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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1916
Page
7
At a conference with Mayor Curley four council members pledged approval of an extra 17000 dollars to Warren Bros to pave both sides of Commonwealth avenue with bitulithic surfacing. Previous grants totaled 47000 dollars for the south side with Warren Bros awarded the contract.
The May or and City Council, joined by Commonwealth avenue residents and Warren Brothers representatives, planned a 17000 transfer from the reserve fund to cover extra paving. Councillors Hagan Attridge Ballantyne Collins and McDonald backed the measure so the council will vote at a Thursday special session. Warren Brothers sought equal paving on the opposite side and Bitulithic paving was proposed.
Thomas Orlansky of 142 Lincoln Street Brighton received a two month sentence in the House of Correction from Judge Bennett in Municipal Court. Patrolman Drinkwater testified Orlansky operated his auto recklessly on Charles River Dam Road, steering toward an iron lamp post before the officer stopped the vehicle.
Back Bay police raided Dr. Louis A. Hermann at 16 Dover street after months of investigation, seizing cocaine and heroin valued at nearly 1200 dollars.
Dr. Hermann aged 32 of 257 Humboldt Avenue Roxbury was arrested for keeping and selling drugs after a raid on his office following a police sweep of Eleanor Ryan at 99 Norway Street. Ryan, previously fined 100 dollars, acted as a go between for Hermann. Seizures included nine one ounce cocaine bottles and twenty thousand half grain heroin tablets.
Nagasaki reports 48 deaths from a cholera outbreak with 109 cases to date. A Yokohama despatch notes 52 cases in Tokyo and quarantine declared there. The Hawaii Maru was quarantined at Tacoma with 15 cholera cases before release on Aug 10.
In Provincetown artists work en plein air as Cape Cod School of Art under Charles W Hawthorne leads daily field sketching of dunes and historic houses. Sculpture taught by M Musselman Carr and Frederick Burt. plaster casting and clay figure studies enrich the Modern Art School sessions.
Yesterday eleven vessels brought fresh groundfish four carried swordfish and one carried mackerel at the fish pier. Wholesale prices ranged from 2 3 4 to 15 cents for various species with haddock cod hake pollock and swordfish among the listings and vessel fares listed for several ships.
The report lists swordfish and mackerel arrivals including the Orion and Ethel Penney with thousands of fish and tilefish cargoes. Vessels such as the Leyland liner Etonion and Canopic move between Liverpool Gibraltar Boston while repairs proceed on the City of Savannah. A steering buoy issue near Pollock Rip Slack prompts lighthouse repairs.
Shipping arrivals report lists destroyers, steamers, barges, and schooners from multiple nations arriving and departing via Newport News Hampton Roads Norfolk and Portland to Ports in Calcutta Boothbay Harbor Boothbay Rockland and St John with tugs and tows including Geo. R. Stetson Tamaqua Greenwood Cacoosing Phenix and Swatara under U S S Montana and other vessels with names like Grigorios Zlantonos Lowther Range and City of New Castle among many entries.
Harry N. Watson a 56 year old salesman of 604 Tremont street fell on the sidewalk at Berkeley street and Warren avenue sustaining a fractured skull from which he died shortly after at City Hospital. He was single.
The 28 Holyoke rookies who signed petitions claiming poor feeding will avoid prosecution, but Private Hugh Clark, their leader, will face a general court martial. Captain Wan schack and General Pershing discussed the case in Mexico, while weather and rain hindered training and drifted supplies.
A soldier confined in the stockade after an article in a Holyoke paper criticizing food conditions and funds sent to the company. The judge advocate revised charges for Clark as punitive actions loom in Mexico. Meanwhile a cloud burst inundated three target practice companies six miles from camp, forcing men to flee rising arroyos.
The Boston Board of Health reports one new infantile paralysis case and two deaths in Boston. State Board of Health notes nine new cases and two deaths outside Boston. The Boston case involves a four year old boy of Brook Avenue Dorchester now at City Hospital. Deaths are Carl Holmberg 21 of Brooklyn N Y and Joseph Sessen 18 months, Sessen recently arrived from Brooklyn and found ill on East Third Street South Boston.
In South Boston Esther D Halloran daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas Halloran aged four died after her clothing caught fire while playing in the yard of 775 East Broad way. A passing laundryman James F Mulcahey wrapped her in a horse blanket and extinguished the flames. The child was the youngest of five. father a Boston railroad motorman.
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