Mayor's drastic orders shake city payrolls and finances
The mayor issues a broad scale plan cutting department budgets and salaries to meet tax and loan limits. Officials seek to balance funds amid public institution changes, park and bath projects, and a higher police and fire budget. A table outlines yearly reductions for principal office-holders.
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Bath Department
Police
Fire Department
Metropolitan Sewer and Water Department
Treasury
Quincy
Messrs. Martin
Clark
Curtis
Mayor Quincy orders across the board wage cuts for city
The mayor’s circular to department heads outlines strict annual budgets with no surplus, requiring uniform horizontal wage reductions of 7 12 percent on salaries of 1000 and above and 5 percent on 700 to 1000 a year, plus similar cuts for daily wages. Exceptions will be discussed with the mayor before implementation and payroll changes are to be made on the next eligible payroll.
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City -Tall
Boston
feTo
Wale Tam
Board of Apportionment
Josiah Quincy
John R. Murphy
Water Department
Post
Murphy
Quincy
Board of Estimates
Board of Police
Committee On Public Improvements
Summet Hall
Order of United Workmen
Public Buildings Department
Committee On County Buildings
Curtis Hall
Secretary of War Visits His Invalid Son in Cambridge
The article notes the Secretary of War travels discreetly to Cambridge to see his ailing son, while the Fifth Volunteers are set to return home from service abroad. It mentions Aguinaldo and a light, coded reference to royal visits, reflecting wartime mood and modest, behind the scenes signaling.
Alger in Boston Expresses Confidence on Treaty and Volunte
Secretary Alger, visiting Harvard to see his wounded son Captain Alger, asserts swift volunteer discharge after the treaty ratification. He says no more volunteers should go to Manila and predicts no Aguinaldo trouble. hints at homeward plans as regulars and volunteers shift. The piece also notes sewer funding, city budget tensions, and a grand jury list in the Scollaus-Mulrey case.
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Russell A. Alger
Boston
Early Express
Capital
University City
Captain Alger
Harvard
Santiago
Fagan
Congress
Philippines
Alger
Massachusetts
Washington
Porto Rico
Cuba
Manila
Aguinaldo
Home Market Club
Secretary Long
Frederick Moulton Alger
Deaf, Dumb and Blind Girl Visits Boston Art Museum
Helen Keller, a celebrated deaf, dumb and blind girl, visited the Boston Art Museum yesterday for two hours, touring galleries of statues. She read Greek literature by heart, remarking on Medusa’s painful expression and asking where a mother’s arms are in a bas relief of a farewell scene, then seeking to understand the word embrace.
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Boston Art Museum
Helen Keller
ART Museum
Fayne Moore to star in Broadway Opium Ring drama
Fayne Strahan Moore will be released from the Tombs on 7500 cash bail and appear soon as star of a Broadway play titled King of the Opium Ring. The production centers on a social leader by day and opium king by night with scenes in Chinatown. Moore plays an innocent wife drawn into the scheme and a large wardrobe and travel provisions are arranged. Blaney and Vance arrange the contract with Moore and mother, including $1000 weekly pay and a $7500 cash bond.
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New York
Blaney & Vance
Fayne Strahan Moore
the Tombs
Broadway
Chinatown
Fayne Moore
New Steel Bridge Planned by Fitchburg Line
Middlesex county commissioners endorse a petition from Fitchburg railroad directors to construct a new bridge on Beacon street Somerville. The plan calls for four tracks and the Fitchburg company will cover all improvement costs.
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Middlesex County
The
Fitchburg Railroad
Beacon Street
Somerville
Fitchburg Company
Canton Woman Faces Indictment Over Brother-in-Law Murder
Canton Ohio January 30 Attorneys for Mrs George argued the motion to quash the indictment for murdering George Saxton brother of Mrs McKinney Judge Taylor will rule tomorrow Mrs George appeared in court during the argument.
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Blind Woman Experiences Sculpture Through Touch
Helen Keller visits a museum where she learns sculpture by touch guided to eyes, noses, and mouths. She identifies figures from Pericles to Sappho, notes a raptor-like lion and a healing mother with child, and asks about a statue’s missing choristers and Neptune’s trident.
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Pericles
Euripides
Julius Cesar
Sappho
Michael Angelo
Neptune
Miss Keller
Helen
Miss Cobb
General Loring
Newspaper Publishers Meet to Oppose Paper Monopoly
A meeting of the American Newspaper Publishers Association in Washington urged Joint High Commission to revoke the duty on Canadian print paper and pulp. The push targets the International Paper Company, accused of pursuing a monopoly in the paper industry.
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Washington
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Joint High Commission
United States
Canada
International Paper Company
Cheer for New Zion Installation of Officers
About two hundred guests attended the Hebrew Hostre Marsho Association installation of officers last evening. An address on Zionism by S L Bailen followed supper. Officers named were Nathan Gelman president Abram Shanfeld vice president Sam Shanfeld treasurer Charles Bronstein recording secretary Morris Bronstein financial secretary and John Tockman trustee.
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Sam Shanfeld
Charles Bronstein
Morris Bronstein
John Tockman
Deaf mutes of Boston plan charity fancy dress ball
The deaf mutes of Boston and vicinity will host a fancy dress ball at Red Men's Hall on Tuesday evening February 21 to raise funds for worthy objects. Committee on refreshments includes Mrs. G A Holmes Mrs F W Bigelow and Mrs I P Blanchard of the Boston Charitable Relief Association for the Deaf. George Sawyer will act as manager and F W Bigelow as treasurer. The programme features dancing a gentlemen’s bonnet trimming contest a ladies’ box making contest a dumb band and other features.
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Red Men's Hall
G. A. Holmes
F. W. Bigelow
I. P. Blanchard
Boston Charitable Relief Association For the Deaf
George Sawyer
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