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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1916
Page
5
The Boston Elevated Railway Company approves a wage and overtime plan for May 1 1916 to April 30 1919. Blue uniform workers gain 2 cents per hour then 0.75 cents and 0.25 cents in successive years. shop and related staff gain 1 cent yearly. Overtime rules shorten weekly hours and add paid time off. About 5000 blue uniform workers and 4800 others affected.
Patrolman Kelley Pursues young car thiefs from Hyde Park to the Neponset River. The fugitives crash into a tree. they dive into the river. Kelley swims after them and catches one, booking him at Hyde Park station. The other escapes.
A minister entertains at dinner as a father boasts of his son Robert's college success. The minister calls it fine to be college bred. Later James asks what college bred means, and the father retorts that it is a four years loaf.
In Greater Boston a sudden east wind ended a three day heat spell that caused suffering, heat prostrations, and one death in Malden. Temperature fell from 71 at 3 am to 62 by midnight as humidity dropped and a cooler, fair pattern was forecast for the next two days. Thomas J. Coholan of Philadelphia died from sunstroke linked to the heat.
The article lists new and present hourly rates for L Line train service staff across ranks motormen conductors brakemen gatemen and collectors. It details yearly step increases for first second and third years with multiple divisions for rapid transit lines and per hour pay for different crafts plus planned future raises and adjustments to align with private sector wages.
Edith Dedominico five, of 43 Morris Street East Boston, was injured last evening by a cartridge filled with birdshot while her neighbor Philip Hayes nine pounded it with a hammer.
Informal talks led by Acting Secretary Polk and Eliseo Arredondo, Mexican ambassador-designate, moved to a definite stage on a diplomatic settlement plan. The two sides discuss issues including frontier protection and U.S. troop presence, with possible submission to a joint international commission under the 1848 treaty.
London July 14 heavy casualty lists report 1104 officers killed 311 wounded and 1753 men killed or wounded in the latest tally from British forces.
Mexico City July 14 General Carranza announced that talks with Washington were very satisfactory due to mutual goodwill between Mexico and the United States. He said war is undesired but possible if no remedy remains and noted reforms will soon be incorporated into Mexico’s constitution with elections to follow after reconstruction and peace.
In Boston, a cartridge exploded while two children played outside the Hayes home at 45 Morris Street. Philip Dedominico used a hammer to pound the cartridge. both kids were struck by shot. The girl remains in precarious condition at City Hospital, while the Hayes boy at East Boston Relief Hospital is badly injured and likely to recover.
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