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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1903
Page
6
A garbled rate list shows subscription prices for six months and three months with small amounts. It notes The Sunday Post one year rate and smaller periods, and instructs subscribers to provide current and new addresses for changes.
The Boston Merchants Association decries the 25 percent premium increase imposed in February 1902. They argue readjustment schemes are a smoke screen and insist repeal of the rise is the only fair relief. Boston paid 23 percent of national fire premiums while losses were only 2 percent. its five year average loss ratio was 41 percent versus 56 percent nationwide.
Moody Merrill is remembered for transforming Boston street car service from a cheap rough condition to comfort and relative luxury. When Highland Street Railway entered as a competitor to Metropolitan, Boston’s cars were among the worst for passenger comfort with smoky glass, foul oil lamps, poor ventilation, straw floors in winter, and damp, unwelcoming interiors.
Moody Merrill modernized Boston streetcar travel introducing comfortable features on the Highland line. He equipped handsome cars with highland plaid, first monitor tops for ventilation, slatted floors to replace straw, uniformed staff, and well-matched horse trams. Though times changed, his work sparked lasting appreciation for urban transit advances.
The editorial urges the Senate committee to allow witnesses counsel and to avoid intimidation. It says the inquiry may lack direct links to the accused, so full evidence and precise truth should be pursued. Encouraging, not browbeating, witnesses will yield more tangible results.
Election officials revisited census data for poll tax candidates, revealing a drop from 183 880 to 181 190 and a reduced year over year increase from 12 230 to 9 310. Normal city growth adds about 5 000 new voters annually, but including Chinese immigrants and migratory workers in the police tally explains the remaining excess over last year’s assessment.
The Back Bay Fens, once praised for beauty and expense, are a public nuisance due to sewage odors and polluted air. Health officials urge cleansing the area while preserving its bridges, ponds, and pathways, noting efforts to suppress mosquitos but calling for action to remove offensive characteristics.
The Countess of Yarmouth thanked Alcester Warwick and Rigby Hall tenants for a warm homecoming as the Earl and his American bride Miss Alice Thaw returned to the Hertford estates. The couple rode through lanes to Rigby Hall amid floral arches and villagers and tenants bearing wedding gifts.
On May 14 Lynn Classical High School seniors overruled Principal Russell and ordered a crayon portrait of the late O. B. Bruce to be completed. The artist was instructed to proceed with the work despite the headmaster’s objections.
Synopsis of chapters suggests tomorrow in New Wingland and vicinity may vary. Forecast calls for fair spots, variable winds, and a chance of rain or no rain.
Stealthy Steve the Six-Eyed Sleuth survives a knife wound from Mudface Mike and recovers to hunt a big blue diamond. He leads a crowd as an ambulance arrives, then continues a methodical pawnbroker search in New York. A final shop hints the thief planned to take the gem to Persia. (To be continued.)
The Thayers of Hingham, Elchi born October 25, 1811 in Quincy and Susan Hersey born August 17, 1811, aggregate 183 years. He moved to Hingham at 16, worked as bookkeeper and superintendent, later ran a grocery, retired years ago. Mrs. Thayer has been an invalid but retains faculties. They have three children, two living, six grandchildren, two great grandchildren.
No photographs received after 6 p m Wednesday May 6 1903 can be considered or entered in this competition. After publishing as many of the photographs on hand as the Post can find room for the announcement as to the oldest couple reported will be made and the easy chairs duly forwarded with the compliments of the Post.
The column reports on Beacon Hill temperature affecting open electric travel, coal being dumped under the State House Park, and a shift in publicity leadership with Robert L. Winkley joining Pope Manufacturing. It notes local gunfire incidents, Moody Merrill’s Boston visit, rumors about the Liberty Bell, theater gossip, Mayor Collins in Virginia, an all star Romeo and Juliet slated for June, Cunard steward Thomas Murray’s promotion, portrait fundraising for English High School, and underpinning work on the Old State House during the East Boston Tunnel project.
A Brookline resident plans a damage suit against a Newton florist after buying a fast growing ivy root. The vine reportedly sprouted overnight, overran the piazza and house, entangled the owner, and required his wife to free him with a carving knife. Neighbors fled as the ivy covered the home.
Lt Bixby credits a young bellboy named Emilio Aguinaldo Jr with saving him during a Bolango engagement. After being buried alive in slime, a native boy rescues him by guiding troops to overwhelm the attackers, leading to a subsequent victory by the battalion.
A deed for a tract of land in Uniontown Pennsylvania with one inch front and a depth of 150 feet was signed and delivered here yesterday May 14.
Clerks of the election department finished counting names on the enrolment list, submitted to election commissioners by police commissioners, showing 181 18 as opposed to 183 880 reported by police, a reduction of 2590. Officials note the count is for convenience and counts per name rather than by pages, with a ward by ward comparison table for May 1, 1902.
If fifteen dollars is your budget for a new suit visit now. The shop promises full value with blue serges rough or smooth single or double breasted and a wide range of fabrics including fancy worsteds cheviots vicunas and bibets. Suits available from ten dollars up to twenty five thirty dollars with quality varying by fabric and construction.
One hundred employees at Deer Island House of Correction held a grand reception and ball last evening for harbor and city friends. J. Fred Vinal directed the floor with James H. Dixon assisting. Miss Mabel F. Gerrish led the reception committee while Strachan's orchestra played for 18 dances amid bunting and multicolored electric lamps.
Governor Bates refused to sign the Dorchester street loan bill and demanded the City Council and Mayor approve borrowing outside the debt limit. A legislative recall was planned as West Roxbury and South Boston factions urged the $650,000 deficit funding amid a web of political pressure.
Reggie Vanderbilt and his bride sailed yesterday aboard the New England for Europe and will be away until about August. They carried 25 pieces of luggage and chose Boston as embarkation to avoid New York crowds. They plan most time in southern France and Italy for automobiling and expect to meet relatives in London with limited time there.
Berlin May 14 at the Berlin Medical Society meeting Dr Robert Schneider announced sanosin a new remedy for consumption. Dr Danelius Sommerfeld read a paper asserting several patients mostly workmenhave been cured while continuing work. Sanosin reportedly prevents coughing fever and night sweats and leads to weight gain, stopping progress even in advanced cases.
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