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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1919
Page
15
General Manager C D Emmons announced a service change in South Boston to extend the line along Broadway Extension to the Tremont street subway entrance. The plan aims to use 35 of the 65 new center entrance cars to improve traffic flow.
A new trunk line will run from City Point to North Station through the Tremont Street subway with two car trains and frequent headways during rush hours, replacing infrequent lines to Copley square Essex Street North Station via Federal Street and Broadway station lower level. The change will give South Boston faster access to shopping and theatres and adds 1740 seats in peak hours versus 1462 now. construction and new cars will arrive later after years of public demand following a 1917 Public Service Commission order.
The proposal received support from the City Council, South Boston trade associations, the South Boston Citizens' Association, and a special committee for the district. The new service would require transfers at Boylston street for destinations like Copley square Back Bay and Essex street. South Station riders would use the Dorchester tunnel from Broadway station.
Louisville newsman reports Walter Schade former Louisville businessman paroled from Fort Oglethorpe Ga and heading to Louisville. His wife now deceased was sister of Walker D Hines director general of the railroad administration. Schade was arrested in April 1918 for pro German utterances and imprisoned three months later.
A mysterious burlap wrapped bundle arrived at Police Station 19 in Mattapan. Officers suspected a German bomb or contraband, but inside lay a worn helmet once worn by a Bowie. The helmet, found in the Argonne forest, was sent by Color-Sergeant Samuel Smith to Captain Watkins, and now sits on the station desk as a curious exhibit.
New York April 9 Mrs Ellen A O Grady deputy police commissioner announced she ordered a crusade by women detectives against proprietors of moving picture theatres displaying suggestive immoral and filthy films as she observed on a tour of movie houses today.
Mrs. O Grady says moving pictures corrupt youth and urges churches courts and schools to act. She cites two 14 year olds seeking American fun and two 15 year olds flirting with a 40 year old man as examples of juvenile delinquency linked to films.
The West Humhaw, first all sed merchant ship to enter a German port since U S entry, returned from Dantzig with pork relief cargo. Captain Hatfield reports quiet port life, praise from Germans for Americans, and a boom in prosperity despite workers on eight marks daily.
In the House of Commons Hugh Guthrie said Canadian deserters overseas were executed during the war and others received up to 20 years. He noted harsher punishments in England. General Sir Sam Hughes said deserters were tried by court martial and shot in England and at the front.
The Florida Senate today passed a resolution endorsing the United States role in the League of Nations and supporting President Wilson and his Paris peace conferees amid ongoing negotiations.
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