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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1911
Page
7
Calbraith P. Rodgers arrives at Imperial Junction California at 10 27 am after a 174 mile leg from Sheepshead Bay New York ending a ocean to ocean flight. Engine trouble caused the stop but a new world aviation record was set.
The aviator flew 183 miles from Stoval Siding Arizona in 125 minutes using 15 gallons of gas. He aimed to complete 317 miles to Pasadena without a stop but over this Place the motor failed badly and he landed. Mechanicians arrived by aviator's special train and found the engine beyond feasible repair for a Pasadena arrival before tomorrow afternoon.
Captain Shubael Walls longtime North Station night watchman died at his Somerville home after a long illness aged 76. He formerly captained a West Indian schooner and survived several shipwrecks before taking the North Station post.
G. Stanley Hall president of Clark University gave the leading address at the Essex County Teachers Association 82d annual convention at Tremont Temple. His topic New Lights in Education outlined saving energy and boosting efficiency by cutting or rearranging studies to emphasize present conditions and interests.
Monomoy life savers reported a three masted schooner sunk to her topmasts about three miles west of Handkerchief Shoal lightship. The fate of her six to eight crew remains unknown as rescue efforts continued.
A speaker argues for replacing broad manual training with expanded specialized vocational courses and testing youths for their best fit. He critiques writing and reading teaching methods, urges linking geography and science, supports history's relevance to present events, and calls for moral education and reform of public schools to boost efficiency and culture. He contrasts his views with Roosevelt's.
Technology students took over the Colonial Theatre for two and a half hours. Seven hundred techmen filled the orchestra and first balcony as streamers and banners swirled and Tech songs roared. Freshmen celebrated an afternoon victory at Brookline field, causing streamers to disrupt performers on stage.
Mrs Rohange wife of the Bradford naval coaling station commander in Newport is trailing her daughter Miss Lilian Rohange who vanished Oct 9. Though gravely ill she traveled to Brooklyn this week against her physician's orders to search for her missing child.
The three masts of a schooner loom in view near Monomoy Point as life savers cannot reach. The Acushnet at Woods Hole will tow the doomed vessel to Vineyard Haven for salvage and identity confirmation, crews possibly picked up by another ship. Mariners suspect a steamer struck the schooner last night.
Mr. and Mrs. John E. LeSage celebrated half a century of marriage at their daughter Mrs. Elizabeth Vining's home 510 Main Street Charlestown. Attendees included Mrs. Mary Gurtin of Nashua and four of the couple's five children. Eleven grandchildren and three great grandchildren also joined the celebration.
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