City Revises Salaries and Department Structures
The Boston Transit Commission salaries are cut to 2500 for members and 3000 for the chairman. Public grounds are merged with the park department, the statistics department is abolished saving 12000 yearly. City treasurer’s pay reduced from 7500 to 6000. Ordinance committee approved amendments. report goes to the Board of Aldermen next Monday.
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Boston Transit Commission
Board of Aldermen
Committee On
Hibbard
Legislative Committee
City Council
Cotton
State House Committee
Common Council
Transit Commission
George Crocker
Josiah Quincy
Thomas J. Gargan
George F. Swain
Horace G. Allen
Mitchell
Public Grounds
Park Department
D. Henry Sullivan
City reforms clash with council in Hibbard plan
The ordinance committee chastises Mayor Hibbard over his claim he lacks council cooperation for reforms. Alderman Cotton chairs as the mayor proposes reorganizing departments and possibly bypassing the Common Council. Transit Commission members named amid a potential ordinance amendment affecting salaries and merged departments.
Harvard Lampoon Prank Triggers Cambridge Police Action
Cambridge police raided the Harvard University Press after tips of anarchist publication printing. Students and faculty learned the front page mocked President Roosevelt with a Teddy Bear gag, while harboring broader disaffection among college officials.
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Cambridge
University Press
Harvard College
Harvard
Fish Fleet Reports Record Weekly Landing At Gloucester
Receipts from twenty two fish fares at the prier yield a total of 784000 pounds of mixed fresh catch from the Georges fleet. Haddock leads with 465500 pounds followed by cod 260700 hake 45200 pollock 1500 and cusk 11000. Pollock and cusk arrive in smaller lots from Quonnapowitt Viking and Mary T Fallon and Angle V Watson. Market prices range from 1 1 4 to 2 1 2 cents for haddock to 3 cents for markets hake 1 38 4 to 3 1 4 cents pollock 4 cents and cusk 2 1 4 cents per pound. The Geneva from New Orleans brings a full salt cargo of about 2000 tons in 22 days. Rates stay low and many vessels lie idle while smaller ships haul coal from Philadelphia and Baltimore. The Aberdeen recovers the Blonde Rock buoy near Seal Island. The Boston Bark Boylston ships empty molasses barrels from East Boston. The bark Harvard dismantling completes and the Jeanie Landsman barge begins service. Ivernia carries 36 saloon passengers including Latham and Miles. Steerage list tallies 499 with 40 held for examination. Characters, vessels, routes, and prices reflect a busy winter port scene.
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Georges
Viking
Mary T. Fallon
Angle V. Watson
Winifred
Romance
Morning Star
Susan and Mary
Haddock
Gloucester
Seal Island
Bay of Fundy
Aberdeen
Shelburne
Boylston
Timery
Marquand
Boston
Jobes
Porto Rico
Harvard
Jeanie
England
Benison
Ivernia
Peter Latham
Eustace H. Miles
John W. Butchart
Baltimore & Boston Barge Company
Armstrong
Charles Dion
M. E. Brow
T. Champion
Richard Kearton
Cunarder Ivernia Arrives After Smooth Winter Passage
The Cunarder Ivernia, under Captain H. M. Svenison, completed a good winter voyage and arrived here yesterday morning, marking a favorable crossing for the liner.
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Cunarder Ivernia
Ivernia
H. M. Svenison
Bohemian Stowaway Leaves Family Behind in England
The Leyland liner Bohemian under Captain Nell McCallum arrived two days late at Hoosac docks Charlestown from Liverpool. It carried 12 returning cattlemen and a stowaway, George Henry Burgess, who has a wife and three children in England. Burgess, who left March 30 1906 and once worked in Quincy granite quarries, may be returned when the ship sails next Wednesday. The voyage delivered 3000 tons of cargo including 1000 bales of Egyptian cotton 1200 cases of bottled beer and machinery onions salt and general merchandise.
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Mersey
Bohemian
Nell McCallum
Hoosac Docks
Charlestown
Liverpool
George Henry Burgess
England
Burgess
Quincy
Thomaston Banker and Lumber Dealer Captain Dies
Captain William Singer vice-president of Thomaston National Bank and a retired sea captain died today. He was one of the last square riggers captains remaining in this part of the States.
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Thomaston
William Singer
Thomaston National Bank
Brigan tine Fredericka Schepp Floated into Nantucket Harbor
The brigantine Fredericka Schepp, ashore near Nantucket for about a month, was floated today by the tug Sailor J. Weed and towed into Nantucket Harbor. Temporary repairs will be made, then the vessel will be towed to Mystic Connecticut for permanent repairs.
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Nantucket
Fredericka Schepp
Sailor J. Weed
Nantucket Harbor
Mystic
Conn
Ocean Port Almanac Notes for March Arrivals and Sailings
Maritime diary item lists sun and moon rise times, high tides, and arrivals in March. Steamers Ivernia Ver a Perry and others arrive at various ports. ships cleared and sailed routes include London, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Portland with barges and tugs noted for harbor work and towing duties.
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Prudence
Philadelphia
Horace A. Allyn
Lynn
Gwalia
Newport News
Emelle
Hattie
New Bedford
Cambrian
London
Mayor Seeks City Borrowing for Sewer Projects
May or Ebbard asks Finance Commission to approve a 650000 loan for sewerage work authorized by statute. Commission, while approving, says Legislature consent may be needed if city law department doubts legality and warns against borrowing beyond the debt limit except for ongoing subways and tunnels.
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Ebbard
Finance Commission
City Law Department
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