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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1915
Page
6
A large section of Lowell's manufacturing area faced destruction as a three story brick and wood building owned by Amasa Pratt, used for manufacturing purposes, burned today on Dutton Willie and Cushing streets.
A fire gutted the Pratt building causing $25,000 in losses. Firemen fought from early morning, sounding a general alarm that summoned all apparatus. Adolf Holstein, a fireman, entered the blaze on duty and escaped with a sprained ankle after leaping from a second floor window. The fire burned from morning until late at night, spreading to sheds behind the building.
Billy Sunday denounced society’s sins in a fiery speech before about 60 000 attendees. He attacked society women and young men, warned mothers against loose morals, and urged adherence to gospel values. The crowd reacted with a roaring, collective response after his dramatic display.
Two escaped hospital inmates George Maycox and Reuben Smallaug from Danvers Insane Hospital traveled about 30 miles since Saturday noon. Police in Brockton located them tonight, famished and frozen, in custody at the city station after a Danvers call confirmed their identities.
A global wartime update notes German and Austrian troops pulled north toward Cracow and Warsaw as Russians press near Lopuszno and Kielce. Reports describe German setbacks at Colujok and Borsimov, Austrian routs in Gorlice, and Russian advances into Bukowina and Transylvania. Meanwhile Turkish forces defend the Dardanelles as Balkans tensions rise and a winter storm stalls Franco-Belgian fighting across Flanders and Alsace.
Seven youths were arrested in Roxbury for thefts and a holdup. The group included George McKenzie 16 Fred Karney 15 Joseph Drake 21 Walnut avenue and William Drake father of one suspect. Others named are John Monahan 16 Howard Fountain 13 George Foley 16 and Joseph Kopson 15. Miss Florence Rehan of Juniper street was robbed late Saturday night by the two last suspects.
The Boston Young Zionists Society marked its founding with a meeting and a concert at the North Bennet Street Industrial School Hall yesterday afternoon.
Thomas Hardy writes for the Commission for Relief in Belgium urging the United States to aid seven million destitute Belgians facing war misery. The poem pleads for compassionate support while acknowledging duty to ultimately repay.
The Belgian commission findings accuse the German army of wantonly shooting Belgian civilians and systematically destroying Belgian towns by order of German commanding officers. Emmanuel Hacenith, Belgian minister, presented the report to Secretary Bryan and it was made public tonight.
The excerpt quotes high officers endorsing orders to burn Liege and shoot about 100 people. The commission decries German proclamations that condemn villagers, justify arson and mass killings, and label civilians as complicit, portraying German forces as a barbaric, incipient horde.
Nicholas Oulukanoff, the citys Russian baritone, was operated on for appendicitis a week ago at Cushing Hospital and has been pronounced out of danger by his physicians.
Dr d Amezago and Mr Oulukanoff are noted figures in the recital program. Oulukanoff plans a later performance in the season after postponing the previous date of the 11th.
Paris reports no change in war conditions with ongoing heavy rain across the front. French lines north of the Lys strengthen positions while Allied gains near La Boisselle and Beausejour are noted, and a German train at Altkirch is bombarded amid persistent artillery duels.
Turkish forces with Persian tribesmen defeated about 4000 Russians near Saonjbulak, taking Ardahan on January 1 after a Dec 29 siege. Russians suffered heavy losses, with 400 killed and six cannons captured. Reports say large prisoner transports are en route to Erzerum.
Vienna reports an official communiqué detailing a daylong fight west and northwest of Gorlice Galicia. The Austrians say they stormed and captured a height south of Gorlice, annihilated a Russian battalion, captured a staff officer, four subalterns, 850 men and two machine guns, and shot down an enemy aircraft.
Funeral services were held yesterday at noon for Dr James Shaw a prominent local physician of 35 years. The Rev Anna Howard Shaw president of the National Woman's Suffrage Association attended along with two brothers Captain John Shaw of Washington and Thomas Shaw of Detroit.
Reports from London indicate Balkan states struggle to secure Bulgaria's neutrality. Greece Servia and Roumania prepare for contingencies while Bulgaria may attack Servia over Macedonia. Turkey expels neutral subjects from the Dardanelles and Italian battleship protection shifts to Durazzo amid Albanian revolts.
In the Greek Chamber of Deputies M Theokotis calls the Bulgarian premier speech a menace and the finance minister says Greece is urgently preparing militarily to defend its liberated territory. Athens reports also that Greece bans export of cereals flour cattle forage and arms.
Berlin reports on January 8 that Western theatre saw enemy ships with torpedo boats off Westende without firing. An infantry attack north of Ste Menehould was repulsed with heavy French losses. Russian attempts to retake Borjimov failed after hard fighting. 1000 prisoners and six machine guns captured. East of Pilica region attacks ceased with heavy Russian losses.
Berlin reports the Emperor replies to the Reichstag president Kempf. He expresses warmest gratitude for the loyal message and hopes God grants the German people's wishes for the fatherland in these heavy times with the veiled New Year ahead.
London Jan 3 The Athens correspondent reports the Albanian uprising worsening with insurgents said to have occupied Berat and marching toward Bibra. He adds that at the Dardanelles authorities expelled all neutral consuls and those of Austria Hungary.
Russian army headquarters reports continued repulse of German assaults on the Bzura and Rawka rivers. German troops recaptured trench sections near Lopuszno but were forced to abandon them after a counterattack. Prisoners and machine guns seized, Austrian withdrawals described as a rout. In the Caucasus Turks suffer heavy losses at Sari Kamysch.
One hundred two new church members were admitted at Harvard Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Cambridge in what is described as the largest single class in the Greater Boston parish. The ceremony occurred yesterday.
William H Sullivan of Mitchell the Tailor entertained J Paul McDonald and a party of clothing designers from New York Chicago Philadelphia Rochester and Boston at a reception last evening at his home 334 Commonwealth avenue.
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