Boston & Maine Holding Company Debate Splits Power Players
At a tense State House hearing Governor Draper’s proposed holding company for Boston & Maine stock drew rival support. Pro and anti merger figures clashed over control, scope, and safeguards with Brandeis denouncing the plan as a felony and others urging strict limits and gubernatorial approval.
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State House
Draper
Boston & Maine
Henry J. Higginson
C. Minot Weld
Charles Francis Adams 2d
Francis R. Bangs
Fitzgerald
Louis D. Brandeis
New Haven
Bernard J. Rothwell
Chamber of Commerce
William B. Lawrence
Lawrence
Brandeis
Anti- Merger League
Malone
Mr. Brandeis
Massachusetts
Charles R. Jones
New England Shoe & Leather Exchange
New England
Norman White
Rothwell
Commonwealth
Mr. Fitzgerald
The
Republic
Harvard Students Honor Retiring Head as Lowell Succeeds
Harvard undergraduates bid farewell to Dr Charles Eliot with songs and tributes while Abbott Lawrence Lowell begins duties as president. The event recalls the gain and continuity of Harvard as Lowell surveys President Eliot's departure and musk notes a pledge to build a lasting university.
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Dr. Eliot
Harvard Union
Garcelon
Louis Pieper
Harvard
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Charles William Eliot
University Hall
Harvard University
Eliot
Eliot speaks at Radcliffe on manners and Emerson
President Briggs announces that President Eliot asks no reports of his brief remarks to Radcliffe students gathered at Agassiz House. Eliot is introduced amid clapping by Radcliffe maidens and urges reading Emerson on Manners during his retiring address.
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Eliot
L. B. R. Briggs
Radcliffe College
Dr. Eliot
Radcliff
Howard
Agassiz House
Briggs
Radcliffe
Emerson
Edward W. Peterson Fined for Assault in East Boston
Edward W. Peterson of 173 Webster Street East Boston was fined 20 dollars for assault and battery and 5 dollars for drunkenness by Judge Clary in the East Boston District Court after being arrested for assaulting a Boston Elevated conductor.
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Edward W. Peterson
Webster Street
East Boston
Boston
Clary
Rough water delays Harvard races at Charles River
Har vard crews postponed events yesterday as rough water in the Charles River halted all racing. The freshman boat was set to race the varsity second row over Henley distance and the Carroll cup singles, both moved to afternoon starts. The Harvard second crew sails to Philadelphia for Henley on Saturday likely facing Malta Boat Club.
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Harvard
Varsity
Philadelphia
Malta Boat Club
New Captains Created in Police Department
The Boston police promote Dugan to deputy superintendent boosting his salary to 2800 with 41 years service and Civil War veteran status. Others moving include Garland, Sullivan, Hall, Dailey, McCarthy, Denton, and Hart as the bureau reshuffles to cover day and night shifts.
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Police Department
Watts
Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Warren
Brighton
Michael J. Goff
West Dedham Street
Hanover Street
Matthew J. Dailey
John J. McCarthy
Charles H. Denton
Gustafson
Department of Fingerprints
Matthew L. Dailey
Denton
Thomas Keane
South Boston
East Dedham Street
Sexugeant Goff
George A. Hart
George C. Garland
Cain
Lagrange Street
Mrs Pickett to Tell of Gettysburg Charge in Boston
Mrs La Salle Corbell Pickett widow of General George E Pickett will deliver the Memorial Day address at Tremont Temple before Edward W Kinsley Post No 118 Boston. She is the first woman invited to speak for Memorial Day at the post and will discuss The Battle of Gettysburg from the Confederate perspective with insights from her husband. The program includes a chorus of 1000 Boston grammar school pupils and Harold F Erlenbach reading Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
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la Salle Corbell Pickett
George E. Pickett
Tremont Temple
Edward W. Kinsley
Gettysburg
Kinsley Post
Joe’ Wheeler
Post
la Salle Corbelle
Pickett
South
Harold F. Erlenbach
the Prince Grammar School
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