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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1911
Page
7
Harvard freshmen set a new record with 135 dollars donated to the seniors for their annual commencement picnic. The 1911 class gathered at Sanders Theatre to shower coins and bills, while a senior used a sheet to display the number 14 as funds rose.
Residents of Somerville and Medford near Tufts College faced a string of nighttime incidents from dusk to midnight. A Tufts professor rode in a patrol wagon while an $800 clay-pits fire, a bonfire, and a nightshirt parade unsettled the area.
After Supper a high powered auto patrol stopped before Tufts Professor Harry G. Chase's home as he was taken from the scene causing neighbor and faculty consternation. The bell tolled for a Tufts win over Dartmouth 10 to 4 prompting bonfires and a campus celebration. A separate Medford fire destroyed a derelict three story frame building, estimated at $800. The ordinance debate on areaways and fees drew Real Estate Exchange opposition while Knights of Columbus officers and Archbishop O Connell led a convention in Boston with pledges for unity and insurance reforms.
Nellie Parrella aged two and four months, daughter of John Parrella of Everett, was struck by a heavy express team owned by Benjamin Scheltz and killed instantly on Broadway near Lynde Street. Scheltz was arrested for manslaughter with bail set at $500 and posted.
Several leading business figures and hundreds of others urged the City Council to reject the proposed ordinance that would charge substantial fees for vaults, area ways, bay windows, coal holes and marquees under public streets. The council took no action, laying the matter on the table.
At the 18th annual convention in Lawrence Encampment Hall the Massachusetts State Council of the Knights of Columbus carried out routine business and elected officers for the coming year. Archbishop O Connell attended, blessed the delegates, and proclaimed good health despite prior rumors.
New York May 9 Captain Bob Bartlett says Theodore Roosevelt plans a polar bear hunt in Greenland in 1912 after tropical fauna. Bartlett, who commanded Peary’s Roosevelt, expects the colonel to join next summer, though Roosevelt is busy this year.
Governor Foss will address the Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce at a noon luncheon at the American House. He will share opinions on taxation, drawing on his experience as property owner, manufacturer, former congressman, and current chief executive. The chamber notes its 4500 large taxpayers’ vested interests and ongoing focus on tax policy.
The Boston Marine Society met at the Chamber of Commerce rooms to discuss opposing government supervision of pilots and limiting tow barges to two. The relief committee allocated 3310 for 85 beneficiaries. A banquet and ladies' night followed at Young's Hotel after adjournment.
Antonio Scala, a stowaway who boarded the Cunarder Altonia at Naples, spent two days with a cargo of Gorgonzola. On the third day he exposed himself on deck for air and surrendered, agreeing to return on the next ship at the company’s charges.
The Frances and Namee Price of Brooklyn will wed two clergymen who are sons of clergymen in July. Frances will marry Rev. Arthur H. Bradford, assistant pastor at South Congregational Church Springfield Massachusetts. Namee will wed Rev. Walter A. Hendricks, soon to be pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Laramie Wyoming. The ceremony will be at Rev Price's Stamford Connecticut country home.
In Nepang Connecticut on May 8 a massive brush fire threatened Satan's Kingdom. About 250 fire fighters arrived by auto and halted the blaze after it had scorched nearly 5000 acres and endangered over twenty farm buildings. Farmers built backfires around noon to save homes and stock as winds pushed flames across roads.
Mrs. Anne Ellicott of 6020 Greene Street Germantown Philadelphia reports the loss of four rings valued at $10,000 on a trip to New York. The rings were gifts from her late husband Charles Ellicott and three are diamond set with a fourth featuring a large gem.
Mrs Ellicott carried the rare emerald rings in a small chiffon bag during a journey to New York. She says the rings were in her possession until reaching the Pennsylvania Station in New York yesterday and were missing by the time she arrived in this city.
KEarl K. Pottlée, a veteran bookseller, said his son sold a 1542 colonial laws volume for $2 after a man posed as an authority on old books. A New York sale later fetched $20,000, revealing the loss of a highly valuable volume.
Herbert W. Clark son of Mr and Mrs J Owis Clark Chadwick road Bradford district was found unconscious by a hunter on a hill behind his home. He had recently suffered heart illness and grip and tonsillitis. He died after a brief fainting spell during a short walk.
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