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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1911
Page
5
Walter L. Fisher the newly appointed Secretary of the Interior will likely take the oath Monday morning. He will spend tomorrow with Secretary Ballinger learning department affairs and meeting subordinate officials.
First Assistant Secretary of the Interior Frank Pierce of Utah will resign soon after Mr Fisher assumes charge. Fisher arrived in Washington and conferred with the President and Secretary Ballinger. Ballinger met with Senators and Representatives to discuss public land matters and no prosecutions were yet announced.
Washington March 9 By affixing his signature to the contract for manufacturing and printing stamped envelopes and stamped newspaper wrappers today Postmaster General Hitchcock ends, for at least four years from July 1 next, a contest that has waged intermittently for more than a quarter of a century.
The Post Office Department made a four year contract with Mercantile Corporation of New York City led by Myron C. Taylor. It covers delivery of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers as required. The agreement is expected to save the government about 297 880 dollars based on 1910 envelope and wrapper usage.
President Taft departed for Atlanta at 4 20 p m aboard the steel private car Tdeal. The car was hitched to the first section of the Birmingham special of the Southern railway.
Henry C. Long, Boston attorney, told the Intercolonial Club of Roxbury that the Boston Chamber of Commerce is asleep to development prospects. He urged the chamber to abandon sociology and focus on expanding Boston harbor, described as the world’s finest.
The speaker argues Boston must win the bid for eastern port access to Canadian tonnage and waterborne commerce. He cites rail links from Newport and Palmer and urges a Legislature bill to appoint a capable port director to overtake New York within a dozen years. Governor Foss listens without comment.
After 21 hours of deliberation in East Cambridge Superior Civil Court Judge W C Wait, jurors found for defendants in the suit of John H Bridge of Newton against Rinaldo B Richardson Joseph O Clark and William H Stocker. Bridge claimed $20,000 fraud in financing patents that paid them $15,000. Bridge instructed his attorney to appeal to the Supreme Court.
One passenger died and several were injured when the Maritime Express from Halifax to Montreal collided with a local train at Derby Junction near Newcastle New Brunswick. The fatality was Angus McDougall. the crash followed an open switch between the main line and the Indiantown branch, leaving the local train stationary on the branch.
Advertisement states Paso Ointment cures itching bleeding protruding piles in six to fourteen days with a money back guarantee if not cured. The druggist offers a 50 cent price.
Ex-Senator Frank J. Linehan will be released on bail this morning aided by his 80 year old mother wife and counsel ex Senator James H Vahey. Patrick McColgan of 83 Spencer Avenue Chelsea posted 5000 bail and will arrange the second surety as required by law. He will accompany the papers to Charles Street jail.
South Boston politician Frank Linehan faces isolation as friends abandon him. Chelsea businessman McColgan pledges support, saying he would stake thirty thousand dollars to aid Linehan and insists the case is a political plot. Linehan’s mother laments rivalries and gratitude while Linehan, 5 children, awaits his fate in jail with his counsel delivering hopeful news.
Antonio Villa of North street fired three shots at a man in Battery street North End around 8pm. Police chased and captured him with a smoking revolver and a dirk knife. the target remains at large while hospitals are alerted for a possible wound as a witness.
Secretary Meyer announced several high rank naval officer assignments. Captain John T. Newton is detached from the battleship Nebraska and ordered to command Portsmouth navy yard. Captain DeWitt Coffman is detached from command of the battleship New Jersey and assigned as commandant of the Boston navy yard.
A report by Superintendent Manus G. Fish to Acting Mayor Collins recommends constructing new municipal buildings in South Boston and Roxbury. The South Boston project is estimated at 250000 dollars, while the Roxbury building in Ward 17 is estimated at 170000 dollars. Brighton and Ward 7 proposals are criticized as unnecessary.
The Engagment notice from Mr and Mrs Moses Grant Edmands of Devon Street Brookline reveals Violet and Rose will marry ministers. Violet is to wed Rev Clarence V T Richeson of Immanuel Baptist Cambridge and Rose will marry Rev George H Holt of Central Baptist James town Rhode Island.
The opening of The World in Boston Missionary Exposition is set for April 22 at 2 PM in Mechanics' Building grand hall. Samuel B Capen will preside. Bishop Lawrence will declare the exposition open. Speakers include Mrs Helen Barrett Montgomery and Booker Neashington.
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