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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1916
Page
3
Henry James, the novelist and critic born in New York in 1843, died at his Chelsea residence 21 Carlyle Mansions after months of illness and two strokes. He supported Britain in the European war and was awarded the Order of Merit in January 1916.
Henry James, born American and long resident of England, becomes a British subject by oath in July 1915. He explains his 40 years of life and work in England created a strong attachment to the country despite his birth.
Edward F. Harrison whose wife’s funeral two years ago led to his request for the same hymns was honored with a service at First Baptist Church Charlestown yesterday afternoon. The Weber quartet sang Abide With Me Passing Out of the Shadows and Come Unto Me. Rev Everett C Herrick officiated and burial followed at Woodlawn cemetery. Harrison, known for heading the cigar department at Armstrong Transfer Company North station, served there 42 years with many friends in attendance.
The Cathedral of the Holy Cross parish held its annual reunion at Paul Revere and Talbot Halls drawing more than 2500 attendees. Prizes were awarded, tickets sold, and various parish groups managed events and floor duties while a separate political conference on a presidential nomination plan faced an unfavourable outcome.
Governor McCall and former Lieutenant Governor Cushing met to seek a compromise between the Old Guard and Young Guard factions as they fight for control of the Massachusetts delegation to the Republican national convention.
The American Relief Clearing House in Paris sends Casper Whitney to assess needs of populations blocked from leaving Serbia by Bulgarian and German conquerors. Charles Butler oversees removal to France of 12,000 refugees starving in Durazzo, per Boston Serbian Relief Fund communication.
Frederick H. Moody colored of 306 Folsom street Melrose was confirmed as a special police officer by the Board of Aldermen last night after four consecutive rejections. Moody is Malden's first Negro police officer.
In New York on February 28 the case against Charles W. Morse and the Hudson Navigation Co. by Manhattan Navigation Co. was discontinued in U S Court. Manhattan sought triple damages under the Sherman Act, claiming a 1916 conspiracy to fix unreasonable interstate passenger and freight rates on the Hudson River.
British authorities at Falmouth took off the mail of the Holland America line steamer Rotterdam after it sailed from Rotterdam on February 28 for New York. The ship had cleared Falmouth on February 26 for its westward voyage, according to a Reuters report from The Hague.
Somerville Hospital officials reported Gertrude Bell, who swallowed poison at her sweetheart Manley Blaney's home at 158 Walnut Street on Sunday evening, is in fast danger but expected to recover rapidly.
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