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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1922
Page
4
John H. Mahony, longtime supervisor of construction in the public buildings department, is nominated as building commissioner at 7000 annually. Charles J. Fox of Roxbury is named budget commissioner at 6000 yearly.
The two appointments require Civil Service Commission confirmation after the body rejected Maurice H. Maney and Thomas J. Ball, whom the Mayor had proposed as building and budget commissioners. Mahony, a 1906 construction supervisor in the public buildings department, lives at 116 Hutchings street Roxbury and began as a city draftsman in 1892. Fox, 33, World War veteran and former deputy chief of the Charlestown Navy Yard accounting division, is a Boston educator and accountant by training with a history at Martin Grammar School, Boston Latin School and Harvard College.
Senate suspends rules to consider a bill removing a 100 foot height limit for a north west Arlington and Newbury Streets site. Petition by Senator Casassa with signees Woodward and Whipple says Arlington Garden Trust owns the lot and a taller building will improve streets and neighborhood development.
Officials clear Patrolman Paul A. Petzold of undue force in arresting William A. Finn of 68 Prescott Street Mast Boston for drunkenness on April 6. Finn resisted and required a club strike. he was treated for a real wound and appeared in East Boston Court the next day.
Miss Alice Marjorie Rathbun of Mansfield won the 13th annual Mason & Hamlin prize a $1575 pianoforte at the New England Conservatory of Music. Judges included Pierre Monteux Ernest Schelling and Sigismond Stejowski. Rathbun has studied under Mme Antoinette Szumowska for two years.
A man about 62, likely Edward Flint, collapsed in a South End store at 179 Shawmut Avenue yesterday afternoon. He was rushed to City Hospital where he died shortly after arrival.
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