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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1915
Page
16
The annual Actors Fund Home benefit was held yesterday at the Boston Theatre and reported a strong financial outcome. The event supported actors facing a difficult year with heightened effort to maintain the usual high standard of entertainment.
Daniel Frohman and Thomas B. Lothian led a Boston benefit at Castle Square Theatre presenting acts from local and outside groups. Lillian Russell attended from New York to speak on youth and health while Julia Arthur Ernest Glendinning Marieuart performed Romeo and Juliet. The program included a burlesque scene and songs by Christie MacDonald with proceeds near $5000 to support the fund.
Delegates at the 88th annual Royal Arcanum Grand Council of Massachusetts voted to erase the Commonwealth shield from the state seal and replace it with a crown and the inscription Mother Jurisdiction. The change follows approval by the attorney general and secretary of the Commonwealth. no prosecutions expected for the seal use, and the order’s founding date will be added beneath. David F. Dillon of Palmer was elected grand regent succeeding C. Edgar Searing. Howard G. Avery of Norfolk, Va., and H. C. Dubois of Rhode Island attended as visitors. new officers installed by S D 8 Brinson. George A. Richardson lost re-election to the finance committee. J J Hogan remained chairman. new members Nye and Byron chosen. Henry Jennings was defeated.
Robert Burns, running a local detective bureau, seeks to bar William J. Burns International Detective Agency Inc from using similar names. He claims he has used the Burns titles since 1909 and registered "Burns Detective Bureau" on January 27, 1911 at the State House.
The first public step toward a memorial for late Governor Curtis Guild was taken at a meeting at 25 Beacon Street. C. K. Bolton of the Boston Atheneum was elected chairman of a seven member permanent committee empowered to add members as needed.
Prominent Boston figures and friends of Curtis Guild attended a public meeting to elect a permanent committee chair and to approve plans for fundraising and the memorial type. News of progress to be released through committee channels only. Attendees included Mrs. Nelson A. Titus, H. M. Leland, ex Mayor Glines, Rev. Dr. Berlee, Charles L. Burrill, and others.
Andrea D Elesandro brought from Scranton Penn appeared before Judge Morton in Ravenna Ohio on charges of violating the Mann white slave act by transporting Mary Valenta of Boston for immoral purposes. He pleaded not guilty and in default of a $1000 bail was sent to East Cambridge jail to await trial next week.
MISS MARY RUHL daughter of the late Joseph A. Ruhl of St. Louis will marry Arthur M. Clark Harvard 08 in the early autumn.
Amendments were introduced in the Senate to strike provisions granting the Public Service Commission power to approve debt securities and to oversee the reorganization of the Boston and Main railroad. The move targets removing PSC authority from the bill.
Yesterday Arthur M. Clark of Harvard 08 announced engagement to Miss Marie Ruhl daughter of the late Joseph A. Ruhl of St. Louis. They plan marriage this autumn at Richlands Missouri. Clark is well known in Boston and related to Jimmy Barker and ex-Senator William Clark.
Werner Horn a German army officer arrested in Vanceboro Maine on February 2 faces habeas corpus arguments alleging rights violations and treaty protections in his transfer to Boston to face dynamite transport charges. Prosecutor George W. Anderson opposes the claim as Judge Morton considers whether Horn is entitled to a court hearing on his petition.
The Dexter Elm, a two century old tree on the Dexter estate in Elm Street Malden, famed as a resting spot for George Washington, was uprooted yesterday after elm beetles killed it and branches were pruned following its decline.
Mrs Curtis Guild loaned the Bos tonian Society a portrait of the late Governor. The painting by August Benziger, a New York studio artist, is temporarily exhibited daily from 9 to 4 in the old State House and has not before been shown to the public.
The city will undergo its most thorough cleaning during Chelsea Clean-Up Week from May 3 to 8. The Board of Health will cooperate with Superintendent of Schools Frank Parlin and school principals, with the city divided into 30 districts for the effort.
Senator Hobbs, chair of the railroads committee, offered amendments as the measure moved to a third Senate reading. Debate resumes next week on engrossment as the Public Service Commission seeks oversight of securities and contract performance, while Hobbs would limit PSC power and leave contract decisions to the railroad directors.
Miss Mabel C. Willard opens a Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association campaign tomorrow on the Common at 3 PM for a Honeymooners and Married Couples rally. The lineup includes Mr and Mrs Stuart Chase, the Green couple from Ruggles Street Neighborhood House, and Louis Lawrence Green with Virginia Tanner, a society dancer. She jokes she is the only unmarried person and will enforce four minute speaking limits.
Two women from New York were arrested in a Washington street department store after police found seventeen women’s waists on their persons. Names given were Fannie Feldman of Chelsea and Bessie Pearlstein of Bloom Street New York. The Pearlstein woman spoke no English at the shop but afterward argued with her companion in fluent English.
Governor Walsh signed two bills affecting the L road in Charlestown and Dudley street station. One bill tears down the L structure and substitutes a tunnel at Charlestown, while another directs an investigation into crowded conditions at Dudley street station and considers a new L station at Dale street Roxbury. The Charlestown bill marks the end of years of citizen effort.
State House observers view the Charlestown L act as paving the way to remove all L structures in Boston and substitute tunnels. The act ties tunnel construction to the same payment and joint-use rules as the current Washington Street tunnel, with a voter acceptance needed before proceeding. The Dudley Street station probe also calls PSC to study elevated and surface cars and possible new L stations.
Douglas Ga April 28 Mrs Margaret Haskins arrested charged with killing her husband Reverend Allen Haskins Baptist minister Tuesday night. The clergyman was shot with a shotgun as he slept at his Lebaton home near here.
Harry K. Thaw, accused of killing Sanford White, won a judge's grant for a jury trial. Supreme Court Justice Hendrick set the trial date for May 17 after consulting with counsel in a habeas corpus proceeding.
Justice Hendrick stated the jury is called to aid the court by their advice and their verdict may be disregarded if not supported by evidence and justice. Thaw expressed radiant relief at the verdict as friends and counsel congratulated him, noting his relief but reflecting on his mother Mary Copley Thaw. He will wait for the May 17 hearing, with remand to the Tombs for trial.
In South Eliot Maine Pheris Cole aged years was killed today when a Dover bound car struck him on the Atlantic Shore railway. He rode with Malcomb Davis who lost control causing Cole to be hurled before an oncoming car.
Albany, April 23. Attorney-General Woodbury announced he would appeal Justice Hendrick's order granting Thaw a jury trial. He said the court lacked discretion to grant a jury trial on a habeas corpus test of Thaw's sanity and would seek a stay of the order pending appellate review.
Friends of Postmaster Edmund H Bowler and ex postmaster Charles H Riley persuaded both sides to drop the dispute. No warrants were requested in the local court and intimates doubt the matter will reach court.
Farmers in Massachusetts celebrate a victory as the House approves a land banks bill by engrossment after a brief debate. The measure now advances to the Senate for consideration.
The Serenaders of Boston, a music lovers group, held their second annual banquet last night at the American House with about 100 attendees.
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