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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1917
Page
7
The report notes survivors were picked up 46 minutes after the incident and landed at Liverpool. Forty-six passengers and 44 crew members perished in the disaster.
Legislators railroad men and lawyers at the State House faced an unexpected challenger a woman who entered against New Haven road officials and debated the companys counsel in a finance and regulation clash.
Miss Cora A. Benneson of Cambridge, a pioneering woman lawyer and Bryn Mawr alumna, urged government ownership of railroads at a New Haven hearing on a 45 million dollar capital stock issue for the New Haven. Opponents argued for ownership or receivership as the bill advances toward a favorable committee report.
War Department officials say there has never been greater opportunity for promotion from the ranks as new army organizations planned to be added by July 1 1920 require 7883 new officers. Colonel Frank McCoy notes that ambitious men in Army life can advance now as never before. Fifty two men were sent from the recruiting station to Fort Slocum New York to join the army. The Marine Corps examined 24 applicants with seven accepted. Major W H Parker sent 13 men to League Island some previously recruited. Navy recruiting at 146 Tremont Street received 55 applications with 38 passing the exam and 17 enlisting. Lieutenant L E B Atkins says mobilization of the railroad operation engineers regiment awaits designation by railroad companies before progressing rapidly.
Milton High was defeated by Brockton High 1 to 8 in a South Shore league game played at Cunningham Field yesterday.
Lieutenant Melchior Eberts of the U S Army Aviation Corps was killed when his airplane fell during a flight at Columbus New Mexico. Captain James L Dunsworth was in the same machine and was injured but expected to recover according to his physician.
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