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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1916
Page
5
President Wilson, at the Gridiron Club, urges listening to ordinary Americans and endorses justice over expediency. He warns that leadership requires steady principle and cautions against chasing immediate gains. He argues America should stay out of war unless humanity and justice demand otherwise.
Matford Vic a wiry fox terrier owned by George W. Quintard of New York won the Westminster Kennel Club show crown at Madison Square Garden, besting 2500 dogs and narrowly beating Mrs. Roy A. Rainey’s Jo collar Boy priced at $6000. The judging favored Matford Vic’s coat and line over rivals in a close final, with the results announced on February 2.
The Empress of Fort William, a British liner, was sunk by a mine with 44 fatalities. Passengers were mainly British Indian service officials led by Judge Oldfield. Rescue ships saved many, but bodies washed ashore including 18 men 11 women 4 children and a Lascars. General McLeod’s wife Mrs McLeod is among the dead.
Paris dispatch says the British steamship Fastnet of 2227 tons gross, built 1887, was sent to the bottom by a submarine in the western Mediterranean. The crew were rescued by a French cruiser. The captain also reports the same submarine sank the Swedish steamer Tornborg, which it towed away.
The Mecklen burg of the Zeeland line struck a mine between Tilbury and Flushing and was lost. All passengers crew and mails were saved by the Holland America liner Westerdijk. The Zeeland service is provisionally suspended. The Mecklenburg was built in Glasgow in 1909.
The Times estimates 147 dead from the Maloja disaster, including 117 Lascars, in a late February report from London.
George Fred Williams urged unpledged delegates to the Democratic national convention at St Louis and called for defeating President Wilson in renomination. He attacked Wilsons foreign and military policies and condemned Secretary of State Robert Lansing as undemocratic and secretive, urging party loyalty and a policy frame at the convention.
The piece derides President Wilson for pursuing policies without party input. It charges a “kitchen cabinet” and high finance influence, faults Secretary Garrison over universal military service, and critiques Robert Lansing as lacking Democratic support and national leadership.
YT Shapiro, once a star center for the University of Pittsburgh football team, has completed his studies at the Western institution and arrived in Boston yesterday to seek business opportunities.
Ward 23 Democratic Club plans a dance at Hibernian Hall Roxbury on Wednesday night with prominent city officials expected including the mayor. Frank J. Finneran serves as floor marshal while Peter F. Costello aids. John J. Donlon Jr floor director and Louis Wall leads the aids as the club acts as its own committee.
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