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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1918
Page
6
William A. Ryan from Jamaica Plain writes to the Post asserting a reliable authority for the so called Big Wind. He argues the event occurred in January 1839 in Ireland and addresses Skeptic's denial.
Ballots for the Harvard senior class election will be sent broadcast over the United States tomorrow to permit 1918 men in national service to vote for class officers. The Cambridge election will be held Jan 22 with results announced Feb 8, when absentee ballots are due in Cambridge.
Boston and Maine announces a January 20 schedule change to conserve fuel and relief crews. Passenger service on many branches is discontinued or modified. Notable cuts include the Georgetown to Boston run via Wakefield Junction and the Boston to Newburyport and Newburyport to Boston trips.
Rail changes trim 49 weekday trains 16 Saturday only and 14 partially affected with three new weekday services. Sunday service also hit with 29 trains discontinued four partial cuts three schedule changes and two new Sunday trains. All Sunday service ends. Boston in/out service largely unchanged except Saturdays.
Rail timetable updates show numerous services discontinued between Boston and towns including Lynn Marblehead Portsmouth and Portsmouth to Boston. Other notes list weekend only runs and deviations via Saugus Branch with arrivals and departures around morning and evening slots.
Discontinued and revised Boston to Burlington Montreal Troy routes listed. Trains from Boston to Rutland Montreal Marlboro and Troy altered or cut. several services between Marlboro South Acton and Boston ended. A new Troy to Boston service planned with 1 p m departure and 7 p m arrival. Multiple older Boston routes halted or rerouted.
Train leaves Boston at 7 35 a m for Concord arriving 10 20 a m and Woodsville by 2 30 p m with intermediate stops omitted in timetable summary.
John F. Fitzgerald urged at the American Cotton Waste Exchange meeting in Brunswick that in 24 hours enough wood could be cut to relieve the fuel shortage if New England municipalities sent every available man to chop and haul wood starting a week from Sunday.
The cotton men gathering heard Canadian and French soldiers urge aid for troops in France. A $400 collection funded cigarettes for soldiers while Joseph H. Conry urged tobacco in regular rations and pressed Russia’s war role amid strong rhetoric from former Mayor Fitzgerald.
Private William E. Kiley of D Battery 101st Field Artillery died in France from meningitis, according to a Pershing report. Son of Mr and Mrs John Kiley of 76 Coburn Street East Lynn, he enlisted with his brother Thomas F. Kiley last summer after serving as chief clerk to the Salem division roadmaster of the Bay State Street Railway. A graduate of Lynn's Ingalls and Classical High Schools he belonged to St Josephs Total Abstinence Society. He is the first Lynn boy to die among the Salem batteries.
Discontinued services and new departures replace several Boston Plymouth and Woodsville runs. Northbound sections beyond Lakeport and Groveton are eliminated, with a new Concord to Woodsville service planned. Remaining trains operate limited hours between Plymouth and Boston with adjustments to connections at Concord.
Director General McAdoo today appealed to railroad officers and employees to maintain efficient service, saying every worker is a key factor in winning the war alongside the soldiers in the trenches. He urged heightened dedication and performance to support national efforts.
The director-general appeals to railroad officers and employees to apply themselves with energy and loyalty as the government runs railroads in wartime. He notes the four board members to study the Brotherhoods' pay demands will be named soon and promises fair consideration of railroad problems at the earliest moment.
John James 30 of Roxbury died after leaping from a plunging pung on Nelson street hill Quincy. He struck a pole while trying to jump free as the pung skidded, suffering six broken ribs and a pierced lung. he died at Quincy City Hospital hours later.
Peabody January 8 James E Story 65 a crossing tender was struck by a train at his Peabody crossing around 4 30 in the afternoon He was taken to Danvers Hospital where he was reported dying Engineer E A Parks and Conductor J B Bixby operated the train
Hon. John F. Fitzgerald will address Maverick Men's Club at Maverick Church Central Square East Boston on the alien draft. Admission is for men only and the talk is set for eight o'clock with a focus on the topic titled Alien Draft.
A testimonial claims Fruit-a-tives relieved constipation headaches and fatigue after two years of discomfort. DAN McLEAN describes improved appetite and energy. ad offers 50c box and bulk 6 for 2.50 plus trial size 25c, available at dealers or by mail from Ogdensburg.
Camp Devens reports show only 20 deaths since opening in September with most fatalities from accidents rather than illness. Army leaders condemn lax discipline and emphasize duty while measures curb sugar shipments and suspend unsafe dairy practices. Fifty African American soldiers from the Second Separate Company depart for Camp Upton to join the Negro division.
The report notes 010 men admitted to the base hospital with about 900 still sick or recovering. 31 pneumonia cases since Oct 1 and six current. 44 000 New England citizens reported at camp. Measles quarantines rise with 45 companies at times, yet December deaths were not from measles. Also coverage of Pri ate Nathan Hyat of Springfield found guilty and dishonorably discharged with 15 years hard labor at Fort Jay, and Col J S Herron warns troops to stay in recruit status and obey orders.
A reader recalls the Big Wind on January 5 1839 described by Galway relatives and an Alpine era witness. Tales recount standing under door frames, fireplace coals piled and covered, coffins uprooted by wind, a shack family killed when a stone house collapsed, while their own hut survived. The letter appears in The Daily Reader dated January 8 1918.
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