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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1911
Page
2
The government offered evidence of a secret contract between North American Rubber Company and Boston Belting Company providing a 40 cent a pound rebate on all rubber sold to Boston Belting as part of the mail fraud case against Warren B. Wheeler and Stillman Shawn.
Defendants linked to Wheeler & Shaw Inc acted as fiscal agents in promoting the North American Rubber Company. Promoters claimed a secret rubber process and $1 per pound sales to Boston Belting Co, but costs claimed at 60 seats or near a dollar. Investors nationwide funded the venture until postal authorities moved in. Witness Raleigh B. Adams tied rebate contracts to Thomas A. Forsyth. Signatures of Forsyth and Wheeler shown. Leonard Armstead bought 10 shares at $3.50, with a letter predicting $10 per share by July 9 and factory output cited at 4500 pounds daily. Hearing paused by U S Commissioner Hayes until June 22.
Authorities raid the alleged headquarters of a large baseball pool early this morning. Edward McKenna, 48 Lauriat Avenue Dorchester, arrested as the pool executive. Raids yielded thousands of tickets, stamped sheets, dies, types, envelopes, and ledgers with agent and patron names across New England. Watch and Ward Society officials and police surrounded the premises and seized the evidence.
Two hundred members of the Browning Society attended a moonlight festival at the Weld Brookline estate of Mr and Mrs Larz Anderson last night. Gardens glowed with thousands of Japanese lanterns and guests enjoyed the hospitality.
A high society costume party unfolds at a Boston area mansion with guests dressed as medieval courtiers, Oriental nobles, and European figures. Mrs. Anderson leads in an Orient-inspired gown with a jewel crown while Dr. R Wendrick Smith and others attend. An orchestra plays as poems by Browning are read and a luncheon follows on a grand lawn.
Albert A. Borofsky a Boston sanitation clerk, died in Everett Washington on the eve of his wedding to Frances H. Molin. Friends fear foul play after telegrams claimed he died suddenly and another said he had been poisoned. He was to wed June 18 and return to Boston before the Fourth of July.
Police probe follows a sudden death connected to imminent nuptials. A Seattle mailed letter to his sisters spoke of wedding happiness. a telegram from Miss Molin confirmed his death. Family hints at Westward move urged by Molin family. May 28 departure preceded by a banquet at Louis Cafe hosted by the Phelia Club.
Harvard University is not a “rich man’s college” and does not abet dissipation, President Lawrence Lowell told the Associated Harvard Clubs convention. He said Harvard is not run for the fast man in college, that dissipation exists but is limited, and that students have abolished any gap between rich and poor. A constitutional amendment creates a council with representatives from each club, including officers, to bind the clubs as a national unit, with New York as next convention site.
The World in Boston trustees express deep appreciation to Boston daily newspapers for cordial support and generous space. They credit the newspapers with much of the exposition’s success and commend editors proprietors and reporters for recognizing the gospel mission’s uplifting influence.
Syracuse June 9 The National Association of Railway Mail Clerks held its convention with no action on affiliating with labor unions Protest against post office supervision of rail way mail service detail work and a merit system resolution were defeated In late night ballots conservatives won with Peter J of Milwaukee and George A Woodmouth of New Jersey named as secretary treasurer
Senator Frank P. Bennett will press a bill extending subway and tunnel leases to 42 years through 1936 and beyond, including subways from Boylston Street to Andrew Square and a West End to Boston Elevated lease. The measure faces strong opposition from the Public Franchise League but support from the United Improvement Association, with final action due in the Senate Monday.
Robert Winsor of Kidder Peabody & Co appeared before the Chamber of Commerce committee on public utilities to seek support for extending Boston's sublease. The discussion focused on securing a long term arrangement to benefit city utilities and municipal projects.
The committee proposed options for long term leases and 42 or 50 year terms in a broad transportation bill to be praised in the Legislature on Monday. A sub committee was created to report and is expected to be submitted to the big business organization’s board for immediate action amid a potential clash over a two year lease.
Joseph J. Leonard, head of the transportation committee for United Improvement Association, defends a sixty year lease plan for subways and tunnels in the Boston Elevated omnibus bill. He cites Governor Crane’s veto and outlines proposed lease term extensions and arbitration for rent, noting potential extensions from July 1, 1936, of seven and a half to 17 25 years.
Fourteen year old Ralph Shaw, just graduated from grammar school and received his entrance card to Sutton High School, swam at a lake with classmates after school and drowned from cramps before companions could reach him.
Metropolitan affairs show senators Mulligan Brown Stearns Murray voting for or against with reservations. Representatives Cushing Thomas Rothfeld Carr Nickerson Rideout Ryan Lomasney Newton Connolly Parker vote for or against. Street railways see Bennett Hibbard Curley Hathaway Crane Kilpatrick Hathaway Daly absent. Parks Reidy Henebery Breckenridge vote for with others against. Seventeen of thirty committee members supported the bill at executive session. Keith Daly Cushing Thomas Nickerson to be polled.
Mrs Emma L McCarthy expresses gratitude to the many friends of her late husband D J McCarthy and to her own friends for kindnesses and floral tributes during her bereavement. Address Roxbury dwelling listed.
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