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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1911
Page
6
A garbled memory fragment recounts a day of rough events and scattered actions. The speaker recalls a moment of disruption, a push or shove, and a faulty bench response amid a jumble of names and items. The tone is abrupt and fragmentary.
Governor Foss used novel methods in vetting police commissioners. A five mile walk with two candidates, one on each side of him, has surfaced. The candidates named are Ethelbert Baier, a temperance activist from St Botolph Street, and Charles A Jackson, a Jamaica Plain businessman.
Governor Foss invites both candidates to meet at his Jamaica Plain home at 7 AM. They walk to the State House with him, each side by side, while he listens to their arguments in the Public Garden and on the bench before his office. The pace is brisk and the governor expresses pleasure in the exchange.
Lima Ohio May 21 Professor John L Cotner of the High School faculty is suffering from blood poisoning and is paralyzed by lockjaw after a hatpin stab in his left temple. The injury occurred when a choir girl at Grace Church brandished a hatpin.
Miss Vira Frost Stowe, a Vassar graduate and Boston society figure, lost a purse two years ago during a Waldorf Astoria dinner with friends. Walton H. Marshall, then Waldorf staff and now New Vanderbilt Hotel manager, found the purse and returned the $30 and jewelry after she visited the hotel.
The couple, Miss Stowe daughter of Horace and Mrs Stowe of Newtonville Mass, and Mr. Marshall, plan to marry on the first of next month at Central Congregational Church Newtonville. Miss Stowe, a Wheaton and Vassar alumna, has had a notable stage career with roles in Artie and Twenty Days in the Shade and connections to Ethel Barrymore. Invitations were sent from New York yesterday.
Fifty years ago today General Butler assumed command of the Department of Virginia and signed General Orders No. 1. The Wightman Rifles and Richardson Light Infantry sailed from Boston aboard the Pembroke to the South, escorted by Fusiliers and Schouler Volunteers as Governor Andrew urged volunteers to go forth for liberty and civilization.
The Boston Post reports that at 3 pm yesterday, marshals seized telegrams from major telegraph offices across the Free States. The move aims to uncover secret Southern rebel operations with Northern accomplices, seizing thousands of despatches detailing arms, ammunition, and equipment purchases.
The Times argues that mammoth Union steam frigates can block smugglers yet are not suited to coastal pursuit and warns British action against Northern ships would provoke war with France. It contends the Star Spangled Banner helped paralyze England's anti-slavery efforts and predicts U S naval laws will force restraint even against armed vessels.
The brig Brainbridge under Lt. Brasher was towed to sea to act as convoy for California steamers through the gulf guarding them from Confederate pirates. The steam frigate Mississippi was towed in and prepared, while the South Carolina, fully armed, readies for Gulf voyage as part of the blockade alert.
The steamer Baltimore was aground at the Potomac mouth after a night attack by a propeller armed with a heavy gun. Of 20 men aboard the Baltimore, four were killed and five mortally wounded, with three more wounded by splinters. The guard reacted but the assault ended quickly as rebels fired grape and canister. The crew faced a brutal, bloody scene, signaling a fierce resistance.
A Post reply cites Aero naut about Civil War observation balloons from June 1861. The enterprise airship sent a telegram to the War Department at Alexandria addressed to President Lincoln by Professor T. S. Lowe. Over fifty years, the main advance has been replacing copper wires with wireless equipment.
In South Boston, six hundred boys and girls marched in white and blue to honor the Blessed Virgin Mary. The SS Peter and Paul procession crowned Mary with Miss Sophie Jeffers as queen. Monsignor George Patterson gave benediction. A second May procession from Gate of Heaven Church included about five hundred children with crowning and benediction by Father Johnson.
Passengers aboard the Allan Line steamer Numidian from Glasgow to Boston endured a 19 hour snow storm off Cape Race and continued by dense fogs from Halifax to Boston. The voyage featured intensely cold conditions and sighting of nine icebergs as the liner neared the approach to the American coast.
James Pitto sparked a melee at 229 Chapel Street Newton yesterday causing a man to lose part of his nose and others to suffer bite injuries. Pitto, drunk and disorderly, attacked landlord Angelo Temphadio and Patrolman Purcell, was arrested and faces mayhem and disturbance charges.
Six Black people were fatally harmed when a mob in Lake City Florida raided the county jail. The attackers, about a dozen men dressed as officers, used a bogus telegram obtained by the sheriff's 16 year old son to gain possession of the inmates and release them to the supposed posse.
A disturbance on Cross Street near 9 o clock last night led to Julius Rus imit z milt z, 24, being locked up at Hanover Street station on a charge of cutting a guest. The victim Michael Tatros ky, 20, suffered a five inch shoulder wound and was treated at Relief Hospital.
In marking its 50th anniversary the First Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Veteran Association held a memorial service at Faneuil Hall. Ex Governor Bates delivered the keynote address while music came from the Beethoven and Harvard quartets. State and city officials attended as did Captain Isaac P. Gragg and Rev Edward Anderson who presided and officiated respectively. The old regiment was lauded for its valor amid its war record, with flags standing as monuments to its service.
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