F I Fay of Brookline Dead at 5 Cents Three Days
F I Fay a resident of Brookline dies at home after a sudden illness. Funeral arrangements set for Friday at local church with burial in Brookline Cemetery. Authorities report no foul play.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1916
Page
2
F I Fay a resident of Brookline dies at home after a sudden illness. Funeral arrangements set for Friday at local church with burial in Brookline Cemetery. Authorities report no foul play.
Frank T Fay longtime Brookline resident of 60 years died early yesterday at his home 1 Flora street after a three day illness due to pneumonia. Many lifelong friends mourn the loss of Fay who had lived in Brookline half a century.
Mr Fay a longtime Brookline figure who ran a White Block news stand for 15 years later worked in jewelry born in West Roxbury 57 years ago he was active in town politics and belonged to the Union Fraternal League and Fat Men's Club of Boston Funeral services are set for Thursday at 8 15 AM at his house a requiem mass follows at St Marys of the Assumption Brookline Interment in Holyhood Cemetery He leaves a son Frank M Fay a Boston newspaperman and a daughter Mrs James H Donovan two sisters Annie Fay of Brookline and Mrs Thomas Finnerty of Revere.
About 300 candidates filed for 114 delegate and alternate seats at the coming Republican and Democratic national conventions in Massachusetts as nomination papers closed at 6 p m. Ex governor Foss did not have papers filed for a delegate-at-large seat though a man with Foss papers lingered in the secretary of state’s office.
The schooner Hume, 73 years old and carrying phosphate from North Weymouth to Portland, went ashore on West Sister Rocks near Portsmouth Maine. Five minutes after three crew were saved with difficulty by Wood Island life-savers, the vessel sank in deep water.
Captain William S. Grip blamed a faulty compass for steering the schooner Hume onto the jagged West Sister Rocks. Lifesavers struggled through rough seas to rescue Grip and two crewmembers from Rockland, Me., Norway, Me., and Eastport, Me. The ship, built in 1843 and home port Smithstown N Y, carried 80 tons net and a $4000 phosphate cargo from Bradley fertilizer to Portland. Coast guards say the vessel will be pounded to pieces within 24 hours and cannot be raised.
D Frank Doherty head of the municipal supply department told the City Council that if all city departments bought through his office a yearly saving of 200000 could be achieved. Police and schools would be exempt as they operate independently. His estimates stem from 100000 saved last year on 1500000 in purchases. total city spending through his office would be about 3000000. Doherty notes his department, created in 1912 for the public works department, could yield the savings.
Mrs Mary Yuffa aged 54 of 112 Poplar Street West End was found unconscious in a gas filled room by her husband at 7 o clock last night. She died in an ambulance while being taken to the Relief Hospital. The husband, who is a local teacher, reported the incident to authorities.
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