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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1915
Page
3
The body of J. O'Donovan Rossa, the Irish patriot who died in New York last month, was laid to rest this afternoon in Glasnevin cemetery Dublin in the area known as Patriots' Corner.
The body lay in state at City Hall with thousands filing past the bier. A funeral procession of about ten thousand moved through crowded streets to a graveside near the Daniel O’Connell statue, featuring Irish Volunteers, Hibernians, priests, and pipers.
Laura Lamontine 12 daughter of Mr and Mrs Lamontine narrowly escaped death after a trolley wire struck her on top of a freight car near Kennebunk Maine. She suffered severe burns and is in serious condition.
The executive board and delegates of the archdiocese gather in Boston to discuss the upcoming Catholic Federation national convention in Toledo Ohio. James J. Lemmon presides with Charles T. Daly as secretary as Monsignor Splaine outlines travel and preparation plans.
The Rev. Charles Fleischer spoke to about 300 listeners under the Women’s Peace Party tree. He attacked war as ruinous to culture and religion while railing at Roosevelt and praising Tolstoy as a true Christian beacon. He condemned war preparations as hypocritical and urged peace.
Michael Rand president of the Com Mon Cause Society declares religion and socialism antagonistic at a Charles street mall meeting. He cites Karl Marx and Engels and argues socialism is iconoclastic tearing down existing society with vague promises for replacement.
Uncle Sam seeks competent workers with salaries from 360 dollars a year for a Watertown arsenal messenger boy to ten times that for a senior land appraiser. District Secretary Edward E. Stebbins of the Civil Service Commission in Boston can supply details.
The section lists August 2 and 26 exam dates for junior civil, mechanical, and electrical engineers and a Oct. 2 test in 28 Boston district cities for post office clerks and carriers aged 18 to 45 with height requirements. Also Aug. 14 and 21 exams at Watertown arsenal for messenger and apprentice mechanic roles, plus a Washington Department of Agriculture opening for an experienced agriculturist in extension work.
Fire Prevention Commissioner John A. O Keefe enforces firesafe rules in the metropolitan district. Public garages must have non combustible floors and fire proof walls or face closure. Private garages may store only five gallons outside the car tank.
Next Friday, the Cathedral of the Holy Cross holds a 7 a m mass with all day blessed sacrament exposure and 8 to 9 p m holy hour. Devotions, sermon and benediction at 7 45 p m follow. Four masses are set for deceased Sanctuary Society members. The Confraternity of the Holy Cross meets Friday at 3 pm and an 8 am mass honors confraternity members. Forty hours devotion is scheduled at St George's Norwood and Somerville Home for the Aged 186 Highland Ave next Friday.
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