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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1914
Page
3
The Burnet immigration bill with a literacy test was favorably reported by the Senate immigration committee. The literacy test clause remained unchanged after House amendments, with the committee noting the provision as originally written and signaling possible veto by President Wilson.
The bill includes a provision aimed at restricting immigration with a selective approach. The proposed literacy test is described as the best device yet suggested to reduce immigration as part of the bill's measures.
The report notes repeated discussions on tightening public health policy and praises the measure as nearly ideal given in advance of experience. The Senate committee proposes removing a provision to bar persons of constitutional psychopathic inferiority and replaces a plan for on ship medical officers with a rule allowing detention aboard arrival ships for examination.
Tony Andrizo a 17 year old of 17 Everett Street East Boston tried to kill himself by gas poisoning by placing his mouth to a lit gas jet after a dispute with his father over work. He remained conscious and was sent home from East Boston Hospital later that evening.
At Ward 24 Progressive committee rally in Washington Hall Dorchester James B Connolly said the Panama Canal will transform merchant shipping. He argued ships will bypass Cape Horn routes and ship from Boston or New York to San Francisco faster, cutting freight times from two to four months to 12 days to three weeks with modern legislation needed.
The Boston City Council voted a $500000 loan for widening Chelsea street Charlestown Dorchester Centre street West Roxbury Hyde Park Avenue North Beacon street Faneuil street Amory street and Nor folk street The plan calls starting this year on Chelsea street and uses outside debt limit funding under a new law The move aims to spend this year plus the annual $300000 street budget to widen major arteries City officials previously faced mayoral vetoes on similar proposals
Drs. Arthur A. Howard and Michael M. Davis Jr. present the Boston Dispensary Hospital for Children annual report calling for social work to complement medical care. Of 285 children treated, 681/2 percent needed family assistance to ensure hospital gains, with 70 percent of cases requiring in home education and 94 percent needing further post discharge care.
The Sun Day Post Magazine previews a vivid Barnegat Beach sea story by the Rourkes. Readers are invited to catch the feature in the upcoming issue for nautical adventure and local coastal detail.
About 60 clerks in the assessing department earning $1000 or more will have their salaries cut 7 12 percent under an order from Mayor Curley. The mayor will also remove one member of the Board of Assessors, creating two vacancies. Assessor Badaracco will not be reappointed, with a successor to be announced.
The assessing department clerks are paid on a fixed scale, earning $5 a day on the street and per page for entering assessments. Many clerks reportedly make between $2000 and $2500 yearly, often working Sundays and late into the night. Rumor at City Hall says William J. Kearns of Dorchester will succeed Charles Logue as chairman of the Board of Schoolhouse Commissioners before week’s end.
Louis Nathan, a Paris chemist, unveils Savon Cadum for the skin and complexion. The medicated soap, paired with Cadum Pomade, is promoted as soothing and healing, cleansing pores so the skin can breathe. Sold by department and drug stores.
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