Praying Into Our Customs at Boston Port Faces Scrutiny
An investigation into the Foston custom house exposes alleged smuggling and duty evasion at the port of Boston. Officials including Collector Curtis and Major Edgerly defend the system, while others expect revelations of privileged practices and potential misconduct across goods from Italian imports to textiles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foston Custom House
Boston
Shaw
Curtis
McCarthy
Edgerly
Custom House
Seavey Back of Kelly in Suffolk County Sheriff Race
Deputy Sheriff John Kelly plans to run for Suffolk County sheriff with Sheriff Seavey supporting him as successor. Kelly hints a fall candidacy though he may refrain if his chief enters. The position is valued at 12 000 to 28 06 dollars annually and includes a house and meals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Kelly
Suffolk County
Fred A. Seavey
Sheriff Seavey
Kelly
Martin M. Lomasney
Ward 8
David B. Shaw
Charlestown
Arthur D. Hill
Prove Cook Told One Lie Tied to Alaska Ascent Proofs
Governor Walter F E Clark of Alaska in Washington today received a telegram from E W Griffin of Fairbanks asserting the proofs of the McKinley ascent by Thomas Lloyd and party on April 3 are absolute and demonstrate the absolute failure of Cook's party. The message ends with Hail to Alaskans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Walter FE. Clark
Alaska
E. W. Griffin
Fairbanks
Mr. McKinley
Thomas Lloyd
Cook
Boston Girl Weds New York Lawyer
Rome N Y April 18 Assemblyman James Thomas Cross of the third Oneida county district and Miss Emma Frances White were married at St Peter's Church parochial residence at 8 30 this morning The groom a Albany Law School graduate is the youngest member of the New York State Legislature Mrs Cross has lived in Rome for three years coming from Boston where she was salutatorian in 1904
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
N. Y
James Thomas Cross
Oneida
Emma Frances White
St. Peter's Church
Albany Law School
New York
St. Bartholomew's Church
Madison Avenue
Forty-Fourth Street
Marjorie Gould
Anthony J. Drexel
Gladys Vanderbilt
Countess Szechenyi
Gould
Anna Gould
Jay Gould
Duchess de Talleyrand-Perigord
Drexel
Philadelphia
Twain on road to recovery after medical visit
Redding Conn April 18 Samuel L Clemens lying comfortably tonight and feeling better doctors report improvement since his arrival here but condition remains serious Dr Robert Halsey returned to Berineia from New York and will stay several days longer
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Redding
Conn
Samuel L. Clemens
Robert Halsey
Beriineia
New York
Clemens
Steamship firm ordered to pay 50 percent in priority claims
In Boston district court Justice Putnam ordered the Metropolitan Steamship Company receivers to pay 50 percent of the priority claims. Special masters John F. A. Merrill and A. Woodman will prepare the schedule of these claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
United States Circuit Court
Justice Putnam
Metropolitan Steamship Company
John F. A. Merrill
A. & Woodman
Boston Bowling Green Club Season Opener Matches Leaders
The Boston Bowling Green Club opens the season at 10 a.m. with a match between president ER F Clark and vice president H R Kenyon. Mrs J F will perform the opening toss as the green fort sea ceremony begins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Bowling Green Club
ER. F. Clark
H.R. Kenyon
J. F
Gould Drexel Nuptials Shine as New York's Brightest
Miss Marjorie Gould and Anthony J. Drexel marry at St Bartholomew's Church Madison Avenue. The event draws unmatched social attention with pink decorations and Tiffany gift watches for bridesmaids. Guests include New York's wealthiest and social elite.
Exiled French Count and Countess Face Art Fraud Claims
April 18 Tours France. Count de Gatigny and wife now under scrutiny for misrepresentation in selling paintings claimed as great masters but allegedly copies. Mrs Paine accuses them of furniture misrepresentation and collusion with an English attorney. The hearing seeks seizure of papers from Boston firm Gray Loring & Co. and reveals a flashy past.
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de Gatigny
France
Scituate
Tours
Countess de Gatigny
Francesca Lunt
Boston
Mass
Prescott
Dirs
Charles Hamilton Paine
Paris
American heiress sues over forged art deals in Tours
Mrs Paine, widow of a Boston millionaire, travels to Tours with lawyer Maitre Eugene Plumon to press charges against the Comte d Aulby de Gatigny. The case centers on fraudulent pictures she stopped paying for after already laying out about $40 000. The count, once selling pictures in France, is alleged to have posed as a noble and founded a pseudo Masonic order, giving bracelets to Parisian women. Police in France review the count’s records. Dully traveled to America in 1992.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Edouard
Comte D'Aulby
Prince del Berghetto
Count del Berghetto
Prince Monti
Guy de Lusignan
Jerusalem
Prince de Lusignan
D'Aulby
John Edward Dalby
Loudon
New York
Boston
America
Comte
Prince de Borghetto
Paris
Dully
Not Boston Firm Clarifies Ropes Gray Gorham Lineage
The firm once known as Ropes Gray Loring now operates as Ropes Gray Gorham after key members John C. Gray and Roland Gray deny involvement in a case. They state no papers or authority link them to the Count and Countess de Gatigny and suggest another firm is meant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gray, Loring & Co
Boston
Ropes, Gray & Loring
John C. Ropes
Judge Loring
Ropes, Gray & Gorham
Tours
France
John C. Gray
Notable Dolby Family Ties Remembered in Boston Intel
The memory centers on George Dolby and his son associated with the Count de Gatigny title. Local figures recall the Dolbys as once prominent in Boston society. A brittle strand of gossip touches on marriage plans and a scandal involving a swindler, all shaping a somber chapter in city lore.
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Count de Gatigny
George Dolby
Arthur
Grand Miss Gould wedding details and lavish gifts noted
The article describes Miss Gould's simple white satin bridal gown trimmed with rare laces and a pink flower decorated home for the St Bartholomew's ceremony. It notes a lavish reception on Fifth Avenue, a large wedding cake, a yacht honeymoon to London, and gifts including a $500,000 Fifth Avenue house, a diamond necklace, a large plastron, and silver chests from Drexel and Gould families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Gould
Fifth Avenue
Sixty-seventh Street
New York
Vivian Gould
Gould
St. Bartholomew's
A. J. Drexel
Helen Gould
William A. Hamilton
Goulds
George Gould
London
Margaret Drexel
Viscount Maidstone
Anthony J. Drexel
Delmonico
Armstrong Drexel
Eighty Second
Eighty-Third
Frank Gould
Paris
Drexel
Bourbons, Broadway and Boston Links in Lunt Dolby Tale
Bent, former Bostonian Society officer, aided by George Dolby the London musical agent, helped bring singers to Boston for the Handel and Haydn Society. Francesca Lunt, wife of Dolby’s son and linked to Boston editor George Lunt, visited the city then died by suicide at Scituate after family scandal. Her son Guy d Aulby de Gatigny was noted in earlier reports.
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Bent
Bostonian Society
George Dolby
Dickens
America
Boston
Cambridge
James R. Osgood
London
J. B. Upham
Handel and Haydn Society
Upham
Mr. Dolby
Mme. Rudersdorff
Edith Wynn
Mme
Patey
Messrs. Cumming and
Santley
Dolby
Paris
Francesca Lunt
Count Dulby de Gatigny
George Lunt
Boston Courier
Scituate
Thomas W. Parsons
Prescott
Guy d'Aulby de Gatigny
Zack Bay
South Shore
Lunt
Mass
Church Watchdog Battle Over Revere Church Deed
In Suffolk County Superior Court the Associated Church of Revere seeks to compel the Congregational Church Union of Boston to transfer a deed for its Shirley Avenue church to the Associated Church for 400 and 860 advanced by the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society. The case traces a mortgage, foreclosure, and quit claim involving William J. Robinson and the Middleboro Savings Bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shirley Avenue
Revere
Associated Church of Revere
Suffolk County Superior Court
Congregational Church Union of Boston
Massachusetts Home Missionary Society
Associated Church
Middleboro Savings Bank
William J. Robinson
Church
Robinson
Church Union
Patrolmen dismissed for supper club duty breach
The trial board found Patrolmen Horatio C. Chase and Charles A. Steppe guilty for leaving their beats and dining at a nearby club. Police Commissioner O'Meara overruled the board and ordered their dismissal, effective April 18, 1910, at 5 45 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horatio C. Chase
Charles A. Steppe
City Hall Avenue
O'Meara
Commissioner condemns desertion of patrol routes and discipline breach
Commissioner O Meara sums cases against Patrolmen Horatio C Chase and Charles A Steppe of Division 2. He states a deserter risks a better position and shows lack of common sense loyalty and humanity. A trial board chaired by Captains Hanley Peabody and Yeaton found neglect of duty after hearings. Both men admitted the facts though pleaded not guilty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O'Meara
Beacon Street
Seregant Reardon
City Hall
Hanley, Peabody
Yeaton
Horatio C. Chase
Charles A. Steppe
Division 2
Kings Aged Mother Dies
The mother of Cardenio F. King, a former Boston financial agent serving 10 to 14 years in state prison, died in Burlington New York aged 75. She had hoped to see her son freed. Death was caused by congestion of the brain. Mrs King relayed the news to King at the prison, where he wept.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cardenio F. King
Boston
Burlington
N. Y
King
State Prison
Mayor's Aquarium and Zoo Plans Face Setback
Mayor Fitzgerald failed to secure a city council special session to discuss aquarium plans at Marine Park and a Franklin Park Zoo. Only two council members appeared as two appropriation orders for 5000 dollars to start preliminary work were sent by the mayor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fitzgerald
Marine Park
South
Boston
Franklin Park
Counci
City Hall
Ballantyne
Secretary Is Shoplifter Charged in Boston
Alfred Walker private secretary to Walter G Garritt Boston manager and vice president United States Leather Company was arrested yesterday by Special Officers Mitchell and Ross and jailed at Lagrange street station on shoplifting charges. Walker, a Wollaston resident with a car, had evaded arrest for about a year before yesterday and was later bailed out. He denies the charges.
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Alfred Walker
Walter G. Garritt
Boston
United States Leather Company
Mitchell and
Ross
Lagrange Street Station
Walker
Wollaston
Wolf's My Clothier Corner Han Street and Portland Streets
The store Wolf's My Clothier is best reached from Haymarket square Adams Square Scollay Square and Friend-Union street stations of the subway.
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Wolf’s
My Clothier
Hanover
Portland Streets
Haymarket Square
Adams Square
Scollay Square
Friend-Union Street
Subway
Wolf's
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