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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1910
Page
14
Andrew Carnegie replies to Mayor Gaynor on personal tax abolition. He praises the mayor’s plan and shares his own experience as a taxpayer on five million dollars, while the mayor says spelling tips aside the aim must reflect community will.
The correspondence shows Mr. Carnegie defending the personal tax as lawfully assessed and criticizing calls for abolition. Mayor Gaynor replies with humor about simplified spelling and hints at possible repeal or local option while urging community consensus on tax policy.
Boston College Hall hosted Erin Court members to hear Rev. Thomas I. Gasson Sr J describe the Oberammergau Passion Play. Proceeds support the college extension fund with Palm Sunday repeat planned. Gasson recounted his Oberammergau study, plague lore, and the play’s life of Christ amid stereopticon images.
Washington Feb 13 The Senate and House committees on interstate commerce near finishing hearings on the administration railroad bill with only the Interstate Commerce Commission and Attorney General Wickersham remaining to be heard. Strong indications point to discussion in one or both houses within the next month.
Representative Mann said the bill could be reported by March 1 and then taken up in the House soon after. It would amend and preserve key features of the President’s plan, including stock and bond controls, rates on application, ICC rate suspension power, long and short haul parity, and classification and practices oversight of railroads. The Senate has not acted beyond hearings, but is expected to follow.
Charles De Lucca, 50, stabbed three times by rival Michael De Felice over the attention given to De Lucca’s 16-year-old niece at 82 Park Avenue Mt. Auburn Cambridge. De Felice fled after being forced to jump from a second story window as armed residents pursued him. De Lucca, found unconscious with chest and hand wounds, was taken to Cambridge Hospital where his prognosis was listed as hopeful. Police pursued the suspect to Mt. Auburn car barn then Channing Street before he vanished.
At a Griscom home conference Governor Hughes Barnard and Griscom urged purging the Republican Party in New York and to sift the Allds-Conger charges. President Taft reportedly deemed the situation very bad and may back Hughes and Griscom against Woodruff Depew and Wadsworth, with implications for Albany in days ahead.
Attorneys and detectives are employed to pursue the case of Frank Gould millionaire of New York sued by Bessie Devoe vaudeville dancer who lived in Evansville for alleged breach of promise seeking 100000 dollars.
Local attorneys recovered many letters written to Bessie Devoe by Frank Young of this city. The letters were signed Frank and described as endearing. Young, now a patient at the Southern Indiana Insane Hospital, is said to be hopelessly insane. He was a dancing teacher to Miss Devoe and the pair traveled together on friendly terms. Attorneys and detectives reportedly found evidence that letters addressed to Bessie and signed Frank were written by Young, not Gould.
The Figaro reports President Fallieres will host a grand fete at the Elysee Palace during ex President Roosevelt's visit to Paris on February 18.
Archbishop O Connell denounces large priestly fortunes even when inherited warning that wills leaving big sums cause scandal unless money comes by inheritance He urges prayer for clergy amid Lent penance and urges no priest amasses wealth from parish income only through permissible means within the church.
elaborate birthday party for Miss Marguerite Smith of New York ends in disappearance. hotel workers discover only a two foot cake and a missing guest after finding her suite empty and her trunk contents gone. guests expected for ten covers. cake cut into shares for staff, generating a several hundred dollar loss. hotel seeks sighting or contact to resolve mystery
Middleboro Feb 18 A burst water pipe flooded the church basement over three days filling the cellar nearly six feet high and forcing Sunday services to be moved to parlors and the local room. The furnace could not be lighted.
In Cleveland on February 13 Otto Pich found his son in law John Zahour hanging in a pantry and, thinking only the coroner may disturb a hanging man, left to summon aid. A policeman cut Zahour down and he died en route to hospital.
The Handel and Haydn Society presented Arthur Sullivan’s cantata The Golden Legend with a full audience at Symphony Hall. Mollenhauer led the Boston Festival Orchestra, with soloists Mrs. Kileski-Bradbury, Miss Adelaide Griggs, Mr. W. Murphy, Mr. Gwilym Miles, and Mr. Harry Parmelee delivering notable vocal passages. The review praises the orchestration, part writing, and singers, though critiques some stage business and certain lines.
New York report dates an engagement of Miss Harriot Daly to Count Anton Sigray of Hungary. Daly, sister to Mrs. Gerard and Mrs. Brown, has long social ties and is part of Newport circles. Sigray, from Sabatka, Upper Hungary, has estates and past New York appearances, with plans to marry quietly at Mrs Daly’s home after Easter.
Michael White of Boston & Maine Freight Handlers' Assembly 5572 called for a general wage increase of 10 to 15 percent for New Haven railroad employees before any big monopoly spending. Speakers urged no further monopoly and pressed for a living wage rather than $19,000,000 for bridges and repairs or $50,000,000 for electric lighting schemes. The assembly collected $210 in dues, paid $9 in sick benefits, and initiated many applicants.
A Provincetown fishing schooner Louise Cabrella caught fire aboard while readying for the banks. Clothes drying near the galley stove ignited, burning the vessel to the water’s edge and causing two men to abandon ship. Crew from other boats fought the blaze but failed. The ship, valued at 8000 dollars and largely insured, was owned by a syndicate.
A Denver and Rio Grande eastbound passenger train derailed at Woodsides, 26 miles west of Green River, Utah, last night. Pullman cars slid into the Price River with seven injured in the sleeper. Lilian D. Sinclair of Boston and Herbert P. Russell of Worcester, Mass., among those hurt, were taken to Denver for treatment.
The weather bureau predicts a general storm followed by a severe cold wave. The system will form over the Pacific States in two days and reach the Atlantic seaboard by Thursday or Friday night, threatening heavy winds and low temperatures across the region.
Albany reports a strong hope of curing or greatly improving cancer through inoculation. Harvey R. Gaylord, director of the Buffalo cancer laboratory, says extended experiments last year vaccinating mainly rats with the cancer virus show promise.
A report suggests that repeated tumor vaccinations in animals heighten resistance and may cure cancer. It proposes human trials with voluntary patients under close supervision, requesting funds to support at least ten patients. Researchers also note cancer forms in fish and align with officials in the state forest, fish and game department and the national fisheries service.
Alexander Semzenk, a steerage passenger on the Martha Washington returning from the Mediterranean, escaped hospital custody on the voyage, wrestled with a surgeon's aide, and leaped into the sea. Captain Carlo Gerelimich said the man suffered extreme seasickness and appeared to go mad, with the body not recovered.
Paris on February 13 reports that in the push against white slave traffic the Mafin alleges Paris is a hub for international trafficking, exporting about 2000 girls yearly from workshops and homes into presumably exploitative roles.
A promotion offers free merchandise worth up to 2.50 or two dollars in cash for customers presenting completed Legal Stamp books at Wolf's My Clothier located at the corner of Hanover and Portland streets. The offer emphasizes value and local shopping at this corner establishment.
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