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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1916
Page
16
Three Cambridge residences near Harvard Square were broken into in a Sunday intrusion. Professor Byron S. Hurlburt, recently resigned Harvard dean and English professor, witnessed the most atrocious vandalism inside his house.
Police suspect a gang of boys vandalized the Longfellow, Wady, and Hurlburt residences, taking little beyond a few items. The Cambridge houses, all near each other, show extensive damage with a broken porch window and rear door access. No definite clues yet, as families were away for the summer.
Miss Mildred C. Raymey 25 of Needham Junction died at Needham Hospital after being struck on Chestnut Street. Daniel L. Comiskey MIT senior 22 was arrested for manslaughter and later bailed at 2000. Comiskey said glare from an approaching car blinded him and he did not see Raymey before the collision.
Paving work on Commonwealth avenue with bitulithic material began yesterday after Warren Bros won the contract at a bid of 46 763 dollars. The project covers the section between Arlington street and Brookline avenue, with operations starting at the Brookline avenue end.
Boston residents face higher roofing costs as the United Improvement Association campaigns to override Building Commissioner O'Hearn's ruling against standard asphalt shingles. The letter cites legislative approval, fire tests, and endorsements by fire chiefs, Underwriters Laboratories, and various cities to argue asphalt shingles provide superior fire resistance at lower cost.
Camp Whitney July 17 Ambulence Company No 2 is at full strength except for two lieutenants and is expected to be mustered into federal service soon to leave for the frontier. Captain Oscar A Dudley commands with Lieutenants James A Lyon and N M Scott as the other commissioned officers. Scott served six months with the base hospital at St Nazaire, France. The unit seeks towels toothbrushes and other toilet items for its members, with bath towels especially needed.
Private R Tucker of the Eleventh United States Infantry fatally wounds Antonio Rodriguez a Mexican musician and his companion as they move toward the international boundary Tucker says one man carried a rifle and both refused to halt at his orders.
Tucker said he fired after Mexican men crossed into the American side while a bicycle messenger was sent to halt them. The Mexicans Rodriguez and his companion claimed they were on Mexican soil. Protests rolled in from Sonora officials and the Mexican consul urged investigation and punishment of the sentry. Tucker had not been arrested by nightfall.
George H. Hennessy long connected with the Shakspere Inn on Beach Street and later a Dorchester garage owner at 810 Columbia Road died Sunday after a pneumonia illness. He leaves a widow and three children, Francis Mildred and Dorothy, and was a Knights of Columbus member. Funeral from 12 Trust Street, Dorchester, will be held tomorrow morning.
The Boston Towboat Company strike over deckhand pay was settled last night. N. J. Mally, labor union grievance committee chair, said all workers will resume duties this morning, signaling an end to the dispute.
Edward F. Murphy, commissioner of public works, charged that the current administration bears no responsibility for Ward street station not being used to receive garbage. He asserts the building, though not new, will be operated once a new plan for its use is implemented.
Murphy says financial loss stems from failure to operate Ward street inland receiving station. Arbitration and contract from 1912 show two stations planned in Dorchester and Roxbury, ward street work begun in Rourke era but contractor refused extra pay. Ongoing disputes with Boston Development and Sanitary Company involve alternate chute receptacles and wagon duties.
Boston fans will see Eastern League baseball at Braves Field next Monday afternoon when Lynn and Worcester clash in a double header. With the Red Sox en route to Cleveland, Lynn manager Louis Pieper approves moving the Lynn Worcester game to Boston and staging a postponed game as a second feature. First pitch set for 1 30 with both clubs expected to bring their best.
John J. Leary was held in $1000 bail in Dorchester court yesterday on charges of assaulting John Burke in Dorchester on Saturday night with a hearing set for July 28.
Nutmeg sails clear in a Portland harbor race from Kittery Point to Portland. Fog and light winds hampered a Boston Yacht Club fleet, but Nutmeg led Class P-31 with Wasaka and Mildred IV close behind as Sally VII and Flirt also contended in Bar Harbor 31 Footers. Races featured spinnaker work, late finishes, and a festive Peaks Island scene with music and colors.
A 12-year-old newsboy, John B. Kelly of 24 Topliff Street, Dorchester, slipped while boarding a moving car at Geneva Avenue and Bowdoin Street yesterday. He sustained injuries to his left foot and was taken to City Hospital where doctors reported a crushed heel.
Ninety five entries have been received for the Massachusetts amateur golf championship to be played at Wollaston Golf Club Montclair from Wednesday to Saturday. Thirteen last year’s qualifiers will not play including Francis Ouimet the champion. Country Club and Wollaston lead with 14 entrants each followed by Brae Burn 12 and Albemarle 11. Play begins Wednesday at 9 39 with pairings drawn for a slate of matches through the afternoon.
Clarence Carman of Jamaica L I won the Brassard one hour motor paced race covering 42 miles and three laps within the time limit. Victor Linart of Belgium was second, Bobby Walthour of Atlanta third, George Seres of Paris fourth. Walthour punctured, Smart and Seres wheel trouble, Carman led from the start and finished clear. Mike Barber won the half mile amateur handicap, L C Rollins took the three quarter mile professional, J R Rollins the two mile open amateur, and Fred Herbert beat Tim Sullivan in the five mile open professional race.
Ross Maynard, a Boylston street vocal teacher, has lost his $1600 antique fur niture suit brought last June against Rosenthal and Alpert, dealers in antiques on Charles street.
Definite steps toward an aerial coast guard were taken yesterday with Harvard men leading the way. The first nine Harvard recruits joined the Curtiss Aviation School at Buffalo under the Aero Club of America and the Harvard Undergraduate Aero Training Fund to form an aerial reserve.
Francis Amory Jr and other notables will train in tents near Curtiss hangars seven miles from Buffalo as Harvard joins the Aerial Coast Patrol. Philip Rader will train pilots observers and anti aircraft gunners, forming eight unit corps for Massachusetts militia with wireless specialists to support seaplanes and land stations. Admiral Peary foresees a coast line defense network of thousands of aircraft across the nation.
A fourmasted American schooner likely carrying petroleum and three Swedish steamers with pulp were captured by German torpedo boats south of Dragor Denmark and taken to Swinemuende, a Copenhagen dispatch to Reuters reports.
The bark Martha arriving from Rio Grande do Sul reports sighting a school of about 100 sharks off Fire Island yesterday morning.
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