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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1907
Page
9
A massive throng estimated at about 100000 visited Revere Beach yesterday to enjoy the sea breeze and shore comforts. Transportation systems carried tens of thousands to the resort with minimal incidents and only one arrest for bicycle theft.
The annual May festival for the Home for Destitute Catholic Children on Harrison avenue drew thousands of children and attendees to Mechanic's Hall under the Ladies Aid Society. The event, featuring entertainment by Miss Rose I Byrne and Quinn's orchestra, raised about $10,000 for the charity which took in 1690 destitute children last year and placed most in foster homes or with their families.
Boston observed Memorial Day with large crowds at cemeteries and in the Common, honoring veterans from the Civil War and the Spanish American War. Festivities combined solemn tributes with public decorations as families, including grandchildren, recalled the day’s meaning amid favorable weather.
A Chelsea group led by Theodore Winthrop Post 35 paraded to Woodlawn and Garden Cemeteries with Everett City Band and several veterans' organizations to decorate graves. Afternoon processions included City Hall escorts, church tablet ceremonies, and remarks by Rev. R. Perry Bush and Hon. John E. Beck.
G A R Joseph Flocker Post 23 and John A Hawes Post 159 led graveside services at Woodlawn and Holy Cross cemeteries with Fife and Drum Corps and Chaplains. Women’s Relief Corps East Boston joined in at Woodlawn for Memorial Day services and a service for the unknown dead.
Veterans from four Cambridge Grand Army posts paraded to the Soldiers' Monument and Cambridge Cemetery for Decoration Day ceremonies. Mayor Wardwell spoke at the Common while Post 186 recited Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Posts, Sons of Veterans, and womens relief corps participated with banquets and decorations.
Steubenville Ohio May 30 Senator Foraker’s Memorial Day address drew a large crowd of veterans families and residents. He warned against rushing public affairs defending constitutional independence urging careful debate and warning Mexico’s example as a cautionary tale for U S governance. Local speakers including Rev Horton and Comrades Denny Stillings Hall Gleason Matthews Savin Beales followed with remarks and the day closed with Auld Lang Syne.
School children joined Dahlgren Post No 2 G A R and the Women’s Relief Corps No 20 in a solemn memorial for soldier sailors. The procession from Silver and E streets to Marine Park and South Boston Yacht Club featured poems prayers and flower tributes cast into Dorchester and Pleasure Bays. The event closed with taps at Emerson Street cemetery and visits to St Augustine’s cemetery.
Tufts College president Rev Frederick L Hamilton urged labor and businessmen to support the militia. At the 38th Kinsley Post banquet in the American House about 150 veterans attended. Cmdr W A Ruddick presided and Capt Bowdoin S Parker was toastmaster. Rep John B Lewis contrasted the US volunteer army with European forces.
The Hon. E P Barry of Boston delivered the address at Memorial Day exercises in Jefferson New Hampshire at the Mount Pleasant House. About 500 people attended. Barry highlighted Massachusetts aid to war veterans.
William B. Eaton Post 199 visited Woodlawn yesterday morning and decorated 61 graves. Evening services in the town hall featured illustrated songs readings and singing by school children. Rev. O E Mark delivered the oration.
May 80 Nantasket reports a large holiday crowd despite chilly weather. The Point, outside the Metropolitan Park Commission area, buzzed with concert halls and saloons. Park-system eateries saw fair patronage as sales hoped, with the last boat leaving Nantasket at 6 40 and Pemberton at 7 p.m.
In Dedham on May 30 the Dedham nine opened its season by losing 3-2 to the Dedham High School Combination at Stone Park.
At the 31st annual convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of the Archdiocese of Boston in Cambridgeport St Mary’s of the Annunciation over 100 delegates from 380 societies attended. John T. Shea of Cambridge was named first vice president, with officers including Rev Francis J Butler and Mrs Katherine Tillson. The event featured a high mass, a parade plan for June 23, lectures on alcohol in patent medicines, and financials showing nearly a thousand dollars in funds with all expenses paid.
Memorial Day decorations were sparse on Boston harbor ships. The five masted Baker Palmer and Dorothy B. Barrett were tied together off East Boston with flags from masthead to lower masthead. Elizabeth Palmer and Laurentian drew attention with bunting and Union Jack awaits at Mystic wharf and Chelsea bridge.
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