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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1911
Page
2
Boston's City Council learned at its meeting that the proposed new refuse contract with the Boston Disposal Company will cost the city over 3 million dollars instead of 2.35 million as first expected. It will start about 45 thousand dollars per year higher than current costs, and each subsequent year will cost about 21 1/0 percent more than the previous year.
At the executive committee meeting Commissioner Rourke outlined Boston Disposal Company's bid at about 64 cents per ton to handle city refuse. He compared incinerator costs, noting New Brighton at 1.21 and Milwaukee at .95 per ton, and said current disposal costs are about 190000 annually. The first year under the contract would run 254940, with a proposed 2 1/2 percent rate increase yearly as refuse volume rose 4 percent last year. The council will revisit the matter.
Oscar Lawler assistant attorney general for the Interior Department has presented his resignation to President Taft to take effect May 1 He plans to resume his law practice in Los Angeles Lawler who has been ill was the author of the Lawler letter exonerating Secretary Ballinger.
In Superior Court Judge Jenney opened a high profile trial of four brokers Arthur Sederquist D Eustace Bigelow John Barry and Harry Curtis charged with swindling patrons of more than 1 million dollars. Assistant D A Webber led the case detailing firm ties Curtis maintained to Curtis Freeman Co Shaw Co and Sederquist Barry Co while Rollins testified about power of attorney and time spent in New York and Boston offices.
The Boston school committee voted to exclude moving picture shows from all school buildings. Superintendent Brooks cited potential panic during fires or explosions as the primary danger to children.
Superintendent Broons reports a plan for a continuation school for apprentices in industrial trades. The State Board of Education may approve an independent industrial school run by the Boston school committee. Apprentices will be paid by employers, 19 12 14 and 18 cents per hour across years, with shared weekly sums held in trust and paid back annually or at completion.
Andrew Square Improvement Association members critiqued city officials at the Andrew School in South Boston. They accused Southampton Street of neglect, saying over 35 large corporations on the thoroughfare suffer business losses. The group plans to testify next Monday at the State House on the Andrew Square subway proposal and thanked Rev. William J. Dixon for his recent vice-presidency.
George Baklanoff gave a farewell Lakme performance as Nikalantha at the Boston Opera House with Mme. Lipkowska as Lakme and Mr. Clement as Gerald. Caplet conducted. an enthusiastic audience and a postshow banquet followed the evening's artistry.
At Chickering Hall last night the Longy Club wind players performed with Mrs. Alice Stevens and others. The program featured Wagner, Dukas Villanelle, Mozart octet and songs by Dalcroze, Duparc, Debussy, and Lazzari. Mrs. Stevens drew warm applause.
Vic tor Herbert, noted composer of Natoma, spoke at the Boston Theatre on the eve of Naughty Marietta opening. He argued many now famed operas failed at first, praised Natoma in English, and said he will start a new grand opera though the book author remains undecided.
Federal animal inspectors and the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals seized a carload of crated calves from New York destined for Boston. A prior shipment raised suspicions, and a second crate set was ordered destroyed after inspectors confirmed the animals were immature. A watch is being kept for further consignments under New York four week age rules.
LENOX March 6 B N Duke head of the American Tobacco Company will raise sheep on his 10000 acre New Marlboro estate. He ordered 5000 Shropshires to be sent as soon as spring comes. The herd will be the most valuable in Massachusetts and most Shropshires will be imported.
The New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad will run one new Cape train next summer with a possible second. Aimed to ease travel, the first departs Boston in the afternoon and returns next morning, with timing to be finalized around April 1 after Brewster advocate Captain J Henry Seras and the Provincetown Board of Trade pressed the plan.
Five Boston to Cape Cod trains now operate with two reaching Provincetown and four to Yarmouth. Two new trains will boost daily Cape service to seven, plus expansion of a double track and a West Barnstable station. Last summer’s Cape traffic set records and the railroad expects even larger next summer.
A revolver mashed flat was found in a bale of cotton at the Arthur L. Robinson office in Clinton Massachusetts. Superintendent Stevens of the Lancaster mills recovered the weapon and investigators believe it was dropped during baling in the South. The gun shows extreme deformation and it is unclear how the powder did not discharge.
An advertisement promotes CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO laxative as a gentle and effective remedy for headaches colds indigestion pains constipation and sour stomach. It urges using the genuine product with the company name printed on the front of each package.
Ira Aldrich of Howard Street Holyoke Mass testifies that after five years of rheumatism limb pain swollen joints and constipation Dr Kilmer Swamp Root brought relief after trying many remedies He says he took over a dozen bottles and it proved a God send to him with a promise to share the cure with friends Confirmed before Justice D J Hartnett.
A promotional letter from Dr Kilmer and Co of Binghamton New York invites readers to obtain a sample bottle of Swamp Root. It promises to convince the reader of its benefits and mentions a booklet about kidneys and bladder. The note notes available bottle sizes fifty cents and one dollar at drug stores and asks to mention the Boston Daily Post.
Frank P. Smith, now a millionaire banker and landowner, wed Mrs. Ordelia R. Clark at midnight a week ago. They planned secrecy due to a $3,000,000 inheritance and business concerns, but gossip among trusted confidants revealed the marriage. Smith is uncle to Mrs. Charles Fair, killed in an auto crash years past.
At Chelsea a remembrance for my mother who died March 7, 1910. One year has passed and the daughter Mary J. Gray speaks of a sore heart and a vacant place. Her loving smiles and welcome face are missed. she is gone but not forgotten at 15 Pine Street Chelsea Massachusetts.
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