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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1911
Page
10
Ex Representative Walter A Webster told Governor Foss the metropolitan park department should charge parkway users an annual license fee of 5 dollars for standard autos and 10 dollars for high power machines. He cited 74 percent of parkway vehicles as autos and rising road maintenance costs.
Nine trawlers arrived at the wharf with 255 700 pounds of fish including 86 000 haddock 149 500 cod 2000 hake 8200 pollock 8000 cask 2000 halibut The Rose Dorothea landed the halibut and the Alice the cask. A Ghazee cargo liner from China and Japan brings 10 500 tons of freight mostly for New York. The Bellaventure sails from Jamaica with tropical fruit. The Winifredian will depart with 110 cabin passengers the largest Leyland liner this season. The Rachael Emery sunk near New Orleans. libel against the Delphine and tug Mongah. The Pollock Rip Lightship No 47 reported disabled. The Landsman Almanac shows tides and sunrises.
The Webster report forecasts over 150 000 dollars yearly from a proposed tax and suggests 30 000 dollars in departmental cuts. It notes jurisdiction shifts for bridges, civil service questions, and calls for clearer annual receipts, parks use costs, and public access criticisms alongside capital ideas for the polo field and Blue Hills facilities.
The Navy Department orders a court martial at the navy yard to try Lieutenant-Commander E. L. Constein commanding the Hist gunboat. He is charged with leaving survey work on the Porto Rico coast earlier than planned. Captain F. M. Kellogg will preside. Major Henry Leonard will defend.
Three year old James Arbino of East Boston was run over yesterday by a sprinkling cart and died shortly after at East Boston Re Ne Hospital. The driver Patrick J Powers was arrested claiming he did not see the child.
King George grants audience to Charles P Taft of Cincinnati at Buckingham Palace. Waiter Reid, the American ambassador, presents Mr Taft. The event occurs in London on June 2 with Taft meeting the king.
North Adams prepares for a historic air race as four colleges compete tomorrow. Williams College hosts the event at 1 p.m. with the Williams balloon Stevens No. 27, piloted by H. P. Shearman and aided by E. T. Price. Dartmouth enters Balloon Bos ton piloted by Jay Benton with John W. Pearson as aide. University of Pennsylvania fields Cleveland with A F Aberholt and George Atwell Richardson as aid. Harvard has the North Adams No. 1 balloon reserved.
The Boston Chamber of Commerce adopted a resolution endorsing Governor Foss's taxation recommendations to the Legislature. It favors a uniform income tax and a tax on forest lands as a fair solution to the state's taxation problem.
In Paris on June 2 the first international aviation law congress ended after days under Alexandre Millerand. It adopted 17 clauses forming the nucleus of a code for air law and regulation.
The 1863 Brady image shows Fairfax Court House with a blue army headquarters and a favored cupola for country observations. The text notes shifting control after Bull Run battles and Lee’s 1862 northern advance, alongside a list of ships and ports including Philadelphia, Portland, Digby, St. John, and Kennebec River vessels.
Witnesses testified in the Viterbo trial of 36 Camorrists for the Cuocolo murders. A Cafe Fortunio waiter denied meetings of the gang at the cafe. A stable porter said Alfano’s stable had no vehicles tied to the defendants.
Bridgeport Connecticut June 2 Ten dollars a head has been allowed to Liquor Prosecutor Greenstein for securing convictions as frequenters of social clubs raided for serving liquor to members on a Sunday. Judge Foster ruled club officers guilty of excise law violation and noted no club may dispense liquor to members on Sunday.
London June 2 The body of Sir William S Gilbert noted English dramatist and librettist who died of syncope May 29 while trying to rescue a woman of his party at Harrow was cremated. The burial of ashes drew prominent theatrical figures and Whitelaw R American ambassador sent a tribute from America.
Testimony in the trial of Rev. Norman Plass and three Redeemable Investment Company officers continues. The court case centers on charges of using the mails in a scheme to defraud, while show business notes describe Consul the Great at B F Keith's Theatre and a busy week of vaudeville, concerts, and new seaside attractions opening soon.
A government-produced letter reveals officers planned to delay redemption of Redeemable stock. Dr Stephen F Chase invested 1000, tried thrice to recover funds. his son in law George Snow sought 800 with no luck. Witnesses recount failed redemptions, misrepresentation, and office operations at Devonshire Street after the Oct 13 1910 raid.
Lindsay Morison presents his stock company in The Chorus Lady at the Majestic Theatre with Eleanor Gordon in the title role. The production features the professional debut of Mrs. George A. Hibbard.
Announcement from the Boston and Maine railroad that through sleeping car service between Boston and St Louis via the West Shore Wa bash railroads will resume from Boston June 3. West bound service leaves St Louis June 1 and arrives in Boston Saturday June 3.
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