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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1911
Page
2
City officials debate taxes and a Finance Commission action amid allegations of misused funds. The speaker questions perjury potential by executors and calls for criminal review, while noting possible city losses near 92 000 dollars. He urges a warning to tax evaders and demands clarity from the Finance Commission.
In a city column, Miss Rusell, sister of a Wanderers' Club hockey player, doubts Boston fans fully grasp the game. New arrival Henry Travaile from New Zealand dodges suffrage questions, noting Mrs Travaile leads the movement. Hotel and club chatter includes a Vermont Club doorkeeper, a Touraine bell boy with a counterfeit half dollar, andEhwin Burke noting Boston’s cold snap ahead of Buffalo.
Sealing fleet leaving St John s on March 13 reports 140000 pelts, about 40 percent of last year s catch, with five weeks remaining. Early ice concerns gave way to encouraging dispatches as the season progresses.
Captain Fitzgerald towed the stricken Stonington barge from Edgewater bound for Boston. Eight feet of water filled the hold, a red signal lantern lay on the floor, and no crew remained aboard after the vessel sank in 12 fathoms. Captain Davis from Maine is named, with a wife in New London. Metropolitan Coal Company cargo 1400 tons.
Four hundred freshmen gathered at the Harvard Union for the annual class dinner. Toasts were given on topics including the class, finances, crew, football, track, baseball, musical clubs, and debating. Class songs by Snyder Edwards Roosevelt were sung as the event closed near midnight.
Halifax N S March 24 The Gloucester fishing schooner Colonial which was driven ashore in the harbor of Burgeo N F has sunk in five fathoms of water The vessel lies on the harbor bottom and can be floated according to despatches from Newfoundland The Colonial was driven aground during a heavy blow several weeks ago
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