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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1921
Page
3
A five cent fare begins today on the Boston Elevated lines serving Malden and Everett. A new pay-as-you-leave system for street cars entering the Everett terminal starts this morning. Changes affect routes used by over 100000 passengers.
Confusion is expected as circulars posted in streetcars detail widespread transfers abolished. A revised 10 minute main line runs from Lebanon street to the L via Malden square and West Everett, and another from Salem street to the L via the same route. Florence street Malden to the T also runs every 10 minutes via Malden square and Ferry street. Highland avenue line to Malden will run every 30 minutes with limited cars, and the Winthrop square Everett station line is discontinued. Other Everett and Malden lines continue as before.
Three young men identified as Joseph Profido aged 20 of Spencer avenue Chelsea Joseph Vincent 22 of 56 Prince street North End and Charles Brown 27 of 32 Fleet street North End were arrested late last night after being found crouching on a stairway inside the building at 248 Congress street in Chelsea.
Patrolman Murphy reports noises and, after failed entry, Sergeant McTiernan and officers Lynch and Phelan reach the roof of 248 Congress street. They confront three men found rifling desks and safes in Bates Guild publishers office. 88 Archi shares seized on the stairs.
Police report two men faced charges of breaking and entering and larceny after allegedly attempting to steal a total of 20 shares of Home One Company stock with par values of 10 and 100 dollars per share. The incident details include the seized shares and the nature of the alleged crime.
In City Hospital last night a wedding was performed for a dying man. The Rev. Charles Lane of the Immaculate Conception Church officiated in the casualty ward as the couple tied their vows amid the pall of illness and impending death.
McCarthy wed Miss Corthell at his hospital bedside shortly after 4 PM as doctors fought to save him. Witnesses included Catherine McCarthy, Alice Corthell, Miss Bessie Lyons, and Loomis. The bride’s mother and sister stayed through the night. physicians held little hope. The couple had become engaged after five months of acquaintance and filed marriage intentions on January 13.
Thomas Allen aged 18 of 17 Swallow Street South Boston lies on the danger list at Carney Hospital after his family detected a gas odor in his room and found him unconscious in bed.
Clarence H Hyde a patrolman at traffic headquarters and founder of the Police Band has formed an amateur movie company with Back Bay youths to produce short pictures. Proceeds from Huntington and Massachusetts Avenue theatres will fund the band as downtown showings are considered. The Chamber of Commerce public safety committee backs the effort to show how the police aid public welfare.
Washington March 25 confidence rose that facilities for World War wounded soldiers will improve. Administration officials cited a cabinet discussion and data showing that ten thousand additional hospital beds would be available soon for wounded care.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pierre Monteux offered its 19th program featuring Beethoven Pastoral Symphony Loeffler La Bonne Chanson after Verlaine and Wagner Parsifal act one in concert. A combined Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society provided chorus, coached by Dr Archibald Davison of Harvard University.
A concert review praises Beethoven's symphony for its spirit and nature, notes overly long finale, and lauds Loeffler's symphonic poem yet warns it is too rich and episodic. Monteux conducts Parsifal with mixed balance but strong devotion. chorus and singers mostly shine. Reviewer remains critical of Parsifal's religiosity and repetitive motifs while acknowledging moving audience reactions.
A critic notes an impressive scene heightens the music in the opera house but not in the concert hall. The Good Friday Spell orchestral music is praised for inspiration and better effect in hall settings. The reviewer also complains the concert runs too long by about half an hour due to a fragmented motive scheme among stage figures.
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