It endorses new legislative rules, approves the voucher system, and denounces $7800 spent to distribute a publication described as utterly false and misleading.
The commission’s concise report urges criminalizing the publication or funding of false statements by a public service corporation. It cites inadequate vouchers for the New Haven railroad and a $7800 misrepresentation issue from 1912, urging tighter accountability and penalties. It also criticizes a group of trustees named to takeover Boston & Maine stock.
Firemen found Mrs. Sarah Dunn 50 ablaze in the kitchen at 135 Tremont Street East Cambridge. Her husband Alfred Dunn 65, intoxicated, had overturned an oil stove and lay drunk as the flames spread. She died at Cambridge Relief Hospital. he was arrested for drunkenness. Neighbors alerted responders after hearing screams.
Dedham selectmen at an adjourned town meeting in Memorial Hall voted total appropriations of 215100 for the current year. The allocations include 79500 for schools 84100 for highways 17100 for the fire department 8700 for the police department 1200 for the tree warden and 17500 for land purchase at Auburn and Mt. Vernon streets owned by Jeremiah McCarthy.
Competing transport operators in South Boston clash with 10 cent bus trips and 5 cent ferry rides to the new fish pier. Alexander Adams launches an omnibus line from Atlantic avenue to the pier while George Fitzpatrick adds fast motor boats, challenging the Boston Elevated and promising rapid service. Fish dealers express satisfaction with current rates as the clash unfolds.
An elevator in a New York manufactory plunged during a descent killing one man and two women. Thirteen others were in the car but escaped serious injuries.
Former Lawrence special policeman Michael Moore, who aided authorities during two bitter local strikes, achieved a victory for workers seeking union recognition at Miller & Woodbury and S. A. Seavey & Co. in Beverly.
At Burnham Hall mockery of police during Lawrence and Ipswich strikes is retold as Moore, praised on stage, declares he can earn more as a shoe worker and aligns with the workers. Bowen and Rowe broker a two week strike settlement, yielding wage scale compromise and union recognition leading to likely closed shops in the two firms' shops.
The final Wakefield adjourned town meeting decided against adding a patrol wagon and ambulance. Voters ordered improvements to sewer, street, and sidewalk projects. The board of health reported on a town garbage collection system and received a $1500 appropriation to support the effort.
Fanny Greenwood a 16 year old resident of Malden is in critical condition at Malden Hospital after her dress caught fire from a lighted gas stove. Passersby, including George Hanson and Thomas Conley, aided by beating out the flames and wrapping a blanket around the girl.
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