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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1916
Page
14
Delia Grenier of Box 806 Windsor Vermont appeals to the Post to help locate her sister who has not spoken in eight years. The sister was last known to live at 87 Monroe Street Lynn Massachusetts.
Captain Otis F. Kimball, longtime commander of the Hanover Street station and second oldest captain in service, was promoted last night to deputy superintendent to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Laurence Cain.
Police Commissioner O Meara announces appointments and transfers including new captain Richard Fitzgerald of Joy Street. Wesley Chandler promoted to lieutenant at Fields Corner Dorchester. John Lyons to sergeant Back Bay. Mathew Dailey to Hanover Street. James Watkins to Mattapan night duty. The deputy captain Kimball receives second in command. Fitzgerald’s long service noted with prior ranks and tech riots reinstatement.
A mass meeting is set for tomorrow evening at the First Baptist Church in Malden to discuss aims and purposes of the League to Enforce Peace. Samuel J. Elder of Boston will speak, with James Mott Hallowell and A Barr Comstock outline state organization and local committee plans.
John M. Robinson won the Republican caucus in Hallowell Maine on February 26 and was tapped as the party's candidate for mayor.
F M Ives counsel for New England paper trades shippers scored government prosecutorial tactics during the Interstate Commerce Commission hearing on the proposed separation of New Haven rail and water lines. He accused A H Elder and H Larue Brown of posing as impartial investigators while acting as prosecutors in a heated exchange.
The debate centers on alleged intimidation of witnesses and claims that the New Haven Railway influenced New England business organizations to back retaining the Sound steamship lines. Providence lumber merchant William M. Harris Jr. accuses the railroad of pressuring boards of trade and chambers of commerce, prompting hostile exchanges as officials deny insinuations.
Witnesses from mills and manufacturers defend the Sound lines as a unit with the New Haven railroad. They warn that breaking the linkage would disrupt freight to papers and industries across New England and cripple regional facilities.
William Lee Ratcliffe president of the Thomas G. Plant Shoe Company died at 284 Franklin street Newton after six months illness. He rose from supervisor to president in 1911 and held leadership roles in the Boston Boot and Shoe Club and National Shoe Manufacturers Association. Funeral services set for Sunday afternoon.
Heads of automobile associations from across the state served as pallbearers at the funeral for Lewis R. Speare president of Alden Speare's Sons Company. Services were officiated by Rev. Dr. L J Birney at his home 6 Summer street Newton Centre Interment followed at Newton cemetery. Prominent businessmen attended to honor their late associate. Pallbearers included James Fortescue Massachusetts State Automobile Association president George W Mc Near William M Flanders George F Richardson Albert T Carter George C Miller Nestor W Davis.
Radcliffe seniors last evening select ed their officers for class day. The president will be Miss R. Tuttle. The other officers are as follows: Vice president, Miss E. Burrage, baccalau reate, Miss G. Bush, permanent secre tary, Miss B. Allen, chairman of the day, Miss R. Whitmore, class marshal, Miss K. Hodge, poet, Miss A. Nichols, historian, Miss D. Harmon, lawyer, Miss B. Brown, song leader, Miss 3. Bingham, year book, Miss M. Hath way.
A Boston committee hearing reveals strong opposition to a petition for a 10 000 seat wooden tabernacle for Billy Sunday. W E Blodgett supports easing building laws to meet safety standards, while Sergeant at Arms Pedrick and Corporation Counsel Sullivan oppose the exemption citing dangerous precedent.
In Haverhill on February 25, City Treasurer Arthur T. Jacobs will serve as acting mayor tomorrow after a special alderman session and city solicitor conference. Mayor Bartlett and the full council, City Clerk Roberts, and City Solicitor Magison will appear before the Supreme Court in Boston. The solicitor, after review, ruled the treasurer must fill the temporary mayoralty.
Bertrand Thompson of Boston yesterday began suit for 3000 dollars against Jewell C. Dowling proprietor of the Princeton garage to recover for an automobile destroyed when the garage at Commonwealth and Harvard avenues burned on December 11.
Roy J. Kelley also known as Maynard Ellsmere and other aliases was sent to the House of Correction for two years after a brief criminal run targeting young women seeking marriage.
Kelley was found guilty of defrauding Katherine Muskevitz of New York of 425 dollars cash and 75 dollars jewelry after meeting her in Falmouth Cape last summer and promising a wedding in October. He also deceived Alberta Elderkin of Revere, taking 375 dollars and 65 dollars jewelry. Police traced him to Jamaica Plain where hundreds of letters from young women were found in his room. Kelley claimed financial pressure drove his actions.
Several Democratic lawmakers led by Senator Edward F. McLaughlin and Representatives Daniel Casey William J. Foley and Thomas F. Donovan of Boston say their petition backing the Boston school committee to keep Christmas carols in public school songbooks was misread. They affirm there is nothing in the hymns that mocks a creed and oppose removing the songs.
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