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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1910
Page
4
A Somerville five year old Vincenzo Spolatti was killed on Porter street while coasting on a hillside in Boston area. He was overtaken by a heavier sled. a runner struck him in the head. Three other serious accidents followed as heavier sleds passed skaters on the slope.
A boy died after a skull fracture from a city street accident. Dr. Leo Myles ordered his removal to hospital where he died. The day saw several coasting injuries on Franklin Park and nearby streets including Nadine Gustafson and Devnan with leg fractures and other riders hurt.
Officer James Trickey of the Ledliner Bostonian was injured in a gale while docking at the Eastern railroad pier East Boston. A monster wave knocked him from the bridge fracturing his left leg and causing internal injuries. The ship of 1000 tons cargo had been four days out from Manchester and arrived three days late at 8 30 yesterday morning. Two ventilators were swept overboard but Trickey was saved from going overboard by timely help from fellow officers.
Kenneth L. Lindsey and John Z. Nightingale two Harvard seniors rescued Timothy Lynch from drowning in the Charles River near Granby street at the sea wall early yesterday morning. They played down the incident and said they would repeat the lifesaving act if needed.
Lynch who fell through the ice near the river wall was rescued by Kenneth Lindsey and John T. Nightingale after Lindsey shouted for a lifebuoy. Lynch, a Cambridge athlete, is in City Hospital in critical condition but expected to recover.
Memorial exercises were held yesterday afternoon for Major John J. Leonard long time secretary treasurer of the Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters at the Knights of St. Rose Hall Worcester Street. The funeral is set for today.
From 40 000 to 50 000 people filled SS Peter and Pauls Church in South Boston to view Bishop John J Brady lying in state. Crowds formed along Broadway between 2 and 5 pm and again in the evening as metropolitan area residents paid last tribute to the dead bishop.
A solemn procession accompanies the Bishop Brady funeral service as priests from multiple orders and the Holy Name Society escort the body to the church at 2 PM. Monsignor Patterson leads the office for the dead with 25 priests, and Archdiocesan leaders will conduct the requiem mass at the cathedral.
A special meeting of the St Augustine's Lyceum held at their Dorchester street rooms in South Boston adopted resolutions on Bishop Brady's death. A funeral committee was named to attend services at the cathedral today with President M. J. Concannon and five others including John J. Linehan Frank Colpoys Henry Mathoney Joseph Gardner and Edward Doherty.
Seven members of the First Congregational Church in Melrose heard the pastor Rev. Thomas Sims preach via telephone lines from the pulpit to pews seated around the church. One elderly member, a devout attendee for 20 years, heard a full sermon for the first time.
At the 10 30 service a telephonic link from pulpit to pews was installed by deacon Franklin P Shumway using seven telephones. Tiny wires run under the floor to receivers in pews, helping the hearing impaired understand the sermon. This first such church in the area plans more receivers.
Mary Morris of 66 Springfield Street Somerville fell on the sidewalk in front of St Josephs Church Union Square around 11 yesterday morning and fractured her right arm.
An 11 year old Boston girl, Louise Brugnani, substituted for ailing pianist M. Eddy Toulmouche at a Paris musicale. She won immediate acclaim, pleasing the audience and earning multiple encores. Her father Hector Brugnani is a Boston hotel chef who sent his daughters to Paris for study.
Bishop Lawrence addressed a large Ford Hall audience on whether the church has failed. He discussed three charges against the church hide-bound dogmas, bending to the rich, and alignment with capitalists over workers. He criticized Trinity Church tenements and defended a forward looking church open to new truth.
Nathaniel Taylor contends the tide has turned and he will win Tuesday to save the Democratic party from four more years of loss. He claims Cincinnati opponents favor Fitzgerald’s defeat and that Democrats across wards are flocking to his standard to preserve party power.
Cardinal Gibbons visited St. Patrick's in Washington for a traditional annual ceremony. A packed church listened to a sermon by Rev. Howard A. Page and heard a fine musical program. A noon reception at the rectory drew thousands who greeted the prelate, with ambassadors ministers and notable officials in attendance.
The White Star steamship Romanic under Captain Hugh F. David is due at Charleston from Genoa Naples Palermo and Ponta Delgada. She carries 728 passengers with 525 embarked in Italian ports and 203 at Azores. The cargo includes 5009 boxes of lemons taken on at Palermo.
Reuben Burnham aged 100, Boston’s oldest voter, plans to cast an early ballot for James J. Storrow for mayor. He lives at 26 Saratoga Street East Boston and believes Storrow will win by a large margin over his rival James M. Fitzgerald.
Boston resident R H Evans reports back and limb pain relief after using Dean's Kidney Pills for disordered kidneys. Foster Milburn Co supplies the medicine nationwide for 50 cents with Buffalo as sole US agents. Remember the name Doan's.
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