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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1909
Page
2
W. V. Hyde thanks Boston and New England readers for their overwhelming response to a page ad announcing his sixth anniversary celebration. Despite heavy rain, the building was crowded from morning to night, breaking all one day records. He pledges to continue with square dealing to earn public confidence.
The Germantown Improvement Association in Saunders Hall West Roxbury yesterday proposed a tax on all steamship companies equal to half the passage money paid by immigrants both from steerage and cabin. Richard H. Robinson of West Roxbury urged the measure to fund city school costs raised by growing immigrant populations in factory and seaport cities, citing Boston’s rising municipal education expenses.
John B. Gunckel, president of the Newsboys' Association, spoke at Maverick Congregational Church on Boys, the Coming Men. He outlined his life mission to stop cigarette smoking swearing stealing and related evils and to lay the foundation for making them better men.
A Boston Central Labor Union meeting protested wheat market speculation. The Brotherhood of Railroad Carmen of America lodges voted five to one to admit African American members. Salem's Robert C. Schendler, international vice-president of the Bakers and Confectionery Workers' Union, aids Boston bakers in a strike renewal. Officers expect a new wage and rules pact within a day or two. Carriage and Cab Drivers' Union 126 opposed wooden block or asphalt paving and protested current street oil.
Boston opens a strictly undenominational church for deaf mutes with Rev. E Clayton Wyand of Salem delivering his first sermon. Nearly 100 deaf mutes attend the service in the United Presbyterian Church building. Prayers and sermon given in the sign alphabet. includes a hymn read by Alice Jennings. Wyand, a Gal luadet graduate, helped push compulsory deaf education law.
Gloucester, May 2. City Marshal Marchant with two plain clothes officers rounded up four young men in a crapshooting raid on Maplewood Avenue. Captured were Frank Somers William Bradley Alexander Chanley and George McDonald. nearly a dozen others escaped.
The annual commemoration of St Brendan by the Ladies and Knights of St Brendan was held last night in Boston College Hall. A large audience attended while Rev James I Maguire of Boston College delivered an eloquent address on St Brendan.
A large mass meeting of graduates students and friends of Boston College will gather this evening at college hall on James street to review plans for a new college on University Heights. Rev Thomas Gasson S J president will announce arrangements with Dr Eugene MacCarthy alumni president presiding.
Explosions erupted near Boylston and Charles streets when a hydrant cover blew off and burst into flame. Two blasts preceded a shower of wood and dirt as cover rose about 50 feet, breaking into fragments upon landing. Engine 10 rushed to the still alarm, gas caused the blast, and no one was nearby though a touring car had just passed.
The old Museum of Fine Arts closes its doors after viewing the rare collection in the Copley Square building. Dismantling begins this morning and statues are moved to the new Huntington avenue museum set to open around Oct 1.
Frank B. Lowe, nine, of 8 Greenough Jane, attempted suicide by cutting his throat with a razor yesterday noon. His brother William found him in the cellar and notified the Relief station where he was taken. He was not in a dangerous condition though weak from blood loss. Despondency over illness is believed to have prompted the act.
Fire of incendiary origin leveled the old haunted barn on the A. T. Lyman estate in Waltham this afternoon. Built in 1880, it later became a dwelling then a barn after the owner’s death by suicide. Valued near $100.
Squire Putney of Somerville compared Roosevelt to returning to the jungle at a May day celebration in Faneuil Hall hosted by the Socialist Party Club of Boston. He said Roosevelt would clash with the lions if he fights them and might strike hard.
Three ships from Calcutta to the United States arrive within hours of each other in Boston. The Scharzfels Hansa line and Karanga Bucknell line carried jute hemp gunny teas shellac hides and indigo valued near 1.5 million dollars. Each vessel sails to Boston and New York with 35 lascar crew members and one passenger Francis Chapman of Assan onboard.
A wireless message from the steamer Canopie says at 10 o'clock last night she lay 500 miles east of Boston Jightship.
Obituary notices list Susan A McNeil Britt and Ann McInnes in East Boston with funeral details from Plymouth Street and Breen Place respectively. Thomas J OConnor and Catherine Saulner also noted with funeral arrangements in Somerville and East Boston. Captain Henry Nehemiah Wilson of Orient Heights dies of pneumonia with funerals at M E Church Breed Street and Woodlawn Cemetery.
Ottawa reports the draft uniform fishery regulations for boundary waters between Canada and the United States has been prepared by FE Le Prince and David Starr Jordan. A federal protection staff will operate from Washington to cooperate with Canada’s protection service in Ottawa. A common lobster size limit for Maine and New Brunswick and minimum sizes for whitefish lake trout and pickerel in the Great Lakes are set.
At a Polish wedding near 82 Lincoln Street Brighton two men were stabbed and wounded. Thomas Kubosowsky 21 of 21 Waverley Street Brighton was stabbed in the right side and his brother Peter 24 was wounded in the left arm. Andrew Cambrose 26 of 445 Western Avenue was arrested for assault with a dangerous weapon. Kubosowsky is in critical condition at City Hospital.
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