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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1919
Page
5
The Massachusetts House advanced a bonus bill granting $100 for service over 90 days, $75 for 60 to 90 days, $50 for 30 to 60 days, and $25 for under 30 days. Rep. Young said total cost would be about $20 million, split roughly half from general taxes and half from a head tax.
Representative Mitchell seeks a full hundred dollars per man while the House advances bills and postpones further action to print amendments. The Rules committee backs repeal of a six month dividend ban on savings institutions, sending the measure to banks and banking. The McKnight Civil Service exemption for war veterans stalls after a Beardsley amendment adding overcoats for two year service men. Boston bills on license fees and passenger limits are defeated after lengthy debate and amendments.
Cardinal O Connell presided and gave final absolution at the requiem for Rev Walter De Browne late pastor of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes Jamaica Plain. Attendants included bishops Moriarty and Patterson. Eulogist was Rev William A Ryan with deacon Rev Francis J Ryan and sub deacon Rev William B Whalen. Thousands attended from South Boston Brookline and Maynard.
Exhibition of illustrations paintings and interior decorations at the School of Fine Arts Crafts and Decorative Design 13 Massachusetts avenue at 9 a.m. Frances E Willard Settlement open house at Llewsc Lodge Bedford at 10 a.m. Annual mass of requiem for Guild of St Catherine members South End 10 a.m. Classical Club of Greater Boston annual meeting at Boston University 10 a.m. New England Home Economics Association annual meeting Dean Arnold speaks Simmons College 10 30 p.m. New England Association of School Libraries semi annual meeting Brookline High School 10 30 a.m. Boston Wellesley College Club meeting at New England Women's Club 2 20 p.m. Massachusetts Gideon Association convention and ladies night Lynn Young Men's Christian Association 3 p.m. Class day celebration and parade Hunnewell Playground Wellesley 3 p.m. Dr W B Cannon and Dr J E Goldthwait discuss Medicine and Surgery to the War Twentieth Century Club luncheon 1 p.m. May party Carney Hospital Nurses Alumnae 5 30 p.m. Portia School of Law annual banquet Hotel Somerset evening. Insurance Agents Association meeting Old South Building Room 606 7 p.m. Empire day festival and victory celebration by British societies Mechanics Hall 7 30 p.m. The Spirit of Lafayette benefit American Committee for Devastated France Milton Town Hall 8 p.m. Harvard and Yale musical clubs annual concert Jordan Hall 8 p.m.
Boston's Franklin Park Zoo houses six Eskimo dogs that pulled Explorer Donald McMillan's North Pole dash. He brought them home after heat and crowds made them unhappy. Helen donated five puppies as thanks. The pack included the famed King Dog sire and a hardy grandmother noted as the gamest old lady alive, while one dog limped on three feet after a grueling 600 mile trek home.
Jillian Gish stars as a tragedian in D. W. Griffiths Broken Blossoms. The Colonial Theatre opens the show Wednesday evening May 28 with the film debut noted by the New York Commercial as a major attraction.
Washington May 23 Repeal of the daylight saving act is to be incorporated in the agricultural appropriation bill drafted by a sub committee appointed today by the agricultural committee. Chairman Haugen said it had not been determined whether the repeal act should take effect this year.
Tomorrow Armenians nationwide celebrate the Armenian Republic's one year since its founding on May 25 1918. Prominent Armenians and American friends will speak in major cities. Resolutions urge President Wilson to back Armenian government claims. Boston speakers include former Governor McCall Mayor Peters and Harvard Professor Hart.
City engineers study a tunnel under the harbor linking Boston proper with East Boston and prepare a report for Mayor Peters. Budget session notes reveal council questions on non resident library salaries totaling 60664, with Belden from Cambridge expected to relocate to Boston by summer’s end.
Commissioner Sullivan estimates the Public Works budget at 5.5 million dollars and notes a ferry might be cut costing 15 thousand annually. He supports a harbor tunnel as more practical than ferries and envisions motor street sweeping soon replacing manual methods, covering 99,000 square yards daily at lower cost. Penal Commissioner Sanford Bates promotes a Deer Island bridge linking to the mainland, expected to proceed despite navy lease expirations, potentially reducing the city’s vessels from two to one.
Mrs. Alice Nash of Cambridge age unknown and Miss Alice Dolan of East Boston were struck when they stepped from behind a car owned by Saxton Fletcher and driven with Craig Hazell nearby on Charles River Road near Beaver Street. Nash died at Cambridge City Hospital. Dolan sustained scalp wounds and internal injuries.
In Suffolk County Divorce Court Judge Brown granted divorce to Lieutenant Reginald J. Mackay Cantell after reading letters between his wife Mrs Lilia Alwida Mackay Cantell and Edouard A Schebert. Schebert is confined at Fort Oglethorpe Georgia for espionage act violations. The couple married in Hoboken New Jersey in June 1914.
Senator David I Walsh was called to preside over the Senate by president pro tempore Cummings. At the moment Walsh took the chair ex Senator Weeks entered the chamber, drawing comment from observers on the scene in Washington.
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