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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1910
Page
16
The Boston Finance Commission is to consider creating a bureau of municipal research, modeled after New York’s bureau. The City Council yesterday directed the Finance Commission to send a recommendation. the commission has shifted from opposing to favoring the bureau’s establishment.
The council debated delaying the Health Board original package milk regulation and backed a quit claim deed plan on Parkman Fund properties. A public lands vote proposed selling northeast Chelsea Street East Boston and Back Bay paving yard properties for at least $20 000 while a Finance Commission bureau was proposed to improve city operations.
The Aborn English Opera Company staged Bizet Carmen at the Boston Opera House with Louise Le Baron as Carmen and Joseph Sheehan as Jose. Ottley Cranston sang Escamillo, Estelle Wentworth Micaela, Florence Coughlan Frasquita, Vera Roberts Mercedes, and Charles Drumheller Morales, under Max Fichlander's baton. Le Baron drew warm praise for her dramatic and vocal color in key scenes.
In New York Coleman and his son linger at Grand Central and a drugstore as a woman linked to May Brooks and Laura Atwood is seen nearby. Authorities say secret service chatter about hidden money and a Boston origin fuels questions, with Coleman claiming no truth to the sensational report.
Discontented and angry "Big Bill" Kelcher laments broken bail protections after standing for the fare gang. His continued jail stay and loss of amusements worsen his mood and threaten disclosures that could implicate Boston residents.
Arrested man known as Big Bill remains jailed since Saturday awaiting bail. He lists “sure friends” to his counsel, names others who promised funds but none fully satisfy the $25,000 bond. He expects sensational disclosures if federal authorities push.
Brookline Board of Selectmen faces a deadlock after four weeks with a water wagon inspector post awaiting approval. Walter Quinlan was recommended by Michael Driscoll, but two members opposed and one absent left the vote tied. The chair remarks on authority and the matter is tabled for one week.
About 400 members of the Page class attended a vestry reception in the Dudley Street Baptist Church last night to honor the church’s new pastor Rev Robert Fulton.
The speaker asserts ex Mayor George A. Hibbard is likely to be approved as city collector by the Civil Service Commission though no official confirmation is given. Commission members are silent and slow to report, a stance noted by several mayoral appointees.
The piece surveys the Massachusetts Civil Service Commission and outlines five required qualifications for city appointees: expert in the office, education, training, experience, and character. It notes the 39 day reporting window, potential candidates including Mayor George A. Hibbard, and hints at party balance and nonpartisan aims amid delays and public scrutiny.
Halifax has faced continuous rainfall for a week with dense fog and reports of record totals. The weather bureau notes 56.43 inches in six days, causing widespread damage across the province, washed out bridges, impassable roads, and lumber losses at Sheet Harbor as booms are carried away and logs drift free.
General Brigham announced Color-Sergeant Joshua P D Upton of the 6th Infantry as the new head of the ordnance department yesterday. The adjutant-general confirmed the appointment and noted his non-commissioned staff role.
W A Hunter secretary of the Boston Co operative Milk Producers Company declared a strike plan for New England. He said 30000 of 40000 daily cans of milk to Boston will be withheld May 1 unless winter rates are extended.
Activists backed by Secretary Hunter push a nationwide protest as Westboro and Hopkinton producers vow to withhold 1200 to 1300 cans daily unless rates rise. North Brookfield and others plan 1500 can withdrawals after April 30, aiming to pressure contractors and rail rates nationwide.
Milk dealers demand delay as hearings before the Mayor and Board of Health continue over a rule requiring milk be sold in bottles. Joseph Herlihy and Joseph Buckley testified that bottling raises costs and harms small dealers serving many poor households.
John J. Scott filed in East Cambridge Probate Court a notice of appeal on behalf of contestants Albert R. Glover Norman William and Arthur Seymour against Judge McIntire's ruling that allowed the will. The fifth brother was a beneficiary.
Albert Wolter, held at the Tombs, boasts of letters from women seeking marriage if a new trial grants release. He maintains innocence and doubts Fred Abner will let him face the chair. Wolter describes Abner as a traveler who will appear when needed. He says Walter sleeps well and eats well despite pending sentence.
The Shenandoah, last of Sewall Bath quartet that included the Rappahannock Roanoke and Susquehanna, sails toward Erie basin to be cut to a coal barge. Captain James F. Murphy's 47 years at sea crown a storied career with the fastest sailing vessel in the fleet.
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