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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1910
Page
3
Water Commissioner Hannan proposed placing about 300 city workers on half pay due to old age and long service but Mayor Fitzgerald rejected the plan. He will not cut any old laborers from city payroll until the Legislature enacts a pension system, despite Finance Commission recommendations.
The Mayor tells a Post reporter he will not permit laborers to be paid a little over a dollar a day while pension plans would be provided by the Legislature. He vows not to interfere with workers who have served the city for low wages and seeks pensions or other savings.
The petition to Mayor Fitzgerald asks the Park Board to stop its four-row tree project on Commonwealth avenue between Massachusetts avenue and Dartmouth Street. Signers include Frank Gair Macomber T J Coollidge Jr Henry S Hunnewell Willard T Sears Edward R Warren Barrett Wendell A W Tongfellow Stephen Codman Augustus N Rantoul Brooks Frothingham and Howard A Goodspeed.
After the Mer rimac and Market streets building is demolished workers uncover 50 counterfeit half dollars with a familiar cutting plate. Police doubt this represents the full counterfeiting operation and fear the gang may still be active elsewhere in Boston. Evidence is at the Hanover Street station as investigators trace tenants and links to the counterfeit network.
Washington March 9 Strong efforts will urge passage of the McCall bill compelling publicity of national campaign expenses this session. Leaders of both parties have been appealed to by the National Publicity Law group with Perry Belmont and William Chandler pushing the movement. President Taft has urged publicity for national campaign funds.
Washington March 9 A second attempt to pass a bill to purchase or erect embassy buildings in foreign capitals was defeated after two hours of debate.
Governor Draper names five commissioners including Robert Luce and Albion Bemis to probe rising living costs under legislative act. The panel, with three conservatives and two radicals, can subpoena witnesses and demand books and papers, wielding powers similar to the Finance Commission that examined Boston debt.
Robert Luce, Albany Bemis, Edward F. McSweeney, Mederic J. Laporte and Henry Abrahams are profiled as seasoned public figures. Luce and Abrahams are labeled safe radicals, Bemis and Laporte shown as conservatives, while McSweeney is a Boston hospital trustee with economic lecturing duties. The text notes 22 children in the commission’s combined families, with McSweeney’s milestone birth of his sx.
The Wenham selectmen report a $746.49 tax shortfall. Former treasurer Frederick P. Stanton, after 16 years in service, demands proof before the deficit is charged to him. The board agrees to hire an expert accountant to audit the books.
Town hall gathering scheduled for 8 o clock tomorrow evening to discuss tax issues. Town Treasurer F K E Durgin reports 1908 taxes collected as 4512.95 and unsettled taxes at 746.49.
The sane Fourth bill came into the Senate yesterday from the committee on mercantile affairs. It prohibits further sales of toy blank cartridges pistols toy cannons or fire crackers over five inches long and seven eighths inch in diameter and bans dynamite nitroglycerine or chlorate of potash and sulfur firecrackers. Penalty for violation is 50 dollars.
Captain Patrick J. Hurley headed the Cambridge police in exposing George W. Coleman’s looting of the National City Bank of Cambridge and linking the fare swindle to a larger scheme. Hurley urged Coleman to tell his story and has been praised for fairness in prior cases including the Annie Mullen murder inquiry.
At the Columbia Theatre last evening Tain din defeated Rassmussen, the Copenhagen cyclone, in two straight bouts. The first lasted 12 minutes and the second 18 minutes, with a close, exciting show amid crowd reactions and local coverage.
Fort Banks regulars in Winthrop celebrate a headquarters ruling that Sunday baseball is allowed for the soldiers. A resident protest prompted a hearing last week, but the soldiers won the case and will play on Sundays.
Historical scholars trace the true Old North Church, now Christ's Church, to a 1650 start with a 1676 fire and 1775 demolition by King's troops. The present building arose from Episcopalian needs and the 1723 organization of Christ's Church in Boston. A ground purchase in the North End marked the move.
Funds came via subscription. In April 1723 the cornerstone was laid and in December the structure was dedicated by Rev. Timothy Cutler the first pastor.
Peace near Baltimore as mediation between Baltimore and Ohio railroad officers and conductors and trainmen continues. Commissioner Neill held a long conference with both sides, but details remain private. Indications suggest negotiations may conclude by tomorrow night.
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