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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1915
Page
1
Berlin issues a sharp diplomatic note to Washington asserting the German government has accomplished nothing in the protests and implies the United States largely accepts the British view on neutral commerce. The note accuses the U S of unfair attitude toward Germany.
About 10 000 people packed Billy Sunday’s Paterson New Jersey tabernacle tonight. Two thousand were turned away as the 6 30 pm crowd swelled beyond capacity. Students from Paterson Ridgewood Passaic Bloomfield filled reserved sections and local business colleges and Y M C A youth filled nearby seats.
Germany protested to the United States that it has done little to win food shipments to German civilians while allowing arms to reach the Allies. Washington replied that it will pursue its rights to ship arms but remains cautious on foodstuffs. The German note argues the Allies benefit from U S goods, urging neutrality in spirit and action.
Haverhill official Almon W. Riley now gets 15 dollars a week for daily transport of six children to Walnut Square School. He formerly carried eight, but envy allegedly reduced his load to seven while the eighth child walked beside the old gray mare and the rebuilt butcher’s wagon on the three mile route.
Riley charges Haverhill city $15 weekly for transporting his five children and a neighbor’s child to school. The item notes another desertion and ongoing local transport costs.
William Grant James, editor of the Boston Budget, died by his own hand yesterday afternoon in his office at 62 Summer Street. The body was found at 6 oclock by George P. Fiske of the editorial department, hanging in a closet in an inner office. despondency had troubled him for some time.
Dr H A Lothrop of Beacon street states the editor is dead. Medical Examiner Magrath viewed the body. James resided at 481 Boylston street Brookline and leaves a widow Miss Jessie Lewis of Hotel Brunswick, a brother Robert Kent James Newton and sister Adelaide James Brookline. Born in Boston 47 years ago he was son of George B James founder of the Budget and Beacon.
The body of Curtis Guild, thrice Governor of Massachusetts, was buried in Forest Hills Cemetery after a public funeral yesterday afternoon. State and city paused official business as thousands paid tribute with military honors, simple rites, and a large outpouring of civic grief. Flags were half staff and dignitaries from city, state, and foreign governments attended.
Large Boston business houses closed during services and mourning displays in windows. Officials including President Wilson's envoy Edmund K. Billings and Governor Walsh with Mayor Curley attended Arlington Street Church. Russian ambassador George Bakhneteff and other foreign representatives joined a world wide funeral tableau. Some 30 000 viewed Guild’s bier at the Hall of Flags before continued coverage.
Young guests occupy seats of honor near the front as the hall fills with school pennants and a loud scene erupts at 6 45. Passaic section is mentioned as bedlam breaks loose during the event.
Professor Thomas R. Lounsbury emeritus English at Yale died suddenly at the home of Secretary Anson Phelps Stokes in New Haven. A Yale graduate of 1859, he served in the Civil War and rose to full professor, later guiding the Sheffield Scientific School library from 1873 to 1906.
Michael Borelli owner of a beer garden and shoe shine parlor and Vincenzo Pittochelli were killed during a card game at Borelli's in Lawrence. A man known as Manzi fired the shots and fled, and a citywide alarm has been issued.
A second floor apartment at 16A Grigg Street in Cambridge burned last night killing two children and sending their father Harry Hinds and housekeeper Mrs. Addie Jarvis to hospital. Firemen rescued them from thick smoke. All residents were described as colored.
Manzi and Ernest Martelli argued after a card game at a saloon. Manzi drew a revolver and fired wounding Borelli in the heart and Pittochelli in the breast as bystanders scattered, leaving one casualty.
Firemen carried Hinds unconscious with severe burns to Cambridge City Hospital on the dangerous list. Lieutenant William Richardson of Ladder 3 found Mrs Jarvis unconscious in the burning building and, with Dr. Walter Feeley, revived her before sending her to the hospital.
Planked Sirloin Steak with French Fries and salad served for two. Fancy Corn-Fed Tenderloin Steak with Delmonico potatoes and pineapple for two. Planked Whole Native Chicken with Waldorf salad and jelly. Bluepoints on Half Shell and Guinea Chicken with partridge sauce and Waldorf salad priced at 1.20 to 41.20.
PrP. Sina Portland 24m 8h 38m earlier. SUN Bic 5 28.
Gloucester notes moon rise at 3 50 am with new moon April 14 and full moons listed through December. Star events include Saturn as evening star and Venus plus Jupiter as morning stars. auto lamps light at 6 50 pm and 7 20 pm for other vehicles. Anniversaries recall Lew Wallace born and Louise Chandler Moulton born. historical rail wreck in Clayton, Conn.
Forecast for Boston and vicinity calls for fair Saturday and Sunday with cloudy periods and continued warmth. Winds will be moderate and generally from the south. Washington reports a separate note for New England with partly cloudy Saturday and Sunday and overcast conditions.
Fragmentary entry records temperatures and times with figures such as 54 yesterday and 45 a year ago. Mentions Thompson's Spa and a sequence of unreadable codes and numbers including 58, 48, and 59. Ends with an average yesterday and a historical average.
Four thousand mechanics and laborers on the Boston and Maine and Maine Central railroads threaten drastic action unless bridge builders are reinstated and the Bridge Builders' Union grievances settled. Electricians, car shop men and track men have voted to stand by the bridge men.
Trouble began weeks ago when wage scale talks between Chief Engineer Corthell of the B and M and a union committee ended. The Bridge and Building Union with 726 members alleges Corthell sought a supervisors committee, retaliation against some discharged workers, and appeals to President Hustis. Organizers vow wider union action if demands are not met. A conference board meeting is set for 10 AM at the Quincy House.
Mrs Sloane daughter of Thomas A Edison has been invited to christen the new submarine at the Portsmouth navy yard The vessel will be the first to use the new storage batteries of the inventor’s cells
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