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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1914
Page
4
The secretary of the Boston Board of Health and hotel men insist Boston hotels and restaurants maintain sanitary service. Waiters avoid touching food with bare hands and all ware is sterilized after use. Glasses are washed in hot water at several soda fountains, replacing cold-water baths.
Washington reports record eggs collected for hatching by the federal bureau of fisheries. A Gloucester fleet pollock yielded over one billion eggs for Gloucester Hatchery. Woods Hole cod egg total reaches 236 million, surpassing last year by 25 million as January gains continue.
Governor William T. Haines called a special session of the executive council for next Monday at the request of Aroostook County potato growers. The aim is to aid the agriculture commissioner and cooperate with the federal government to inspect seed potatoes leaving Maine and prevent a federal quarantine.
Colonel George W. Goethals arrived in New York aboard the Metapan from Colon and gave non-committal answers about a letter from Mayor Mitchel regarding the police commissionership. He said he would take the first train to Washington and did not commit to accepting the post.
Colonel Goethals explains aims for Canal Zone reorganization and $34,000,000 in terminal and fortification funding. He discusses Panama railroad charges against John Burke and hopes President Wilson will visit the canal soon. Mrs Goethals met him at the pier after officers boarded the revenue cutter.
William Cheney Ellis a Cincinnati leather merchant stood trial in Chicago Criminal Court for murdering his wife in a hotel last October. He seeks an emotional insanity defense claiming ruin from the tragedy and plans to call associates from Cincinnati to support the plea.
In Byc France on February 19 military air experts tested a new inflammable dart for airplanes. The device carries a gasoline reservoir and explodes on contact to set fires in dirigible balloons or buildings. Three darts were dropped from an aircraft at 600 feet and hit their targets.
The rittersaale at 448 Beacon Street hosted Miss Ray Slater for a debut attended by about 250 guests. The event blended antique tapestries with modern dances as Boston’s social leaders mingled amid heedful echoes of a bygone era.
Tried for the murder of Mrs Rosa Menschik Szabo in Orange county pleads not guilty to grand larceny indictment. After jury disagreements Gibson was rearrested by New York county authorities on the $7100 estate appropriation as executor. He remains jailed and remanded for trial.
New York report states bones of three children laid to rest in a Secaucus New Jersey cemetery vault were secretly removed. The vault doors were broken and seven coffins were found with bones dust and grave clothes missing. The vault, built fifty years ago, belongs to Abel I Smith a New York lawyer who said the tomb had been broken four times in two years.
Frank McKay of Roxbury was released from a two year Fort Leavenworth sentence after Mayor Curley, prompted by relatives at 312 Dudley Street, arranged an investigation. McKay had vanished from Boston years earlier, believed dead by his family until his location was found alive in prison.
Port Directors sign contract with White Star Line for the eastern half of Commonwealth pier starting this spring. Hamburg American will vacate its half on completion of the western side and White Star shifts from Charlestown to the old Hamburg American berth. More and larger ships will be assigned to Liverpool and Mediterranean routes, with the Celtic possibly joining the Boston service late this summer.
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