Old Controversy Over Inland Towage Divides New England Rates
Opinion splits among shipping interests in New England over Secretary Straus’s inland towage order. Ship owners favor fewer barges and shorter tows as potentially risky. bargemen warn of danger and higher fuel costs. Maine’s ship-builders see a business revival, while coal trade shifts favor barges at Narragansett Bay and ports from Philadelphia to Norfolk.
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Department of Commerce and Labor
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United States
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W. G. Cutler
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Messrs. Schubach
Hamilton
Seattle
Wash
St. Croix
Enterprise Transportation Company
Boston
St. John
N. B
Landsman
Frigid gales delay ships at port with heavy seas
Heavy northwesterly gales and winter storms delayed arrivals and departures at the port. The Dominion Atlantic liner Boston arrived several hours late from Yarmouth with 105 passengers and cargo. The Bloemfontein failed to beat a record due to a blizzard, carrying a $1,000,000 cargo of jute tea and gunny. The Anselma de Larrinaga reached the National dock from River Plate ports with wool and hides amid worsening cold.
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Anselma de Larrinaga
National Dock
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Gulf Stream
Fish landings and Atlantic shipping at Boston harbor
The Water Front reports mixed fresh fish arrivals at T wharf with 33 700 pounds total including 7 000 haddock 3 700 cod 10 000 hake and 1 000 pollock as weather clouds the fleet prospects. The United Fruit Limon from Costa Rica arrives with 31 700 bunches of bananas on a record fast winter passage. Ocean liners due include Canadian Belgravia Satsuma and Michigan while Penobscot loads cargo for Emery feet origins noted.
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Shipping News Mini Almanac Dispatches From December Seas
Shipping notes record arrival of U S revenue cutter Gresham and a long list of brigs and schooners including Anselma de Larrinaga Stephen Simon Smith Bay View Cum mings and Concord. Tides rise with sun and moon and several vessels sail for Boston Norfolk Newport News Portland and Newburyport amid wharves and tug activity.
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Boston College Students Produce Hamlet Play This Winter
Boston College announces its Christmas Hamlet production with Joseph T. Whalen of Dorchester in the title role. senior class plans a mid winter dance at Catholic Union Hall Worcester Square, with D D Donovan Roxbury Francis Smith Somerville George Lee Lowell Henry Tattan Somerville chairing. The junior class hosts an annual banquet and College Night speaker James B. Connolly. Class of 1911 dinner to feature David Waters Newton Francis E Low Wakefield Leo P Noonan Quincy Francis A O'Brien South Boston. Freshman class dances at Intercolonial Hall Dudley Street Web 2 led by Leo Tracy Salem with Dennis A Dooley Roxbury Edward J Butler Cambridge Florence Gillis Dorchester. Track games may be held in Mechanics' or Park Square this winter.
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Taft to Rebuke Standard Oil at Ohio Society Dinner
President elect Taft plans a speech at the Ohio Society dinner to rebuke the reactionary mood of last year, allegedly stirred by the Standard Oil Company to embarrass him for Senator Foraker. The earlier invite to Secretary of War tailed when he learned it aimed to set Foraker up for an attack.
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Taft
Ohio Society
Standard Oil Company
Senator Foraker
Diamond Ring Presented to Simon Goldberg for Service
At the rooms of the Corporation Iareth Israel, Simon Gold berk, financial secretary for several years, was presented with a diamond ring by President M H Bernstein as appreciation for auditing the annual report. Earlier he received a gold watch from the Grodno Lodge T O B A on his election to second deputy grand master.
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Iareth Israel
Simon Golberg
M. H. Bernstein
Goldberg
Grodno Lodge
Mrs Gates of Port Arthur Dead in Texas
Port Arthur Texas December 13 Mrs Gates mother of John W Gates is dead in Port Arthur Texas The brief notice reports the death of the mother of the famous lumber and iron magnate John W Gates.
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J. W. Gates
Port Arthur
Texas
Watertown Faces Christmas Short of Police Pay
Watertown faces a cash crisis as the police department awaits back pay amid a $67,000 deficit. Town officials seek funds at tomorrow night’s meeting to cover four months of physician salaries and unpaid obligations to assessors, firemen, and police.
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Watertown
May Ask Charles H. Cole to Run for Mayor
Rumors say former Police Commissioner Charles H. Cole may be urged to run for mayor with possible Good Government Association support and a Democratic nomination. Cole, born in South Boston, resides in Ward 11, with a downtown hotel conference reportedly discussing the move.
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Charles H. Cole
Cole
Good Government Association
Democrats
Mr. Cole
South
Boston
Ward 11
Stair Buys Major Toledo Theatres in Detroit Deal
Boston promoter E D Stair completed a major regional theatre purchase in Detroit transferring Burt's and the Lyceum theatres in Toledo to the new owner. The price was not disclosed.
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Toledo
Detroit
Boston
Frank Burt
Lyceum
Burt's
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