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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1906
Page
7
Dense sunlit crowds gather at Revere Beach, Boston Common and Public Garden, and Marine Park as spring warmth brings outdoor revelry. An estimated 20,000 people visit public reserves from noon to 6 pm, with most wearing straw hats.
A sun drenched Revere Beach drew between 35 000 and 50 000 visitors as the season opened two weeks ahead of schedule. Amusements including Nautical Garden Mammoth Theatre and Ferris Wheel ran with proceeds aiding local charities. A bicycle collision injured Abram Lobel 16 and Charles Papoules 15 while a rider on a green horse sparked a crowd concern. A fire near Point of Pines caused a scare but was a gravel mixer engine and a small loss. No arrests reported.
Crowds enjoy sunny day as the Common and Public Garden fill with cosmopolitans. Tulips and hyacinths bloom, swanboats crowded, magnolias admired, and activists gather under trees near Charles Street. A Socialist speaker draws a large crowd by the centre gate.
The first April summer day drew about 15 000 visitors to Marine Park City Point and South Boston. Fort Independence offered the best harbor view as fishing fleets anchored offshore and 50 yachts rested in Dorchester Bay. Lifesavers appeared at Head House while yacht clubs and boats, including Pippin Andrew Johnsons Winnie and Wren, drew crowds along the shore.
Dr C C Nicola of the New England Sanitarium denounced flesh meat drinkers as eating second hand food and contaminated corn in Boston. He warned disease follows urban nourishment from market refuse and condemned Thanksgiving turkey served months after slaughter. A respondent defended steak while a Sister Cooper denounced impure milk entering Boston.
A large European exodus includes two newly married couples sailing from New York and Philadelphia on the Deutschland and Romanic. Cambridge hosts a major April wedding at First Parish Church uniting Ruth Langdon Emery and Lewis Cass Ledys Jr. Other society matches occur in Brookline Roxbury Melrose and Hingham with homes in The Moorings World’s End and Dana’s Beach, Manchester by the Sea.
Former Governor William L. Douglas backs the Massachusetts Business Men's Tariff Reform League to promote tariff changes that aid local industries. He notes the group has $80 million to $100 million in invested capital and has opened headquarters in the Old South building with Douglas as president and an advisory board to follow.
William Anderson an architect living at the Hotel Astor and Percy Allison a civil engineer residing at the Hotel Gallatin were arrested on a $6000 race horse swindle claim by Benjamin Curtis Tower of Boston. Magistrate Breen discharged them in the Tombs Court saying Tower shared culpability for the scheme.
The old Horace Mann building on Warrenton street reopens this morning as a schoolhouse after being vacated for education nearly 380 years ago. Six grammar classes from Winthrop district move from Eliot and Tremont streets to the rebuilt site. The city purchased the building about six weeks ago and invested $6000 in renovations.
David A. Ellis denounces Senator Gardner's head tax rise and the Dillingham bill at a joint Alliance Israelite Universelle and Federation of Jewish Organizations gathering at 39 East Concord Street. He warns the Gardner measure would price opportunity on wealth and urges Boston residents to protest to national legislators.
In Portsmouth Ohio April 29 George Clough was shocked by a 10 000 volt line. He was stunned briefly then recovered quickly saying he felt spry and as if sparks were dropping from him. He touched a large power cable and lived to tell the tale.
Salem Oregon April 29 N T Palmer of Bath Maine appeared before the State Land Board yesterday and presented fraudulent certificates for 20000 acres he had purchased.
A gang broke into Avery Woodbury furniture store in Milford and a Caryville area trio raided the railroad station post office and G B Stowe store. Small sums were taken, but one burglar dropped a roll of money as Mr Stowe opened fire and the alarm helped drive them off.
In Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania April 29 1919 miners read the operators reply and John Mitchell reportedly vows that coal road charters will be attacked and drastic legislation will follow. He warns stockholders will remove men misrepresenting them as the strike nears.
In Brussels on April 29, it was announced that polar explorers will meet in a September congress. Geographers and scientists from around the world will attend the event.
The Boston Young Men's Christian Union heard Rev. H D Maxwell speak on Labor as a sacred force uniting workers across classes. Commander Hebbinghaus toured yacht race yards from Boston to Manchester, noting American and German designs under the Sonderklasse rule and reporting 14 boats ordered for American trials, with nine ordered in Germany for Kiel in July.
Commander H. G. Hebbinghaus naval attaché to the German embassy in Washington and Kaiser representative reviewed German craft for the Marblehead yacht match set for September. He also inspected the new international course off Marblehead.
Charles Hale Lynn of Minneapolis seeks his sister Mabel Clara Lynn whom he has not seen in a decade. He left home to go to sea at 17 and traveled the world, facing Philippine dangers before ending up aboard the battleship Texas. Lynn is currently on a two week furlough at Charlestown navy yard while his father William T. Lynn of Minneapolis hopes for news.
Roman rumor says the Pope allowed the council to examine the marriage of the Prince of Schoenburg Waldenburg to Princess Alice of Bourbon daughter of the Spanish pretender Don Carlos The prince claims the union was never consummated.
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