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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1913
Page
11
A compact West End office opens to serve travelers with streamlined access and courtesy services. The facility aims to ease layovers and provide quick information counters, maps, and ticketing support for visitors passing through the area.
The Boston Post announces a weekly Monday column answering reader inquiries on listed and unlisted stocks and bonds of New England industrial utility bank and mill companies. It will also publish related correspondence and comments when feasible with impartial data from trustworthy sources. The Post notes it does not guarantee accuracy or predict market courses nor endorse the reliability of individuals or firms.
Inquiries to the financial editor should cover one subject only. The inquirer must provide full name and street address clearly. Responses will address inquiries about stated and unstated stocks and bonds of New England industrial public utility bank and mill companies. Address all inquiries to FINANCIAL EDITOR Boston Post Boston Mass.
A reader asks if American Telephone is a safe investment for a woman and about low priced shares with rising business. The answer supports AT starke safety at 127 with 8 percent dividend, notes strong historical support for women investors, and cites new convertible bonds. It warns La Salle Copper is poor speculation. It suggests Interborough Metropolitan and other rails, Erie and utilities as possible long term bets with diversification to balance risk.
Morrison I. Swift argues inheritance fuels wealth inequality and harms society while urging public allocation of wealth for broad welfare. He cites social decay from wasteful privilege and calls for a redesigned economy to prevent aristocracy of spenders.
Lion Hill Consolidated B e and Blue Bell 8 F Bowser Co Davis Daly Sandusky River Power Co SEND FOR ARKET LETTER E A Fordyce Co 50 Congress St Boston Mass Telephones Main 2079 8208
Ex dividend notes list Brooklyn Rapid Transit 1 percent with payable date July 1. Northern Railroad of New Hampshire 1 1 2 percent with date July 1. Pitts Term Warehouse transfers 1 8 percent with June 16. Books close Elec. Properties Co mortgage. Books open Fitchburg Railroad preferred. U S Steel Company. Meetings Broadway and Seventh Ave BR Cons Car Heating Co Southern Aluminum Co. Books do not close.
The Ladies' Kennel Association of Massachusetts reports a record turnout for the open-air show at Woodland Park Hotel Auburndale starting 10 Wednesday morning. About 570 dogs will compete across numerous classes with near a thousand entries overall, featuring top kennels from across the nation.
Y Takeyo shi a Japanese Diet member, touring the United States, notes Americans treat war lightly while Japan dreads it after two recent wars. He discusses a Japanese Monroe doctrine analogue and offers views on the broader threat of conflict and its lessons.
John W. Keenan of the International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers says the grand jury will be asked tomorrow to act against the Mead Morrison Company of Cambridge, chaired by Governor Foss, who leads the strike in this section of the state.
The A F L bootblacks strike may end today after a morning conference led by New England Organizer Frank H McCarthy with C A Vernice and Pike of School Street shop. Negotiations cover union shops and most demands are reportedly acceptable except union shop requirements.
Organizer Keenan says the firm advertised for boiler makers without noting a plant strike and asks the State Free Employment Bureau to send skilled workers without mentioning the strike. He will press District Attorney Pelletier and seek grand jury action. The strike now affects over 1000 men and ties up almost all major shops. International strike leaders plan a visit to Fore River Iron Works in Quincy this week.
Labor union officials in Hyde Park report Sturtevant and Becker plant workers remain firm about staying out until demands are met. International Vice-President John M. Tobin arrives in Boston after talks across the state. He cites Governor Foss on wages and conditions and calls for arbitration if warranted.
Members of 614 Colony Lodge 143 Brotherhood of Railway Clerks met yesterday and ratified a settlement between New Haven officials and about 3000 clerks on the road. The Boston terminal has not yet recognized the settlement, and the clerks’ adjustment board at New Haven will press for enforcement at this end of the system.
Delegates from 36 cities met at Wells Memorial Hall for the New England district council of electrical workers unions. They reported all Bay State Street Railway linemen, cable splicers, and telephone men have joined the union and passed a resolution condemning the Taylor scientific business system.
Labor groups from B and A Freight Handlers to Longshoremen reported on wages and grievances. Union leaders announced convention dates, new agreements, new hires, officer nominations, and upcoming district meetings across Boston area unions.
William E. Whitehead 23 of 89 Wheeler Street Boston was arrested by Cambridge police on a manslaughter charge after Willard Parker 56 of Irwin Street Roxbury died when struck by Whitehead’s heavy auto truck while Parker boarded a car at Broadway and Sixth in East Cambridge on May 28. Whitehead was held in $5000 bail.
The War Department selects the Shenandoah as a bloodless battleground for two months of cavalry maneuvers. A full brigade of cavalry and a battery of horse artillery will maneuver near Winchester reenacting Civil War era routes and hills.
The Rev. Cortland Myers told a large Tremont Temple audience that it is a misfortune of the times a baseball player with the same name as his should be world famous while he remains largely unknown beyond his church. The target was the Indian catcher of the New York Nationals.
The preacher cites a mix of modern culture and sport icons, noting a man named Myers in baseball and a broader critique of contemporary literature. He contrasts Puritan heritage with today’s celebrity sports culture and laments trashy newspaper supplements.
In Baltimore on June 8 delegates from the Associated Advertising Clubs of America delivered lay sermons in about 30 city churches. An afternoon service at Druid Hill Park drew some 5000 people with Ww. Co. Freeman of the New York Tribune presiding and George W. Coleman of Boston delivering the keynote on service as a religious ideal.
Levian Hovenaian of 769 Cambridge Street East Cambridge was struck by a slowly moving freight train yesterday afternoon crippling both legs. The incident occurred near the Cambridge yards with no immediate reports of other injuries or witnesses.
Impromptu racing drew hundreds of men and women at Revere yesterday afternoon. Sprinters and pace-followers trained while Sunday beach visitors filled the grandstands watching riders cover fast miles. Rain postponed a night race, so riders extended training into the next evening card, with spirited brushwork and applause from the gallery.
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