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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1919
Page
10
Eight architects including three Boston firms entered bids for designs of the new practical arts high West Side high and a grammar school in Manchester New Hampshire. The appropriation set aside for the project totals 675000 dollars.
The Massachusetts Committee on Legal Affairs reported against proposed anti strike legislation for publicly controlled street railways. Representative Wellington Wells—Boston—dissented. The panel concluded existing arbitration statutes suffice to protect public health and safety, deeming new measures unnecessary.
The report, filed in the Senate by Senator Hardy of Huntington, chair, states the committee on legal affairs held frequent hearings on continuity of street railway service. It notes all attendees were heard and briefs from Washburn, Vahey, and Mahon were considered along with the street railway workers union in Massachusetts.
Property owners and tenants near Granite avenue oppose the proposed rendering plant by Thomas G. Washburn. A petition circulated among district residents urged the Board of Health to deny the plant’s location in Neponset. The report notes community opposition and local sentiment.
The Commission on the Necessaries of Life reports to yesterday's Legislature that state laws cannot improve the sugar supply since federal control governs the market. Any state action would not increase available sugar in the Commonwealth.
The commission argues that fixing a price for sugar would mainly limit imports and that price rises after federal control ends should be brief as market forces reassert themselves. It notes action against profiteering, warns against costly war rationing, and explains export misunderstandings tied to raw sugar sent to the Royal Commission abroad.
Mrs Anne Raynolds Fitzmaurice of Congress street Milton died at home yesterday morning at age 100 after a brief illness. Born in Ireland she came to Milton as a girl and remained there. She survived by three daughters Laura with her mother C L Whitney and Mrs Edward Ingraham of Hopedale and one sister Delia Fairbanks of Hopedale. Funeral services will be held at her sister's home in Hopedale.
Burglars found in the Arlington News Company store on Massachusetts Avenue rifled the company safe and carried off about $100. The adjacent Hotel and Railroad News Company office was also broken into with about $9 taken from a change drawer.
Barre Granite Manufacturers Association members from Barre Montpelier Northfield Waterbury and Williamstown gathered in Barre for the annual business meeting and officer elections. Alexander A Milne was re elected president John A Cross first vice president W T Calder second vice president Athol R Bell secretary and treasurer. Directors and auditors were named and reports hailed the year as unusually successful.
An attentive crowd at Steinert Hall last night heard tenor Roland Hayes and pianist Laurence Brown. Hayes well known in Boston and praised for talent, while Brown proved a serious student of the piano with strong technique and style. Both artists were encored by the audience.
Massachusetts hunters killed 755 deer during the six day open season ending last Saturday, the lowest total in years. Franklin county led with 152 followed by Berkshire 141 and Worcester 127. notable catches included David Boardman’s 385 pound buck and A. E. Maillett’s 12 point deer from Pittsfield.
Boward M. Coffin of the Associated Industries was elected chairman at a conference of industrial training superintendents and managers in Young's Hotel. The meeting aimed to standardize training problems to promote efficient methods benefiting both employers and employees.
William J. Doherty and Lieutenant R. G. Moody joined Charles Tripp of General Electric and other company representatives from Fore River, Norton Grinding, Dennison, and Brown & Sharpe at a Charlestown navy yard gathering. The program noted stitching in bright colors as chic trimming.
Thomas D. Emery six of Charlestown was struck and killed at Bunker Hill and Sullivan streets by a car owned by Richard S. Lombard Everett driven by his son Richard H. Lombard seventeen. Joseph Donahue five of Medford was struck by an auto truck on Mystic avenue while crossing his street and died from a fractured skull.
Fitchburg Mayor Frank H. Foss called a mass meeting for tomorrow night at City Hall to protest alleged discrimination against General Edwards. About 200 former 26th Division men in the city support Edwards and helped organize the protest gathering.
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