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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1919
Page
4
South Boston riders gain a main trunk line from City Point to North Station via Tremont street subway in cross-seat cars seating 56. Officials say the service will benefit the district once riders experience the line.
The new main line provides five minute service throughout the day with ample capacity. Free transfers connect Dorchester street Broadway to Andrew square Northampton and Washington streets and the Dudley street terminal. Passengers can transfer at Broadway to Kendall square Central square and Harvard square via the Andrew square Harvard square tunnel. Washington street Broadway Extension links to Tremont street cars to Roxbury Crossing Egleston square. Boylston street station offers transfers to surface cars to Arlington street Newton Brighton Watertown. Scollay square connects to East Boston tunnel for Kendall square Cambridge East Boston. Haymarket square enables transfers to Elevated trains and connections to East Cambridge viaduct toward Harvard square Somerville Highland avenue. The main line’s many transfer points maximize service across lines, serving theatre market retail court house state house city hall and office districts. Two five cent lines from South Boston to South Station start operation today: via Dorchester avenue from Dorchester street and via Summer street extension from Broadway and L street.
Washington October 3 War Department withdraws authority from seven colleges to organize reserve officers training units Amherst Trinity Bowdoin Union Wesleyan Rice Institute Houston and Santa Clara Calif after they signaled they would not adopt military training as part of their curricula
Seaplane NC-4 with Lieutenant-Commander A C Read and crew arrived in New Haven from Providence at 3 55 p m The other NC-4 seaplane was delayed by fog The NC-4 crew will be hosted by city officials during its recruiting stop in New Haven Conn
Mrs. Mildred A. Chipman of Boston files for annulment alleging she married in Spokane on December 4 1918 to a man using a false name Charles J ee. She says she later learned he vanished after two days in St Marys Idaho and doubts his claims of Fairbanks Alaska residence miner status and a bank deposit.
The article lists late campaign spending and delays by candidates including Long of Framingham and Foss of Boston. It details amounts from various individuals such as Stoneman, Lombard, Williams, Garrick, Jackson, Green, Odlin, Beaman, Jewett, Foster, Adlon, Blanchard, Lewis, Bates, Talbot, Pearson, Griswold, Gately, Juggins, Walsh, and Nelson with sums ranging from modest hundreds to several thousands of dollars and notes delays in filing with the Secretary of State.
Washington report states the minimum living wage for street car workers is $6.40 a day or eighty cents an hour as AMTA officials close their case before the Federal Electric Railways Commission. Speaker W Jett Lauck argues for uniform application to workers over 21 with contracts for minors and supers.
The towboat captain and engineer strike for higher wages shows little local change. The Marine Engineers Beneficial Association directs the action and reports a bright outlook for an early settlement. Arrangements are underway for union and tug owners to meet in Washington early next week to resolve the strike issues.
Alfred Mo October 3 John C Slorah aged 75 convicted of murdering Delia Duquette housekeeper at his Biddeford home on August 29 1911 and given life imprisonment in Thomaston State Prison. Slorah convicted last September after Law Court overruled exceptions. He was a nursery salesman.
Bishop Lawrence ordained three candidates to the deaconate at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul yesterday. Niles W. Carpenter Charles Jathe and Du Bose Murphy were the candidates with presentation by Dean Rousmaniere Philo W. Sprague and Smith O. Dexter serving as sponsors.
Frances Harrigan a young Dorchester girl is said to resemble her father Lieutenant Thomas F. Harrigan now in France, with observers noting the striking likeness between father and daughter as word spreads locally.
Glaser Brothers sue Lena Piel of Malden in Suffolk Superior Court claiming ownership of a diamond ring valued at 325 dollars. They allege Morris Pugach of Porter Street bought the ring for 50 dollars, gave it to Piel, and refused further payments while she refuses to surrender ownership. Title was not to pass until all payments were made, with the sale dated March 10, 1917.
Madrid reports 100 drowned with up to 10,000,000 pesetas in losses as floods isolate Cartegas and 20 villages. In one region a torrent swept away a hut holding five people, all died.
The will filed in Suffolk registry names William A. Gaston and Mrs. Mary H. Quincy as joint guardians for Edmund Quincy. Mrs. Quincy will control education and conduct. Gaston holds business and financial authority. Josiah Quincy leaves his paintings and heirlooms to his son with widow’s life use of those items. all other property to his widow. The will was made on June 14 1916.
A Baltimore firm receives a 500000 dollar contract from Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp to build 10 pontoons for a floating drydock at Quincy. Each pontoon measures 116 feet by 41 feet by 18 12 feet deep, with completion enabling winter-friendly work and towing to Quincy for on-site steel wing construction. The drydock will handle steamships up to 10 000 tons deadweight.
A survey of recent American and English fiction notes Stacy Aumonier's The Querrils as a striking study of a restrained English family and their awakening to reality. It praises The World of Wonderful Reality by E Temple Thurston and several London stage tales, thrillers, and war era stories.
Alexander McCallum, president of the McCallum Hosiery Company with mills in Northampton Providence and Philadelphia, died today in Albany New York. He led the company from its early operations to its expansive regional presence.
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