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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1904
Page
10
Regular buyers crowd Morse sales as prices drop on suits from seven fifty to twenty dollars. Open tonight until 10. Offers include suits originally priced 10 to 25 dollars with substantial markdowns. Multiple ranges aim to attract shoppers seeking big value.
Yesterday marked St Swithin's Day with forecasts predicting fair weather for the next several days. Forecaster Smith noted warmth and humidity with temps around 72 and humidity near 68 percent, expecting cooler evenings after 8 PM under current conditions.
Charles Dold of Chicago was named president of the Piano and Organ Workers International Union of America. Charles J. Morgan of Boston Union 19 was re elected third vice president and P J Wilmot of Cambridge Union 44 was chosen seventh vice president. New organizer Wee Whitton of Toronto was named and Charles Dold will be delegate to the AFL convention in San Francisco. A 15 cent annual assessment was approved to fund labor agitation. The editor post was merged with the presidency. An additional session was planned for this morning.
Cambridge residents gathered at Mayor Daly's office to organize a memorial for the late Rev Father Scully. A special committee will visit citizens and form a press group of five with Howland Dudley as secretary. Suggestions ranged widely, including a fountain inscription, but no final decision made.
The Ward 9 Democrats unveiled a 50 by 15 foot Parker-Davis banner at the Columbia Theatre site in Boston marking their lead in the field. Superintendent of Streets James T Donovan, ward leader, announced the display as portraits of Judge Parker and ex-Senator Davis stood in heroic size nearby serving as focal points for the campaign.
William F. Sheehan met with Judge Parker this afternoon to discuss the national chairmanship. Four men are named as possible candidates including Belmont, Gorman, Taggart, and Sheehan, who prefers not to be chairman. A meeting date remains unsettled, with Kingston rumored as Parker’s campaign hub for easier access from multiple rail lines and river routes.
In Esopus New York Judge Parker declared this the last day of promiscuous photographer coverage of him and his family. He noted patience with photographers and humorously vowed to pocket his hands and pose casually without fear of being snapped. Photographers flooded his daily life, with group portraits taken on the lawn by the house today.
Brockton July 15 Judge Parker has a double in Linus F Shaw a well known Brockton shoe manufacturer He jokes about resemblance saying he may have less brains but more hair and that if elected the judge could pay his salary He is a Republican who values fair play and has never entered politics dedicating himself to his family business and flute playing born 1861 in Wrentham mass he muses the mantle of fame should have fallen to him but remains content with the turn of events
Sergeant Albert F. Lovell of Station 8 harbor police is promoted to lieutenant, filling the vacancy created by Lieutenant Chase’s retirement from Division 13. The move, reportedly a compromise amid a board deadlock, places Lovell in Division 138 with duty to report tonight. Born Weymouth October 20 1856, he began as a patrolman April 5 1886 and rose to sergeant June 11 1900 before transfer to Division 5 March 20 1899.
The individual was transferred to Division 8 by the Harbor Police about a year ago. He had long served as president of the Police Relief Association and remains an officer of that organization.
Fire at the Chicago St Paul Minneapolis Railroad Company docks and sheds in Duluth, Minnesota destroys $400000 of property. A tug cook, George Smith, drowned while trying to escape the blaze as flames swept across the vessel Abbott and the docks within minutes, marking the town’s worst and most spectacular blaze in years.
A basement fire at the Commonwealth building 82 Devonshire Street sparked a brief panic among around a score of people. Quick action by the fire department and building staff confined the blaze to a small area, with damage not expected to exceed £2000.
Miss Emma Carus who will join Woodland at the Tremont next Monday night lost a diamond pin in front of the New York Theatre over a week ago. Joseph Engle of New York found the pin and sent it to his brother to restore it. He located Miss Carus at the Tremont last evening and returned the pin.
President Grover Cleveland and Mrs. Cleveland traveled from Buzzard’s Bay to Boston’s South Station then to North Sandwich New Hampshire by train. Crowds gathered as trunks and golf gear caused a delay. Cleveland appeared pale and reserved, declining interviews before the couple’s ride to their summer home.
Former President Grover Cleveland and wife entered Whiteface, New Hampshire at 9 p m after a Boston to Whiteface ride via Boston and Maine road that was two hours late. Cleveland appeared in good health and spirits as they were driven to their cottage.
Cortelyou chair of the national Republican committee paid a hurried call on President Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill Oyster Bay. He arrived from New York at 5 43 pm and left on the 804 train after dining with the President and family. He says the visit held two or three minor matters and will return to Washington tomorrow with plans to attend the notification ceremonies on the 26th inst.
Senator Platt dined with President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay and talked about a pleasant, private discussion on national political affairs and New York conditions. He said the conference did not touch the Republican gubernatorial nomination and offered no clear candidate.
Eugene N. Foss told a Post reporter that Senator Lodge will likely adopt the reciprocity idea urged by the Chamber and pursued by Foss for years. He said the aim is to insert a reciprocity plank in the Massachusetts state platform and that most signers of the petition are Republicans who will vote Straight Republican tickets. He added Democrats should not expect gains from the Chamber’s move and urged mass action to force national attention.
Mrs. Sadie Cutter, with Worcester Police Chief Jaques, visited Walter E. Smith in Worcester jail on charges of stealing jewelry once in Frank Burns’s store. She doubts Smith sold a horse and carriage to her father in Warwick on Feb 13. The horse is Dr. Frederick Bryant’s. Authorities plan diggings near a cemetery to find Burns’s body. Smith has claimed to be searching for a place to buy something and wandered to Cambridge before being found after a citywide search.
Two cent treasure still clutched in the chubby hand as Max Long of 121 Chambers Street wandered from West End toward Cambridge. Passersby alerted authorities and a search commenced to reunite the child with his worried family. The incident prompted heightened street-safety reminders in the local journal.
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