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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1920
Page
2
Councillor Henry E. Hagan urged a five member committee to study downtown police station conditions and work with District Attorney Pelletier on plans for a new courthouse and police station.
The executive committee will appoint special members while the next Council meeting is expected to confirm them. Debates cover a Boston Back Bay thoroughfare, street railway changes, and salary increases for Rexsbury Municipal Court probation officers retroactive to Sept. 1, 1920. Additional funds from the Parkman fund will fund Common and Franklin Park Zoo improvements. War-hero memorials are designated at Bayswater and Roxbury junctions.
Washington dispatch notes John Hays Hammond as a potential Col. House figure in the Harding administration. It recalls Hammond and House’s earlier ties, Hammond’s links to Taft, and Harding’s reliance on Hammond for advisory influence in forming a volunteer cabinet.
Two masked men with revolvers stopped Wakefield coal truck driver Henry Holloway on North Avenue near the Reading line. They pulled him from the cab, robbed him of $15 and a $54 check, then fled. Wakefield and Reading police scoured nearby roads but found no trace of the bandits near Wakefield Coal Company yards.
Charles Sumner Burch, bishop of the New York diocese of the Episcopal Church, died suddenly in New York City. Heart failure believed to be the cause. he had been ill for several days but his death was unexpected.
Bishop Burch, president of the Episcopal Synod of New York and New Jersey, had attended four visitations with Canon Pritchard. Born in Pinckney Michigan in 1855, he studied at the University of Michigan and taught in Detroit before his rise in church leadership. He had just spoken on labor capital relations at a London conference last summer.
The subject began as a journalist and editor in Chicago and Grand Rapids and worked in a Chicago publishing house owned by his brothers. He nurtured priestly aims since youth, delayed by circumstances until age 28. He became a lay reader and missionary among newsboys before his 1906 ordination, then served as rector of St. Andrews Staten Island, followed by an appointment as archdeacon a year later.
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