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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1912
Page
9
The Senate approved the House steel and iron tariff revision by 35 votes to 22, repealing the Canadian reciprocity law and setting a $2 per ton duty on print paper while lowering duties on pig iron and ferro-silicon. The measure advances to conference with the House.
Philip Morrison assistant superintendent of the Boston and Albany Railroad died after a four week illness at his Elliott street Watertown home. Born in Newton 56 years ago he spent his life there and began rail work at 16 as a brakeman rising to station master at Kneeland street. He attended St. Patrick's Church and engaged in town affairs. He leaves a wife and two sons Harold of Allston and Edward of Watertown.
Five hundred members of the Boston Telephone Operators Union ignored rain and spent a day at Wellesley. hosted by Miss Emily Balch, with student volunteers aiding recreation and boat rides on Take Waban. The planned Boston girl championship baseball game between the Telephone Operators Union and the Boston Women's Trade Union League was postponed.
Six Lowell residents were injured none seriously when a limousine carrying them to Rockingham Park Massachusetts skidded into a Bay State Street Railway street car on the Reading road. Injured: Mr and Mrs I W Hurd Miss Hurd Mr and Mrs G P Hurd and D W Putnam. Miss Hurd suffered the worst cuts to face and head.
Edward J. Costello of Lawrence was chosen president of the Massachusetts branch of the National Association of Postoffice Clerks in Holyoke. Other officers include J I Moriarity Worcester and J L Thompson Haverhill as vice presidents, Charles J. Leneghan Fall River as secretary, and R L Murray Holyoke as treasurer. National President Frank P. Rogers and Congressman Thomas I Riley spoke.
Miss Alice M. Mungan former North Adams resident and matron at Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute was found in a bathtub with skull fracture. Coroner Vanderslice ruled accidental drowning after she sprayed herself with a shower, lost balance, hit her head on a radiator, and became unconscious.
The Eleanor O Riorden a small tug nearly foundered as the White Star liner Arabic pulled the hawser taut in the lower harbor yesterday afternoon. Harbor crew cut the line while hundreds of Arabic passengers watched in fear, fearing the tug would capsize.
A revenue tug used as a temporary boarding vessel for customs inspectors became jammed against the liner Arabic as passengers watched. After crew hacked the hawser, the line snapped and the tug swung clear, leaving Captain Carlson and crew aboard the tug as the liner sped on.
The Rev. Fr. Frederick A. Murphy of the Franciscan order, a Canton native and Boston College graduate, arrived from Liverpool aboard the Arabic. He spent years in China’s Hupeh and Siang Yang Fu regions where famine forced rat consumption and yellow fever and typhoid sufferers were treated. He met Major Archie Butt in Rome and missed the Titanic. Now back in Canton to visit relatives, he will tour the United States to raise funds for relief of starving Chinese interior regions.
Princeton-born Professor Jesse W Benedict Carter is named director of the American Academy at Rome, succeeding F D Millet, the artist who died in the Titanic disaster.
The Mutual Relief and Benefit Association held its annual outing for 800 members plus families aboard the 9:20 boat to Pemberton. They danced, ate ice cream, heard a band, watched three baseball games, and enjoyed races and field sports hosted by Hotel Pemberton before returning on the 6:05 p.m. boat.
In Belfast on May 30 a luncheon honored United States ambassador to Great Britain White Law Reid with the freedom of the city. About 500 prominent citizens attended the ceremony hosted by the lord mayor.
London May 30 The joint conference to settle the dock strike is doomed to fail as masters of carmen lightermen public wharfingers and barge owners plus other employers decline to send representatives to the Board of Trade meeting tomorrow.
The article details abstention over union vs non union labor as talks falter. Government invited port of London employers to a private meeting chaired by Lloyd George with Buxton Burns McKenna and Isaacs. Another meeting is set for June 3 as strikers threaten a nationwide halt while meat supplies remain arriving under police protection.
Boston Christian Endeavor Union held its annual field day at Riverside Recreation Grounds with over 609 attendees. Weather caused postponement of sports. featured events included Brookline Gym swimming exhibition canoeing on the Charles River and dancing in the hall.
Oklahoma City police arrest George J. Blank after he blew open every safe in the federal building in apparent sympathy for Clarence Darrow during his bribery trial troubles linked to the McNamara case in Los Angeles.
In St Johnsbury Vermont on May 30 three youths Hattie Ellis 19 Helen Smythe 18 and Herbert Smythe 28 drowned when a canoe overturning in the Passumpsic River swept them downstream. Louis Kimball 20 was rescued by Harley Richards who reached the river bank after cries for help.
The editor receives a letter from E. E. Ti protesting very high steps on electric cars, especially Huntington avenue near Cumberland street. Commuters avoid elevated steps by walking extra blocks until a remedy is expected soon.
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