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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1913
Page
5
In Paterson New Jersey on July 22 more employees returned to work at the silk mills. Dyer strike declared over with only a few small shops idle due to lack of work. Weavers to vote tomorrow on continuing the strike and many weaving mills already running. Employers hope remaining mills operate by next week.
In a letter to the Gas and Electric Light Commission Mayor Fitzgerald urges a rate reduction for the city. He complains electricity is too expensive and asks for a hearing date.
The Mayor cites a 12 percent dividend and a $616,212 surplus in Edison’s report and asks the board for a public hearing on city lighting rates noting electricity prices affect business success.
A statement urges reducing electricity prices to a level yielding a reasonable dividend to stockholders and asks the board to inform this office of a proposed public hearing time.
Nantucket reports the sale of the fishing steamer Waquoit to state authorities for use as a pest boat. The vessel, once a famed whaler, will operate between New Bedford and Penikese Island to serve the leper colony and transport new arrivals to their final resting place.
At Mourmelon army aerodrome near Chalons France Lieutenant Gabriel in charge of a new aeroplane and Sapper Malarte as mechanic were testing the craft. A wheel caught in a rut toppling the machine. Malarte died instantly and Gabriel was treated at the military hospital.
Daniel Guggenheim testifying in the Ross versus Burrage case before Master Thomas W. Proctor, joking about extracting gold from the sea while noting the cost would exceed its value. The matter concerns a $1,500,000 claim tied to Ferrobama and Chiquicamata mining ventures and the Bradley smelting process.
The American Refining and Mining Company led by Mr. Guggenheim acquires 10 000 Chili company shares. Mr Ross a mining engineer asserts 5 percent stock due for prior work for Mr Burrage. Hearings will extend this week as Mr Guggenheim and engineer Mr Yeaton conclude testimony.
Notice states that two complete pages of interesting news pictures printed from electrotype plates will be included in next Sunday's Post. The item promises visual material of interest to readers and highlights the use of electrotype printing for the images.
City Missionary D W Waldron yesterday hosted about 1500 guests at Franklin Park for the first Old Folks picnic in 35 years. Children outnumbered adults as families arrived by trolley and walked to Abbotswood where seating was arranged and lunch served under big tents.
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