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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1916
Page
8
Tech alumni converge in Boston for the MIT Cambridge campus dedication marked by a long Open air Hegira automobile parade from Copley Plaza to Weston. A five-part programme includes masque pageant and illumination with rain or shine operations and a grand Tuesday night performance.
An advertisement extols Glacier Park as a unique vacation destination offering abundant mountain trout in 250 glacial lakes and a riot of wildflowers. It promises inviting climate, scenery, and rest, and invites readers to contact Alex Stocks of New England P. A. Co. for trip details with no obligation.
All day alumni registration and badge distribution at Shawmut Bank building 42 Water Street. 8 30 p m dress rehearsal of Pageant at Cambridge Great Court entrance by ticket. 10 a m official registration at Copley Plaza Hotel under Prof Charles F Park. 4 p m alumni seniors and undergraduates depart Copley Plaza for Weston by auto. 5 p m special boat departs New York aboard M Tropolitan line with alumni aboard.
A Monday ceremony will clear Boylston Street between Berkeley and Clarendon and rope off sidewalks and Rogers and Natural History Building spaces for the Tech farewell. The Rogers Building steps become a stage with bands, banners, flowers, laurel, and a red illuminated centerpiece. The US and Technology flags fly, colors lower after the Star Spangled Banner and taps conclude.
Aberdeen reports say the British cruiser Hampshire was seen afire before sinking off the Orkney Islands while carrying Earl Kitchener to Russia. Survivors from trawlers and steamers arriving from the Orkneys provide statements on the fateful voyage and disaster.
Last Monday night a warship named Hampshire sank off Orkney after a fierce storm. Earl Kitchener and his staff were aboard and believed drowned. A raft bearing 12 sailors washed ashore as 80 bodies were later found along the cliffs.
Boston and Maine workers see a 5 percent raise settled with the Brotherhood of Railroad Station employees, avoiding an eight hour day. A second deal advances to a two cent per hour across the system with expected final agreement today, affecting blacksmiths boilermakers sheet metal workers electrical workers carmen and steamfitters.
Lieutenant Richard C. Saufley, a navy aviator, was killed when his aircraft fell on Santa Rosa Island late today near Pensacola Florida.
Navy aviator Richard C. Saufley 32 of Kentucky died at Pensacola after a hydroaeroplane crash. He held a world altitude record of 16 072 feet set last March. He joined the Naval Academy in 1904 and had served at Pensacola since January 1915. Officials suggest tail failure caused the accident.
Jeremiah Shea, a Cambridge grocer, sues in the Superior Court over a pool raised by at least ten Greater Boston contributors totaling from ten to twenty thousand dollars. The funds were to be invested through Henry Clay Peters of Brighton, the Progressive candidate for Congress in 1914 in Massachusetts Eleventh District.
Shea claims he has received no monthly statements for his $750 stake and seeks an accounting as others in the pool press for details. The group, including Thomas Flanagan and John F. McKnight, allege Peters planned stock manipulation from New York Boston exchanges to Alaska Gold Belt stocks.
Boston will not implement a semaphore system for traffic regulation. Police Commissioner O'Meara advised against the project, arguing that semaphores would slow traffic rather than help it.
The Holy Name Society at Cathedral of the Holy Cross meets tomorrow in the basement church with Rev. John W. Culhane presiding. The Guild of St. Catherine meets at 3 30 in the Sodality Chapel Boston College with Rev. James F. Melvyn directing. Cardinal O Connell orders annual St John s Seminary collection across diocesan churches with reports due in 10 days. The Guild of St Radegonde enrolment mass and communion breakfast follow at Boston College High School. Bishop Anderson will confirm classes at St Clement s West Somerville and Weymouth parishes today and next Thursday and a June 17 Italian Church St Leonard of Port Maurice in North End. Further confirmations listed for June 18 22 22 24 and 29 at various parishes.
Cardinal O Connell will administer the sacrament of confirmation to a large number of Cathedral parish youths this morning. Mass starts at 9 am with the cardinal presiding and expected to address the children. About 200 boys and girls will form in the lower church at 8 45 with Cathedral priests assisting.
Revere public school pupils will march in company formation to Curtis Park for Flag Day observances next Wednesday. About 5000 children will participate and Mayor Curtis will present the city with a flag and pole. Evening exercises will be held under city auspices.
Washington Post and Cincinnati Enquirer owner John B. McLean died at his home after a long illness. He was 68, native of Cincinnati, and sole owner of the Enquirer since 1881 and later owner of the Post. He was active in Ohio politics and left a son Edward B. McLean and a sister married to Admiral Dewey.
Charles Wellington of 14 Gibson Street Dorchester marks his ninety first birthday today. A veteran driver and conductor for Gore Rose Co who began in 1860 as a driver of a stage for the Fields Corner division of the Elevated he retired in 1903 as the first pensioned employee in the division.
The 81 year old Lynn man Thomas Millett, a former Danvers State Hospital inmate, died from arterial hardening. Dr. L Vernon Briggs said Millett was not attacked by fellow patient Albert Covar, who was moved to his New Jersey home where his family will care for him.
Mrs. HE Florence Elleret died at East Boston Relief Hospital after a late Thursday night accident at 30 Saratoga Street. She tripped while carrying a lighted kerosene lamp and suffered serious burns.
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