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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1917
Page
12
A fire at 58 Marshall Street Brookline forced occupants from two suites as flames spread from the basement. The blaze started by spontaneous combustion causing about 2500 in damage. Rose Fairbanks saved Mrs Friend's 16 month old daughter.
Inquest findings by Special Justice John H. Butler of Somerville report Thoms W. Merrigan’s death on December 16 1916 as accidental. Merrigan, a brakeman, slipped on ice covered steps and fell under a moving freight train. The Boston Albany Railroad and employees are exonerated. the justice cites probable carelessness as the immediate cause.
John M. Raymond of Salem and co trustee Professor Andrew West of Princeton deny in Supreme Judicial Court that he is unsuitable to jointly manage the $800,000 Isaac C. Wyman estate. The suit, brought by Princeton University trustees, seeks removal for alleged sole control of funds deposited in Boston.
Governor McCall and Mayor Curley will attend the reception and ball Thursday night as a feature of the American Road Builders Association congress at the Copley Plaza Hotel. The convention runs from Tuesday to Friday night with events through the week.
The congressional committee investigating the Wilson peace note leak moves the inquiry to Washington due to international affairs. Witnesses will resume questioning tomorrow morning in the capital.
The committee will probe how Connolly's resume of the Presidents note moved from Connolly's Washington office to RE F Hutton and Co in New York. George A Ellis Jr of Hutton may be the first witness after telegraphic warnings went to Hutton correspondents 19 hours before the note. Ellis arrives tonight from Savannah. Committee members back in Washington report satisfaction with progress and acknowledge a leak likely existed after FE F Hutton's testimony revealed the messages.
Chinatown residents protest the appointment of Dr. William W. McKibbon as temporary guardian for 16 year old Wong Tuck Shung. Judge Grant ordered access for Wong Yea Sue and wife before a March 9 hearing on permanent guardianship and Wong Yen Sue filed $5000 damages suit against the doctor.
A resolution to investigate Brattleboro Retreat was introduced by Rep Wilson of Pownal. He alleged a patient’s daughter, an inmate, was assaulted by an attendant who struck her with a pipe and poured acid on her body. The bill awaits committee report.
John Ginns a former con man who has served from Juvenile Court to State prison is elected again for a year. A robbery victim Mr Churchill says a hand in his pocket with 56 dollars was Ginns hand, leading to an officer being called.
One hundred Portland Rotary Club members, city’s leading businessmen, held a diet squad dinner at their monthly banquet. The cost was 1412 cents per plate. Courses included pea soup with croutons, salmon quenelles with peas, baked green peppers, banana and orange salad, one date, coffee.
John McCormack tenor was soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Karl Muck yesterday afternoon in Symphony Hall. The announcement drew a rush line far exceeding the 525 seats in the upper balcony. The box office refused hundreds of requests for seats at any price hours before the performance.
The critic praises Mr. McCormack for flexible fluency in Mozart and Handel pieces and his clear enunciation in the aria from Acis and Galatea. The concert also features a sparkling Mozart overture from The Marriage of Figaro and Max Reger's Variations on a Merry Theme. The reviewer favors Strauss Don Juan for its richer color.
Five thousand switchmen employed by 18 railways in the Chicago switching district could strike after telegrams to James Murdock, vice president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, from W G Lee. A strike vote is set within days unless grievances with four lines, the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe, the Chicago Burlington and Quincy, the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul, and the New York Central, are settled. Working conditions are the main issue.
Mayor Curley announced a plan to raise about $50 000 for the national Elk convention to be held in Boston next July. Boston lodge Elks aims for 12000, New England lodges around 20000, banking men 10000, hotel men 5000, with 9000 more enough to avoid city funding. The exalted ruler of all New England lodges was asked to join the arrangements committee.
In St Johnsbury Vermont on February 2 Peter McDuff aged 65 was struck and killed by a northbound Boston and Maine train while driving his sleigh home from Fairbanks shops. His horse also died and the sleigh was destroyed. McDuff had previously survived a similar incident last summer when his horse was killed and he was seriously injured.
The House began debate on the $351 000 000 Naval appropriation bill with criticism of Navy administration from Rep Britten Illinois and Rep Gardner Massachusetts both Republicans.
The last Bay State troop contingent from the border is delayed but due in by 5 to 6 this morning. The train carries Field Hospital Company No 2 and Ambulance Company No 2 stationed at FE Paso Texas since Sept 1. They will detrain at North Station and go to South Armory.
Mrs Flora Bornstein wife of Benjamin Bornstein on Havre Street is on trial in the Superior Criminal Court for burning their home. She denied yesterday the testimony of Reuben Levine a state prisoner serving for the same offence that he started the fire after being tipped off by her when the moment was right.
The court heard that Mrs. Bornstein claimed she was home with children during the fire on Mayre Street East Boston and denied offering $100 to Levine. Levine testified of a plan to time the fire and a $10 tip to an insurance adjuster. Samuel Belinskhi, indicted with Benjamin Bornstein, was discharged by Chief Justice Aiken.
Mrs Ida M Foster obtained a decree nisi against her husband Clarence RE Foster from Judge Fox in the Superior Court yesterday on grounds of adultery.
Mayor Curley seeks to create a stationery division within the printing department led by William J. Casey. A $15,000 budget addition is requested to fund the new division, which would end the practice of small random orders causing high office supply prices.
Irving A Townsend claiming Harvard student status at Lawrence Hall appealed a $50 fine after urging Judge Brackett in Central Court yesterday to file the DWI charge against him.
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