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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1916
Page
7
Massachusetts division of Naval Plattsburg relocated its training quarters yesterday from the U S S Kearsarge to the newer larger U S S Virginia. The transfer occurred for two hours yesterday afternoon.
About 250 members of the first unit arrived in Boston and headed home after praising Plattsburg camp training and a close escape when their train hit a washout seven miles from Rutland Vermont. A younger unit of 70 will board at North station and head to Plattsburg via Burlington and a lake boat.
A local chapter mobilizes 100 women to provide hospital supplies and sewing services for weekly days. Mrs Elliott Wadsworth chairs the effort with Miss L H Newell as secretary and others handling cutting, nursing, first aid, and sewing room duties. The new depot phone is Back Bay 4600.
More than 100 city women, many prominent, volunteered yesterday to support the opening of the Metropolitan Chapter Red Cross. They sewed garments for hospital use, intended for shipment to the Mexican border for service with troops at the front.
MIT has donated the four story former Technology clubhouse to house the new Red Cross headquarters at 83 Newbury Street. Miss L H Newell local branch secretary issued an appeal for volunteers and supplies asking 20 to 409 women to donate time and effort for ongoing work.
A tanker carrying molasses overturned opposite the Prison Point Bridge in Cambridge, spilling a full tankful and halting Cambridge Street car traffic for two hours. Wheels stuck to tracks as officials searched for removal methods until local children collected the molasses from the stream.
Metropolitan Park Commission ends summer concerts at Revere Beach by Fifth Nighth Ninth regiments bands due to bands being out of state service to all intents and purposes. Disappointment runs high as no performances are scheduled this season.
The city of Woburn announced the current tax rate is 22.30, cutting 2.20 from last year and 3.70 from 1914. It states it is the first city in the state this year to publish its rate.
Charles G B Hunt a watchman on the steamer Bay State was arraigned in Municipal Court after regular losses of money and valuables on the boat. $325 was found in his stocking and $30 attributed to Samuel Jackson Hyde Park. Bail set at 500 for September Superior Court. In Chelsea thieves stole a 500 pound safe from United Indigo Co on Broadway Cabot Street. Only under $10 taken.
The Japanese ambassador and Baroness Chinda visited the White House in Washington to bid farewell to President and Mrs. Wilson before the ambassador departs for his new post in London.
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