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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1901
Page
6
The Boston mounted police squad is a noted feature of the Horse Show. The article highlights their efficiency and skill, including feats like catching a runaway pony, and notes the polo pony’s dodging as part of cavalry training.
Commissioner Clark explains the mounted squad formed a decade ago with ten men now at thirty two on drill. The unit, drawn from four stations, emphasizes horse handling and chasing runaways as a core duty. Several members, including Bates and Toland, have notably stopped many runaways in service.
The piece lists a crowd gathering for the Horse Show week at the Vendome with notable attendees including Mrs. Albert S. Bigelow Mr and Mrs H Staples Potter Mrs Ma Lowell Day Miss Evelyn Ames Miss Sherwood and many others. Aurel Batonyl the famed whip arrives to perform as a highlight of the event and Mrs Rotman of New York secures a hotel suite for the week.
Combina tion Park manager George Hicks lists three trotting and pacing races for Patriots' Day. Entries include multiple horses from Shawmut, Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, Mystic Park, and Roxbury with drivers and breeders named, highlighting a crowded harness program for the holiday.
Captain Mc Graw's Baltimore team defeated West New York Field Club 8 to 4 in an April 14 game witnessed by about 2000 fans. Hopkins and O'Neill combined on the mound for Baltimore while Yerkes Howell Lattimer and Robinson drove runs for West New York.
Cincinnati edged Indianapolis 2 to 1 in a lively game here. Bergen starred with a fine catch as Phillips McFadden and Habb combined for Cincinnati while Suthoff Creuze and Byers worked for Indianapolis. The decisive moments came in the later innings.
Antonio Zannitti 35 of 208 West Ninth street Boston fired a revolver at Patrick J. Hagan at 725 o clock. Hagan and bystander Amtonio Fuleto were grazed by bullets. A crowd restrained Zannitti until Officers Spring and McDavitt intervened. Hagan Wiggin of Hotel Central Green Street testified of prior jostling on Lewis Street. Zannitti jailed at Station 1.
Archbishop Ireland in Toledo calls for dedicating churches and city spaces to Christ. He argues material wealth and arms cannot provide moral health, urging plans for reform rooted in Jesus, with temples and sanctuaries inviting all to share heaven's inspiration.
A Paris despatch says an attempt to stab Mr Kruger was planned. The Dutch police reported possible plots, with the claim cited by L Estafette and repeated via Associated Press. Read as a London Daily Express cable, the report suggests a similar source behind the story.
Lawrence and Brockton input heats set for the catch as catch can tournament at the Howard. Afternoon bouts feature John Gibbons vs Robert Butler and James Gilligan vs John Reagan with twenty minute limits. Bobby Beakes debuts tonight and faces Harvey Parker in Brockton April 2.
A display in Jordan's window features seven elaborate silver trophies for the Horse Show. The Lawson trophy, a large ornate piece, may become personal property after three wins and carries a $10 entry fee. Other prizes include a Shreve tandem cup, Myopia and Norfolk Flint cups, a German silver stein for gig horses, a winged horse cup for best stallion, a Hotel Tuileries wine set for amateur tandem drivers, and the Pommery living cup for best road rig command.
A formal call for a Carnegie Hall mass meeting to form an anti Tammany organization was issued tonight. John C. Sheehan and allies labor to unite independent Democrats against Tammany in New York City governance. Nearly 150 names accompany the call including John D. Crimmins and Eustas S. Ransom, Peter B. Olney, E Ellery Anderson, and John C. Sheehan.
In New York on April 14 the major city building trades unions voted to enter politics and form an independent labor party for the first time since their organization. The decision was made at a gathering of twenty one unions represented in the board of walking delegates, with Philip Weinseimer of the Amalgamated Society of Plumbers and Gas Fitters presiding.
Detective Voorhees stops McNally during a dispute over his wife Alicea Dawson McNally 23. The couple argues at a hotel and station after alleged blackmail and staged escape plans. Police intervene as Mrs McNally pleads for protection amid threats and a midnight train plan.
Deputy Sheriff John B. Towne, a staunch prohibitionist enforcing the law, was assaulted late last night when a revolver shot and two whiskey bottles shattered a window and struck him, leaving minor injuries and no clues for the attacker.
Dan Daly De Wolf Hopper and William A Brady were arrested in New York charged with felony violation for arranging a burlesque during a vaudeville show at the Academy of Music. Hopper imitated Uncle Tom in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Brady Daly were bailed after release for now.
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