02 Jun 1909
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1909
Page
1
Ex Governor Curtis Guild Jr and Mrs Guild sail on the Cunard liner Ivernia for a five months rest in Europe. In Europe he will deliver two addresses in French including one at the University of Geneva and another at the unveiling of a monument to Michael Servetus in Vienne France.
About 5000 people gathered on the pier for the outgoing liner, the largest crowd ever recorded at this port. Cheers carried across the harbor as the ship slipped into the stream. The passenger list 1158 was the largest this year, and former Governor and Mrs. Guild arrived with Mrs. Guild’s sister, the Countess Orlandini Guidi, exchanging long handshakes at the gangplank and bidding farewell to relatives on the forward deck.
Boston catcher Carrigan has been sent home by Manager Lake after developing a serious blood infection from an injury in Detroit two weeks earlier. The left knee and leg are swollen and he will miss several weeks, a blow to the Red Sox ahead of the Red Sox Detroit game in Boston.
Boston drops the first game in 11 innings while winning the nightcap. New York Giants move to third in the NL with a 5 2 win over Brooklyn. Other scores include New York 4 Washington 0 and 2 2. Chicago 9 Cincinnati 3 in 10 innings. Carrigan sidelined with blood poisoning. Harvard hosts Brown. Boston Nationals beat Harrisburg in exhibition.
In South Yarmouth on June 1 Edward L F Garcelon a 60 year old Boston real estate broker and William Kenney Jr drowned when their boat capsized on Follens Upper Pond. George O'Brien Jr aged 12 was saved by his father.
Garcelon and Kenney, after inviting O'Brien aboard, were swept into rough waters when a squall capsized their rowboat. George O'Brien Sr. rescued his son but both men drowned as efforts to save them failed. Continued on Page 4-Sixth Column
Harvard president A Lawrence Lowell urged at Columbia that athletic participation, including football, is a beneficial and essential part of the college curriculum if it contributes to overall student development, marking a clear stance against Eliot on the elective system and athletics policy.
Dr. Lowell attributes much of the colleges' laxity to the elective system and argues that outdoor sports and indoor studies share a need for stimulus by competition to drive intellectual development.
Professor Richard Cockburn Maclaurin assumed the presidency of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after election by the institute’s corporation. He succeeds acting president Dr Arthur Amos Noyes as Dr Henry S Pritchett left to head the Carnegie Institute. The formal inauguration is set for next Tuesday with dignitaries including Ambassador James Pryce Bishop William Lawrence and Harvard President Lowell. At 38 he is known to students as the “boy president.”
Hermann Busse an officer aboard the Hamburg American liner Bethania beat John Bray East Boston champion in a three quarter mile harbor race from the Bethania dock and back. Busse finished in about 20 minutes twelve seconds ahead after an eight hour duty shift.
John W. Cutler quarterback of last fall’s winning team and Sidney W. Fish of the 1908 crew, suspended by President Eliot last June for taking a library book, were asked to withdraw from Harvard. They, with William Morgan, were summoned by Harvard College and Law School boards as the new president seeks to stamp out student misdemeanors. Both Cutler and Fish, fined $10 in court for attacking the yard officer, were urged to resign under threat of summary faculty action.
Cutler a senior from Brookline top family and Fish from New York faced academic and disciplinary trouble at Harvard. Fish and Morgan allegedly took a book, were suspended before the Thames race, drawing national attention as Roosevelt and Harvard officials weighed intervention. Yard disturbance led to confinement in a cell after officers called for help.
George Baglin vice president of United Copper Company was jailed at the Tombs by order of Judge Lacombe until the firm’s missing books are produced. The records are needed as evidence for federal charges against F Augustus Heinze. Sanford Robinson a company director faces similar confinement to be decided tomorrow.
Raglin testified he overheard Robinson and a Heinze brother plot to remove books under subpoena and took no action. Judge Lacombe ordered contempt against Raglin after his admission. Robinson faced contempt for refusing to testify citing attorney privilege, which the judge rejected, and warned he may also be committed.
Bryce J Allan, steamship magnate and society man, kept an engagement in Montreal at 3 pm yesterday. He paid $1026 for the engagement and traveled on a special train leaving North Station at 1:47 am. The 342 miles to Montreal cost him $3 per mile on the big locomotive and Pullman car.
Bryce J Allan, aided by Congressman Augustus P Gardner, raced to reach the Montreal North Station after missing the 8:30 through express. Railroad staff refused a special train, leading Allan to seek help at Hotel Somerset and, with Gardner, arrange a makeshift journey to Montreal. He managed his own breakfast aboard the derailed coach as dawn broke over the rails.
Charles A. Barr a bricklayer was arrested on June 1 in Los Angeles on suspicion of strangling Laure Regester six years old of Providence Rhode Island on May 10. Barr attempted to sell a bracelet to a pawnbroker to raise money to attend a prize fight when seized. Officers say the bracelet matches the one worn by Miss Regester at the time of the murder.
Providence police stated they knew nothing of Charles A. Barr and had not asked for the arrest of a man by that name.
Washington June 1 midshipmen at the naval academy may not marry until after four years of study and two years at sea. Secretary Meyer announced the regulation, and President Taft approved the change today.
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