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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1913
Page
7
Governor Foss named Channing Smith of Leicester to the new labor board in a three year term. Smith, a Republican, represents manufacturers and was quickly confirmed along with the rest of the board after a thunderstorm meeting.
The board will oversee factory inspections and appoint a labor commissioner with two deputies. It shares authority with the Industrial Accident Board on occupational diseases. Committee members include James A. Lowell of Newton chairman for five years James W. Crook of Amherst for years William Acton of Fall River two years and Mrs Mary C Dewey of Cambridge for one year Lowell is an attorney and former chairman of the Workingmen's Compensation Commission Crook is a professor
Acton a labor man represents wage earners on the board. Mrs. Dewey is the wife of Professor Davis R. Dewey of Technology. Smith is a woolen manufacturer.
Milbury F. Roak 55 a meat cutter and store manager in Allerton Hull pleaded guilty in Abington District Court to larceny from his employer William G. Brown. He was sentenced to six months in Plymouths house of correction after a detective agency investigation and marked bills exposed his theft totaling just over ten dollars.
Ninety six percent of trainmen and conductors on the Pacific division of the Southern Pacific voted to strike unless employment terms including rating and seniority on the company’s electric lines are adjusted. The tally was 3816 for strike to 187 against, announced tonight in San Francisco.
The will of Countess Gaston D Arschot widow of a Belgian diplomat disposing of a 400000 dollar estate was admitted to probate despite protests by five of the countess nieces and nephews. The bulk of the estate goes to her late husband's nephew Count Guillaume D Arschot who is secretary to the Belgian king's cabinet. He traveled from Brussels to testify against undue influence allegations.
Roy Norton introduces Hardpan and Co in a preview for Sun Day’s Post Magazine. The forthcoming serial promises a vivid Western tale with frontier grit and colorful characters.
English labor leader Thomas Mann arrived aboard the Franconia to study I W W methods with the aim of introducing them into England. He previously led the English coal miners in the major strike last year and seeks insights from the I W W movement.
Mr. Mann arrives at the dock and talks with local I W W figures led by Nathan Herman William Yates John J Daley John J Ballam and J Leventhal about uniting English and American unions for an eight hour day and broader direct action against unemployment before moving on to Pittsburgh for headquarters.
After months delay Medford contracts at fifteen dollars per acre to drain and fill five hundred twenty three acres of marsh and wetlands near the city center. Officials believe the work will rid the area of swamp mosquitoes infesting the central district.
In New York on July 30 the American Tanning Company stock swindle case ended with the conviction of Adam Hoch a German chemist and Eugene S. Robinson alias R H Raymond on all counts. The jury deliberated just over an hour before returning guilty verdicts. sentencing is set for tomorrow.
In Barcelona on July 30 a strike in the textile industry involves 64 factories. Authorities say leaders under arrest warned the action could become revolutionary and troops are being rushed to the city as a precaution.
Roy Norton unveils Hardpan & Co a bold action adventure serial to start next Sunday in the Post Magazine praised as his finest work yet. The author promises high pace danger and rugged frontier atmosphere.
The report notes ten thousand feeble-minded in Massachusetts, with 1900 in state care and nearly 900 awaiting admission. Three families of 20 children cost the state $64 775, about $3240 per person, illustrating negligence in remedying the problem and the broad social harms.
Hampshire Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children presents a major exhibit in Amherst as part of the fourth annual rural leaders conference at Massachusetts Agricultural College. The display lists numerous organizations and features a new college exhibit in a large tent. Speakers include national figures and Congressman A F Lever of South Carolina will speak at the closing event.
The Evangelical Alliance of Greater Boston will hold August open air meetings on Boston Common and surrounding sites from 2 to 6 PM Sundays and nightly at Pemberton Square from 7 to 9 PM. Rev Chauncey J Hawkins travels Canada for vacation photos. St Ann’s Roxbury renovates enlarging the altar. Immanuel Roxbury pastor Clarence Vincent visits Henniker NH. A new St Augustine’s Children’s Home chapel at South Foxboro is funded by Mrs Jeanie Turnbull’s memorial, under Rev Father C N Field. New England Gideons meet at Old Orchard ME August 11–14 with carload of 15,000 Bibles for Maine and New Hampshire hotels, claiming a record NE Bible collection.
Mason Danner, Harvard graduate and former Harvard Christian Association leader, is named membership and office secretary of the Boston Y M C A with October start. Dean W. Patterson leaves the post to become business secretary for the National Committee of Y M C A India and Ceylon, to work with Edward C. Carter. Arthur C. Nichols to succeed him.
John J. Farrell longtime chief horseshoer for Pierre Lorillard's racing stable died after collapsing at his forge in Jobstown New Jersey He had managed the shop since Lorillard's death and accompanied the owner on many globe trotting expeditions to care for the horses.
Mayor Fitzgerald accuses lumber interests of working for years to block fire protection bills in the city. He cites a dealer agent offering a $5000 fee to sway him to kill the measures. He cites reports of poor building construction and says fire chiefs report the worst buildings in some districts. Mansfield of Mansfield & Whalen denies opposing the bills.
The well dressed body of a man about 50 years old was found on mud flats off Bridgeport. In his pockets were a revolver, a horn snuff box, and $5.90 among other items.
The 1st annual field meeting of the New Hampshire State Board of Agriculture drew the largest attendance to Hampton Beach. Banquet speakers included Governor Samuel D. Felker Oliver Wilson of the National Grange Dr H J Wheeler Aaron Jones Ga W Gaunt and Pr G W Twitchell.
The President sent to the Senate the nomination of J. E. Brooks to be post master at Bidde Me. The brief note places Brooks in the position pending Senate confirmation.
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