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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1915
Page
6
Volunteers of America home for women on Warrenton street hosted an open house yesterday afternoon. Four sittings served a Thanksgiving dinner to 125 regular inmates and former guests who have benefited from the home in the past 15 years.
Twenty turkeys and a full spread were served by 14 women and Mrs. Handicott at Major Handicott’s home. Music from a graphophone accompanied the feast as the last table finished late in the afternoon. The host lauded the home’s 15 years of service to women and contrasted Europe’s strife with America’s peace and plenty.
United States immigration commissioner Henry J. Skeffington warned at a Thanksgiving service that the end of the European war will trigger a large Jewish migration to the United States. He spoke at Beth Hamid rosh Hagoda Synagogue in Boston under the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society of Massachusetts urging immediate planning to manage the influx.
A $100 000 Dawes Hotel rises at Pine street and Oak place near Washington street in the South End. It will offer ten cent rooms with bath and five cent meals, exclusive for down and outs, with compulsory bath. The Boston site is first in a chain inspired by Rufus Dawes, the Chicago philanthropist.
Commissioner Skeffington and Mayor Curley urge Boston Jews to back the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society as thousands flee Europe and the Orient. They call for a city fund and federal action, noting plans for an East Boston immigration institution and a $90,000 appropriation. They warn of potential disease and urge immediate preparation to assist co religionists arriving in the United States.
A Holland American Line ship Rotterdam caught fire in an east bound voyage damaging a large Red Cross medical relief shipment to Germany and Austria Hungary. The loss, appraised at over 37 000 dollars, affected hospital garments and other aid from many American donors.
The structure is thoroughly fire proof, three stories high with a high-studded basement. Construction began in August by the Rufus H. Dawes Hotel Association led by Charles M. Dawes and Henry M. Dawes. They aim to welcome guests by Christmas, with 800 rooms now and a six foot concrete foundation for future added stories. A roof garden and steel plus concrete frame complete the plan.
The building measures 113 by 54 feet with concrete floors and a basement cafeteria lounge and showers. The lobby and offices cover half of the first floor while the rest holds rooms and dormitories. A heating plant sits in the cellar end and fire escapes are provided. It will operate on a Dawes Hotel style, not for profit, to supply accommodations at bare cost for unemployed men.
The watch and chain of Thomas Letteny of 45 Glendale Street Everett were found yesterday hanging from a projection on the side of an unused elevator shaft at 9 Merchants Row. Letteny had been missing since Monday and fell into the shaft twenty feet from the bottom. Police, after chopping away part of the wall, recovered his body Wednesday night and feared foul play due to the missing watch.
Nine year old John Conlon of 94 Belvidere street Back Bay was hit by an automobile yesterday afternoon after getting off a surface car at Huntington avenue and Norway street. The car driven by Patrick J. Colgan took him to Fenway Hospital where doctors found a fractured collarbone.
A tornado near Hot Springs Ark. leaves twelve dead and about eighty injured, all farmers. One man is believed buried in his ruins. many farmhouses destroyed. Hot Springs city itself reports no damage or injuries.
The license commissioners conducted a personal tour of all hotels offering dancing for diners and guests. They declined to comment on the visits, which reportedly began Tuesday evening.
Hotel managers were surprised as the license board gathered first hand details on dancing in dining rooms. Commissioners questioned who used the dancing privileges and noted that about 95 percent of dancers were registered guests. Management reported no intent to attract other patrons and officers avoided expressing approval or disapproval.
The passage notes that second-rate hotels are unlikely to imitate, as it would undermine first-class hostelry interests. Limited floor space for dancing remains, with dancing allowed only after dinner or in the final hours before closing.
Harvard graduate Gannett, former secretary of the International Polity Club linked to the World Peace Foundation, will be arraigned in Middlesex County Superior Court on two counts of conspiracy related to his 1914 Cambridge voter registration. He was returned from New York after a Monday arrest and released on $1500 bonds.
Passaic New Jersey. John E Lux son of former Nutley mayor John G Lux broke his neck while playing fullback in a football game and was reported by nightfall to be dying.
Five-year-old Annie Cadish daughter of Daniel Cadish of Main street Hingham attempted to cross in front of Hammond Cellier of North Weymouths car yesterday and was struck. The child was not seriously hurt.
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