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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1914
Page
8
Vice-President William J. Hobbs, speaking at the City Club, urged Boston & Maine employees to restore the railroad by giving their best service and speaking well of the road. He predicted better days ahead for the company and its stockholders.
At the 12th annual Y M C A banquet the Boston & Maine railroad department urged members to create positive sentiment for the railroad at the polls. Leaders praised the line and urged workers to help restore the company, noting it still paid on its stock while investors await returns.
Albany March 4 with three days left in session the Assembly committee on privileges and elections ruled that Abraham Greenberg Democrat from the 26th district does not deserve his seat and that Joseph Steinberg Progressive won the seat by two votes.
A wave of public interest followed a hotly contested push to dismiss Edward McCue, Milton fire chief, prompted by a Board of Selectmen member. Taxpayers demanded a fair trial and a public hearing, which the Selectmen agreed to schedule for next Saturday afternoon.
In Watertown a public hearing on 10 charges against Chief McCue was adjourned from the Town Hall to the High School auditorium to accommodate a crowd of about 500 citizens who urged an afternoon session for broader attendance. Philip Saltonstall led calls for a formal public hearing and the adjournment was approved by the board.
The Boston Central Labor Union executive board voted to oppose a measure before the Legislature that would prohibit posters and signs on billboards. They favored creating an advisory board with one member from each ward to work with the school committee on parent grievances and suggestions. The group also reiterated opposition to biennial elections.
William Wilinge a Boston jewelry merchant with two customers identified nearly $1000 worth of jewels from a trunk found in the rooms of Michael Schneiderman and Jacobs Rothman who were arrested in New York ten days earlier for an attempted bribe to a watchman. The Boston store at 293 Washington Street was entered with the safe blown and $5000 in diamonds and jewelry taken. On the same night two other stores were entered and safes dynamited.
Governor Walsh addressed about 100 Harvard Speakers Club members at Agassiz House Cambridge. He urged the initiative and referendum to curb lobbyists and keep governors aware of duty to the people. He called on college men to avoid self centeredness and remember others less fortunate.
A boy known to police as Henry Werner collapsed in S Burnside's Everett garage early last evening. Officials believe acute indigestion caused the death but an autopsy will be performed this morning to determine the exact cause.
J. M. Morris arrived in Wakefield after 16 years of wandering as a musician and learned his brother, believed dead, lives there. The reunited brothers now search for another long lost sibling who has not been heard from in 18 years.
Two Morris brothers long apart are joyfully reunited near Boston after years of wandering. Thomas, once in the English army artillery, later settled in the United States with a wife and four children. J M Morris, a musician by trade, tracked his brother from Kansas to Boston seeking proof of Thomas’ fate.
Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes lectured at Lorimer Hall last night on socialism and woman suffrage. She stated that one in three voters in the United States, or one out of 18 persons, is out of work and argued that those who won't work should be compelled to work for the benefit of those who support them. She said the unemployed deserve a chance at employment.
Miss Catherine Reddington aged 27 of 25 Aberdeen Avenue was killed when a heavy automobile truck driven by William Kilroy of 20 Lloyd Road Watertown ran her down on the way to a Lenten service at Sacred Heart Church Cambridge last evening.
Kilroy stopped a truck to aid a young woman who stepped into traffic at Aberdeen Avenue and Mt. Auburn Street. The victim Miss Reddington died en route to Cambridge Hospital, clutching her rosary. Kilroy surrendered to police and was bailed after a manslaughter charge. He says he did not see her until the fatal moment. Miss Reddington, who supported her two younger sisters Rose and Ann, left a difficult home life.
John J. Hennessey a 19 year old Dorchester resident was struck by an inbound New Haven passenger train near Quincy street station Roxbury while crossing the tracks. He died from a fractured skull before treatment at City Hospital.
Women without work are welcomed tonight at the Avery street free soup and bread line. William Horton Foster chairs the committee ensuring a good meal, though few women have applied since the kitchen opened. officials fear a belief the aid is only for unemployed men persists.
Miss Alice Grady confidential secretary to Louis D Brandeis surveys the line at the soup kitchen and asks about unemployed women. Alfred J Williams reports job placements for 15 men and hotel kitchen work for 25 more. Three men gain yard work in Cambridge and a dozen in city lumber yards. A 7 year old boy in Roxbury reaches the kitchen after a long wait, is fed, and escorted home.
Franklin Hollenbeck, 21, of 17 Broad Street Providence, was arrested in the West End on a fugitive-from-justice charge and accused of stealing property valued at 75 dollars from a roommate.
Funeral notices list numerous residents from Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, Somerville, Brookline, Dorchester and surrounding towns. Entries name the deceased, age, residence, and funeral details including church, time and date, with relatives invited to attend. Some notices note omitting flowers and identify cemeteries or destination towns.
Memorial lines note deaths on March 25 1913 for Emma Louise Hall and Pauline Marks with memories from Walter Hall and Mr and Mrs John S Baxter. Expressions of sympathy are thanked for the funeral of Mary I Baxter. Also remembering Elizabeth Hanaford who died March 23 1918 by her daughter Mrs E H Goodhue.
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