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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1911
Page
16
The Harvard class day schedule shifts due to the June 23 Harvard Yale baseball game. Chairman R C Ployd and officers announce June 22 as class day and June 21 for the senior spread and dance. This is the first time class day misses the third Friday in June. The committee adds new features to the programme.
A catalog style ad promotes suits and coats priced from ten to forty dollars. Sack suits, walking outfits, dress and tuxedo styles, spring overcoats, raincoats, and English soft roll sacks are available with new shades Coronation Blue Deep Purple Bronze and Golden Browns. Free alterations by master tailormen.
The World in Boston program lists events at Pageant Hall and Midway platform from 3 p m to 9 40 p m including speeches by Fisk University leaders on municipal ideals and Negro leadership sample by Booker T Washington Edwin D Mead presiding and a missionary education conference The Baptist Day at the exposition featured Bishop Lawrence welcoming Baptists and speakers recounting missionary work among cowboys and Indians with anecdotes from J O Gould and F A Brock plus a panel of leaders in the Dark Ness and Light pageant characters
Thousands tour the Baptist Chapel car operated by the American Baptist Publication Society. The car travels to towns for on site services and permanent missions. Since 1891 these cars created 168 churches and 272 Sunday schools while 15 thousand conversions were recorded.
The World in Boston exhibit features a Hindu and Ottoman theme with a harem skirt contrast to the hobble dress. Playwright Helen Curtiss presents New Lamps for Old in Constantinople based on Demetra Vaka’s Haremlik with Miss Curtiss among the troupe from the Roxbury church.
In the Exhibition Hall a group of American children dressed in Chinese attire demonstrated native Chinese games for an audience. Boys played skinning the snake brick bats and forcing the city gates while girls joined in Slavic group play and the cow's tail as Miss Beuhla Mason, raised in China, taught the games.
The Rev. A. M. Gardner, general secretary of The World in Boston, said attendance at the Boston opening surpassed that of London’s 1951 exposition during the initial hours of the event.
Fisk University, a historic Nashville trade school for colored students, will be honored today at the World in Boston exposition. President Gates and Dr. Booker T. Washington will speak, the Fisk Jubilee Singers perform, and Edwin D. Mead will preside. The co educational school enrolls about 60 students including Mrs. Booker T. Washington and Booker T. Washington Jr.
Large audiences enjoyed smoother matinee and evening shows of the pageant Darkness and Light in Page ant Hall. About 2000 attended the afternoon and 2500 the evening performance as the production aimed to trim run time to about ninety minutes. Tenor Henry Gurney repeated strong turns as the missionary in the North episode and bridegroom in the West.
John A Lyons former employee of a Boston clothing house becomes assistant manager at Kennedy's new Summer street store 30 38 He is Roxbury born Dudley Grammar School graduate and member of Shawmut Council 170 K of C and Massachusetts Foresters He vows fair dealing and strong effort to grow the business while keeping honest values. Vincent and Hall two rivermen survive after a dangerous log jam on the Nulhegan and Connecticut rivers as 2 000 000 feet of logs back up the jam at the confluence. rescuers plan dawn operations to clear the pile while dams upstream hold.
Sam Vincent and George Hall narrowly escaped death while stringing a boom near Paul stream mouth. Logs sluiced through the dam at 25,000 feet per minute as white water rushed through the rocky gorge at 20 miles an hour.
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