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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1916
Page
2
President Alan R. Hawley of the Aero Club of America asked Governor McCall to back the appropriation bill before Congress to create aeroplane squadrons for national defence. The bill would fund a substantial aeroplane section for Massachusetts militia.
Four year old Benjamin Silverman son of Mr and Mrs Nathan Silverman of 12 Sea Foam Avenue Winthrop was critically injured when struck by a car at Shirley and Trident Avenues. Driver was Fred McDuffy. He was taken to Metcalf Hospital Winthrop where doctors report he is not expected to live.
The Massachusetts Red Cross asks to furnish four base hospitals for U S forces on the Mexican border. Citizens are urged to donate equipment funds with at least 200000 needed. The preparedness committee has collected about 58000 so far and expects a generous, prompt response.
Former Senator Crane backs a western base hospital as part of a three hospital program funded by a Massachusetts Red Cross committee. Eastern partners include Boston City, Massachusetts General, and Peter Bent Brigham Hospitals with 500 beds each, ambulance corps, hospital trains, and a possible naval hospital. Community leaders and dozens of firms have pledged substantial sums toward a $75,000 base hospital cost per site.
A complimentary dinner at the City Club honored six Gilchrist Company volunteers chosen from about 200 employees. The men William O'Con nor BF A Fitz J 8 Ferris J J Sulli van C J Castille and J R Babine will travel tonight from North station with the Massachusetts brigade of roughly 700 men. Gilchrist Company will cover expenses salaries and transport. Speakers included J T Chase J T Lane and H W Schaschke.
Mrs. Martha A. Sumner of Revere saw her marriage to the Brant Rock House proprietor annulled in Plymouth County Superior Court yesterday. The ruling ends the union established in Brant Rock with the divorce action finalized by the court.
Plymouth July 10 Judge O Connell annulled the marriage between Mrs Martha A Sumner formerly of Revere and Earl A M Sumner a Brant Rock hotel proprietor. The decree also dismissed the divorce action without prejudice.
Mrs Sumner sues for divorce alleging cruel abusive treatment while Sumner seeks to have the marriage declared void due to not meeting a two year period after a prior divorce. The 1913 decree involved a first wife and a guest at a Brant Rock hotel. Sumner and Martha Turco wed in Portland, Missouri, and cohabited until May when the second wife filed. The June hearing recounted threats to kill with a pistol and to throw vitriol in her face.
Mayor Clarence J. Fogg of Newburyport and three passengers riding the 6 o'clock Boston to Newburyport train escaped serious injury when rocks were hurled through windows near Revere. A young man beside the mayor was cut above the eye. another man and a woman were also injured. The mayor was struck but not seriously hurt.
Paul Hannagan once Lawrence Alderman and engineering head began work yesterday for Boston as consulting engineer in the paving division. He originated the Hannagan smooth granite black paving with grouted joints.
Mayor Curley and Public Works Commissioner Murphy approve Hannagan’s plan to spend about 400000 on granite pavement across key streets between North and South stations. Work began yesterday with hopeful completion before fall. blocks will rest on concrete foundations and cracks flooded with cement for a smooth durable surface.
The United Improvement Association reviewed Lawrence streets and urged Boston to adopt Hannagan streets. They recommended securing Hannagan to supervise the project, noting his previous offer of a city position two years ago and the long standing heavy traffic on many streets.
Newport R I July 10 The Atlantic fleet commanded by Admiral Henry T Mayo sails for a week of maneuvers near Block Island as part of ongoing naval exercises.
Judge Wilfred Bolster, chief justice of the Municipal Court, is chosen to arbitrate an end to the Greater Boston building labor strike involving over 6000 workers. A five member panel from employers and unions will decide on fair wages and the definition of skilled versus unskilled labor after the three week stoppage ended with partial concessions. The talks at the City Club named Parker F. Soule and others for the employers and David Kirby and colleagues for the unions. In a separate note, Hetty Green’s past hotel tip recipe for a rheumatic cure was recounted by Louis LaFranche, noting its ingredients and claimed effectiveness.
Five hundred men from Greater Boston will entrain at North Station at 8 o'clock tonight to join New England's July senior military camp at Plattsburg. The total New England contingent is 850 men, with others joining en route at various stations.
Before departing for Montpelier Governor McCall was urged to appoint Robert A. Woods to the Boston Licensing Board by a committee from the Congregational churches of Massachusetts led by Rev. Herbert A. Barker and Rev. Nicholas Van der Pyl. The Governor said he would consider the request.
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