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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1911
Page
5
The Good Government Councillors divided over the city financial policy during yesterday's session. It was the first rift among the G G As since they gained control last year and featured a bitter exchange of personalities and accusations.
North End faces an 86000 loan order for a new branch library as Councilor Attridge and allies push the measure despite Mayor's bid to veto. Kenny and others resist unless funds come from the tax levy while Collins支持s further loans for a municipal building and Ward 5 playgrounds.
A six story brick building at West One Hundred and Thirty-ninth street occupied by Demarest and Carr feed dealers burned. Thirty carloads of grain 1000 bales of excelsior and 50 tons of hay fed the flames. Thirty thousand bags of salt were destroyed. Loss placed at 300000 dollars.
Mrs Charles A Munn Jr of 74 Beacon Street telegraphed from Philadelphia that she escaped injury when her carriage collided with another at the Devon Pennsylvania horse show on Memorial Day. Her skilled horsemanship prevented a collision on a slippery track. she also held a blue ribbon in ladies harness class with Radnor the chestnut gelding.
A State police survey member inspecting Melrose High School additions plunged through a beam and plaster, showering a class of 50 in a room below. No injuries beyond a minor blow to student Roy Hanson, while officials ordered temporary class relocation and a broader inspection of new wings.
The Cambridge Board of Aldermen went on record opposing a bill for a new city charter. A committee was appointed to investigate charges by the Cambridge Taxpayers' Association that aldermen intimidated assessors.
Andre Beaumont demonstrated exceptional endurance in the Paris Rome Turin air race, leading and leaving Frey and Roland Garros behind after the second stage. Garros and Frey, who reached Genoa earlier, encountered misfortune and are now at Pisa.
Beaumont the French aviator Conneau lands in Rome after flying from Allasio via Genoa Pisa Civita Vecchia and Leghorn at about 90 miles per hour. Crowds mob his arrival while he delivers messages from Paris to Mayor Nathan and the Roman prefect.
The People's Institute of Roxbury, organized by the late Robert Treat Paine, closed its doors last night after more than 21 years. The closure follows the association failing to cover expenses for the past year.
From Boston’s Back Bay, Mrs. George R. Estabrook presents a new fashion trend. The item, a modified trousers skirt, is said to have origins tied to Paris and arrives amid bustling style chatter.
Mrs Estabrook of 46 Westland Avenue Back Bay Boston appears on the Lusitania deck in a modified trousers skirt causing immediate interest and later enthusiasm. The London writer known as Laura Branscombe says the attire is novel for Boston and mocks local indifference.
Mrs. Estabrook discusses a new modified harem skirt with a curtain front and rear that forms bag-like shapes. She plans travel to Paris Scotland London returning in September and praises the comfort and beauty lines while noting it suits slender figures.
Plans for July assemble off Cape Cod the largest battleship fleet ever under the American flag. Twenty one battleships with auxiliaries to form the main squadron. An armored cruiser division led by Rear Admiral Sidney A. Staunton, including Tennessee Montana North Carolina and Washington, will join as a fifth division from Guantanamo.
Commander Edward W. Eberle leads 16 or 17 destroyers and seven submarines into a larger Atlantic fleet for July maneuvers near Cape Cod Bay. The drills include submarine attacks on the fleet, destroyers as a shield, night searchlight battles, high speed steaming, and landing detachments as infantry with light artillery.
New Haven May 31 Reports that John Hays Hammond has withdrawn support from Yale's Sheffield Scientific School circulate. Hammond, class of 1876, funded the Hammond laboratory and aided dormitories, but two years ago severed ties amid disputes with Dean Russell H. Chittenden.
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