Evacuation Celebration Leads Navy Events to Midnight Taps
The programme lists chief events from the navy and a salute to midnight taps. It continues coverage of an evacuation celebration with ceremonies and formal tributes.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1906
Page
5
The programme lists chief events from the navy and a salute to midnight taps. It continues coverage of an evacuation celebration with ceremonies and formal tributes.
R a m salutes at the navy yard mark a day of events with a 7 a.m. arrival of distinguished guests from Washington at Back Bay station and escort to Hotel Tenox by a reception committee of the South Boston Citizens Association and Colonel Frye serving Governor Guild. An 10:30 a.m. ovation at the high school features Hon Herbert Parker and music from the Municipal Orchestra. A public 11 a.m. breakfast at Hotel Lenox is hosted by Mayor Fitzgerald for invited guests including Lieutenant General Bates and Massachusetts leaders.
Long list of officials and military units scheduled for Evacuation Day events including a 2 p.m. parade start on Broadway to Dorchester Heights and a 8 p.m. governor led review at FE street. Banquet at Gray's Hall, fireworks, basketball and athletic games, and midnight taps accompany a day of ceremonies.
An Inquirer editorial by E. P. Barry criticizes South Boston storekeepers and public contributors for failing to support Evacuation Day activities. The piece laments reliance on private purses, contrasts with Charlestown's generosity, and predicts possible changes as past organizers step down.
Hibernian regiments plan a day of mass services, a parade, and banquets across Suffolk. Activities include mass for A O H branches, a 9 am marshal briefing, a noon meeting at Young's Hotel, a 12 45 arrival of Second Hibernian Regiment from Fall River, a 2 pm parade, and banquets at Dovers and Albany streets, Wells Memorial Hall, and the Ex change Club with Irish music and a St Patrick panegyric at St Marys Church.
Federation bazaar at Horticultural Hall and tea at the Continental D A R Hall. Harvard German play at Bolton Hall. St Stephen's parish reunion and Dorchester Catholic Club theatricals at Norfolk Hall. Receptions at Bachelor Club Roxbury and Hartford Club on Dudley Street. Malden Deliberative Society ladies night and Daly Industrial School reception. New Hampshire Daughters at the Tuileries with Afternoon in Birdland. Salon Francais de Boston French reading at Huntington Hall. Boston Art Club at Potter Hall.
Auto Show closes at Mechanics' Building while horse events run at New Riding Club. Harvard faces Penn in gymnastics at Harvard. Open handicap basketball games held at D Street Gym in South Boston. Local schools and Y M C A teams play across Boston area venues including Newton Y M C A and South Boston High as Melrose and Milton meet Malden teams. Riverside hosts basketball Harvard versus B A A with New England Kennel Club at Braintree.
Boston’s Suffolk county Ancient Order of Hibernians parade faces weather risk but Chief Marshal John H. Dillon expects a strong showing as streets clear. County president Dillon leads the parade with Alderman Curley as chief of staff. numerous divisions prepare open houses and the State officers attend as guests riding in carriages.
Eleventh annual dinner of the Boston Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution at Chipman Hall Tremont Temple. Sixty ninth annual dinner of the Charitable Irish Society at Hotel Brunswick. Evacuation Day banquet of South Boston Citizens Association at Gray's Hall. Clover Club banquet at Exchange Club. Annual dinner of South Boston Young Men’s Christian Association.
On March 17 the anniversary of Patrick Donahoe's death and birth, his grave at St. Augustine's Cemetery is decorated as each St Patrick's Day by his sons Joseph and Patrick.
Dennis J Maloney will serve as district marshal for the West Roxbury and Jamaica Plain divisions of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in today’s parade. He is vice-president of Division 40, noted as one of the county’s strongest divisions.
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