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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1913
Page
3
The rumor that Governor Foss would offer Louis D. Brandeis the railroad commissioner job spread after Chief Justice Knowlton declined the post. Foss dismissed the idea, saying Brandeis is a fine public servant but he has not considered any appointment.
A squad of Everett police dispersed about 100 striking workers at Cochrane Chemical yesterday afternoon. Four ringleaders were arrested and will be brought before Judge Bruce in Malden District Court this morning.
Washington April 29 A department conference discussed launching a Rural Organization Service to tackle better marketing social welfare and other farmer life improvements. Dr Thomas N Carver to direct the bureau with Secretary Houston Assistant Secretary Galloway and lawmakers guiding support. He favored extensive farming over pent up methods citing Anglo Saxon versus Chinese practice.
Dr Charles W Eliot declines a place on the Governor Foss white slave traffic investigation commission and Judge Marcus P Knowlton refuses a railroad commissioners board appointment. Eliot cites importance of the inquiry. Knowlton says his prior decision stems from plans to go south.
Sir William Osler spoke at Cambridge to about 500 Harvard men on The Oxford University Press. The lecture in the new hall was illustrated with stereopticon views and held at the invitation of Harvard University Press board of syndics, formed recently to publish works by Harvard professors.
The State House saw bipartisan backing as Republicans and Democrats approved the Foss tariff resolutions without debate. The measures ask Congress for hearings on the tariff and protest against Underwood rates, passing in the House as they did in the Senate. Senate Democrats opposed the bill.
The bill to build wings for the State House advanced to engrossment after heated opposition and amendments. Governor Foss issued a second veto on a police bill over patrol wagons for lost children, citing opposition from Police Commissioner O Meara. The House backed an initiative and referendum measure 6 to 5 and set next reports from transit and railroad commissions due Jan 10. The House rejected killing the bill to license barriers 39 to 73 and faces a conference on elevator men licensing. The Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Co. must fix defective service per the Board of Railroad Commissioners.
Philadelphia April 29 Delegates to the 22d annual general society Daughters of the Revolution were urged by president general Mrs Clara Rogers Bleakley to focus on present problems while keeping ancestors underground. Over 200 delegates from 18 states attended. Mrs Sarah Weld Smith urged greater flag respect and government loyalty and proposed restoring neglected cemeteries and locating old Revolutionary burying grounds with marked graves and government markers.
The Governor's Council will not remove Frank L. Randall of Minnesota from consideration for prison commissioner at today’s meeting. Councillor A. P. Goetting supports a Massachusetts candidate and backs Councillor McGregor’s stance. Lieutenant Governor Walsh also leans to oppose Randall if a Massachusetts replacement can be found.
A fire aboard the USS Celtic at Charlestown navy yard threatened a magazine with 10,000 pounds of gunpowder but was halted after early discovery. Quartermaster John McLaughlin sounded the alarm, 175 crew members were on deck quickly, and water streams saved the magazine. The ship is commanded by Ensign Lewis W. Comstock.
Tonight the Harvard senior class hosts a county fair in the Soldiers Field baseball cage. At 7 45 the 40 strong seniors march from the college yard with a brass band to the arena where the class mascot and Hoopla Hooplala are expected to delight. A Crimson note reports 400 tin cups bought for unspecified use, boosting crowd interest.
A Boston Board of Fire Underwriters special meeting drew up resolutions on the death of Edmund B. Cowles senior partner of Field and Cowles. A committee was named to draft resolutions and another to attend the funeral. Speakers praised the late Mr. Cowles’s sterling qualities.
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