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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1913
Page
5
Twenty destroyers and five submarines left Narragansett Bay to join a coast defence exercise along Long Island Sound starting tomorrow. Eleven battleships also had steam up for an early departure.
Wear Department officials say the exercise is not a trial of strength but a practice aid. The Atlantic fleet will support army plans and mine laying searchlight drills will occur as destroyers test lanes for battleships. The coast defense will practice under war conditions the next week.
A large crowd watched as life savers rescued seven people from drowning off Revere Beach yesterday. Lifeguards Bray Flaherty and Fines saved swimmers and cramps victims, aided by volunteer crews. Cold air water temperature differences were blamed for cramps among bathers.
The death toll from the East Brook side colliery explosion reaches 19 with John Lorenz dead in Pottsville. Fire bosses Daniel Earley and John Fessler remain trapped in the mine as rescuers clear a rock fall near the tunnel. Harry Schoffstall, the night inspector who escaped, is reported in serious condition but alive.
At L street bath house authorities plan action against men and boys who play ball on the sand at high tide drawing complaints from other bathers. The day drew about 8000 entrants to the main side with 3000 women and 2000 boys on their respective sections. A rescuer saved a man who nearly drowned after stepping into the channel during low tide as Life Guard Fisher intervened.
The Argentine super-dreadnought Rivadavia left Fore River shipyards at 11 PM bound for Brooklyn. Port captain Joseph Kemp navigated the huge ship through the draw with five tugs aiding, reaching the channel safely by 11 50 PM with a crew of 700 aboard.
About 50 young women and girls gathered on Walden Pond shore to sign a petition asking Concord authorities to build a bath house. They want equal access to swimming, challenging decades of male dominance in the spot.
Local girls petition for public bathing facilities as state land near the pond offers room for sheds. They recount unsafe changes and long walks in wet suits, naming signers including Mrs Gorman Miss Byron Mrs Filene Miss Craige Miss Ryan and others seeking secure shore access.
Mrs. Cunningham found John G. Cunningham 23 of 1655 Blue Hill Avenue Dorchester hanging from a rope in a second floor room. She cut the rope with scissors and saved him after he failed to return from a few minutes absence. He had been ill for months and was under his wife’s watch.
Osgood Pell, a New York City real estate millionaire, and his unnamed chauffeur were killed when their car was hit by an electric train at a Long Beach crossing. William Laimbeer and his wife, from Hempstead, were badly injured and may not survive. Mrs. Laimbeer is identified as Natalie Schenck. the party had left a dinner hosted by William K. Vanderbilt.
Catholics of Maine commemorated the 300th anniversary of the first Mass in the state with services in Portland. The event drew numerous church dignitaries including papal delegate Most Rev. John Bonanza D. D. as part of the celebration.
In Middletown New York on August 3 a gang attempted to rob Henry Wellington Wack’s henhouses near Monroe. They fled when confronted by Wack’s Irish terrier. the dog’s paws were burned by virulent acid. A large reward is offered for the criminals.
In Oswego New York Aug 8 the body of a woman found in the river wearing 1500 dollars worth of diamonds and pearls was identified as Mrs Allen Ames wife of a local millionaire clubman and general manager of the Amer Iron Company The death is treated as a potential suicide or accidental drowning with investigators reviewing circumstances.
Arthur Reginald Dyer deputy chief of the London fire brigade will arrive in New York tomorrow aboard the Minneapolis for the International Association of Fire Engineers meeting to be held in the city September 1 to 6.
Mrs Pell and guests witnessed the crash as an electric train struck their car. S. Osgood Pell and his chauffeur died. William Laimbeer and Natalie Laimbeer were gravely injured. The party had just left a dinner at the Nassau Hotel hosted by William K. Vanderbilt Jr. in Long Beach.
The Rev Father William Touhtg of St Mark s Dorchester celebrated mass yesterday after a brief Bermuda vacation. Plans are underway for the second annual St Joseph s College Lowell alumni reunion next Thursday with a solemn high mass at St Joseph s Church and a banquet at the college hall attended by the Mayor and church dignitaries. The Immaculate Conception church societies announce their annual Nahant excursion on Wednesday August 22 with large anticipated turnout.
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