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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1915
Page
14
A campaign was launched yesterday at the office of Metropolitan Fire Prevention Commissioner John A. O Keefe to make the signal 44 a state wide fire alarm in factories, department stores, offices and other large blocks with interior fire alarm systems.
A special committee of school headmasters met with Commissioner O Keefe to promote using 4 4 as the universal fire signal. They argue the once familiar code should govern all alarm systems so children hear the same cue in factories, stores, and offices.
A report links Giovanni Magni, a five year old Italian held for deportation, to a decisive rescue of his release after a riot at the Long Wharf immigration station. Judge Gary hosted Pa and Ma Sunday at 856 Fifth Avenue for a lavish meal with notable guests before the revival resumes at the tabernacle.
Paterson New Jersey May 8 Billy and Ma Sunday dined with Judge Elbert H Gary head of United States Steel Corporation in a social gathering that read like a gourmet feast. The tale includes evoked scenes of a tabernacle platform and evildoing pictures of corn on the cob beefsteak and Yemen pie described as a real first class feed.
The Boston and Maine road reorganization bill passed the Senate by more than three to one with 29 in favor and eight against. Two Senators were paired and President Coolidge did not vote. The bill followed committee recommendations with last week’s amendments from Senator Hobbs and one from Senator McLane. other amendments were rejected.
The Hobbs amendments remove constraints on Boston & Maine reorganization unless first approved by the Public Service Commission. The commission pressed to keep the provisions while special counsel urged no vital need. McLane adds that no railroad director may serve as a Boston & Maine director and restricts purchases from directors of any railroad in the state. The bill heads to the House amid anticipated fierce debate, with Hampden road provisions seen as the central battleground.
The obituary chronicles Councillor Woods who rose from a Sumner Street news stand to citywide roles. He ran a hack and livery stable, supervised Boston sewer work, led Eastern Clay Goods, and became president of Brighton Coal. He supported the poor during the 1908 coal strike and built houses in Brighton. He partnered with B F Keith, built a theatre, and used a striped ticket campaign with the slogan A Square Deal for Everybody.
Nearly twenty do w omen stranded at Interlaken during the outbreak last August testified in Municipal Civil Court before Judge Parmenter. They are among plaintiffs in more than a dozen suits against George E. Marsters Inc. alleging failure to perform a tour contract and that the conductor told them to find their own way home.
Dedham residents Mary F. Flanagan and Annie E. Flanagan claim advance payments of 465 each for a Europe tour ended August 1914 with extra homeward costs, seeking 374 each from Marsters agency. Other plaintiffs allege agreed transport and baggage return, but war and policy shifts left them to cover expenses. agency says no liability and cites war release.
A City Council meeting features a harsh rebuke by Councillor William H. Woods of Councillor John A. Coulthurst amid pension talk. Woods dies suddenly after delivering the attack. The session also discusses the London Sliding Scale for gas prices and a call for a thorough inquiry by the Gas and Electric Light Commission before any reform.
The young machinist from Boston known as Coe has been located in Fairbanks Alaska after traveling from Seattle via Cordova. He admits drawing 200 dollars from a bank and leaving 400 there for his wife, says he will not return to relatives, and that his Alaska life is to remain secret. Relatives and authorities await further action as posters seek information on his whereabouts.
Mayor Curley submits a supplementary budget totaling 762 493 50 with 100 000 for granolithic sidewalks and allocations for sewer service health department infirmary steamer Monitor public buildings repairs on bridges highway division and penal institutions. Council pauses after Finance Commission cuts and considers items. A pension request for injured city worker Joseph H O Toole sparks the meeting.
Mrs Mary Cotter widow of John Cotter and longtime Quincy resident died yesterday at her daughter Mrs John Welch's home at 133 Liberty Street. Funeral will be held Wednesday morning at St John's Church.
The executive committee of the Russian Relief Society reported collecting more than $250 from a May 1 flowers sale to aid political exiles in Siberia.
Governor Walsh sent a special message to the Legislature recommending an inquiry into how gas prices are regulated in the city. With the sliding scale act set to expire next year, he asks the Gas and Electric Light Commission to study the act and propose recommendations to the next General Court.
St John s Newfoundland May 3 three steamers of the sealing fleet returned from the Gulf of St Lawrence with 340 pelts a record small catch for the industry The Diana had 400 pelts the Viking 500 and the Terranova 2500 The sealers Eagle and Bloodhound are ice bound at Green Pond Bonavista Bay Their return will end the season which has been the poorest in the annals of the colony.
Dr. Henry Clarke Coe at his New York home said the Alaska despatch confirmed the man found there is his son but remains mentally unbalanced. He will not force a return and awaits direct contact while noting his wife’s stability and that his son wrote of happiness a day before vanishing.
Mrs Henry Clark Coe Jr doubts the Fairbanks Alaska report that her husband is the man found there. She denies receiving any Telegram and alleges inconsistencies in Alvin Jones the prospector account. Her father Allen Ainslee supports skepticism and says no Boston follow up is underway.
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