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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1907
Page
7
The death of Thomas Bailey Aldrich and the Longfellow Centenary celebration spark renewed interest in New England poets. The Post will publish daily selections of the best verse for teachers students and general readers to enjoy and use in class work.
A speaker longs to glimpse a palm tree in a dream while contrasting tropical ease with northern pines. The poem invokes distant shores and sea winds as it declares preference for pine’s austere music over palm’s warmth, ending with a resolve to stay with pines.
Atlantic City May 24 Officials of the National Hardwood Lumber Association warned that hardwood supplies in the United States will be exhausted in about 35 years if current wasteful cutting continues. They urged government intervention and discussed preservation measures as 500 delegates attended the opening of the two day convention seeking state and national legislation.
President Charles S. Mellen of the New Haven and Boston & Albany settle a dispute before a legislative committee. The agreement grants New Haven trackage rights across Springfield and paves a path toward a New Haven Boston & Maine merger. Springfield pays $933,000 for river-front land while rights enable a Boston to Springfield corridor. The deal prompts talk of New Haven gaining control of the Albany lease via the New York Central system.
John J. Sullivan a 30 year old brakeman of Roxbury was pinned by a switch rod when a coal train bore down at Beacon Park yards Allston. His right leg was amputated above the knee and his left leg crushed and fractured but he remained conscious and aided medics. He was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital for treatment. Officials launched a rigid investigation into the incident.
Last Wednesday evening the son of Mr Talbot Aldrich the grandson of the late Thomas Bailey Aldrich was christened at 59 Mt Vernon Street. The infant was named Talbot Bailey Aldrich, honoring his father and great grandmother. Parents plan to call him Bailey. He enjoys riding in his father's automobile.
Details reach Mrs Clary sister of John Doran of 158 T street South Boston after his murder in Pensacola Florida last Tuesday A Pensacola priest reports Doran a well behaved man who warned by youths seeking revenge was killed in a dark alley five shots fired rapidly and the killer escaped through a hidden opening in nearby buildings
Nine Harvard Crimson editors played nine Lampoon editors in a close contest. The Crimson won 16 to 14 amid swatting and errors in a three hour afternoon match watched by about 100 spectators including club initiates and the Lampoon mascot.
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